Mies grew up near the city limits between Cologne and the Rhein-Sieg district . After graduating from high school in 2009, Mies received a tennis scholarship from Auburn University in Alabama . There he studied until 2013 in the subject Business and played in the team of the Auburn Tigers College Tennis . He completed his studies with a bachelor's degree .
Career
Mies played as a professional on the ITF Future Tour from 2013 and won 18 double titles there. Mies' strength quickly crystallized in doubles, so that he rarely competed in singles, where he achieved his best placement in 2014 with 781th place. In addition, Mies was promoted to the tennis Bundesliga with the first men's team at the KTHC Stadion Rot-Weiss in August 2014 and has been a Bundesliga player for the club ever since. After a total of 10 Future titles in 2016, from then on he mainly played tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour . He won his first title there in 2017 in Rome , when he and his partner Oscar Otte defeated Kimmer Coppejans and Márton Fucsovics in three sets in the final . After two more titles, it was listed at number 131 at the end of the year.
Mies played his first Grand Slam tournament in 2018 with Kevin Krawietz at Wimbledon , where the two reached the second round together after successfully qualifying. There the duo lost just under five sets and despite two match points to the US doubles Mike Bryan and Jack Sock . With this appearance Mies also celebrated his debut on the ATP World Tour . In 2018 he won five Challenger tournaments with Krawietz, who is most of the time his doubles partner, and in the same year he was in the semifinals of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow and in the quarterfinals of the ATP World Tour 500 with Hans Podlipnik-Castillo - Tournament in Vienna , where they defeated the world number nine Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares in straight sets. After two tournaments in early 2019 with early defeats, u. a. the second round defeat at the Australian Open , Mies - playing with Krawietz again - won his first title on the World Tour on February 17 in New York City . In the final they won against the duo Santiago González and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi in straight sets. At the French Open , Mies and Krawietz won the title as an unseeded pairing, with which they were able to celebrate the first German double success since 1937 in a Grand Slam . In October they reached the semi-finals at the US Open and secured their third joint title in Antwerp . They qualified for the ATP Finals , in which they did not get beyond that after a victory in the group stage. In the world rankings, he reached his previous career high on November 4, 2019 with eighth place. In November, Mies, again at the side of Kevin Krawietz, made his debut for the German Davis Cup team .
Germany
New York City
Santiago González Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
French Open
Antwerp
Rome (1)
Poprad Tatry
Mateusz Kowalczyk
Luca Margaroli Tristan-Samuel Weissborn
Almaty
Laurynas Grigelis Wladyslaw Manafow
Sibiu
Marbella
