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.

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 2021, 2022 and 2023 (Tyler Stice) as well as an NCAA qualifying doubles team in 2021, 2022 and 2023 (Tad Maclean/Finn Murgett, Raul Dobai/Finn Murgett). Under Reynolds' leadership, Auburn has made two NCAA Tournament appearances (2022, 2023) 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