Paul Hand

Paul Hand
Full name	Paul Hand
Country (sports)	Great Britain
Born	3 July 1965; Berkshire, England
Prize money	$68,830
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 371 (23 October 1995)
Doubles
Career record	5-8
Highest ranking	No. 171 (21 March 1994)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	QF (1993)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	2R (1994, 1995)

Paul Hand (born 3 July 1965) is a British sports broadcaster and former professional tennis player. He was born in Berkshire, England.

Tennis career

Hand played on the professional tour primarily as a doubles specialist, with a best ranking of 171 in the world. As a singles player he was joint winner of the Scottish Championships in 1992.[1]

Hand regularly featured as a doubles player at the Wimbledon Championships in the 1990s. Most notably he made the quarter-finals of the men's doubles at the 1993 Wimbledon Championships as a wildcard pairing with Chris Wilkinson. They had a win en route over the ninth seeded Jensen brothers, Luke and Murphy, then in the quarter-finals were beaten in five sets, by Rikard Bergh and Byron Talbot.[2] In addition to his six main draw appearances in men's doubles at Wimbledon he played in the mixed doubles four times, all with Valda Lake. He also played in mixed doubles qualifying with his younger sister Kaye Hand.

Post tennis

Hand works as a tennis coach and a sports broadcaster for BBC Sport and Eurosport.[3]

References

"Wash-out leaves honours even". Herald Scotland. 10 August 1992. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
"Tennis / Wimbledon '93: Delgado's revenge win". The Independent. 30 June 1993. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
Armstrong, Jeremy (10 August 2016). "BBC apologise after Olympics tennis commentator sparks homophobia row with comments during match". Daily Record. Retrieved 16 June 2018.

External links

Paul Hand at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Paul Hand at the International Tennis Federation

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[1] "Wash-out leaves honours even". Herald Scotland. 10 August 1992. Retrieved 16 June 2018.

[2] "Tennis / Wimbledon '93: Delgado's revenge win". The Independent. 30 June 1993. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2018.

[3] Armstrong, Jeremy (10 August 2016). "BBC apologise after Olympics tennis commentator sparks homophobia row with comments during match". Daily Record. Retrieved 16 June 2018.