Men's Tennis

Bobby Reynolds

Bobby Reynolds

Emailrtr0015@auburn.edu
PositionHead Coach
Bobby Reynolds
Bobby Reynolds

A veteran of competition at the highest levels of collegiate and professional tennis, Bobby Reynolds will begin his eighth season as head coach of the Auburn Tigers in 2023-24. He was named head coach at Auburn in June of 2016 and received a three-year contract extension in July of 2022.

In 2024, Reynolds saw his best SEC finish since 2005 and his best since taking the job at Auburn, as the team's 7-5 conference record was tied for the fourth best mark in the league. The Tigers finished the season with an 18-11 overall record and earned top-25 wins over No. 11 Texas A&M, No. 16 South Carolina and No. 25 Florida. Auburn also defeated Georgia for just the fifth time in program history by a 4-3 score, which marked the program's first win over the Bulldogs in Athens since 1994. Reynolds' team was also selected to participate in the NCAA Championship for the third consecutive season and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Tyler Stice and Finn Murgett earned first team All-SEC honors while Billy Blaydes picked up second team All-SEC accolades. Stice and Murgett were NCAA Singles Championship selections after the season, while Murgett and Raul Dobai were selected to participate in the NCAA Doubles Championship.

During his seventh season on the Plains in 2023, the Tigers earned back-to-back bids to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the program did so in 2013 and 2014. Auburn finished the season ranked 26th by the ITA with a 17-12 overall record and the team claimed four victories over top-25 opponents including then-No. 4 South Carolina on the road and then-No.13 Tennessee. Auburn also won the prestigious Blue-Gray National Tennis Classic for the first time since 1984. 

In 2022, after Auburn advanced to the SEC semifinals and the second round of the NCAA tournament, he was named the ITA Southern Region coach of the year for the Tigers' continued progress in the nation's toughest conference. The Tigers posted a 21-11 overall record, marking the program's first 20-win season since 2002. 

At Auburn, Reynolds has coached two doubles All-Americans (Tad Maclean/Finn Murgett), an NCAA qualifier in singles in every season since 2021 as well as an NCAA qualifying doubles team in every season since 2021. 

Coach Reynolds
Hometown Acworth, GA
College Vanderbilt
Family  wife, Josie
 sons, Parker,
 Mason and Blake
Quick Facts
Head Coaching Career 9th season in '24-25
Overall Record at Auburn 106-111
NCAA Regional Appearances 3
ITA All-American Selections 4
All-SEC Selections 5
Coaching History
2016-Present Auburn - Head Coach
2015-2016 Oklahoma - Assistant Coach
Year-by-Year Results
Year School Record SEC Finish
23-24 Auburn 18-11 T4th
22-23 Auburn 17-12 T8th
21-22 Auburn 21-11 7th
20-21 Auburn 7-15 11th
19-20 Auburn 9-10 N/A
18-19 Auburn 12-18 12th
17-18 Auburn 12-19 13th
16-17 Auburn 13-15 11th

Under Reynolds' leadership, Auburn has made three NCAA Tournament appearances and a SEC Championship semifinal appearance (2021). 

The Atlanta, Ga., product was the 2003 SEC player of the year and NCAA tournament Most Outstanding Player, leading Vanderbilt to the NCAA finals that season. He played 12 seasons of professional tennis, appearing in 17 grand slam main draws for singles and 20 for doubles, and was the 2012 MVP of World Team Tennis for the Washington Kastles.

Coach Reynolds and his wife Dr. Josie Reynolds, an All-America pentathlete and heptathlete at Vanderbilt, have three sons – Parker, Mason and Blake.

  • Led Vanderbilt to the 2003 NCAA final as a player and was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player
  • 2003 SEC Player of the Year
  • Ranked No. 1 nationally in singles as a collegiate player
  • 12-year career in professional tennis (2002-14)
  • Career high professional world rankings of No. 63 (singles) and No. 46 (doubles)
  • Appeared in 17 main draw grand slam events in singles and 20 main draws in doubles
  • Advanced to grand slam third rounds in singles at Australian Open (2005) and Wimbledon (2008); did so four times in doubles
  • 2012 MVP of World Team Tennis; 2010 WTT male rookie of the year; led the Washington Kastles to four WTT titles (2011-14)
  • Named Auburn head coach in 2016 after serving as an assistant coach for NCAA runner-up Oklahoma (2015-16 season)
  • Led the young 2021 Tigers to a ranking as high as No. 39 with NCAA individual qualifiers in singles (Tyler Stice) and doubles (Tad Maclean and Finn Murgett)
  • Tad Maclean and Finn Murgett 2021 NCAA doubles finalists
  • In 2022, Auburn finished No. 23 as a team, advancing to the SEC semifinals and the second round of the NCAA championships; All-Americans Tad Maclean and Finn Murgett and all-SEC Tyler Stice earned NCAA individual bids
  • Career record at Auburn is 74-88 after six seasons in the nation’s toughest conference
  • 2015 Vanderbilt graduate in human organizational development
  • 2019 inductee to the Vanderbilt Sports Hall of Fame