Roger Smith (born 20 January 1964) is a former tennis player from the Bahamas. Smith turned professional in 1987. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on 1 August 1988, when he became World Number 96 making him the highest singles ranked Bahamian in history along with Mark Knowles. Career highlights Smith played for Ohio State University for four years finishing his collegiate career in 1986. While a senior, he earned All-America honors. Also, he won the Ohio Inter-Collegiate Championship by besting a scrappy sophomore from Bowling Green State University, Ken Bruce, in a thrilling final 4−6, 6−2, 6−1. Bruce would go on to win the singles title the next year. 1986 Smith played two singles and one doubles matches in Davis Cup for the then Caribbean Davis Cup team in March in a tie against Brazil losing to Cássio Motta in four sets and in doubles partnering Doug Burke in live rubbers. He did not appear in any tour grand prix or challenger events and finished the year ranked (on 29 December) World No. 482 and No. 610T in doubles. 1987 Smith won his next Davis Cup match, in a tie played in Nassau, in four sets over Chilean Robinson Ureta, but lost the deciding rubber to Ricardo Acuña in five sets, as the Caribbean lost in their final tie as a team 2−3. (From then Caribbean nations have competed separately.) Smith reached the finals of the Coquitlam Challenger, partnering Puerto Rican player Juan-Oscar Rios. He reached the second round of the 1987 US Open defeating Marián Vajda before losing to Jim Grabb, and won two tournaments in November – the 1987 Bossonnens Challenger in singles, defeating Alexander Mronz in the final, and the Munich Challenger in doubles partnering Tony Mmoh. The final Nabisco Grand Prix ranking release for the year had Smith ranked World No. 146 in singles and No. 219 in doubles. 1988 Smith went up on World No. 8 Yannick Noah 2 sets to love before losing 14−16 in the fifth in the first round of the 1988 Australian Open. He and partner Paul Wekesa reached the semi-finals in doubles of the grand prix tournament in Washington. The following week Smith famously knocked off World No. 1 Ivan Lendl in the second round of the Volvo International in Stratton Mountain, Vermont, 6−2, 6−3, in a match Lendl, forced by the grand prix tour to play this