Henri Kontinen

Henri Kontinen
Henri Kontinen 2016
Nation:	Finland
Birthday:	June 19, 1990
Size:	191 cm
Weight:	82 kg
1st professional season:	2008
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Jonathan Marray
Prize money:	$ 2,783,586
singles
Career record:	7: 6
Highest ranking:	220 (October 18, 2010)
Double
Career record:	171: 88
Career title:	21st
Highest ranking:	1 (April 3, 2017)
Current placement:	5
Weeks as No. 1:	26th
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: August 13, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Henri Kontinen (born June 19, 1990 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish tennis player . He specializes in doubles competitions and has topped the world doubles rankings several times .

Career

Henri Kontinen, whose brother Micke is also a professional tennis player, mainly plays on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ITF Future Tour . In 2008 he won the junior title of the French Open alongside Christopher Rungkat and in the same year reached the junior final at the US Open with this partner . Also in singles he reached the junior final at Wimbledon in 2008 , in which he was defeated by Grigor Dimitrov .

So far, Kontinen has won five single and ten double titles on the Future Tour. On May 3, 2010 he was in the top 250 of the ATP world rankings for the first time ; his best position was 220th place (October 2010).

On the Challenger Tour, he won the Loughborough doubles tournament in 2010 . In 2013 tournament victories in Tampere , Bratislava and Helsinki followed . In the following year, four more Challenger titles were added before Kontinen was able to secure his first ATP title in Kitzbühel alongside Jarkko Nieminen in August 2014 . In the first half of 2015 he won three more ATP titles with his new partner Marin Draganja from Croatia. Two tournament wins with Treat Huey followed by the end of the season . The following season he won seven titles, five of them with John Peers . In the world rankings he reached the top ten for the first time on November 7, 2016. At the ATP World Tour Finals , for which he had qualified for the first time, he and Peers won all games and with them the tournament. At the beginning of 2017, the two celebrated their first Grand Slam title in doubles by winning the Australian Open . On April 3rd, Kontinen became the first Finn and 50th player to take the lead in the world double ranking .

Kontinen has been playing for the Finnish Davis Cup team since 2008 , for which he played 15 games; he has to show a single balance of 6: 4 and a double balance of 10: 5.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (2) ATP World Tour Finals (2) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (3) ATP World Tour 500 (6) ATP World Tour 250 (11) ATP Challenger Tour (8)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (18) Sand (4) Grass (2)

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	2nd August 2014	Kitzbühel	sand	Jarkko Nieminen	Daniele Bracciali Andrei Golubew	6: 1, 6: 4
2.	February 8, 2015	Zagreb	Hard court (i)	Marin Draganja	Fabrice Martin Purav Raja	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	February 22, 2015	Marseille	Hard court (i)	Marin Draganja	Colin Fleming Jonathan Marray	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 8]
4th	April 26, 2015	Barcelona	sand	Marin Draganja	Jamie Murray John Peers	6: 3, 6: 7 6 , [11: 9]
5.	September 27, 2015	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Treat Huey	Julian Knowle Alexander Peya	7: 5, 6: 3
6th	4th October 2015	Kuala Lumpur	Hard court (i)	Treat Huey	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	7: 6 4 , 6: 2
7th	January 10, 2016	Brisbane (1)	Hard court	John Peers	James Duckworth Chris Guccione	7: 6 4 , 6: 1
8th.	May 1, 2016	Munich	sand	John Peers	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 7]
9.	17th July 2016	Hamburg	sand	John Peers	Daniel Nestor Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	7: 5, 6: 3
10.	August 27, 2016	Winston-Salem	Hard court	Guillermo García-López	Andre Begemann Leander Paes	4: 6, 7: 6 6 , [10: 8]
11.	September 25, 2016	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Dominic Inglot	Andre Begemann Leander Paes	4: 6, 6: 3, [12:10]
12.	November 6, 2016	Paris	Hard court (i)	John Peers	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 6]
13.	20th November 2016	London (1)	Hard court (i)	John Peers	Rajeev Ram Raven Klaasen	2: 6, 6: 1, [10: 8]
14th	January 28, 2017	Australian Open	Hard court	John Peers	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7: 5, 7: 5
15th	August 6, 2017	Washington, DC	Hard court	John Peers	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	7: 6 5 , 6: 4
16.	October 8, 2017	Beijing	Hard court	John Peers	John Isner Jack Sock	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 7]
17th	15th October 2017	Shanghai	Hard court	John Peers	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	6: 4, 6: 2
18th	19th November 2017	London (2)	Hard court (i)	John Peers	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	6: 4, 6: 2
19th	January 7, 2018	Brisbane (2)	Hard court	John Peers	Leonardo Mayer Horacio Zeballos	3: 6, 6: 3, [10: 2]
20th	June 24, 2018	Queen's Club	race	John Peers	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	6: 4, 6: 3
21st	August 12, 2018	Toronto	Hard court	John Peers	Raven Klaasen Michael Venus	6: 2, 6: 7 7 , [10: 6]
22nd	17th February 2019	Rotterdam	Hard court (i)	Jérémy Chardy	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	7: 6 5 , 7: 6 4
23.	20th October 2019	Stockholm	Hard court (i)	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Mate Pavić Bruno Soares	6: 4, 6: 2

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 8, 2010	Loughborough	Carpet (i)	Frederik Nielsen	Jordan Kerr Ken Skupski	6: 2, 6: 4
2.	July 27, 2013	Tampere	sand	Goran Tošić	Ruben Gonzales Chris Letcher	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	November 9, 2013	Bratislava	Hard court (i)	Andreas Siljeström	Gero Kretschmer Jan-Lennard Struff	7: 6 6 , 6: 2
4th	November 16, 2013	Helsinki (1)	Hard court (i)	Jarkko Nieminen	Dustin Brown Philipp Marx	7: 5, 5: 7, [10: 5]
5.	January 26, 2014	Heilbronn	Hard court (i)	Tomasz Bednarek	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	3: 6, 7: 6 3 , [12:10]
6th	March 2, 2014	Cherbourg-Octeville	Hard court (i)	Konstantin Kravchuk	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Albano Olivetti	6: 4, 6: 7 3 , [10: 7]
7th	April 20, 2014	Sarasota	sand	Marin Draganja	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Franko Škugor	7: 5, 5: 7, [10: 6]
8th.	15th November 2014	Helsinki (2)	Hard court (i)	Jarkko Nieminen	Jonathan Marray Philipp Petzschner	7: 6 2 , 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 21, 2014	Metz	Hard court (i)	Marin Draganja	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	7: 6 3 , 3: 6, [8:10]
2.	October 26, 2014	Basel	Hard court (i)	Marin Draganja	Vasek Pospisil Nenad Zimonjić	6: 7 13 , 6: 1, [5:10]
3.	August 8, 2015	Kitzbühel	sand	Robin Haase	Nicolás Almagro Carlos Berlocq	7: 5, 3: 6, [9:11]
4th	October 16, 2016	Shanghai	Hard court	John Peers	John Isner Jack Sock	4: 6, 4: 6
5.	January 27, 2019	Australian Open	Hard court	John Peers	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	4: 6, 6: 7 1
6th	February 16, 2020	Rotterdam	Hard court (i)	Jan-Lennard Struff	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	6: 7 5 , 6: 4, [7:10]

Mixed

No.	date	competition	Topping	Partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 10, 2016	Wimbledon	race	Heather Watson	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Robert Farah	7: 6 5 , 6: 4

Web links

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• ATP profile of Henri Kontinen (English)
• ITF profile Henri Kontinen (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Henri Kontinen (English)