Alexander Ritschard

Alexander Ritschard

Ritschard at the 2022 French Open
Country (sports)	Switzerland (2010–2018; 2022–present) United States (2018–2022)
Born	(1994-03-24) 24 March 1994 Zürich, Switzerland
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2018
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	Virginia
Coach	Hans Ritschard, Juan Ramirez
Prize money	US $309,546
Singles
Career record	2–3 (40.0% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 163 (12 September 2022)
Current ranking	No. 166 (24 October 2022)
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	Q3 (2022)
Wimbledon	1R (2022)
US Open	1R (2022)
Doubles
Career record	0–1 (0% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 388 (4 April 2022)
Current ranking	No. 467 (24 October 2022)
Last updated on: 24 October 2022.

Alexander Ritschard (born March 24, 1994) is a Swiss–American tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 163 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 388 achieved on 4 April 2022.

Career

Ritschard made his ATP main draw debut at the 2013 Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad in the doubles draw partnering Alexander Sadecky.

At the age of 28 he made his Grand Slam and ATP debut in singles after qualifying for the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. He drew fourth seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas whom despite his ranking, performed very poorly on grass, having lost in the first round of his two previous Wimbledon appearances. Ritschard stormed out to a 4-1 lead in the first set, on serve, looking like another possible upset but Tsitsipas rallied to win the set in a tiebreaker and the match in four sets.

At the 2022 Swiss Open Gstaad he won his maiden ATP tour match defeating eight seed Joao Sousa as a wildcard.

He made his debut at the US Open as a qualifier.

He won his Maiden Challenger title in Hamburg, defeating Henri Laaksonen, after the fellow Swiss retired in the second set when Ritschard was 7-5 6-5 up and had 40-30 on his service game, climbing 50 positions back to No. 166 in the singles rankings on 24 October 2022.

Personal life

Ritschard attended the University of Virginia, graduating in 2017. He took an Arts Administration class with the iconic George Sampson.

In April 2018, Ritschard started representing the United States. On 28 February 2022, he decided to once again represent Switzerland.

Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 10 (6–4)

Legend (singles) ATP Challenger Tour (1–2) ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (5–2)

Titles by surface Hard (2–2) Clay (4–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2013	Germany F7, Roemerberg	Futures	Clay	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	4–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	May 2018	Sweden F1, Karlskrona	Futures	Clay	Mike Urbanija	6–2, 2–6, 6–1
Win	2–1	May 2018	Sweden F2, Kalmar	Futures	Clay	Frederik Press	6–4, 6–3
Win	3–1	May 2018	Sweden F3, Lund	Futures	Clay	Manuel Guinard	6–3, 6–3
Win	4–1	Mar 2019	M25 Calabasas, USA	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Stefan Kozlov	6–2, 0–6, 7–6(7–5)
Loss	4–2	Jan 2020	M25 Los Angeles, USA	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Francisco Cerúndolo	3–6, 3–6
Win	5–2	Feb 2020	M25 Palm Coast, USA	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Mārtiņš Podžus	7–6(9–7), 6–4
Loss	5–3	Oct 2021	Naples, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Tallon Griekspoor	3–6, 2–6
Loss	5–4	Feb 2022	Forlì, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Jack Draper	6–3, 3–6, 6–7(8–10)
win	6–4	Oct 2022	Hamburg, Germany	Challenger	Hard (i)	Henri Laaksonen	7–5, 6–5 ret.