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With just a month's break after the Davis Cup, McLachlan resumed his career in the 2020 ATP Cup in Perth. Japan was eliminated in the round-robin phase, McLachlan's contributions being a win over Uruguay and a loss to Georgia with Toshihide Matsui, and a loss with Go Soeda to Pablo Carreño Busta and Rafael Nadal of Spain, the eventual group and tournament winners.

McLachlan's last event of the 2019 season was the Davis Cup finals in Madrid, where he was reunited with Yasutaka Uchiyama to represent Japan. They lost two very close matches, beaten 6–7, 6–4, 7–5 by the French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, and 7–6, 7–6 by Janko Tipsarević and Viktor Troicki of Serbia.

More first round losses followed over the next three months, the streak reaching eight with his and Struff's exit from Roland-Garros, where they had been seeded 15th, at the hands of eventual runners-up Jérémy Chardy and Fabrice Martin. He also played mixed doubles at the French Open, teaming up again with his partner from Wimbledon, Eri Hozumi, but they lost in a first round match tie-break to María José Martínez Sánchez and Neal Skupski.

At Wimbledon McLachlan and Struff dropped only one set in their first three matches on the way through to the quarter-finals. They lost there in four sets, the three which went against them all being tie-breaks, to Frederik Nielsen and Joe Salisbury. Even with that defeat, they remained the only pair in the whole competition not to have lost a service game. In the mixed doubles McLachlan teamed up with Eri Hozumi. As 14th seeds they had a bye in the first round, then had a walkover in the second, before losing to fourth seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Demi Schuurs.

McLachlan then teamed with Hugo Nys to reach the finals in Montpellier, where they lost to English brothers Ken and Neal Skupski. They lost in the semifinals of the Delray Beach Open to the eventual winners Jack Sock and Jackson Withrow. After first-round losses at Acapulco (partnered by Nicholas Monroe) and Indian Wells, and a second-round loss in the Irving Classic (the latter two with Julio Peralta), he and Struff teamed up for the first time since the Australian Open to contest the Miami Open. After good wins in the first three rounds, they came up against the Bryan brothers in the semi-finals, and lost to the eventual winners 5–7, 4–6. He then travelled to Houston for the US Clay Court Championships, where he partnered Ryan Harrison for the first time. In a major upset, they lost to the wild card pair of Dustin Brown and Frances Tiafoe in the first round.

At the end of September, McLachlan won his second title on the ATP Tour at the Shenzhen Open, partnering Joe Salisbury. A week later he successfully defended his Japan Open crown in Tokyo, but this time with regular partner Jan-Lennard Struff, beating Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus in the final. They then lost in the first round of the European Open in Antwerp, beaten 13–11 in a match tie-break by Máximo González and Nicolás Jarry, and McLachlan finished his season when he and Struff went out in the first round of the Paris Masters, beaten 6–3, 6–4, by Dominic Inglot and Franko Skugor.

McLachlan and Struff started the new year in Brisbane, where they easily won their first match, but suffered a big upset defeat in the quarter-finals. From there they headed to Auckland, where they beat Łukasz Kubot and Horacio Zeballos in the first round, Marcus Daniell and Wesley Koolhof in the quarter-finals and the top seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavić in the semi-final, requiring two tie-breaks in all three matches. In the final they were up against Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus, and took the first set 6–3. Down 2–4 in the second set, they won four games in a row to take the match and the title. They lost in a tight third set tie-break to Radu Albot and Malek Jaziri in the first round of the Australian Open. Reunited with Yasutaka Uchiyama for the Davis Cup tie against China, they lost to Gong Mao-xin and Zhang Ze in three sets, although Japan won the tie 3-2 to qualify for the finals in Madrid in November. McLachlan and Struff then lost in the first round at Rotterdam.

McLachlan changed partners for the Open 13 in Marseille as Struff didn't attend, teaming up with Matwé Middelkoop to go all the way to the final, where they lost in a match tie-break to Jérémy Chardy and Fabrice Martin. Dubai was the next stop where, reunited with Struff, he again lost in a final, this time to Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury. They had their revenge on that pair in their very next match, in the first round at Indian Wells, but it was Venus and Klaasen's turn for revenge in the second round, winning 6–4, 7–6. Struff elected to play singles only in Miami, so McLachlan joined forces with Neal Skupski. They lost in the first round to Radu Albot and Nikoloz Basilashvili.

McLachlan had a new partner for his next three tournaments in the USA, teaming up with Australian John-Patrick Smith. They lost in the semi-finals at Newport to Marcelo Arevalo and Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela, in the quarter-finals in Atlanta and in the first round at Los Cabos. McLachlan's next tournament was in Vancouver, where he started a partnership with Luke Bambridge that has continued for every non-Japanese team match since. They won their first match, but lost the quarter-final to Treat Huey and Adil Shamasdin in two titanic tie-breaks, 7–5, 6–7, 12–14.

They also lost in the quarter-finals at both Winston-Salem and the US Open, the latter to top seeds and defending champions Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah. Their next tournament was in Metz, where they lost to eventual champions Struff and Robert Lindstedt in the first round. Again they were on the wrong end of a huge tie-break, losing 4–6, 6–7 on Struff and Lindstedt's fifth match point. A run of first and second round losses continued for the next month, their last event together for 2019 being in Vienna, where they had to qualify before eventually losing in the quarter-finals to Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury, the latter going on to defend the title he had won the previous year with Neal Skupski.

McLachlan had only one more match before the Covid-19 coronavirus halted tennis. This was a Davis Cup match against Ecuador in Miki, where he and Uchiyama were beaten by Gonzalo Escobar and Diego Hidalgo. Ecuador won the tie 3–0 to qualify for the finals in Madrid in November, with Japan returning to World Group I, where they are scheduled to play away to Pakistan in September.

In his last tournament before the US Open, McLachlan resumed his partnership with Struff at Winston-Salem, but they were knocked out in the first round by eventual runners-up Jamie Cerretani and Leander Paes. In the year's final major event, he and Struff were the 12th seeds in the men's doubles, but were knocked out in the first round by the Italian pair of Matteo Berrettini and Andreas Seppi. In the mixed doubles McLachlan resumed his partnership with Makoto Ninomiya, but they lost in the first round to the eventual runners-up, Alicja Rosolska and Nikola Mektic.

McLachlan and Bambridge made a winning start to the year in Auckland, taking their first title together by defeating Marcus Daniell and Philipp Oswald in the final. That form didn't continue in the Australian Open, where they lost in the first round to 10th seeds Mate Pavić and Bruno Soares. They also lost early in two events in the United States before going all the way to the final in Delray Beach, where they lost to Bob and Mike Bryan in a match tie-break. Acapulco saw another first round loss, this time to top seeds Cabal and Farah.

Ben McLachlan (/m ə ˈ k l ɒ x l ə n / mə-KLOKH -lən; マクラクラン 勉, Makurakuran Ben; born 10 May 1992) is a New Zealand-born tennis player who, although he still lives in New Zealand, now represents Japan, having switched his national allegiance in June 2017. He was entitled to do so because his mother is Japanese. He is a doubles specialist, who first reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 18 on 5 November 2018, after the Paris Masters. He attended the University of California, Berkeley.