Neil Pauffley

Country (sports)	Great Britain
Residence	Maidenhead, England
Born	(1990-03-29) 29 March 1990 (age 33) Slough, England
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2008
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$78,663
Singles
Career record	0–0
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 406 (12 August 2013)
Grand Slam singles results
Wimbledon	Q1 (2017)
Doubles
Career record	0–0
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 594 (4 January 2010)
Current ranking	No. 807 (31 December 2018)
Last updated on: 1 January 2019.

Neil Pauffley is a British professional tennis player. He plays right handed. Neil has won 5 ITF Pro Futures Titles (4 x $10K & 1 x $15K) including his biggest victory of his career thus far, winning the AEGON ITF $15K Futures tournament in Tipton, West Midlands.^[1][2][3][4]

Career

He plays right handed and was born at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough on 29 March 1990, and was brought up in Maidenhead, Berkshire, by his Mother Gill, a school teaching Assistant. He has a brother Adam, who also played Tennis as a County level Junior for Berkshire.

He attended Court House Junior School and Altwood Church of England School, both in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He currently lives with his family in Maidenhead

Having first got into Tennis whilst accompanying his brother Adam to tennis sessions at Bisham Abbey. Neil was talent spotted and under the coaching of Russian Viktor Roubanov, played for Berkshire County alongside establishing himself on the Junior tour; appearing at Wimbledon, the Australian Open and qualifiers for the French and US Open junior tournaments.

As a junior, he beat future World Number 3 Milos Raonic^[5] of Canada, and played other future top 50 players David Goffin (lost), Donald Young (lost) and Dušan Lajović (won).

He has trained at Bisham Abbey, the LTA National Tennis Centre in Roehampton, Nottingham Performance Academy and now trains at David Lloyd Tennis Centre in Newbury.

After turning pro in 2008, he reached his first final in a Futures tournament in Ilkley, West Yorkshire in July 2009, losing to Martin Fischer^[6] of Austria, after beating future Top 120 ranked player Riccardo Ghedin of Italy.

In June 2010, he suffered a serious knee injury that resulted in him being out of the sport for over 12 months, and on his return a stress fracture of the shin and twisted ankle saw much of 2011 written off too.

His return to the court in March 2012, saw him reach the semi-finals of the Futures tournament at Tipton, and in September of that year he secured his first title winning the Germany F17 Futures Final with a 6–4, 6–4 win over German Stefan Seifert ^[7] in Hambach on an indoor carpet court.

A month later he reached the semi-final of the British Futures at Glasgow, after beating Daniel Evans and in November secured his second title, when winning the Czech F8 Futures title in Opava, Czech Republic with a 6–4, 2–6, 6–4 win over Roman Jebavý^[8] of the Czech Republic again on an Indoor carpet court.

In May 2013, he reached the final of the Portuguese F7 Futures event in Coimbra, losing to Joao Domingues, and in July 2013 he reached another final, in Felixstowe, losing to Marcus Willis.^[9]

On 12 August 2013, he reached his highest ranking so far of 406, and in November 2013 he won the German Futures title at Hambach for the second year running.

In April 2014, he reached the final of the British Futures in Edinburgh, again losing to Marcus Willis, but injury again interrupted his rise up the rankings, although the year ended well when he beat Josh Goodall to claim the British Tour Masters Trophy^[10] in Nottingham in December.

Financial restraints meant that Pauffley had to schedule his appearances on the ITF Tennis tour around Coaching engagements at Downe House School for much of 2015, but he has ended the year well, following a semi Final appearance at the British Futures in September 2015 at Nottingham, with the biggest win of his career yet, when securing the 15K British Futures in November at Tipton, with a 6–4, 7–6⁽⁸⁾ win over Lloyd Glasspool.^[11][12]

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 12 (5–7)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2009	Great Britain F10, Ilkley	Futures	Grass	Martin Fischer	2–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Sep 2012	Germany F17, Hambach	Futures	Carpet (i)	Stefan Seifert	6–4, 6–4
Win	2–1	Nov 2012	Czech Republic F8, Opava	Futures	Carpet (i)	Roman Jebavý	6–4, 2–6, 6–4
Loss	2–2	May 2013	Portugal F7, Coimbra	Futures	Hard	João Domingues	6–7(4–7), 3–6
Loss	2–3	Jul 2013	Great Britain F14, Felixstowe	Futures	Grass	Marcus Willis	2–6, 4–6
Win	3–3	Oct 2013	Germany F17, Hambach	Futures	Carpet (i)	Adrian Sikora	5–7, 6–2, 6–0
Loss	3–4	May 2014	Great Britain F10, Edinburgh	Futures	Clay	Marcus Willis	1–6, 3–6
Win	4–4	Nov 2015	Great Britain F10, Tipton	Futures	Hard (i)	Lloyd Glasspool	6–4, 7–6(10–8)
Loss	4–5	Sep 2016	Israel F12, Ashkelon	Futures	Hard	Connor Smith	1–6, 0–6
Win	5–5	Nov 2016	Great Britain F6, Barnstaple	Futures	Hard (i)	Frederik Nielsen	6–4, 6–4
Loss	5–6	Oct 2018	Egypt F22, Sharm el-Sheikh	Futures	Hard	David Pérez Sanz	7–6(9–7), 4–6, 3–6
Loss	5–7	Oct 2018	Egypt F23, Sharm el-Sheikh	Futures	Hard	Karim-Mohamed Maamoun	3–6, 4–6

Doubles: 11 (2–9)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2009	Germany F4, Mettmann	Futures	Carpet (i)	Nikolai Fidirko	Josh Goodall James Ward	6–4, 0–6, [4–10]
Loss	0–2	Jul 2009	Great Britain F9, Frinton-on-Sea	Futures	Grass	Marcus Willis	Tristan Farron-Mahon Colin O'Brien	7–6(7–5), 6–7(3–7), [6–10]
Loss	0–3	Oct 2013	Germany F13, Hambach	Futures	Carpet (i)	Nikolaus Moser	Andreas Mies Oscar Otte	5–7, 4–4 ret.
Loss	0–4	Jul 2015	Germany F9, Essen	Futures	Clay	David Rice	Marvin Netuschil Philipp Scholz	6–1, 6–7(4–7), [6–10]
Loss	0–5	Sep 2015	Great Britain F8, Roehampton	Futures	Hard	David Rice	David O'Hare Joe Salisbury	2–6, 6–4, [5–10]
Win	1–5	Jul 2016	Macedonia F3, Skopje	Futures	Clay	Richard Gabb	Tomislav Jotovski Predrag Rusevski	6–4, 6–4
Loss	1–6	Oct 2016	Germany F13, Hambach	Futures	Carpet (i)	Keelan Oakley	Marek Jaloviec Michal Konečný	7–5, 4–6, [6–10]
Win	2–6	Sep 2017	Great Britain F6, Barnstaple	Futures	Hard (i)	Peter Bothwell	Robert Carter Ryan Peniston	6–4, 6–7(5–7), [10–6]
Loss	2–7	Oct 2017	Germany F14, Oberhaching	Futures	Hard (i)	Marc-Andrea Hüsler	Johannes Harteis Daniel Masur	6–4, 5–7, [5–10]
Loss	2–8	Feb 2018	Great Britain F1, Glasgow	Futures	Hard (i)	Marcus Willis	Matthias Haim Jakob Sude	3–6, 7–6(7–5), [6–10]
Loss	2–9	Nov 2018	Thailand F7, Nonthaburi	Futures	Hard	Cing-Yang Meng	Hiroyasu Ehara Pruchya Isaro	2–6, 3–6