Connor Thomson

AWARDS
2xITA Scholar-Athlete (2020, 2022)

3x SEC Academic Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022)

All-SEC First Team (2021)

All-SEC Second Team (2022)

SEC All-Newcomer Team

ITA All-American (2022 – Doubles)

IN THE RECORD BOOKS
Individual Season
1st – Tiebreaks winning percentage (.909 (10-1) in 2020-21)
T-3rd – Tiebreaks wins (10 in 2020-21)
T-8th – Combined SEC winning percentage (.667 (14-7) in 2020-21)
T-10th – Combined SEC wins (14 in 2020-21)
Most tiebreak wins by a freshman in program history (10 in 2020-21)

Doubles Team Season
1st – No. 1 wins (15 in 2020-21) – with Daniel Rodrigues
T-1st – No. 1 SEC wins (6 in 2020-21) – with Daniel Rodrigues
2nd – Matches played (35 in 2002-21) – with Daniel Rodrigues
T-4th – Matches won (22 in 2020-21) – with Daniel Rodrigues

2021-22 (SOPHOMORE)

• Earned 30 singles wins on the season with 23 of them coming in straight sets
• Picked up ranked singles wins over Nos. 38, 51, 74, 73, and 97
• Began the dual season with a nine-match singles win streak
• Clinched three matches on the season
• Came back from down 0-6, 0-3 to take down Tennessee’s Angel Diaz give help South Carolina defeat No. 1 ranked Tennessee on the road
• Earned All-American status in doubles after advancing to the NCAA Doubles semifinals with partner Daniel Rodrigues. Their trip to the semifinals is the furthest a Gamecock doubles pair has ever advanced in the tournament
• Picked up 25 doubles wins on the season with 13 of them coming over ranked opponents, including five of them in the top-10
• Ended the season ranked No. 6 in doubles with Rodrigues, the highest final doubles ranking in program history

2020-21 (FRESHMAN)

• Named to the All-SEC First Team and the All-Newcomer Team
• Rose from No. 118 in singles in the preseason to a final ranking of No. 27, making him just the Gamecocks’ third top-30 singles finisher since 2014 and earning him a spot in the NCAA Singles Championship
• Ranked No. 11 in the nation in doubles with Daniel Rodrigues, the program’s highest final doubles ranking since the end of the 1988-89 season
• Teamed with Rodrigues to earn a spot in the NCAA Doubles Championship after posting 22 doubles wins, the fourth most in a season in program history, including a program-record 15 at the No. 1 spot in the dual-match lineup
• Led the team with five match-clinching singles victories on the season, including three of the team’s seven SEC wins
• Posted highest ranked win of his career, topping No. 17 player in three sets as Gamecocks pushed then-No. 1 Florida (Apr. 9) to the limit in 3-4 defeat

2019-20 (FRESHMAN)

• Made an instant impact as a freshman in the middle of the lineup, winning 24 singles matches
• Was named SEC Freshman of the week (Jan. 29) after going 5-0 in both singles and doubles to start the year
• Provided a steady force at the No. 4 spot, winning six singles matches
• Partnered with Phillip Jordan to win the Black Doubles Draw in his first collegiate event, the Gamecock Fall Invite (Sept. 20-22)

PRE-COLLEGE

• Member of 18-and-under Great Britain squad that placed fifth at the European Summer Cup
• Represented Scotland at the Four Nations Cup, going undefeated in both singles and doubles
• Won Fujairah ITF Futures tournament and was runner up in Abu Dhabi futures tournament
• Was a runner-up at the F5 Roehampton futures and a semifinalist in the F1 Glasgow futures
• Competed in first career ATP challenger in Glasgow in 2018 and also competed in the Wimbledon Junior Slam
• Career high No. 132 ITF singes ranking and career high 1179 ATP doubles ranking

PERSONAL

• His father, Malcolm, is a soccer coach for Rangers FC, and has been in the profession for 24 years for teams such as Blackpool FC, Al Ahli FC in Dubai, and Salgaocar FC in India
• Has one brother, Callum, who has played professional soccer for Manchester United and Birmingham City FC

THOMSON CAREER SINGLES

THOMSON CAREER DOUBLES