page_title: Colin Fleming
section_title: 2010
hierarchical_section_title: Colin Fleming / Senior career / 2010
caption_attribution_description: English: Colin Fleming, a Scottish Tennis player playing in the final of Mixed doubles final of Commonwealth Games 2010. Together with Jocelyn Rae, he won the Gold medal. മലയാളം: സ്കോട്ടിഷ് ടെന്നീസ് കളിക്കാരനായ കോളിൻ ഫ്ലെമിങ്. കോമൺവെൽത്ത് ഗെയിംസ് 2010-ലെ മിക്സഡ് ഡബിൾസ് ഫൈനലിൽ കളിക്കുന്നു. ജോക്ലിൻ റേയോടൊപ്പം പങ്കാളിയായിക്കളിച്ച ഇദ്ദേഹം, ഈ കളിയിലൂടെ സ്വർണ്ണമെഡൽ കരസ്ഥമാക്കി.
context_page_description: Colin Fleming is a British retired professional tennis player who specialised in doubles.
  As part of the Davis Cup team, he won eight successive doubles matches to help Great Britain into the World Group. He also won his doubles match in the World Group quarter final against Italy. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won the mixed doubles gold medal with Jocelyn Rae for Scotland.
  He has reached nineteen ATP Tour doubles finals in his career, winning eight of them: two in 2009, 2012 and 2013 and one in 2011 and 2015. In 2011, he had his best doubles Grand Slam results, reaching the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, and then two months later equalling it at the US Open.
  He has had a number of different partners, but primarily played alongside his British compatriots, most notably Ross Hutchins, Jamie and Andy Murray, Ken Skupski and Jonathan Marray. Fleming's most successful partnership has been with Ross Hutchins, however whilst Hutchins was off the tour with illness, Fleming spent most of 2013 partnering with Marray.
  He retired from professional tennis in January 2017, to take up the new position of national coach for Tennis Scotland.
context_section_description: In January Fleming competed in his first grand slam outside of Wimbledon at the Australian open again partnering Ken Skupski made it to the second round.
  In March, Fleming and Skupski were called to the Davis Cup team in the Europe/Africa Zone Group II tie vs Lithuania, in Vilnius, with James Ward, and Dan Evans. The Lithuanian side entered the tie as underdogs; fielding a team of teenagers. Ward won his debut Davis Cup match but Evans lost the second singles match. Fleming and Skupski, in his debut match, won the doubles, but Ward and Evans were both beaten on the final day. This was described as a humiliating Davis Cup defeat for Great Britain, and led to the resignation of Davis Cup Captain John Lloyd. Britain was now threatened with relegation to the lowest tier of the competition.
  Fleming then competed at the French open for the first time again partnering Ken Skupski but fell at the second round in three sets.
  Fleming/Skupski competed in the Eastbourne Open in England and got to the final only to lose to Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in three sets 3–6, 7–5, [8–10]. For the first time he made it into the second round of Wimbledon but lost to the much more experienced Bryan brother's in straight sets again partnering Ken Skupski.
  The new Davis Cup Captain Leon Smith selected Fleming to take part in Great Britain's vital Davis Cup tie vs Turkey, at Eastbourne, in July alongside Ken Skupski, James Ward, Jamie Baker, and Alex Ward. Defeat would have meant Great Britain's relegation to Europe Zone Group III, the lowest tier of the competition. Fleming/Skupski secured the 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win that gave Britain an unassailable 3-0 lead, giving Great Britain a first Davis Cup win in three years.
  At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, Fleming and nineteen year old Jocelyn Rae played Mixed Doubles for Scotland. They had barely met and didn't even know they were playing together until they arrived. but won the gold medal by defeating the No 1 seeds, Australians Anastasia Rodionova and Paul Hanley, in three sets. Rodionova had already won the Singles and Women's doubles. Fleming/Rae were unable to defend their title in 2014 because tennis was not included in the Glasgow Games. Fleming also partnered Jamie Murray in the Men's Doubles but they lost in the first round.
  Fleming for the first time competed at the US open and competed at all four grand slams for the first time. But fell in the first round in straight sets, once again partnering Ken Skupski.
  In October, Fleming split from Ken Skupski, after defeat in the first round of the St. Petersburg Open, something which was particularly wounding given that the pair were defending the title. It meant Fleming's ranking dropped into the 90s when it was in the 60s at the start of the year.
  Fleming and Ross Hutchins agreed to begin next year as steady partners, and in November they had a winning start at the Kazakhstan Challenger.
  Two weeks later, Fleming and Jamie Murray won the Bratislava Challenger.
caption: Fleming at 2010 Commonwealth Games mixed doubles final match.
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