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Netherlands · born Eindhoven, 1966 · right-handed · Wimbledon doubles champion 1998
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Wimbledon doubles title, 1998
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Wimbledon doubles finals in a row, 1997 to 2000
10-8
Fifth set of the 1998 Wimbledon final
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Major doubles titles, 1994 to 2002
No. 1
Doubles ranking, first reached January 1994
Born in Eindhoven on 19 February 1966, Haarhuis played college tennis at Armstrong State and Florida State before turning professional in 1989. In singles he beat the top seed, Boris Becker, on the way to the 1991 US Open quarter-finals and rose to No. 18. His career was made in doubles. With Jacco Eltingh he won five major titles, completing the career Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 1998, and the year-end championships in 1993 and 1998; a sixth major followed at the 2002 French Open with Yevgeny Kafelnikov. He became world No. 1 in January 1994 and retired in 2003 with 54 titles. He holds the Dutch Davis Cup records for doubles wins and years played, captained the Fed Cup team from 2014 to 2021, and took the Netherlands to its first Davis Cup final as captain in 2024.
| Wimbledon doubles | Champion 1998 with Jacco Eltingh. Runner-up 1997 with Eltingh, 1999 with Jared Palmer and 2000 with Sandon Stolle |
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| Wimbledon finals | 1997: lost to Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde 6-7, 6-7, 7-5, 3-6. 1998: beat them 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3), 5-7, 10-8. 1999: lost to Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes 7-6, 3-6, 4-6, 6-7. 2000: lost to Woodbridge and Woodforde 3-6, 4-6, 1-6 |
| Wimbledon singles | Best result: fourth round, 1996 |
| Other grass doubles titles | Rosmalen 1991 with Hendrik Jan Davids; Halle 1995 and Rosmalen 1997 with Jacco Eltingh; 's-Hertogenbosch 2001 with Sjeng Schalken |
| Career Grand Slam | Completed with Eltingh at Wimbledon in 1998, after the Australian and US titles in 1994 and the French in 1995 and 1998 |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 1998 | Men's doubles | with Jacco Eltingh |
| 's-Hertogenbosch (Rosmalen) | ||
| 1991 | Men's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Hendrik Jan Davids |
| 1997 | Men's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Jacco Eltingh |
| 2001 | Men's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Sjeng Schalken |
| Halle | ||
| 1995 | Men's doubles | with Jacco Eltingh |
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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US Open 1991
In his best singles run at a major, Haarhuis beat Eric Jelen, Andrei Chesnokov, the top seed Boris Becker and Carl-Uwe Steeb to reach the quarter-finals in New York. There he met Jimmy Connors, 39 and the story of the tournament, and lost in four sets.
Source: WikipediaAtlanta 1996
At the Atlanta Olympics Haarhuis and Eltingh met Woodbridge and Woodforde in the semi-final and lost the third set 18-16, then lost the bronze medal match to the Germans David Prinosil and Marc-Kevin Goellner. They had beaten the Australians in the 1994 US Open final, but the next big meetings, the 1996 US Open final and the 1997 Wimbledon final, also went the other way.
Source: Tennis UptodateWimbledon 1998
A year after losing the final to Woodbridge and Woodforde in four sets, the Dutch pair met the five-time defending champions again. This time they won 10-8 in the fifth. By then they had won eight of their 12 tournaments that year, the French Open among them.
Source: WikipediaRoyal Albert Hall, 2005 to 2007
In retirement Haarhuis won the Blackrock Masters, a seniors event at the Royal Albert Hall, three years running. His victims along the way included Goran Ivanišević and John McEnroe, and in 2007 he completed the hat-trick against Guy Forget.
Source: WikipediaMalaga 2024
As Dutch captain he hoped aloud to give Rafael Nadal "a nice adios" before the quarter-final against Spain. Botic van de Zandschulp beat Nadal 6-4, 6-4 in what was Nadal's last official match, the Netherlands won 2-1, then swept Germany to reach their first Davis Cup final. "So proud of these guys," Haarhuis said.
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