Bursting onto the professional tennis scene in 2002, Reid quickly emerged as the No. 3 Aussie tennis player of the early noughties behind Lleyton Hewitt and Mark Philippoussis. Todd Reid in 2002.

Reid first played tennis at Washington Park’s public tennis center in 1964 at nine years old. Just a few years later, at 12, he was the first Black player to win a Georgia State Junior Open title.