Pierre-Hugues Herbert

Pierre-Hugues Herbert

Country (sports)	France
Residence	Develier, Switzerland
Born	(1991-03-18) 18 March 1991 Schiltigheim, Alsace
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2010
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$2,711,484
Singles
Career record	20–30 (ATP Tour, Grand Slam main draws and Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 76 (11 July 2016)
Current ranking	No. 78 (28 November 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (2016)
French Open	1R (2014, 2016)
Wimbledon	3R (2016)
US Open	1R (2015, 2016)
Doubles
Career record	74–35 (ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draws and Davis Cup)
Career titles	8
Highest ranking	No. 2 (11 July 2016)
Current ranking	No. 2 (31 October 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	F (2015)
French Open	3R (2015, 2016)
Wimbledon	W (2016)
US Open	W (2015)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	RR (2015, 2016)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
French Open	QF (2016)
Last updated on: 1 November 2016.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert (French pronunciation: ​[pjɛʁ yɡ 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	Nicolas Mahut	Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini	4–6, 4–6
Winner	2015	US Open	Hard	Nicolas Mahut	Jamie Murray John Peers	6–4, 6–4
Winner	2016	Wimbledon Championships	Grass	Nicolas Mahut	Julien Benneteau 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	Nicolas Mahut	Vasek Pospisil Jack Sock	6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Winner	2016	Miami	Hard	Nicolas Mahut	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	5–7, 6–1, [10–7]
Winner	2016	Monte Carlo	Clay	Nicolas Mahut	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	4–6, 6–0, [10–6]
Runner-up	2016	Paris	Hard (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Henri Kontinen John Peers	4–6, 6–3, [6–10]

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	29 August 2015	Winston-Salem Open, Winston-Salem, United States	Hard	Kevin Anderson	4–6, 5–7

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

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

Singles Challenger titles

Wins (4)

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

Doubles performance timeline

References

External links

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• Pierre-Hugues Herbert at the Association of Tennis Professionals

Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten French male doubles tennis players as of 12 December 2016
1. Nicolas Mahut (1 ) 2. Pierre-Hugues Herbert (2 ) 3. Édouard Roger-Vasselin (17 ) 4. Julien Benneteau (35 ) 5. Fabrice Martin (37 )
6. Lucas Pouille (88 ) 7. Adrian Mannarino (92 ) 8. Jonathan Eysseric (99 ) 9. Jérémy Chardy (105 ) 10. Albano Olivetti (114 )