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James Trotter
	Trotter in 2023
Full name	James Kent Trotter
Country (sports)	Japan
Born	29 July 1999 (age 25); Nishinomiya, Japan
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Plays	Right-handed
College	Ohio State
Prize money	US $90,304
Singles
Career record	0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ; 1 Challenger
Highest ranking	No. 251 (21 October 2024)
Current ranking	No. 251 (21 October 2024)
Doubles
Career record	0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ; 6 Challengers
Highest ranking	No. 142 (9 September 2024)
Current ranking	No. 144 (30 September 2024)
	Last updated on: 26 October 2024.

James Kent Trotter (born 29 July 1999) is a Japanese tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 251 achieved on 21 October 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 142 achieved on 9 September 2024.^[1]

Trotter has won one singles and six ATP Challenger doubles titles.

Professional career

He won the Challenger doubles titles at the 2023 Columbus Challenger with Robert Cash, at the 2024 Cleveland Open with George Goldhoff, and at the 2024 Tyler Tennis Championships with Hans Hach Verdugo. At the same tournament in Tyler, Texas, he also won his first ATP Challenger singles title defeating Brandon Holt in the final.

College career

Trotter played college tennis at Ohio State,^[2] where he won the NCAA Division I tennis men's doubles championship in 2023.^[3]

ATP Challenger Tour finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (2–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jun 2024	Tyler, USA	Challenger	Hard	Brandon Holt	6–2, 7–6^(7–3)
Loss	1–1	Sep 2024	Columbus, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Naoki Nakagawa	6–7^(8–10), 7–5, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	2–1	Oct 2024	Charlottesville, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Nishesh Basavareddy	6–3, 6–4

Doubles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (6–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2021	Columbus, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Andrew Lutschaunig	Stefan Kozlov Peter Polansky	5–7, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	1–1	Sep 2023	Columbus, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Robert Cash	Guido Andreozzi Hans Hach Verdugo	6–4, 2–6, [10–7]
Win	2–1	Jan 2024	Cleveland, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	George Goldhoff	William Blumberg Alex Lawson	6–7^(0–7), 6–3, [10–8]
Win	3–1	Feb 2024	Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	George Goldhoff	Ryan Nijboer Niklas Schell	6–2, 6–3
Win	4–1	Apr 2024	Shenzhen, China	Challenger	Hard	Yuta Shimizu	Wang Aoran Zhou Yi	7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(7–4)
Win	5–1	Jun 2024	Tyler, USA	Challenger	Hard	Hans Hach Verdugo	Andrés Andrade Abdullah Shelbayh	7–6^(7–3), 6–4
Loss	5–2	Jul 2024	Lexington, USA	Challenger	Hard	Yuta Shimizu	André Göransson Sem Verbeek	4–6, 3–6
Win	6–2	Sep 2024	Columbus, USA (2)	Challenger	Hard (i)	Hans Hach Verdugo	Christian Harrison Ethan Quinn	6–4, 6–7^(6–8), [11–9]