Career
Perhaps Rodney"s greatest result came at the 1982 United States. Open, during his Grand Slam debut, when he got through to the quarterfinals overcoming Eliot Teltscher, seeded 8th, in an epic fifth set tiebreak. Harmon is featured on Tennis Channel"s Tennis Channel Academy, where he stars in a 30-minute coaching show. There, commentator Tracy Austin revealed that Rodney made headlines when he became the lone coach of the American 2008 Beijing Olympics tennis team
Rodney was only the second African-American man to have reached the United States. Open quarterfinals, alongside legend Arthur Ashe until James Blake in 2005.
Rodney was named head coach of the Georgia Technical Yellow Jackets women"s tennis team on July 3, 2012.
