The 21st century
France · born Angers, 1982 · Wimbledon doubles champion 2016 with Pierre-Hugues Herbert · all four of his singles titles won on grass
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ATP singles titles, all on grass: 's-Hertogenbosch 2013, 2015, 2016 and Newport 2013
2016
Wimbledon doubles title with Pierre-Hugues Herbert, in the first all-French final
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His 2010 first-round match with John Isner on No. 18 Court, the longest ever played
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Queen's Club doubles titles with Herbert: 2015, 2016 and 2021
2000
Wimbledon boys' singles champion
Nicolas Mahut was born in Angers on 21 January 1982 and began playing at five. He won the Orange Bowl in 1999 and the Wimbledon boys' singles in 2000, and turned professional that year. His singles career was slow to take off: he was runner-up at Queen's and at Newport in 2007, and in 2010 he came through qualifying at Wimbledon to play John Isner in a first-round match that lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes over three days.
His first ATP title came in June 2013, at 31, on the grass of 's-Hertogenbosch, and a month later he won Newport. He won 's-Hertogenbosch again in 2015 and 2016 and reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 37 in 2014. In 2016 he reached the fourth round of Wimbledon in singles, his best Grand Slam singles result.
In doubles, with Pierre-Hugues Herbert, he completed the career Grand Slam: the US Open in 2015, Wimbledon in 2016, the French Open in 2018 and 2021 and the Australian Open in 2019. He first reached No. 1 in the doubles rankings in June 2016, won 37 doubles titles and two ATP Finals. He played his last match at the Paris Masters in October 2025, aged 43.
| Wimbledon 2010 | First round, No. 18 Court: lost to John Isner 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3), 70-68 in 11 hours and 5 minutes over three days; 183 games, the fifth set alone 8 hours and 10 minutes; Mahut served 103 aces |
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| Wimbledon doubles finals | 2016: with Herbert, top seeds, beat Julien Benneteau and Édouard Roger-Vasselin 6-4, 7-6 (7-1), 6-3. 2019: with Roger-Vasselin, lost to Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 in 4 hours 57 minutes |
| 's-Hertogenbosch singles | 2013: beat Stan Wawrinka 6-3, 6-4. 2015: came through qualifying and beat David Goffin 7-6 (7-1), 6-1. 2016: beat Gilles Müller 6-4, 6-4, a record-tying third title |
| Queen's Club | Singles final 2007, lost to Andy Roddick 4-6, 7-6 (9-7), 7-6 (7-2). Doubles titles with Herbert: 2015 over Marcin Matkowski and Nenad Zimonjić 6-2, 6-2; 2016 over Chris Guccione and André Sá 6-3, 7-6 (7-5); 2021 over Reilly Opelka and John Peers 6-4, 7-5 |
| Newport 2013 | Won the singles, beating Lleyton Hewitt 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 after Hewitt served for the match, and the doubles with Édouard Roger-Vasselin |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2016 | Men's doubles | with Pierre-Hugues Herbert |
| 's-Hertogenbosch (Rosmalen) | ||
| 2013 | Men's singles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | |
| 2015 | Men's singles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | |
| 2016 | Men's singles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | |
| Queen's Club | ||
| 2015 | Men's doubles | with Pierre-Hugues Herbert |
| 2016 | Men's doubles | with Pierre-Hugues Herbert |
| 2021 | Men's doubles | with Pierre-Hugues Herbert |
| Newport, Rhode Island | ||
| 2013 | Men's doubles Hall of Fame Open | with Édouard Roger-Vasselin |
| 2013 | Men's singles Hall of Fame Open | |
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
"Now I can come in the press conference as a Wimbledon champion. It's great."
The person behind the player.
Wimbledon 2010
Five years after the Isner match he said: "I will always have the feeling that John Isner is the winner of this match." He added with a smile that "maybe, in 10 years people will think I won the match."
Source: ESPN, 18 June 2015Wimbledon 2011
As Mahut and Isner were about to unveil a plaque on No. 18 Court celebrating their match, the draw was made and they had been drawn to meet again in the first round. Isner won again, in straight sets and nine hours less court time.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025 (AELTC)Newport, 2013
Rain wiped out the Saturday at Newport, so on the Sunday Mahut won his singles semi-final and final and a doubles semi-final that ended at 7.45 pm, then won the doubles final at 10.30 the next morning. He was the first player that year to win the singles and doubles at the same ATP event.
Source: Sports Illustrated, 15 July 2013Wimbledon 2016
In the third round of the singles he beat his doubles partner Herbert in four sets to reach the last 16 of a Grand Slam for the first time, then went on with Herbert to win the doubles.
Source: Nicolas Mahut, WikipediaParis, 2025
He played his last match at the Paris Masters in October 2025, with Grigor Dimitrov. By then he had made peace with 2010: "I now enjoy talking about that match because it was a crazy experience."
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