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United States · born New York, 1971 · Wimbledon men's doubles champion 2001 and a former doubles world No. 1
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2001
Wimbledon men's doubles champion with Donald Johnson
1999
Wimbledon men's doubles finalist with Paul Haarhuis
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Match points saved in the 2001 Wimbledon quarter-final
1989
Wimbledon boys' doubles champion with Jonathan Stark
No. 1
Doubles world ranking, from 20 March 2000
Jared Palmer was born in New York on 2 July 1971. As a junior in 1989 he reached the Roland Garros boys' singles final, losing to Fabrice Santoro, and won the Wimbledon boys' doubles with Jonathan Stark. At Stanford he won the NCAA singles title as a sophomore in 1991, beating Patricio Arnold of Georgia, and turned professional the same year.
He reached No. 35 in singles in November 1994 and won one singles title, but his career was in doubles. He won the 1995 Australian Open with Richey Reneberg and reached the 1999 Wimbledon final with Paul Haarhuis. On 20 March 2000 he became world No. 1 in doubles, the fourth Stanford player to do so, and that year he won the Indian Wells Masters and the Australian Open mixed doubles and played the Sydney Olympics with Alex O'Brien.
In March 2001 he teamed up with Donald Johnson. They won five of their first eight tournaments, including Nottingham on grass, and then Wimbledon as fourth seeds; they also reached the US Open final that year. Palmer retired after the 2005 season with 28 tour doubles titles. He returned to Wimbledon with Johnson for the Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles, which they won in 2008 and 2010.
| Wimbledon final, 1999 | With Paul Haarhuis, seeded eight: lost to Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes 6-7 (10-12), 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) |
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| Wimbledon, 2001 | Quarter-final: with Donald Johnson, beat Juan Balcells and Sjeng Schalken 3-6, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 after facing four match points at 5-6 in the fourth set. Final: beat Jiřà Novák and David Rikl, the third seeds, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) in 167 minutes |
| Nottingham, 2001 | With Johnson, beat Paul Hanley and Andrew Kratzmann 6-4, 6-2 in the final, the week before Wimbledon |
| Wimbledon boys' doubles, 1989 | With Jonathan Stark, seeded two: beat Jean-Louis De Jager and Wayne Ferreira 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-2) |
| Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles | With Johnson: champions in 2008, by walkover in the final against Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis, and in 2010, beating Wayne Ferreira and Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6-3, 6-2; runners-up to Eltingh and Haarhuis in 2009 |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2001 | Men's doubles | with Donald Johnson |
| Nottingham | ||
| 2001 | Men's doubles | with Donald Johnson |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
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1989
In his last junior year he reached the boys' singles final at Roland Garros, losing to Fabrice Santoro, and won the Wimbledon boys' doubles with Jonathan Stark, the second seeds, in two tie-break sets.
Source: ATP Tour biography; Wimbledon Compendium 2025Stanford, 1991
As a sophomore he won the NCAA singles title, beating Patricio Arnold of Georgia. The Tampa Bay Times described him as having "unexpectedly won" it, and a photographer and a cameraman turned up to record one of his first workouts afterwards. He turned professional that year.
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 1991; ATP Tour biographyMarch 2000
When he reached No. 1 in the doubles rankings, with 3,187 points, he was the fourth Stanford man to top them, after John McEnroe, Jim Grabb and Jonathan Stark. His old Stanford team-mate Alex O'Brien was No. 2.
Source: Stanford AthleticsWimbledon, 2001
In the quarter-finals Palmer and Johnson trailed Juan Balcells and Sjeng Schalken by two sets and faced four match points, all on Palmer's serve, at 5-6 in the fourth set. They won in five.
Source: ESPN; Wimbledon Compendium 2025Wimbledon, 2001
Rain stopped the final on the Saturday at 4-4 in the first set. When it resumed, Palmer and Johnson saved two set points in the fourth set before winning the tie-break 8-6 for the title.
Source: University of North Carolina AthleticsWimbledon, 2008 to 2010
Palmer and Johnson returned to Wimbledon for the Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles and won it twice, in 2008 and 2010, with the Dutch pair Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis beating them in the 2009 final.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025Free membership: player news, the grass court Atlas, the rankings and the grass season calendar.
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