Jean-Julien Rojer

Jean-Julien Rojer
Jean-Julien Rojer 2016 in Roland Garros
Nation:	Netherlands Antilles 2002–2010 Curaçao 2010–2012 Netherlands 2012–
Birthday:	August 25, 1981
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	82 kg
1st professional season:	2003
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 5,285,334
singles
Career record:	13: 1
Highest ranking:	218 (August 15, 2005)
Double
Career record:	414: 297
Career title:	29
Highest ranking:	3 (November 23, 2015)
Current placement:	21st
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jean-Julien Rojer (born August 25, 1981 in Willemstad , Curaçao , Netherlands Antilles ) is a Dutch tennis player who has been playing for the Netherlands since 2012 . Previously, he played under the flag of the Netherlands Antilles (2002-2010) and Curaçaos (2010-2012).

Career

Jean-Julien Rojer showed his talent for tennis at a young age. At the age of 14 he won the Club Championship of Racing Club Team Curaçao and the national championships of the Netherlands Antilles. Then he attended UCLA and was there with Marcin Matkowski the best doubles at the ITA . In 2002 he led their double ranking and was number 35 in the singles.

In the same year he became a professional and was mainly used in future tournaments. Although he won several tournaments in this category in singles in the following years, he was more successful in doubles. His breakthrough to the expanded world elite came in 2008 when he found his doubles partner in Johan Brunström . Together, the two won a number of Challenger tournaments and in 2009 reached the final of four ATP tournaments. Within two years, Rojer improved from 18th place (end of 2007) to 43rd place.

In 2010 he achieved the first tournament victory on the ATP Tour in Tokyo with his new doubles partner Eric Butorac . In the same year, the two won another title in Stockholm . At the beginning of the 2011 season, Rojer achieved the best result in a Grand Slam tournament; at the Australian Open he reached the semi-finals with Butorac, which they lost against the eventual titleholders Bob and Mike Bryan . During the season, the duo won the tournaments in Estoril , Nice and Kuala Lumpur . Despite these successes, Butorac and Rojer surprisingly parted ways at the end of the season. Butorac chose the Brazilian Bruno Soares as a new partner, while Rojer started the 2012 season with the Pakistani Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi .

Rojer has been playing for the Netherlands since 2012; the National Olympic Committee of the Netherlands Antilles had disbanded and the players had to decide whether they wanted to compete in the 2012 Olympic Games for Aruba or for the Netherlands . Rojer chose the Netherlands.

The new partnership with Qureshi began with little success at first. After they reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open , a number of first and second round defeats followed. Only in the clay court season did the duo gain momentum; they reached the semi-finals in Casablanca and Nice before they celebrated their first joint title in Estoril against Julian Knowle and David Marrero . In Roland Garros they were even in the semi-finals when they were eliminated by the Bryan brothers. The grass season began with a title win in Halle . In the course of the season they could not record another tournament victory, but Rojer qualified for the first time in his career for the ATP World Tour Finals in London, where he failed with his partner in the preliminary round. At the Australian Open 2013 Qureshi and Rojer were eliminated in the round of 16. In March, however, they had a great success when they defeated Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in the final of the Miami Masters ; for Rojer it was the first victory in a tournament of this category.

At the French Open he won his first Grand Slam title with Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the mixed competition in 2014 . He denied the season with a new partner, Horia Tecau . They won a total of eight titles, including three in the World Tour 500 category , and were in another final. In 2015 they won a tournament and also reached another final. They reached the semifinals at the Australian Open and the French Open . In Wimbledon they finally managed to win their first title in a Grand Slam tournament.

Davis Cup

Rojer competed in the Davis Cup for the Netherlands Antilles between 1998 and 2007 . In 31 matches he won 28 out of 34 singles and 14 out of 17 doubles. This made him the team's most successful player and record player at the same time. After the dissolution of the Antilles and Rojer's decision to play for the Netherlands in the future, he was appointed to the squad of the Dutch Davis Cup team for the first time in the 2012 season .

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (3) Tennis Masters Cup / ATP World Tour Finals (1) ATP Masters Series / ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (3) ATP International Series Gold / ATP World Tour 500 Series (8) ATP International Series / ATP World Tour 250 Series (15) ATP Challenger Tour (11)

Title after covering Hard Court (18) Sand (8) Grass (3)

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	4th October 2010	Tokyo	Hard court	Eric Butorac	Andreas Seppi Dmitri Tursunow	6: 3, 6: 2
2.	October 24, 2010	Stockholm (1)	Hard court (i)	Eric Butorac	Johan Brunström Jarkko Nieminen	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	May 1, 2011	Estoril (1)	sand	Eric Butorac	Marc López David Marrero	6: 3, 6: 4
4th	May 21, 2011	Nice	sand	Eric Butorac	Santiago González David Marrero	6: 3, 6: 4
5.	October 2, 2011	Kuala Lumpur	Hard court (i)	Eric Butorac	František Čermák Filip Polášek	6: 1, 6: 3
6th	May 6, 2012	Estoril (2)	sand	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Julian Knowle David Marrero	7: 5, 7: 5
7th	17th June 2012	Hall	race	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Treat Conrad Huey Scott Lipsky	6: 3, 6: 4
8th.	March 30, 2013	Miami	Hard court	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6: 4, 6: 1
9.	20th October 2013	Stockholm (2)	Hard court (i)	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Jonas Björkman Robert Lindstedt	6: 2, 6: 2
10.	February 9, 2014	Zagreb	Hard court (i)	Horia Tecau	Philipp Marx Michal Mertiňák	3: 6, 6: 4, [10: 2]
11.	April 12, 2014	Casablanca	sand	Horia Tecau	Tomasz Bednarek Lukáš Dlouhý	6: 2, 6: 2
12.	April 27, 2014	Bucharest	sand	Horia Tecau	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6: 4, 6: 4
13.	June 21, 2014	's-Hertogenbosch	race	Horia Tecau	Santiago González Scott Lipsky	6: 3, 7: 6 3
14th	3rd August 2014	Washington	Hard court	Horia Tecau	Samuel Groth Leander Paes	7: 5, 6: 4
15th	September 28, 2014	Shenzhen	Hard court	Horia Tecau	Samuel Groth Chris Guccione	6: 4, 7: 6 4
16.	5th October 2014	Beijing	Hard court	Horia Tecau	Julien Benneteau Vasek Pospisil	6: 7 6 , 7: 5, [10: 5]
17th	October 26, 2014	Valencia	Hard court (i)	Horia Tecau	Kevin Anderson Jérémy Chardy	6: 4, 6: 2
18th	February 15, 2015	Rotterdam	Hard court (i)	Horia Tecau	Jamie Murray John Peers	3: 6, 6: 3, [10: 8]
19th	July 11, 2015	Wimbledon	race	Horia Tecau	Jamie Murray John Peers	7: 6 5 , 6: 4, 6: 4
20th	November 22, 2015	London	Hard court (i)	Horia Tecau	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6: 4, 6: 3
21st	May 8, 2016	Madrid (1)	sand	Horia Tecau	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6: 4, 7: 6 5
22nd	4th March 2017	Dubai (1)	Hard court	Horia Tecau	Rohan Bopanna Marcin Matkowski	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 3]
23.	May 27, 2017	Geneva	sand	Horia Tecau	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	2: 6, 7: 6 9 , [10: 6]
24.	August 25, 2017	Winston-Salem (1)	Hard court	Horia Tecau	Julio Peralta Horacio Zeballos	6: 3, 6: 4
25th	September 8, 2017	US Open	Hard court	Horia Tecau	Feliciano López Marc López	6: 4, 6: 3
26th	March 3, 2018	Dubai (2)	Hard court	Horia Tecau	James Cerretani Leander Paes	7: 6 2 , 6: 2
27.	August 24, 2018	Winston-Salem (2)	Hard court	Horia Tecau	James Cerretani Leander Paes	6: 4, 6: 2
28.	May 12, 2019	Madrid (2)	sand	Horia Tecau	Diego Schwartzman Dominic Thiem	6: 2, 6: 3
29	October 27, 2019	Basel	Hard court (i)	Horia Tecau	Taylor Fritz Reilly Opelka	7: 5, 6: 3

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 21, 2004	Fargʻona	Hard court	Raven Klaasen	Harsh Mankad Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6: 3, 6: 1
2.	June 30, 2006	Constanța	sand	Konstantinos Economidis	Florin Mergea Horia Tecau	7: 6 1 , 6: 1
3.	August 18, 2006	manta	Hard court	Eric Nunez	Nicholas Monroe Horia Tecau	6: 3, 6: 2
4th	November 25, 2006	Puebla	Hard court	Daniel Garza	Bruno Echagaray Horia Tecau	6: 7 6 , 6: 3, [10: 7]
5.	May 18, 2008	Aarhus	sand	David Olejniczak	Frederik Nielsen Martin Pedersen	7: 6 4 , 2: 6, [10: 8]
6th	July 5, 2008	Pozoblanco	Hard court	Johan Brunström	James Cerretani Dick Norman	6: 4, 6: 3
7th	July 26, 2008	Poses	sand	Johan Brunström	Santiago Giraldo Alberto Martín	4: 6, 6: 0, [10: 6]
8th.	January 24, 2009	Iquique	sand	Johan Brunström	Pablo Cuevas Horacio Zeballos	6: 3, 6: 4
9.	June 5, 2009	Prostějov	sand	Johan Brunström	Pablo Cuevas Dominik Hrbatý	6: 2, 6: 3
10.	June 13, 2009	Lugano	sand	Johan Brunström	Pablo Cuevas Sergio Roitman	without a fight
11.	4th July 2009	Braunschweig	sand	Johan Brunström	Brian Dabul Nicolás Massú	7: 6 2 , 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 7, 2008	Båstad	sand	Johan Brunström	Jonas Björkman Robin Söderling	2: 6, 2: 6
2.	May 10, 2009	Belgrade	sand	Johan Brunström	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	2: 6, 6: 7 3
3.	June 20, 2009	's-Hertogenbosch	race	Johan Brunström	Wesley Moodie Dick Norman	6: 7 3 , 7: 6 3 , [5:10]
4th	August 2, 2009	Umag	sand	Johan Brunström	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	4: 6, 4: 6
5.	September 26, 2009	Bucharest	sand	Johan Brunström	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	2: 6, 4: 6
6th	August 1, 2010	los Angeles	Hard court	Eric Butorac	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7: 6 6 , 2: 6, [7:10]
7th	February 20, 2011	Memphis	Hard court (i)	Eric Butorac	Max Mirny Daniel Nestor	2: 6, 7: 6 6 , [3:10]
8th.	November 6, 2011	Valencia	Hard court (i)	Eric Butorac	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4: 6, 6: 7 9
9.	4th November 2012	Paris (1)	Hard court (i)	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Rohan Bopanna Mahesh Bhupathi	6: 7 6 , 3: 6
10.	February 24, 2013	Marseille	Hard court (i)	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Rohan Bopanna Colin Fleming	4: 6, 6: 7 3
11.	May 5, 2013	Oeiras	sand	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Santiago González Scott Lipsky	3: 6, 6: 4, [7:10]
12.	February 16, 2014	Rotterdam (1)	Hard court (i)	Horia Tecau	Michaël Llodra Nicolas Mahut	2: 6, 6: 7 4
13.	17th January 2015	Sydney	Hard court	Horia Tecau	Rohan Bopanna Daniel Nestor	4: 6, 6: 7 5
14th	May 23, 2015	Nice	sand	Horia Tecau	Mate Pavić Michael Venus	6: 7 4 , 6: 2, [8:10]
15th	August 21, 2016	Cincinnati	Hard court	Horia Tecau	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	6: 7 5 , 7: 6 5 , [6:10]
16.	October 22, 2017	Stockholm	Hard court (i)	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Oliver Marach Mate Pavic	6: 3, 6: 7 6 , [4:10]
17th	April 29, 2018	Barcelona	sand	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Feliciano López Marc López	6: 7 5 , 4: 6
18th	4th November 2018	Paris (2)	Hard court (i)	Horia Tecau	Marcel Granollers Rajeev Ram	4: 6, 4: 6
19th	17th February 2019	Rotterdam (2)	Hard court (i)	Horia Tecau	Jérémy Chardy Henri Kontinen	6: 7 5 , 6: 7 4
20th	4th August 2019	Washington, DC	Hard court	Horia Tecau	Raven Klaasen Michael Venus	6: 3, 3: 6, [2:10]

Mixed

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	5th June 2014	Paris	sand	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Nenad Zimonjić Julia Görges	4: 6, 6: 2, [10: 7]

Web links

Commons : Jean-Julien Rojer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Jean-Julien Rojer (English)
• ITF profile Jean-Julien Rojer (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Jean-Julien Rojer (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ATP doubles partnerships changes galore. In: tennis.com. November 24, 2011, accessed November 17, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Curaçao tennis star will play for the Netherlands. In: thedailyherald.info. February 3, 2012, accessed November 17, 2017 .