Sander Groen


Sander Groen is a professional tennis player from the Netherlands.
Groen enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 1 ATP doubles title and 12 Challenger doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 61 in 1997 and a career-high singles ranking of World No. 177 in 1996.
Groen is known for being the doubles partner of many top-5 singles players like Pat Cash, Goran Ivanišević, Gustavo Kuerten, Marcelo Ríos, Marat Safin, Magnus Norman, Greg Rusedski, Alex Corretja, Marc Rosset and Roger Federer. Federer won his first-ever professional title on the tour playing together with Groen in Segovia 1999. Groen recorded doubles wins over Federer, Safin, Rios, Patrick Rafter and world number 1 teams Eltingh/ Haarhuis, Bhupathi/ Paes and Knowles/ Nestor
In singles Groen qualified for 9 ATP Tour events reaching the second round in 3 events and he recorded wins over Tim Henman, Richard Krajicek Felix Mantilla and Andrei Chesnokov. He won the dutch national masters in 1992 beating Fernon Wibier in the finals and was runner-up to Jan Siemerink in 1994.
In 2004 Sander Groen made his mark on the ITF senior tour by winning the men's singles over 35 world championships followed by finishing runner-up in 2005 and 2006. He also won the men's singles over 35 European championships in 2005. Up to 2016 Groen won 11 medals at ITF seniors world championships.
Groen is still active on the professional tour, and was ranked 1556 in doubles in February 2017.

Doubles titles (13)

No.DateTournamentSurfacePartneringOpponent in the finalScore
1.1991Cherbourg, FranceHard Byron Talbot Michael Daniel
Brian Devening
3–6, 6–3, 7–5
2.1992Meran, ItalyClay David Prinosil Lionel Barthez
Aloïs Beust
6–4, 6–4
3.1992Dublin, IrelandHard Arne Thoms Douglas Geiwald
Robbie Koenig
5–7, 6–4, 6–3
4.1992Munich, GermanyCarpet Arne Thoms Marcos Ondruska
Grant Stafford
6–4, 7–6
5.1993Munich, GermanyCarpet Arne Thoms Jon Ireland
John Yancey
6–3, 6–3
6.1994SingaporeHard Brian Devening Leonardo Lavalle
Danilo Marcelino
6–2, 7–6
7.1997Dubai, UAEHard Goran Ivanišević Sandon Stolle
Cyril Suk
7–6, 6–3
8.1998Dresden, GermanyClay Pablo Albano Jamie Holmes
Andrew Painter
6–4, 6–3
9.1998Guadalajara, MexicoClay Ali Hamadeh Martín García
Sebastián Prieto
6–4, 6–2
10.1999Segovia, SpainClay Roger Federer Ota Fukárek
Alejandro Hernández
6–4, 7–6
11.2000Aachen, GermanyCarpet Jan Siemerink Michael Kohlmann
Franz Stauder
6–7, 7–6, 6–3
12.2001Heilbronn, GermanyCarpet Jack Waite Petr Luxa
David Škoch
1–6, 6–3, 7–6
13.2001Prostějov, Czech RepublicClay Andrea Gaudenzi Devin Bowen
Mariano Hood
7–6, 6–4

Runners-up (15)