Andrew Castle

His mother, Lavinia Pollock (the great-grandchild of Annie Besant), married Frank Castle in April 1953.

Andrew Nicholas Castle (born 15 November 1963) is a British broadcaster and former tennis player.

Andrew was born in 1963.

Castle won a tennis scholarship to Millfield School in Somerset but at 15 his parents separated and he had to leave.

Another scholarship sent him to Kansas.

He taught tennis at the Wichita Racquet Club to both children and adults.

Castle's father ran the fishmonger's in Westerham, Kent, where his customers included the lady of nearby Chartwell House, Winston Churchill's wife Clementine.

He went on to own shops in North Cheam; Norbury; Stoneleigh, Surrey; and owned a fish and chip shop in Taunton, Somerset (Kingston Road).

Castle was Great Britain's number 1 in singles tennis in 1986, reaching as high as World No. 80 in June 1988, and No. 45 in doubles in December 1988, with Tim Wilkison of the United States.

Castle became a professional tennis player in 1986, after completing a marketing degree whilst on an athletic scholarship in the United States.

During his playing career, he was regularly ranked number one in Great Britain.

In 1986 Castle reached the third round at Queens Club.

Castle reached one Grand Slam final in his career in the 1987 Australian Open mixed doubles event with Anne Hobbs.

He won three ATP titles in men's doubles, as well as one title on the Challenger tour.

He won US$344338 in prize money (equivalent to GB£ in 1992).

He won three tour doubles titles, and was a mixed doubles finalist at the 1987 Australian Open.

His 1987 run at the US Open was his best career singles performance at a Grand Slam event, when he reached the third round by defeating David Pate and Jimmy Brown, before losing to Boris Becker in four sets.

He represented Britain at the Seoul Olympic Games of 1988, and the Barcelona Olympic Games of 1992.

Castle was a regular member of the British Davis Cup team and the European Cup team.

His career-high rankings were World No. 80 in singles and No. 45 in doubles.

Castle represents Surrey at squash at over-45s level, and continues to play representative tennis around the world.

After retiring from professional tennis in 1992, Castle served as a commentator and presenter for BSkyB.

As well as tennis, he presented basketball, motor racing and golf for Sky.

Between 2000 and 2010, Castle was a presenter on the now defunct ITV breakfast programme GMTV, sharing duties with Ben Shephard to present its weekday magazine programme.

He joined GMTV in September 2000 as a presenter.

Castle has been lead commentator on all men's singles finals since 2003, working alongside John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Jimmy Connors, Tim Henman and John Lloyd.

In 2009, he began presenting the ITV daytime game show Divided.

In 2005, he presented the quiz show Perseverance; he presented two series of the teatime game show Divided (2009–2010); and appeared on Beat the Star on 24 May 2009 – all on ITV.

After a decade, it was announced in June 2010 he was to leave the programme.

Castle presented the final broadcast of GMTV on 3 September 2010.

He is a member of the BAFTA-nominated BBC tennis team, covering Wimbledon, the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club, the French Open, Australian Open and the Davis Cup.

He took part in ITV programme 71 Degrees North in 2010.

In 2013, Castle began presenting for LBC.

He has also taken part in Strictly Come Dancing and 71 Degrees North.

Castle was born in Epsom, Surrey.

Castle previously presented the breakfast show on Smooth Radio and continued on the station with The Great American Songbook on Sunday evenings until 2019.

He presented a weekend breakfast show on speech-based radio station LBC.

He has been off air since November 2023 without any apparent explanation from LBC.

As of November 2023, Matthew Wright has replaced Andrew Castle on Weekend Breakfast at LBC.

Castle competed in the sixth series of the celebrity dance competition, Strictly Come Dancing.