Nicholas Monroe
Benjamin Nicholas Monroe is an American professional tennis player. He has won 3 ATP World Tour titles and 12 ATP Challenger Tour titles in his career.
College career
Monroe had a highly successful college career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2000 to 2004. His achievements include:- University of North Carolina's Senior Male Student-Athlete of the Year
- All-American Status
- All-ACC Status
- 2nd in all-time singles wins at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Recipient of the Arthur Ashe Regional Sportsmanship Award
- National and Regional NCAA/ITF John Van Nostrand Sportsmanship Awards
Professional career
2001
Nicholas competed in doubles in his first main-draw Futures match. He and partner Tripp Phillips lost in the first round of USA F21. This was the only tour event he competed in 2001.2002
Monroe reached the quarterfinals of his first Futures tournament in singles play, USA F11, played in Peoria, Illinois in July.2003
Nicholas won his first Futures doubles match, partnering Yannis Vlachos to the semifinals of Slovenia F1.2004
After playing only four Futures events in 2003, Monroe played, from June, a full schedule in 2004. In his first doubles tournament of the year, he reached his first final, partnering Jonathan Igbinovia. In August he reached his first singles semifinal, at Indonesia F2 in Makassar. In October, Monroe captured his first doubles Futures title, in doubles, partnering Márcio Torres, at Venezuela F3. He won a second two weeks later, Mexico F17, playing alongside Jeremy Wurtzman. Later in November, Monroe played in his first Challenger tournament, the Puebla Challenger in Puebla, Mexico, losing in the first round to Santiago González. In doubles, he and Wurtzman reached the semifinals. Three weeks later in Guadalajara, however, he won two Challenger matches to reach the quarterfinalss.2005
His first full year as a professional, Nicholas played ITF Circuit and USTA Pro Circuit events. He reached his first final and won his first singles title at the ITF Circuit event in South Africa, when he defeated Stephen Mitchell. Highly successful in doubles, Nick won four titles in 2005: with Jeremy Wurtzman at the USTA Pro Circuit event in Orange Park, Florida; with Izak van der Merwe at ITF Circuit events in Botswana and Zimbabwe; and with Sam Warburg at the ITF Circuit event in Israel.Monroe competed in 29 events in 2005, all but one of which were Futures. He lost in the first round of his only main draw Challenger event singles match, to Zack Fleishman at the Cuenca Challenger. Monroe won his first singles title, South Africa F1 in late October, defeating Stephen Mitchell in the final.
2006
Nicholas started the year by winning the ITF Circuit title in Costa Rica. A month later, he won another ITF title, this time in Nigeria. He reached the semifinals of a USTA Pro Circuit event in Little Rock, before reaching back-to-back finals in India. He lost to Karan Rastogi in Delhi and defeated Sunil Kumar Sipaeya in Dehradun. He reached another ITF Circuit final in the fall in Japan, where he lost to Satoshi Iwabuchi. At the beginning of the year, Nick won consecutive doubles titles on the ITF Circuit with partner Sam Warburg in Mexico and Costa Rica.2007
Nicholas began the year by attempting to qualify for the Australian Open. He defeated Jeremy Chardy in his 1st rd singles qualifying match. He reached consecutive ITF Futures events in Japan, where he lost to Gouichi Motomura both times. He won two titles at ITF Futures events in Mexico and won a USTA Pro Circuit event in Rochester, New York, where he defeated Robert Yim in the final. The fall of 2007 saw Nick reach the semifinals of USTAPro Circuit events in Manchester, Texas, where he lost to eventual champion Michael McClune, and Waikoloa, Hawaii where he lost to Lester Cook. He partnered with Izak van der Merwe to win the USTA Pro Circuit doubles title in Brownsville, Texas.2012
Nicholas won the Challenger in Medellin-Colombia. His partner was the German Simon Stadler.2013
Nicholas had his best year as a professional, finishing the year with a Doubles Ranking of 51. He won the 250 level Bastad Skistar Swedish Open Doubles Championship with Stadler.Monroe and partner Raven Klaasen made it to the semifinals of the 2013 Aircel Chennai Open in January, falling to Benoît Paire and Stanislas Wawrinka, after a surprise quarterfinal win over the #1 Seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Daniel Nestor. He then teamed with Simon Stadler to play the Copa Claro in Buenos Aires. They made it to the final, falling to the Italian pair of Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli.
World TeamTennis
Nicholas has played three seasons with World TeamTennis starting in 2006 when he debuted in the league with the Springfield Lasers, followed by a season with the Kasnas City Explorers in 2012 abd the Washington Kastles in 2019. It was announced that he will re-joining the Washington Kastles during the 2020 WTT season set to begin July 12 at The Greenbrier.Significant finals
ATP Masters 1000 finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
ATP career finals
Doubles: 13 (4 titles, 9 runner-ups)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | 2013 Copa Claro – Doubles| | Argentina Open, Argentina | 250 Series | Clay |  Simon Stadler |  Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini | 3–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | 2013 Swedish Open – Men's Doubles| | Swedish Open, Sweden | 250 Series | Clay | Simon Stadler |  Carlos Berlocq Albert Ramos Viñolas | 6–2, 3–6, |
| Loss | 1–2 | 2013 ATP Vegeta Croatia Open Umag – Doubles| | Croatia Open, Croatia | 250 Series | Clay | Simon Stadler |  Martin Kližan David Marrero | 1–6, 7–5, |
| Win | 2–2 | 2014 Swedish Open – Men's Doubles| | Swedish Open, Sweden | 250 Series | Clay |  Johan Brunström |  Jérémy Chardy Oliver Marach | 4–6, 7–6, |
| Loss | 2–3 | 2015 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy – Doubles| | Romanian Open, Romania | 250 Series | Clay |  Artem Sitak |  Marius Copil Adrian Ungur | 6–3, 5–7, |
| Loss | 2–4 | 2015 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships – Doubles| | Hall of Fame Open, United States | 250 Series | Grass |  Mate Pavić |  Jonathan Marray Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi | 6–4, 3–6, |
| Win | 3–4 | 2015 Stockholm Open – Doubles| | Stockholm Open, Sweden | 250 Series | Hard |  Jack Sock | Mate Pavić Michael Venus | 7–5, 6–2 |
| Loss | 3–5 | 2017 Miami Open – Men's Doubles| | Miami Open, United States | Masters 1000 | Hard | Jack Sock |  Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo | 5–7, 3–6 |
| Loss | 3–6 | 2017 ATP Shenzhen Open – Doubles| | Shenzhen Open, China | 250 Series | Hard | Nikola Mektić | Alexander Peya Rajeev Ram | 3–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 3–7 | 2018 Delray Beach Open – Doubles| | Delray Beach Open, United States | 250 Series | Hard |  John-Patrick Smith | Jack Sock Jackson Withrow | 6–4, 4–6, |
| Loss | 3–8 | 2018 Istanbul Open – Doubles| | Istanbul Open, Turkey | 250 Series | Clay |  Ben McLachlan | Dominic Inglot Robert Lindstedt | 6–3, 3–6, |
| Win | 4–8 | 2018 BB&T Atlanta Open – Doubles| | Atlanta Open, United States | 250 Series | Hard | John-Patrick Smith | Ryan Harrison Rajeev Ram | 3–6, 7–6, |
| Loss | 4–9 | 2019 Winston-Salem Open – Doubles| | Winston-Salem Open, United States | 250 Series | Hard | Tennys Sandgren | Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo | 7–6, 1–6, |