The 21st century
Netherlands · born Zevenaar, 1989 · former world No. 1 in doubles · Wimbledon doubles champion 2023 with Neal Skupski
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2023
Wimbledon doubles champion, with Neal Skupski
2
's-Hertogenbosch doubles titles in a row, 2022 and 2023
1
Doubles world ranking, reached in 2022; year-end co-No. 1 with Skupski
21
Tour doubles titles
6-4, 6-4
The 2023 Wimbledon final against Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos
Wesley Koolhof was born in Zevenaar on 17 April 1989 and grew up in nearby Duiven. He began hitting against a wall at about three and had lessons from four. His father was a professional footballer, but Koolhof preferred tennis and modelled his baseline game on Andre Agassi. He turned professional in 2008, reached No. 462 in singles in 2013 and from about 2015 concentrated on doubles.
In 2019 he reached a Masters final in Miami with Stefanos Tsitsipas, and in 2020 he won the ATP Finals with Nikola Mektić. In 2022, his first season with Neal Skupski, the pair won seven titles, including Masters events in Madrid, Montreal and Paris, and finished the year as joint No. 1. He was the fourth Dutchman to reach the top of the doubles rankings, after Tom Okker, Paul Haarhuis and Jacco Eltingh. That year he also won the French Open mixed doubles with Ena Shibahara, and in 2023 he and Skupski won Wimbledon.
In 2024, his last season, he went back to Mektić and won five titles, among them Indian Wells, Shanghai, Paris and his home tournament in Rotterdam. He played the Olympics in 2021 and 2024. His final match was a Davis Cup doubles win over Carlos Alcaraz and Marcel Granollers in Málaga in November 2024, and he retired at 35 with 21 tour titles. In December 2024 he married the former German player Julia Görges.
| 's-Hertogenbosch 2019 | Doubles final with Marcus Daniell, lost |
|---|---|
| 's-Hertogenbosch 2022 | Second seeds with Skupski; beat Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell 4-6, 7-5, 10-6 in the final at Autotron Rosmalen, his first title on grass, on the day Tim van Rijthoven won the singles |
| 's-Hertogenbosch 2023 | Kept the title with Skupski, beating Gonzalo Escobar and Aleksandr Nedovyesov 7-6 (7-1), 6-2 |
| Wimbledon 2023 | Top seeds with Skupski; beat Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-4, 6-4 in 77 minutes, in the first year the gentlemen's doubles was played over the best of three sets |
| Wimbledon | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Men's doubles | with Neal Skupski |
| 's-Hertogenbosch (Rosmalen) | ||
| 2022 | Men's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Neal Skupski |
| 2023 | Men's doubles Rosmalen Grass Court Championships | with Neal Skupski |
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
"It is nice to win in front of our own audience and also to win a title on grass for the first time."
The person behind the player.
Duiven
He started at about three by hitting a ball against a wall. His father, Jurrie, was a professional footballer, which made it easy for him to play football too, but he chose tennis: "there was something about the individuality of tennis I liked more."
Source: ATP TourRosmalen, 2022
It was his second final at the Dutch grass event; in 2019 he had lost the final with Marcus Daniell. "In 2019, it was not the best again and it eventually went wrong in the final," he said after winning in 2022, in front of a full centre court stand.
Source: Libéma Open2022
Koolhof and Skupski won seven titles in their first season together, three of them Masters events, and received the year-end No. 1 trophy in Turin. Koolhof said the difference from singles was that a doubles pair wins and loses together.
Source: ATP TourMálaga, 2024
His final match was a Davis Cup doubles against Spain, won with Botic van de Zandschulp 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) against Carlos Alcaraz and Marcel Granollers. He said he had no regrets and could have played "five to seven more years, maybe", but that it was "time for something else".
Source: Tennis Tour Talk2019 to 2024
He met Julia Görges in 2019 at the wedding of Kiki Bertens, and they married on 14 December 2024, a few weeks after his retirement. "I'm looking forward to spending some time with Julia and the dogs at home," he said.
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