Josh Goodall Explained

Joshua Goodall
Country:	Great Britain England
Residence:	Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom
Birth Date:	1985 10, df=yes
Birth Place:	Basingstoke, England
Turnedpro:	2004
Retired:	2 October 2015
Plays:	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney:	US$428,956
Singlesrecord:	1–15
Singlestitles:	0
Highestsinglesranking:	No. 184 (13 July 2009)
Australianopenresult:	Q1 (2009)
Frenchopenresult:	Q1 (2007, 2008, 2009, 2012)
Wimbledonresult:	1R (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012)
Usopenresult:	1R (2006)
Doublesrecord:	5–9
Doublestitles:	0
Highestdoublesranking:	No. 114 (25 June 2007)
Wimbledondoublesresult:	2R (2006, 2010)
Team:	yes
Daviscupresult:	Europe/Africa Zone Group I 2R (2012)
Updated:	18 January 2017

Joshua Jake Goodall (born 17 October 1985) is a retired English tennis player, former British no 2 and Davis Cup player. He is currently Head of Racquet Sports at Downe House School in Berkshire.^[1]

Personal life

Goodall attended Cranbourne School, now called Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College.^[2] His parents remortgaged their house five times to support his tennis career.^[3]

Career

On 23 June 2007 Goodall reached his only ATP (World) Tour final, in doubles, at the Nottingham Open. He and partner Ross Hutchins lost that match in three sets 6–4, 3–6, [5–10] to Eric Butorac and Jamie Murray.

Goodall was British no 2, behind Andy Murray from 13 August 2012 with a world ranking of 196,^[4] until 19 November 2012.^[5]

Goodall played Davis Cup twice, in the 2009 Europe/Africa Zone Group I first round against Ukraine and the 2012 Europe/Africa Zone Group I second round against Belgium. At the Belgium tie, Goodall was the British no 1, in the absence of Andy Murray.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ITF Futures tournament wins

Singles: 20

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	11 September 2005	Nottingham	Hard	Richard Bloomfield	7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–4)
2.	16 July 2006	Felixstowe	Grass	Luke Bourgeois	6–4, 5–7, 6–4
3.	3 December 2006	Vendryně	Hard	Sergei Bubka	6–4, 6–2
4.	29 September 2007	Nottingham	Hard	Jamie Baker	6–3, 6–4
5.	22 March 2008	Bath	Hard	Richard Bloomfield	4–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–4
6.	5 April 2008	Exmouth	Carpet	Conor Niland	6–4, 7–6(7–3)
7.	20 September 2009	Nottingham	Hard	David Rice	6–4, 6–3
8.	10 July 2010	Ilkley	Grass	David Rice	6–3, 7–6(7–2)
9.	9 July 2011	Ilkley	Grass	David Rice	7–5, 6–1
10.	16 July 2011	Frinton	Grass	Daniel Evans	6–3, 6–2
11.	16 July 2011	Wrexham	Hard	Sean Thornley	6–1, 6–2
12.	10 September 2011	Roehampton	Hard	Richard Bloomfield	7–6(7–4), 6–2
13.	22 October 2011	Glasgow	Hard	Jan Minář	7–6(7–3), 7–5
14.	15 January 2012	Schwieberdingen	Carpet	Bastian Knittel	2–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–4
15.	1 April 2012	Fällanden	Carpet	Philipp Oswald	6–4, 6–2
16.	22 April 2012	Heraklion	Carpet	Dieter Kindlmann	6–3, 6–0
17.	14 July 2012	Ilkley	Grass	Edward Corrie	6–4, 6–1
18.	28 July 2012	Dublin	Grass	Michael Look	7–6(8–6), 6–4
19.	4 August 2012	Wrexham	Hard	Mathieu Rodrigues	6–3, 6–3
20.	12 October 2013	Sunderland	Hard	Ashley Hewitt	6–3, 6–2

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

External links

• • • • Goodall World Ranking History

Notes and References

1. News: LinkedIn profile.
2. News: Tennis star Josh Goodall set to retire. Basingstoke Gazette. 2 July 2013.
3. News: British number two Josh Goodall may have to quit tennis due to lack of money. The Daily Telegraph . 19 November 2012.
4. News: Great Britain singles ranking 13 Aug 12. ATP World Tour. 13 August 2012.
5. News: Great Britain singles ranking 19 Nov 12. ATP World Tour. 19 November 2012.