Background
He was born in Zambia to Scottish parents but grew up in Zimbabwe where he regularly competed against Wayne Black.
He was born in Zambia to Scottish parents but grew up in Zimbabwe where he regularly competed against Wayne Black.
Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe.
He formerly coached British Number.1s Laura Robson and Andy Murray. He left Zimbabwe in 1988 to pursue tennis in the United Kingdom. He reached a highest ranking of 172 in singles and 200 in doubles.
At Wimbledon in 1999 he managed to take a two set to love lead against Boris Becker before eventually losing in 5 sets.
He subsequently continued to coach the pairing of Kevin Ullyett and Paul Hanley after Wayne Black retired. At the end of 2007 he was invited to join up with fellow Scot and British Number.
1 Andy Murray as part of his coaching team While there were others around him, Maclagan was the man Murray turned to for tactical advice.
On 27 July 2010, Andy Murray and Maclagan split.
But he was not out of employment for long as on 17 September he was hired by German player Philipp Kohlschreiber. Between June 2011 to July 2012, he coached former World Number.8 Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis. In June 2013, it was announced that Maclagan would start coaching Laura Robson.
Stosur ended her coaching relationship with Maclagan in June 2014, ten days before the 2014 Wimbledon.
Maclagan began coaching Borna Ćorić in December 2015.
He played in three Davis Cup ties for Great Britain, making his debut against Slovakia in 1995 and coming out of retirement to partner Tim Henman to victory against Thailand at the Birmingham National Investigation Agency in 2002. As a coach he worked with doubles specialists such as Wayne Black and Kevin Ulyett and was part of their team as they went on to win the Australian Open Doubles title in 2005.
