Ruben Bemelmans

Ruben Bemelmans
Bemelmans 2019 in Paris
Nickname:	Bemel
Nation:	Belgium
Birthday:	January 14, 1988
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	75 kg
1st professional season:	2006
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Bjorn Simon
Prize money:	$ 2,006,411
singles
Career record:	28:59
Highest ranking:	84 (September 28, 2015)
Current placement:	225
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	13:15
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	128 (October 1, 2012)
Current placement:	220
Last update of the infobox: September 30, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Ruben Bemelmans (born January 14, 1988 in Genk ) is a Belgian tennis player .

Career

Bemelmans has so far been particularly successful on the Challenger Tour . He has already won the Challenger tournament in Wolfsburg twice and also celebrated his first double title on German soil. Together with compatriot Igor Sijsling , he was victorious at the tournament in Aachen .

He made his Grand Slam debut in 2011 at Wimbledon , where he was eliminated in the first round. Together with Justine Henin , Bemelmans finished second at the Hopman Cup in early 2011 . In the final they were defeated by the Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and John Isner . At the ATP World Tournament in Los Angeles 2012, Bemelmans won his first ATP title: Together with compatriot Xavier Malisse , he defeated the British Jamie Delgado and Ken Skupski in the final of the doubles competition in three sets.

He has been playing for the Belgian Davis Cup team since 2008 .

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP World Tour 500 ATP World Tour 250 (1) ATP Challenger Tour (13)

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

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 1, 2009	Wolfsburg (1)	Carpet (i)	Stefano Galvani	7: 6 5 , 3: 6, 6: 3
2.	February 27, 2011	Wolfsburg (2)	Carpet (i)	Dominik Meffert	6: 7 8 , 6: 4, 6: 4
3.	2nd November 2014	Eckental	Carpet (i)	Tim Puetz	7: 6 3 , 6: 3
4th	April 5, 2015	Le Gosier	Hard court	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	7: 6 6 , 6: 3
5.	22nd January 2017	Koblenz	Hard court (i)	Nils Langer	6: 4, 3: 6, 7: 6 0

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 29, 2012	los Angeles	Hard court	Xavier Malisse	Jamie Delgado Ken Skupski	7: 6 5 , 4: 6, [10: 7]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 14, 2010	Aachen	Carpet (i)	Igor Sijsling	Jamie Delgado Jonathan Marray	6: 4, 3: 6, [11: 9]
2.	5th August 2012	Vancouver	Hard court	Maxime Authom	John Peers John-Patrick Smith	6: 4, 6: 2
3.	August 10, 2014	Aptos	Hard court	Laurynas Grigelis	Purav Raja Sanam Singh	6: 3, 4: 6, [11: 9]
4th	2nd November 2014	Eckental (1)	Carpet (i)	Niels Desein	Andreas Beck Philipp Petzschner	6: 3, 4: 6, [10: 8]
5.	October 11, 2015	Mons	Hard court (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Rameez Junaid Igor Zelenay	6: 3, 6: 1
6th	November 8, 2015	Eckental (2)	Carpet (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	7: 5, 6: 2
7th	April 20, 2019	Tunis	sand	Tim Puetz	Facundo Argüello Guillermo Durán	6: 3, 6: 1
8th.	22nd September 2019	Glasgow	Hard court (i)	Daniel Masur	Jamie Murray John-Patrick Smith	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 8]

Web links

Commons : Ruben Bemelmans  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Ruben Bemelmans (English)
• ITF profile Ruben Bemelmans (English)
• Davis Cup statistics Ruben Bemelmans (English)