Sander Groen

Sander Groen (born 16 June 1968) is a former onprofessional tennis player from the Netherlands.

Groen enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 1 ATP doubles title and 12 Challenger doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 89 in 1997 and a career-high singles ranking of World No. 177 in 1996.

Groen is known for being the doubles partner of many top-5 singles players like Pat Cash, Goran Ivanišević, Gustavo Kuerten, Marcelo Ríos, Marat Safin, Magnus Norman, Greg Rusedski, Alex Corretja, Marc Rosset and Roger Federer. Federer won his first-ever professional title on the tour playing together with Groen in Segovia 1999. Groen recorded doubles wins over Federer, Safin, Rios, Patrick Rafter and world number 1 teams Eltingh/ Haarhuis (with Fredrik Bergh), Bhupathi/ Paes (with Jan Siemerink and with Andrei Pavel) and Knowles/ Nestor (with Laurence Tieleman) In singles Groen qualified for 9 ATP Tour events reaching the second round in 3 events and he recorded wins over Tim Henman, Richard Krajicek Felix Mantilla and Andrei Chesnokov. He won the dutch national masters in 1992 beating Fernon Wibier in the finals and was runner-up to Jan Siemerink in 1994.

In 2004 Sander Groen made his mark on the ITF senior tour by winning the men's singles over 35 world championships followed by finishing runner-up in 2005 and 2006. He also won the men's singles over 35 European championships in 2005. Up to 2016 Groen won 1 medals at ITF seniors world championships.

Doubles titles (13) Legend (singles) Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (1) Challengers (12) No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score 1. 1991 Cherbourg, France Hard (i) Byron Talbot Michael Daniel Brian Devening 3–6, 6–3, 7–5 2. 1992 Meran, Italy Clay David Prinosil Lionel Barthez Aloïs Beust 6–4, 6–4 3. 1992 Dublin, Ireland Hard Arne Thoms Douglas Geiwald Robbie Koenig 5–7, 6–4, 6–3 4. 1992 Munich, Germany Carpet Arne Thoms Marcos Ondruska Grant Stafford 6–4, 7–6 5. 1993 Munich, Germany Carpet Arne Thoms Jon Ireland John Yancey 6–3, 6–3 6. 1994 Singapore Hard Brian Devening Leonardo Lavalle Danilo Marcelino 6–2, 7–6 7. 1997 Dubai, UAE Hard Goran Ivanišević Sandon Stolle Cyril Suk 7–6, 6–3 8. 1998 Dresden, Germany Clay Pablo Albano Jamie Holmes Andrew Painter 6–4, 6–3 9. 1998 Guadalajara, Mexico Clay Ali Hamadeh Martín García Sebastián Prieto 6–4, 6–2 10. 1999 Segovia, Spain Clay Roger Federer Ota Fukárek Alejandro Hernández 6–4, 7–6 11. 2000 Aachen, Germany Carpet Jan Siemerink Michael Kohlmann Franz Stauder 6–7, 7–6, 6–3 12. 2001 Heilbronn, Germany Carpet Jack Waite Petr Luxa David Škoch 1–6, 6–3, 7–6 13. 2001 Prostějov, Czech Republic Clay Andrea Gaudenzi Devin Bowen Mariano Hood 7–6, 6–4

Runners-up (15) No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score 1. 1992 Heilbronn, Germany Carpet Tomas Nydahl Doug Eisenman Bent-Ove Pedersen 1–6, 3–6 2. 1992 Umag, Croatia Clay Lars Koslowski David Prinosil Richard Vogel 3–6, 7–6, 6–7 3. 1992 Singapore Hard Patrick Baur Martin Blackman Laurence Tieleman 4–6, 6–1, 6–7 4. 1993 Bergamo, Italy Hard (i) Arne Thoms Cristian Brandi Cristiano Caratti 6–4, 4–6, 1–6 5. 1993 Riemerling, Germany Clay Arne Thoms Maurice Ruah Mario Tabares 3–6, 3–6 6. 1993 Singapore Hard Grant Stafford Jeremy Bates Christo van Rensburg 3–6, 4–6 7. 1995 Bristol, England Grass Arne Thoms Lionel Barthez Stephane Simian 5–7, 5–7 8. 1996 Madras, India Hard Oleg Ogorodov Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes 5–7, 1–6 9. 1996 Mauritius Island Grass Andrei Pavel Patrick Baur Joost Winnink 1–0, RET. 10. 1997 Eilat, Israel Hard (i) Rogier Wassen Patrick Baur Andrei Cherkasov 3–6, 6–7 11. 1998 Venice, Italy Clay Massimo Bertolini Nebojsa Djordjevic Marcos Ondruska 6–1, 1–6, 2–6 12. 2001 Istanbul, Turkey Hard Michael Kohlmann Jonathan Erlich Michaël Llodra W/O 13. 2002 Segovia, Spain Hard Karol Beck Tim Crichton Todd Perry 7–5, 6–7, 4–6 14. 2006 Eckental, Germany Carpet Torsten Popp Joshua Goodall Ross Hutchins 5–7, 3–6 15. 2007 Heilbronn, Germany Hard (i) Michaël Llodra Michael Kohlmann Rainer Schüttler W/O