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 10th season as head coach of the Auburn Tigers in 2025-26. He was named head coach at Auburn in June of 2016. 

Reynolds led a young 2025 squad to a 20-11 overall record and the program's fourth straight bid to the NCAA Championship. The Tigers dominated at home, going 13-1 at the Yarbrough Tennis Center which included an upset win over No. 18 Oklahoma . After being selected to the NCAA Columbus Regional, Auburn reached the second round of the Championship for the second season in a row. The Tigers finished the season ranked inside the ITA top 30 for the fourth consecutive season and the Auburn duo of Billy Blaydes and Will Nolan were tabbed No. 18 in the final ITA national doubles rankings. 

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. 

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 126-122
NCAA Regional Appearances 4
ITA All-American Selections 4
All-SEC Selections 6
Coaching History
2016-Present Auburn - Head Coach
2015-2016 Oklahoma - Assistant Coach
Year-by-Year Results
Year School Record SEC Finish
24-25 Auburn 20-11 T8th
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

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 four seasons as well as an NCAA qualifying doubles team in every season since 2021. 

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

The Acworth, Georgia, product was the 2003 SEC Player of the Year and the NCAA tournament Most Outstanding Player, leading Vanderbilt to the NCAA finals that season. Reynolds also reached No. 1 in the ITA singles rankings during his collegiate career and was inducted into the Vanderbilt Sports Hall of Fame in 2019. 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.

Prior to his time on the Plains, Reynolds served as an assistant coach at Oklahoma in 2016, leading the team to an NCAA runner-up appearance. 

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