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Netherlands · born Curaçao, 1981 · right-handed · Wimbledon men's doubles champion 2015
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2015
Wimbledon men's doubles champion with Horia Tecău, as fourth seeds
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Grass titles: Halle 2012, 's-Hertogenbosch 2014, Wimbledon 2015
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Major titles: Wimbledon 2015, US Open 2017, Roland Garros 2022, and the 2014 Roland Garros mixed
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Months without touching a racquet from August 2007, before he turned to doubles
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Career-high doubles ranking, November 2015
Jean-Julien Rojer was born in Curaçao on 25 August 1981, the son of a dentist. As a boy he moved to Miami to train with the coach Robert Gomez, whom his father had met on a family holiday; he won the Florida state championship four years running from 1996 and played Davis Cup for the Netherlands Antilles from 1999. At UCLA from 1999 to 2002 he was an All-American and, with Marcin Matkowski, the country's top-ranked college doubles team.
His singles career went nowhere. By August 2007 he had run out of money and stopped playing for six months, and he considered going back to study. A Brazilian friend, Marcio Torres, suggested doubles, and in their first tournament together in 2008 they reached the final in Miami. He won his first Masters title in Miami in 2013 and, with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, the grass court title at Halle in 2012. He has represented the Netherlands in the Davis Cup since 2012.
From 2014 he partnered the Romanian Horia Tecău. They won 's-Hertogenbosch in 2014, Wimbledon in 2015, the ATP Finals in 2015 and the US Open in 2017, and Rojer also won the 2014 Roland Garros mixed doubles with Anna-Lena Grönefeld. In 2022, aged 40, he won Roland Garros with Marcelo Arévalo, which made him the oldest men's doubles champion at a major in the Open Era. He recorded his 500th tour-level win in August 2023 and was still playing in 2025.
| Wimbledon final, 2015 | With Horia Tecău, seeded four: beat Jamie Murray and John Peers, the 13th seeds, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, 6-4 in 112 minutes on Centre Court |
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| Halle, 2012 | With Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi: beat Treat Conrad Huey and Scott Lipsky 6-3, 6-4 in the final |
| 's-Hertogenbosch, 2014 | With Tecău, defending Tecău's title of the year before: beat Santiago González and Scott Lipsky 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) in the final |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2015 | Men's doubles | with Horia Tecău |
| Halle | ||
| 2012 | Men's doubles | with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi |
| 's-Hertogenbosch (Rosmalen) | ||
| 2014 | Men's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Horia Tecău |
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
"The first time I noticed color was when I came to the U.S., because we don't grow up with that back home"
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Curaçao
He described himself at 13 as "een lastig jongetje", a difficult kid, with the wrong friends and no way to develop on the island. On a family holiday his father, a dentist, met the Miami coach Robert Gomez, who taught him discipline. In Miami he sometimes cried at night and missed the Caribbean, but said those years taught him to work.
Source: NOS, 2015UCLA, 2002
At UCLA he majored in sociology. In 2001 to 2002 he and Marcin Matkowski won the ITA All-American doubles title and were the No. 1 college doubles team for much of the year; by autumn 2002 he had left to play futures events as a professional.
Source: UCLA Athletics2007
"In augustus van 2007 was ik eigenlijk al gestopt, een half jaar lang raakte ik geen racket aan": in August 2007 he had in effect stopped, and did not touch a racquet for six months. He had no money left and was thinking of studying sociology when Marcio Torres talked him into doubles.
Source: NOS, 2015Wimbledon, 2015
They beat Jamie Murray and John Peers 7-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the 2015 final. By then Radio Romania International counted 13 finals and ten titles for the pair since they teamed up in 2014. For Tecău it ended a run of three lost Wimbledon finals.
Source: Radio Romania International; Romania InsiderNew York, 2017
Winning the 2017 US Open with Tecău, he wore a Statue of Liberty shirt and a jacket with a peace symbol on the back, a response, he said, to the violence in Charlottesville that summer.
Source: Tennis.comCuraçao
In 2015 he said that after his career he would open a tennis school in Curaçao to give children a chance and teach them discipline.
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