Alexander Ritschard

Alexander Ritschard (born March 24, 1994) is a Swiss-American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 138, achieved on 15 July 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 388, achieved on 4 April 2022. He is currently the No. 3 Swiss player.

2013: ATP Tour debut in doubles
Ritschard made his ATP Tour main-draw debut at the Suisse Open Gstaad in the doubles draw, partnering Alexander Sadecky.

2022: ATP & major debuts & first singles win
At the age of 28, he made his Grand Slam and ATP Tour debut in singles, after qualifying for the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. He drew fourth seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas who, despite his ranking, performed very poorly on grass, having lost in the first round of his two previous Wimbledon appearances. Ritschard stormed out to a 4–1 lead in the first set, on serve, looking like another possible upset but Tsitsipas rallied to win the set in a tiebreaker and the match in four sets.

At the Swiss Open, he won his maiden ATP Tour match defeating eighth seed Joao Sousa as a wildcard.

He made his debut at the US Open as a qualifier. In October, he won his maiden Challenger title in Hamburg defeating Henri Laaksonen, after the fellow Swiss retired in the second set when Ritschard was 7–5, 6–5 up and had 40–30 on his service game, climbing 50 positions back to No. 166 in the singles rankings on 24 October 2022.

2023–2024: Three Challenger titles, top 150
He qualified for the main draw of the 2023 BMW Open and defeated Jan-Lennard Struff but lost in the second round to Marcos Giron.

Ranked No. 194, he also qualified into the main draw of the 2024 US Clay Court Championships. He returned to the top 175 with lifting his second trophy at the 2024 Savannah Challenger.

Personal life
Ritschard attended the University of Virginia, graduating in 2017.

In April 2018, Ritschard started representing the United States. On 28 February 2022, he decided to once again represent Switzerland.