Tad Maclean Season 2017-18

Tad Maclean Season 2017-18

Height6-2
ClassFreshman
HometownCornwall, England

Spring 2022: Ends his career ranked seventh among Auburn career leaders in doubles wins (74) and 11th in combined wins (140) ... went 20-6 in doubles this spring paired with Finn Murgett while facing 15 ranked opponents ... 10-2 against SEC opponents ... SEC victories over LSU, Alabama, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Texas A&M, South Carolina, Georgia and Ole Miss in the SEC tournament ... earned a top-eight seed to the NCAA doubles championships, gaining him All-America status for the second consecutive year ... in NCAA doubles opening round, defeated #16 Carnock/Kiger (North Carolina) 7-6 (4), 7-5 ... defeated #69 Nathan/Panik (Montana State) in the Round of 16 by a 6-1, 6-3 score ... thord-set tiebreaker loss in the NCAA quarterfinals ... ranked as high as No. 6 in doubles ... he and Murgett finished the season ranked No. 8 in doubles; Maclean finished the year ranked No. 83 in singles ... was ranked No. 1 in doubles and No. 7 in singles in the ITA Southern Region ... 13-9 in singles during the spring, playing in the middle of the lineup, with a 6-7 record against SEC opposition ... SEC wins over Arkansas, Alabama, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Ole Miss in the SEC tournament ... defeated Wake Forest's Eduardo Nava 7-5, 6-4 in the NCAA tournament second round ... ranked as high as No. 56 in singles ... SEC academic honor roll, AD Honor Roll amd ITA Scholar-Athlete ... May honors graduate in accounting ... CoSIDA academic all-district 

Fall 2021: Was 12-5 in singles play during the fall tournament season … went from the qualifiers into the main draw at ITA All-Americans, posting wins over #103 Mattias Siimar (Florida) and #25 Axel Nefve (Notre Dame) … ITA Southern Region singles runner-up, losing to Nikola Slavic (Ole Miss) in a three-set final … advanced to the ITA Fall Nationals in San Diego, where he went 1-2 … ranked No. 56 nationally in singles at the end of the fall season … went 2-1 paired with Finn Murgett in doubles during the fall, with ranked wins over #19 Harwell/Freeman (Vanderbilt) and #23 Bryde/Croyder (Georgia) to make the ITA All-Americans Round of 16 in Tulsa … also went 2-0 paired with Will Nolan

2020-21: NCAA doubles finalist with Finn Murgett ... All-American in doubles ... 4-1 in the NCAA doubles tournament in Orlando ... defeated #25 Fishback/Chrysostom (Virginia Tech) 6-2, 6-4 in round of 32 ... defeated #22 McCormick/Nefve (Notre Dame) 6-4, 1-6, 10-7 in round of 16 ... defeated #10 Cuikerman/Smith (Southern California) 7-6 (2), 3-6, 10-3 in quarterfinals ... defeated #71 DenOuden/Oetzbach (Pepperdine) 6-4, 6-1 in semifinals ... fell to #4 Walton/Harper (Tennessee) in three sets 7-6 (5), 2-6, 13-11 in the NCAA finals ... went 2-6 in fall singles action, posting wins over Freeman (Vanderbilt) and Rousset (Arkansas) ... went 5-3 in doubles during the fall paired with Finn Murgett .. the duo won the doubles title at the Vanderbilt Invitational, going 2-1 ... 6-15 at No. 3 singles during the spring, with SEC wins over Freeman (Vanderbilt), Kaukovalta (Alabama) and Graca (LSU) ... clinched the team win over Old Dominion ... finished the season ranked No. 18 nationally in doubles paired with Finn Murgett ... went 11-10 in the spring at No. 1 doubles and 5-7 in SEC play ... clinched the doubles point six times ... SEC wins over Florida, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Mississippi State and Arkansas ... SEC Academic Honor Roll and ITA Scholar-Athlete

2019-20: Missed competing after surgery ... inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma national student-athlete honor society ... ITA Scholar-Athlete, AD Honor Roll and SEC Academic Honor Roll

2018-19: Paired with Brandon Laubser for Auburn's No. 1 doubles team ... they were 16-13 in doubles and ranked as high as No. 35 to end the season ... SEC wins over LSU (#45), Kentucky, Alabama (#15), Georgia (#47), South Carolina and Arkansas ... advanced to NCAA doubles championship Round of 16 with 6-3, 3-6, 13-11 win over #22 TCU ... 19-13 overall in doubles ... 17-12 overall in singles ... played anywhere between 1-4 in the singles lineup ... 5-6 in SEC play; SEC singles wins over Boris Kozlov (LSU) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Fabian Fallert (Ole Miss) 6-3, 6-2; #21 Emil Reinberg (Georgia) 6-2, 6-4; #89 Johannaes Ingildsen (Florida) 6-4, 6-0; and Adam Sanjurjo (Arkansas) 6-4, 6-0 ... SAAC representative and SEC Community Service team ... SEC first-year academic honor roll 

2017-18: Joined the Auburn men’s tennis program in January, 2018 ... was 12-12 in singles play, and 4-7 against SEC opponents ... SEC wins over Austin Hussey (Kentucky), Pedro Alonso (Arkansas), Agie Moreno (LSU) and Juan Carlos Aguilar (Texas A&M) ... clinched the team wins over Arkansas and Georgia State ... 11-8 in doubles, including an 8-6 mark teamed with Olle Thestrup, with SEC wins over South Carolina and Arkansas ... ITA Scholar-Athlete

Career Wins: Singles: 66; Doubles: 74

Before Auburn: Top 50 player in Great Britain ... second-youngest British player to earn a professional ATP point ... winner of the back draw of the English national championships and a national semifinalist in doubles ... won ITF junior tournaments at Dundalk and Liverpool ... ITF ranking of 406 ... won the Cornwall county title in singles and was runner-up in doubles ... rated 1.2 by the LTA and had a 13.1 UTR