Neville Godwin (born 31 January 1975) is a former tennis player from South Africa.

Godwin turned professional in 1994. The right-hander won one singles title (2001 Newport) in his career, and reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour in March 1997, when he became World No. 90.

Neville Godwin

His highest world ranking for doubles was World No. 57.

Neville Godwin

At the 1996 Wimbledon tournament, Godwin had his best finish at a Grand Slam, when he reached the fourth round as a qualifier, defeating Cristiano Caratti, compatriot Grant Stafford and Boris Becker before losing to Alex Rădulescu.

Neville Godwin

He finished his career in 2003.

He now lives in his hometown of Johannesburg with his wife, Nicky and two sons, Oliver and James. He coached performance players out of the Wanderers Club for 5 years, before coaching South African player Kevin Anderson to a world top 10 ranking and a US Open final appearance in 2017. In 2017, he won ATP Coach of the Year award. On 12 November 2017 it was announced Godwin and Anderson had split. He came into limelight again during the Australian Open 2018 when Hyeon Chung, who was being coached by Godwin became the first player from South Korea to reach the semifinals of a grand slam.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

ATP career finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 9 (2–7)

Doubles: 18 (11–7)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

External links

Neville Godwin at the Association of Tennis Professionals Coach profile

1975 births

Living people

South African male tennis players

Tennis players from Johannesburg

South African people of British descent

US Open (tennis) junior champions

White South African people

South African tennis coaches

Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles