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France · born Strasbourg, 1990 · right-handed · Wimbledon doubles champion 2015
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8
Major doubles titles, 2011 to 2022
2
Paralympic doubles gold medals with Stéphane Houdet
7-5, 5-7, 6-2
Wimbledon doubles final, 2015
No. 1
Doubles world ranking, September 2018
Born in Strasbourg in 1990, Peifer won the Junior Masters in 2007 and reached his first major singles final at the US Open in 2010. He played four major singles finals in all, at the US Open, Roland Garros and twice at the Australian Open, and rose to No. 2 in singles in August 2015. His main success came in doubles: eight major titles between 2011 and 2022, completing the set of all four majors, the Masters doubles in 2016 and 2018, world No. 1 in September 2018, and Paralympic doubles gold with Stéphane Houdet in Rio in 2016 and Tokyo in 2021. In December 2022 a court in Sarreguemines gave him a six-month suspended prison sentence for sexual harassment of a minor under 15.
| Major doubles titles | 1: Wimbledon (2015) |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon doubles 2015 | With Gustavo Fernández: beat the top seeds Stéphane Houdet and Shingo Kunieda in the semi-finals, then Michaël Jérémiasz and Gordon Reid 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 in the final |
| Wimbledon singles | Quarter-finals 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Men's wheelchair doubles | with Gustavo Fernández |
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"To finally win, it is a dream; I finally have that pleasure."
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Wimbledon 2015 · Final
After beating the top seeds, Peifer and Fernández met Michaël Jérémiasz and Gordon Reid. They won the first set 7-5, lost the last three games of the second, then led 5-1 in the third and closed it out 6-2. It was Peifer's first Wimbledon title; he called Fernández "a very good partner".
Source: International Paralympic CommitteeRoland Garros and US Open 2011
Before Wimbledon he had already won two major doubles titles in 2011, at Roland Garros and the US Open. Further titles followed at the Australian Open in 2016 and 2018 and at Roland Garros in 2017 and 2018, and a second US Open in 2022 gave him eight in all.
Source: WikipediaRio 2016
With Stéphane Houdet he won the Paralympic doubles gold in Rio, beating Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid in the final. The same French and British pairs met again for gold five years later in Tokyo, with Hewett and Reid now the top seeds.
Source: ITFTokyo 2021
The rematch lasted three hours and 25 minutes. Houdet and Peifer trailed 3-0 in the final set and won 7-5, 0-6, 7-6, the first men's pair to retain the Paralympic doubles title. Peifer said he "switched into a different mode" in the third set. The last point, a Houdet forehand on the tramline, was confirmed by Hawk-Eye.
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