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Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Country (sports) France
ResidenceDevelier, Switzerland
Born (1991-03-18) 18 March 1991 (age 33)
Schiltigheim, Alsace
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro2010
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money$2,711,484
Singles
Career record20–30 (ATP Tour, Grand Slam main draws and Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 76 (11 July 2016)
Current rankingNo. 78 (28 November 2016)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open3R (2016)
French Open1R (2014, 2016)
Wimbledon3R (2016)
US Open1R (2015, 2016)
Doubles
Career record74–35 (ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draws and Davis Cup)
Career titles8
Highest rankingNo. 2 (11 July 2016)
Current rankingNo. 2 (31 October 2016)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenF (2015)
French Open3R (2015, 2016)
WimbledonW (2016)
US OpenW (2015)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour FinalsRR (2015, 2016)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French OpenQF (2016)
Last updated on: 1 November 2016.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ɛʁbɛʁ]; born 18 March 1991) is a French professional tennis player. In doubles, he won the title at the 2015 US Open and 2016 Wimbledon as well as several Masters 1000 tournaments along with Nicolas Mahut. In singles he has reached one ATP career final (at the 2015 Winston-Salem Open), and achieved his career high singles ranking of World No. 76 in July 2016.

Tennis career

Juniors

Herbert won the Wimbledon boys' doubles title with partner Kevin Krawietz in 2009, beating French duo of Julien Obry and Adrien Puget in the final. He also reached the 2009 US Open boys' singles semifinals, where he lost to eventual champion Bernard Tomic of Australia.[1] Herbert reached as high as No. 9 in the junior singles world rankings in October 2009.

Professional career

2013

After beginning the year outside the top 250, Herbert rose steadily up the rankings. He qualified for the 2013 Paris Masters, where he defeated Benoît Paire for the loss of only four games in the first round of the main draw - his first ever ATP Tour main draw win. In the second round, he had two set points before losing to Novak Djokovic in straight sets. He ended the year with an ATP singles ranking of 151, compared with 257 12 months earlier.

2014

Herbert made his Grand Slam main draw debut in 2014, first receiving a wildcard into the French Open, where he faced American number 10 seed John Isner in his opening match, losing in three tight sets. He then made it through three rounds of qualifying, beating Borna Ćorić, Daniel Kosakowski and Miloslav Mečíř, Jr. to make the main draw at Wimbledon for the first time. In the first round he faced Jack Sock, however lost in four sets despite taking the first set in a tiebreaker. Herbert got his fifth career main draw win at the ATP Tour level at the Swiss Indoors in Basel, beating Édouard Roger-Vasselin in a tight three-setter to set up a clash with 14-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal, his first meeting with a Major champion and former world number 1.

2015

Pierre-Hugues Herbert 2015 Winston-Salem Open

Herbert again battled through three rounds of qualifying, beating Hans Podlipnik Castillo, Facundo Argüello and Íñigo Cervantes (the latter over five sets) to make the main draw of Wimbledon. In the first round he beat Hyeon Chung in a three-hour, five-set match, clinching the final set 10–8, claiming his first win in the main draw of a grand slam. In the second round, he lost in straight sets to Bernard Tomic, the player who had beaten him in the semi-finals of Junior US Open in 2009.

In doubles, Herbert reached two Grand Slam finals alongside fellow Frenchman Nicolas Mahut. At the Australian Open, they lost the final to Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli. At the US Open, they won the final against Jamie Murray and John Peers, becoming the first all-French pair to win the men's doubles title at the US Open. Their US Open victory marked the sixth time that an all-French pair had won a Grand Slam men's doubles title in the Open Era.[2]On the 22nd of June, Herbert broke into the top 20 in doubles for the first time, reaching a career high of No. 20 in the world.

2016

Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 doubles titles in a row in the first half of 2016, in Indian Wells, Miami, and Monte Carlo. At the French Open, he and Mahut, seeded no.1, lost in the third round to Feliciano López and Marc López. At the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, Herbert and Mahut beat Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the final to win the tournament.

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 2015 Australian Open Hard France Nicolas Mahut Italy Simone Bolelli
Italy Fabio Fognini
4–6, 4–6
Winner 2015 US Open Hard France Nicolas Mahut United Kingdom Jamie Murray
Australia John Peers
6–4, 6–4
Winner 2016 Wimbledon Championships Grass France Nicolas Mahut France Julien Benneteau
France Édouard Roger-Vasselin
6–4, 7–6(7–1), 6–3

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 2016 Indian Wells Hard France Nicolas Mahut Canada Vasek Pospisil
United States Jack Sock
6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Winner 2016 Miami Hard France Nicolas Mahut South Africa Raven Klaasen
United States Rajeev Ram
5–7, 6–1, [10–7]
Winner 2016 Monte Carlo Clay France Nicolas Mahut United Kingdom Jamie Murray
Brazil Bruno Soares
4–6, 6–0, [10–6]
Runner-up 2016 Paris Hard (i) France Nicolas Mahut Finland Henri Kontinen
Australia John Peers
4–6, 6–3, [6–10]

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 series (0–1)
Titles by Surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Runner-up 1. 29 August 2015 Winston-Salem Open, Winston-Salem, United States Hard South Africa Kevin Anderson 4–6, 5–7

Doubles: 13 (8 titles, 5 runners-up)

Winner – Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (2–1)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (3–1)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (3–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–3)
Titles by Surface
Hard (4–4)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (3-1)
Carpet (0–0)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1. 5 October 2014 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Tokyo, Japan Hard Poland Michał Przysiężny Croatia Ivan Dodig
Brazil Marcelo Melo
6–3, 6–7(3–7), [10–5]
Runner-up 1. 31 January 2015 Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia Hard France Nicolas Mahut Italy Simone Bolelli
Italy Fabio Fognini
4–6, 4–6
Runner-up 2. 13 June 2015 Topshelf Open, Rosmalen, The Netherlands Grass France Nicolas Mahut Croatia Ivo Karlović
Poland Łukasz Kubot
2–6, 6–7(9–11)
Winner 2. 21 June 2015 Aegon Championships, London, United Kingdom Grass France Nicolas Mahut Poland Marcin Matkowski
Serbia Nenad Zimonjić
6–2, 6–2
Winner 3. 12 September 2015 US Open, New York, United States Hard France Nicolas Mahut United Kingdom Jamie Murray
Australia John Peers
6–4, 6–4
Runner-up 3. 27 September 2015 Moselle Open, Metz, France Hard (i) France Nicolas Mahut Poland Łukasz Kubot
France Edouard Roger-Vasselin
6–2, 3–6, [7–10]
Winner 4. 19 March 2016 BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, United States Hard France Nicolas Mahut Canada Vasek Pospisil
United States Jack Sock
6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Winner 5. 2 April 2016 Miami Open, Miami, United States Hard France Nicolas Mahut South Africa Raven Klaasen
United States Rajeev Ram
5–7, 6–1, [10–7]
Winner 6. 17 April 2016 Monte-Carlo Masters, Monte-Carlo, Monaco Clay France Nicolas Mahut United Kingdom Jamie Murray
Brazil Bruno Soares
4–6, 6–0, [10–6]
Winner 7. 19 June 2016 Aegon Championships, London, United Kingdom Grass France Nicolas Mahut Australia Chris Guccione
Brazil André Sá
6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Winner 8. 9 July 2016 Wimbledon Championships, London, United Kingdom Grass France Nicolas Mahut France Julien Benneteau
France Édouard Roger-Vasselin
6–4, 7–6(7–1), 6–3
Runner-up 4. 23 October 2016 European Open, Antwerp, Belgium Hard (i) France Nicolas Mahut Canada Daniel Nestor
France Édouard Roger-Vasselin
4–6, 4–6
Runner-up 5. 6 November 2016 Paris Masters, Paris, France Hard (i) France Nicolas Mahut Finland Henri Kontinen
Australia John Peers
4–6, 6–3, [6–10]

Singles Challenger titles

Wins (4)

Legend (Singles)
Challengers (4)
No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. 10 February 2014 Quimper, France Hard (i) France Vincent Millot 7–6(7–5), 6–3
2. 10 November 2014 Mouilleron-le-Captif, France Hard (i) Turkey Marsel İlhan 6–2, 6–3
3. 14 February 2016 Bergamo, Italy Hard Belarus Egor Gerasimov 6–3, 7–6(7–5)
4. 26 September 2016 Orleans, France Hard (i) Slovakia Norbert Gombos 7–5,4–6,6–3

Doubles performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
Tournament 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open Absent F 2R 0 / 2 6–2 75%
French Open A 1R 1R 1R 1R 3R 3R 0 / 6 4–6 40%
Wimbledon Absent Q1 3R W 1 / 2 8–1 89%
US Open Absent W SF 1 / 2 10–1 91%
Win–Loss 0–0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 15–3 13–3 2 / 12 28–10 74%
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Finals Absent RR RR 0 / 2 1–5 17%
Olympics
Summer Olympics Not Held A Not Held 1R 0 / 1 0–1 0%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Absent W 1 / 1 5–0 100%
Miami Absent W 1 / 1 5–0 100%
Monte-Carlo Absent W 1 / 1 3–0 100%
Madrid Absent SF 0 / 1 2–1 67%
Rome Absent 0 / 0 0–0 0%
Montreal / Toronto Absent 2R A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Cincinnati Absent 2R QF 0 / 2 2–2 50%
Shanghai Absent QF A 0 / 1 1–0 100%
Paris Absent 1R 1R 2R F 0 / 4 3–4 43%
Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–1 2–3 19–3 3 / 12 21–8 72%
Year-End Ranking 290 135 139 151 63 14 2

References

  1. ^ Pierre-Hugues Herbert at the Association of Tennis Professionals
  2. ^ "Nicolas Mahut et Pierre-Hugues Herbert s'imposent en finale". L'Équipe. 12 September 2015.

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