Joran Vliegen

Joran Vliegen (born 7 July 1993) is a Belgian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 17 achieved on 7 August 2023. He also has a career high singles ranking of World No. 508 achieved on 1 August 2016. Vliegen has won eight ATP Tour doubles titles with partner Sander Gillé, including an ATP Masters 1000 title at the 2024 Monte-Carlo Masters.

Early life and background Vliegen was born in Maaseik, Belgium to parents Ivo Vliegen and Annick Desender. He has a brother named Warre. He started playing tennis at the age of five. In 2011 he moved to the United States to play college tennis at East Carolina University. He was named 2014 Conference USA Player of the Year. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in business.

Career

2018: Davis Cup debut Vliegen made his debut with the Belgium Davis Cup team in 2018. In the quarterfinals against the United States, he and fellow Belgian Sander Gillé lost against Ryan Harrison and Jack Sock.

2019: Major debut and first quarterfinal, Three ATP titles In 2019 he and Gillé managed to pull off a surprise win over Brazil's Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in the Belgium-Brazil Davis cup tie contributing to Belgium qualifying for the 2019 Davis Cup Finals held in November.

Vliegen made his Grand Slam debut in the 2019 French Open, partnering Mikhail Kukushkin from Kazakhstan, where they managed to reach the quarterfinals.

Vliegen won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the 2019 Swedish Open with fellow Belgian Sander Gillé. One week later, again partnering with Gillé, he also won the title at the Swiss Open. The duo continued their winning streak by reaching the final of the Austrian Open, losing to Philipp Oswald and Filip Polášek. Two months later, Vliegen and Gillé picked up their third title of 2019 at the Zhuhai Championships. Their semifinal followed a similar pattern, this time against 2018 Wimbledon champion Nicole Melichar and twice French Open Men's doubles champion Kevin Krawietz, with them again bouncing back from a poor first set to win the second in the tie-break and the third set match tie-break to reach their first Grand Slam final. They lost in the final to Ena Shibahara and Wesley Koolhof. This made Vliegen the first Belgian man to reach the final of a mixed doubles event of a Grand Slam tournament.

2023: Major doubles final, second mixed doubles final, top 20 At the 2023 French Open, Vliegen having never get passed the quarterfinals at this Major, partnering Gillé as an unseeded pair, they reached their first Major semifinal defeating fourth seeds Croatians Nikola Mektić/Mate Pavić, Roman Jebavý/Luis David Martínez, ninth seeds Santiago González/Édouard Roger-Vasselin, 14th seed Argentines Andrés Molteni/Máximo González and 12th seeds Andreas Mies/Matwé Middelkoop. In the final they lost to Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek in straight sets. At Wimbledon, he and Gillé lost in the third round of the men's doubles event, while Vliegen paired with Xu Yifan in mixed doubles to reach his second career final. This made him the first Belgian man in a Wimbledon mixed doubles final He made his top 20 debut on 7 August 2023 at world No. 17.

2024–2025: Masters title, new partnership with Behar At the 2024 Monte-Carlo Masters with Gille, they defeated wildcard pair of Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Sonego, defending champions and second seeds Austin Krajicek and Ivan Dodig in the second round, and sixth seeds Tim Pütz and Kevin Krawietz to reach the semifinals. They reached their first Masters 1000 final upsetting third seeds Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers. They won their first Masters title defeating alternate pair of Alexander Zverev and Marcelo Melo. They became just the second and third Belgians to win a Masters 1000 doubles title after Xavier Malisse won in Indian Wells in 2010.

Significant finals Grand slam finals Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Mixed doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

Masters 1000 finals Doubles: 1 (title)

ATP career finals Doubles: 15 (8 titles, 7 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam tournaments (0–1)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1–0)ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–1)ATP World Tour 250 Series (7–5)Titles by surfaceHard (4–1)Clay (4–5)Grass (0–1)Titles by settingOutdoor (6–7)Indoor (2–0)

Challenger and Futures Finals

Singles: 3 (2–1) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)ITF Futures Tour (2–1)Titles by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (1–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Doubles: 57 (41–16) Legend (doubles)ATP Challenger Tour (18–9)ITF Futures Tour (23–7)Titles by surfaceHard (10–5)Clay (29–10)Grass (0–0)Carpet (2–1)

Performance timelines

Doubles Current through the 2026 Australian Open.

Mixed doubles Current through the 2025 Australian Open.