Sander Groen

Sander Groen
Nation:	Netherlands
Birthday:	June 16, 1968
Size:	191 cm
Weight:	85 kg
1st professional season:	1989
Resignation:	2016
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Marko Zelch
Prize money:	$ 503,494
singles
Career record:	3: 9
Highest ranking:	177 (March 4 1996)
Double
Career record:	47:98
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	61 (October 20 1997)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Sander Groen (born June 16, 1968 in Amsterdam ) is a former Dutch tennis player .

Personal

Groen started playing tennis when he was eight. In addition to Dutch, he speaks English, German, French and Italian.

Career

The beginnings in professional tennis

Groen started his professional career in 1989 and specialized mainly in doubles. There he reached his first final at the Challenger tournament in Singapore in 1990 . A year later he won his first title in Cherbourg . In 1992 he also reached a final on the ATP World Tour in Umag , which he lost in the final with Lars Koslowski as a partner against David Prinosil and Richard Vogel .

Until the end as a professional player in 2002

In the following years Groen was able to establish himself permanently in the top 300 in the individual. In doubles he even made it into the top 100 in 1997 to his highest ranking 61. After winning further doubles titles in the Challengers in Munich and Singapore in 1993 and 1994 , he made his only one in 1997 with Goran Ivanišević as a partner in Dubai Winning titles on the ATP World Tour . After four more titles on the Challenger Tour, Groen announced in 2002 that he would like to retire from full-time professional tennis. In 1999 when he won the tournament in Segovia, Groen played alongside the young Roger Federer , who won his first ATP title with Groen. The final also took place on Federer's 18th birthday.

In his career, Groen won against the world number one of the doubles Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis , Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes as well as Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor .

From 2002

After his retirement, Groen only played sporadically in tournaments on the ITF Future Tour and the Challenger Tour. On the former he even won three doubles titles at the age of 45 and 46 respectively. In 2016 he even took part in the Delray Beach Open , a tournament on the ATP World Tour , in Delray Beach for the first time since 2002 . On the side of Adelchi Virgili he lost in the opening round with 8:10 in the match tie-break . Until 2016 he still took part in tournaments.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series (1) ATP Challenger Tour (12)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (1) Sand (0) Lawn (0)

Double

Tournament victories

ATP tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 16, 1997	Dubai	Hard court	Goran Ivanišević	Sandon Stolle Cyril Suk	7: 6, 6: 3

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 13, 1991	Cherbourg-Octeville	Hard court (i)	Byron Talbot	Michael Daniel Brian Devening	3: 6, 6: 3, 7: 5
2.	September 6, 1992	Meran	sand	David Prinosil	Lionel Barthez Alois Beust	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	October 11, 1992	Dublin	Carpet (i)	Arne Thoms	Douglas Geiwald Robbie Koenig	5: 7, 6: 4, 6: 3
4th	November 15, 1992	Munich (1)	Carpet (i)	Arne Thoms	Marcos Ondruska Grant Stafford	6: 4, 7: 6
5.	October 31, 1993	Munich (2)	Carpet (i)	Arne Thoms	Jon Ireland John Yancey	6: 3, 6: 3
6th	September 25, 1994	Singapore	Hard court	Brian Devening	Leonardo Lavalle Danilo Marcelino	6: 2, 7: 6
7th	May 17, 1998	Dresden	sand	Pablo Albano	Jamie Holmes Andrew Painter	6: 4, 6: 3
8th.	December 6, 1998	Guadalajara	sand	Ali Hamadeh	Martín Alberto García Sebastián Prieto	6: 4, 6: 2
9.	August 8, 1999	Segovia	sand	Roger Federer	Ota Fukárek Alejandro Hernández	6: 4, 7: 6
10.	November 19, 2000	Aachen	Carpet (i)	Jan Siemerink	Michael Kohlmann Franz Stauder	6: 7 2 , 7: 6 7 , 6: 3
11.	January 28, 2001	Heilbronn	Carpet (i)	Jack Waite	Petr Luxa David Škoch	1: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6 4
12.	June 10, 2001	Prostějov	sand	Andrea Gaudenzi	Devin Bowen Mariano Hood	7: 6 6 , 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 30, 1992	Umag	sand	Lars Koslowski	David Prinosil Richard Vogel	6: 7, 6: 3, 6: 7

Web links

• ATP profile Sander Groen (English)
• ITF profile Sander Groen (English)