{{Short description|British tennis player}} {{for|the Australian rugby league player|Michael Weyman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Michael Wayman | image = | fullname = | country_represented = {{GBR}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|05|06|df=yes}} | birth_place = Dulwich, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = | plays = | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = 3–13 | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = No. 171 (16 Jan 1978) | Wimbledonresult = 2R (1976) | doublesrecord = 3–8 | doublestitles = | highestdoublesranking = | WimbledonDoublesresult = 2R (1977) | WimbledonMixedresult = 1R (1983) }} '''Michael Wayman''' (born 6 May 1953) is a British former professional tennis player.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110871309 |title=Rosewall overcomes setback |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=12 October 1977 |accessdate=17 December 2021 |page=36 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Born in Dulwich, England, Wayman played collegiate tennis for the University of Southern California, where he twice earned All-American honors before graduating in 1975.<ref name="smcgaels">{{cite web |title=Longtime Head Coach Michael Wayman Announces Retirement |url=https://smcgaels.com/news/2015/7/2/MTEN_Longtime_Head_Coach_Michael_Wayman_Announces_Retirement |website=SMC Gaels |date=2 July 2015}}</ref>
On the professional tour he registered a best singles ranking of 171 and made the second round of the 1976 Wimbledon Championships. In 1977 he took Australian Open champion Mark Edmondson to five sets in a first round Wimbledon loss and had a win over British Davis Cup player Richard Lewis at a Grand Prix tournament in Brisbane.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article250484823 |title=Tanner Makes Rush Wimbledon Exit |newspaper=Papua New Guinea Post-Courier |date=22 June 1977 |accessdate=17 December 2021 |page=28 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Wayman served as head men's tennis coach at Saint Mary's College of California from 1996 to 2015.<ref name="smcgaels"/>
==ATP Challenger finals== ===Singles: 1 (0–1)=== {|class="sortable wikitable" !Result !No. !{{ns}}Date{{ns}} !Tournament !Surface !Opponent !class="unsortable"|Score |-style="background:moccasin;" |bgcolor=FFA07A|Loss |1. |{{dts|Apr 1983}} |Tokyo, Japan |Hard |{{flagicon|JPN}} Tsuyoshi Fukui |4–6, 0–6 |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{ATP|w010}} * {{ITF profile|michael-wayman/800175956/gbr}}
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