The parents of Ben McLachlan, a Japanese professional tennis player who previously represented New Zealand, are listed here. He is a doubles specialist who achieved his career-high ATP ranking of world No. 18 in November 2018.
McLachlan has seven ATP Tour doubles titles, including three at the ATP 500 level.
He reached his first Grand Slam semifinal, alongside Jan-Lennard Struff, at 2018 Australian Open and has since advanced to four more major quarterfinals in men’s and mixed doubles.
McLachlan has been representing Japan in the Davis Cup since 2017, and he also competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, reaching the quarterfinals in both men’s and mixed doubles.
At the Internazionali di Tennis dell’Umbria, Gwangju Open, and Kobe Challenger, he won three ATP Challenger doubles titles.
Ben McLachlan Parents: Who Are Craig And Yuriko McLachlan?
McLachlan was born in the New Zealand town of Queenstown. Yuriko is his mother, and Craig is his father.
He attended Wakatipu High School before transferring to the University of California, where he played for the California Golden Bears from 2011 to 2014.
Bale and Thomas Shimada assisted in facilitating the switch of allegiance so that McLachlan could benefit from the Japan Tennis Association’s funding and support.
McLachlan plans to marry Georgia Brown, a personal trainer he’s known since elementary school, in December 2020.
Craig And Yuriko McLachlan Children: Does Ben McLachlan Have A Brother?
Craig and Yuriko McLachlan have two children, Ben and Riki.
When the brothers were 12 and 13 years old, former player and family friend Lan Bale recommended them to University of California head tennis coach Peter Wright.
Riki is a political economy major and won the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championship in doubles and advanced to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship quarterfinals.
Ben McLachlan Family Tree Explored
Ben’s mother is Japanese, and his father hails from New Zealand. “Kiwi” is a popular self-reference among New Zealanders, but it is also used internationally.
Ben visited Japan regularly as a child, learning “reasonably fluent” Japanese, and began representing Japan in 2017.
“I lived most of my life in New Zealand, but when I was younger, I’d come once a year to Japan to spend time with my grandmother,” he stated on apttour.
Ben primarily plays right-handed (one-handed backhanded) and began playing professionally in 2014.