Jean-Julien Rojer Explained

Jean-Julien Rojer
Country:	(2002–2010) (2010–2012) (2012–present)
Residence:	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Birth Date:	1981 8, df=y
Birth Place:	Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles (present-day Curaçao)
Turnedpro:	2003
Plays:	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College:	UCLA
Careerprizemoney:	US $7,150,570
Singlestitles:	0
Highestsinglesranking:	No. 218 (15 August 2005)
Doublestitles:	37
Highestdoublesranking:	No. 3 (23 November 2015)
Currentdoublesranking:	No. 25 (10 June 2024)
Australianopendoublesresult:	SF (2011, 2015)
Frenchopendoublesresult:	W (2022)
Wimbledondoublesresult:	W (2015)
Usopendoublesresult:	W (2017)
Othertournamentsdoubles:	Yes
Masterscupdoublesresult:	W (2015)
Olympicsdoublesresult:	2R (2021, 2024)
Mixed:	yes
Mixedtitles:	1
Australianopenmixedresult:	2R (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024)
Frenchopenmixedresult:	W (2014)
Wimbledonmixedresult:	SF (2013)
Usopenmixedresult:	QF (2012, 2023)
Updated:	18 June 2024

Jean-Julien Rojer ("John Julian",^[1] pronounced as /nl/;^[2] born 25 August 1981) is a Dutch professional tennis player from Curaçao, who specializes in doubles. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 3 in November 2015.

He is a four-time Grand Slam champion, having won 2015 Wimbledon and 2017 US Open with Horia Tecău, the 2022 French Open with Marcelo Arévalo in men's doubles, as well as the 2014 French Open in mixed doubles alongside Anna-Lena Grönefeld. By winning the 2022 French Open, Rojer became the oldest major men's doubles champion in the Open Era.^[3] ^[4] He has won 37 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2015 ATP World Tour Finals and four at Masters 1000 level. He recorded 500 wins in August 2023 at the Canadian Open.^[5]

He attended UCLA where he competed for the UCLA Bruins men's tennis team. Since 2012, Rojer has represented the Netherlands in the Davis Cup, having previously represented the Netherlands Antilles from 1999 to 2010.^[6] He has also competed at the Summer Olympic Games on three occasions.

World TeamTennis

Rojer has played four seasons with World TeamTennis, making his debut in 2011 with the St. Louis Aces and earning the 2011 WTT Male Rookie of the Year award. He has since played for the Springfield Lasers in 2013, earning the 2013 WTT Male MVP award, and another two seasons in 2017 and 2019. It was announced he will be joining the Springfield Lasers during the 2020 WTT season set to begin July 12.^[7]

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 3 (3 titles)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2015	Wimbledon	Grass	Horia Tecău	Jamie Murray John Peers	7–6^(7–5), 6–4, 6–4
Win	2017	US Open	Hard	Horia Tecău	Feliciano López Marc López	6–4, 6–3
Win	2022	French Open	Clay	Marcelo Arévalo	Ivan Dodig Austin Krajicek	6–7^(4–7), 7–6^(7–5), 6–3

Mixed doubles: 1 (1 title)

Year-end championships

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runners-up)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2012	Paris Masters	Hard (i)	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Mahesh Bhupathi Rohan Bopanna	6–7^(6–8), 3–6
Win	2013	Miami Open	Hard	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–4, 6–1
Win	2016	Madrid Open	Clay	Horia Tecău	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6–4, 7–6 ^(7–5)
Loss	2016	Cincinnati Masters	Hard	Horia Tecău	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	6–7^(5–7), 7–6^(7–5), [6–10]
Loss	2018	Paris Masters	Hard (i)	Horia Tecău	Marcel Granollers Rajeev Ram	4–6, 4–6
Win	2019	Madrid Open	Clay	Horia Tecău	Diego Schwartzman Dominic Thiem	6–2, 6–3
Win	2023	Canadian Open	Hard	Marcelo Arévalo	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–3, 6–1

ATP career finals

Doubles: 61 (37 titles, 24 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (3–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (1–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (4–3)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (8–7)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (21–14)

Finals by surface
Hard (25–15)
Clay (9–8)
Grass (3–1)

Finals by setting
Outdoor (27–13)
Indoor (10–10)

Result	W–L	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Swedish Open, Sweden	International	Clay	Johan Brunström	Jonas Björkman Robin Söderling	2–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Serbia Open, Serbia	250 Series	Clay	Johan Brunström	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	6–2, 7–6^(7–3)
Loss	0–3	Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, Netherlands	250 Series	Grass	Johan Brunström	Wesley Moodie Dick Norman	6–7^(3–7), 7–6^(7–3), [5–10]
Loss	0–4	Croatia Open, Croatia	250 Series	Clay	Johan Brunström	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	4–6, 4–6
Loss	0–5	Romanian Open, Romania	250 Series	Clay	Johan Brunström	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	2–6, 4–6
Loss	0–6	Los Angeles Open, United States	250 Series	Hard	Eric Butorac	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–6^(8–6), 2–6, [7–10]
Win	1–6	Japan Open, Japan	500 Series	Hard	Eric Butorac	Andreas Seppi Dmitry Tursunov	6–3, 6–2
Win	2–6	Stockholm Open, Sweden	250 Series	Hard (i)	Eric Butorac	Johan Brunström Jarkko Nieminen	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2–7	U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships, United States	500 Series	Hard (i)	Eric Butorac	Max Mirnyi Daniel Nestor	2–6, 7–6^(8–6), [3–10]
Win	3–7	Estoril Open, Portugal	250 Series	Clay	Eric Butorac	Marc López David Marrero	6–3, 6–4
Win	4–7	Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, France	250 Series	Clay	Eric Butorac	Santiago González David Marrero	6–3, 6–4
Win	5–7	Malaysian Open, Malaysia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Eric Butorac	František Čermák Filip Polášek	6–1, 6–3
Loss	5–8	Valencia Open, Spain	500 Series	Hard (i)	Eric Butorac	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4–6, 6–7^(9–11)
Win	6–8	Estoril Open, Portugal (2)	250 Series	Clay	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Julian Knowle David Marrero	7–5, 7–5
Win	7–8	Halle Open, Germany	250 Series	Grass	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Treat Huey Scott Lipsky	6–3, 6–4
Loss	7–9	Paris Masters, France	Masters 1000	Hard (i)	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Mahesh Bhupathi Rohan Bopanna	6–7^(6–8), 3–6
Loss	7–10	Open 13, France	250 Series	Hard (i)	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Rohan Bopanna Colin Fleming	4–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Win	8–10	Miami Open, United States	Masters 1000	Hard	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–4, 6–1
Loss	8–11	Portugal Open, Portugal	250 Series	Clay	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Santiago González Scott Lipsky	3–6, 6–4, [7–10]
Win	9–11	Stockholm Open, Sweden (2)	250 Series	Hard (i)	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Jonas Björkman Robert Lindstedt	6–2, 6–2
Win	10–11	Zagreb Indoors, Croatia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Horia Tecău	Philipp Marx Michal Mertiňák	3–6, 6–4, [10–2]
Loss	10–12	Rotterdam Open, Netherlands	500 Series	Hard (i)	Horia Tecău		2–6, 6–7^(7–4)
Win	11–12	Grand Prix Hassan II, Morocco	250 Series	Clay	Horia Tecău	Tomasz Bednarek Lukáš Dlouhý	6–2, 6–2
Win	12–12	Romanian Open, Romania	250 Series	Clay	Horia Tecău	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–4, 6–4
Win	13–12	Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, Netherlands	250 Series	Grass	Horia Tecău	Santiago González Scott Lipsky	6–3, 7–6^(7–3)
Win	14–12	Washington Open, United States	500 Series	Hard	Horia Tecău		7–5, 6–4
Win	15–12	Shenzhen Open, China	250 Series	Hard	Horia Tecău	Chris Guccione Sam Groth	6–4, 7–6^(7–4)
Win	16–12	China Open, China	500 Series	Hard	Horia Tecău		6–7^(6–8), 7–5, [10–5]
Win	17–12	Valencia Open, Spain	500 Series	Hard (i)	Horia Tecău	Kevin Anderson Jérémy Chardy	6–4, 6–2
Loss	17–13	Sydney International, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Horia Tecău	Rohan Bopanna Daniel Nestor	4–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	18–13	Rotterdam Open, Netherlands	500 Series	Hard (i)	Horia Tecău	Jamie Murray John Peers	3–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Loss	18–14	Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, France	250 Series	Clay	Horia Tecău	Mate Pavić Michael Venus	6–7^(4–7), 6–2, [7–10]
Win	19–14	Wimbledon Championships, United Kingdom	Grand Slam	Grass	Horia Tecău	Jamie Murray John Peers	7–6^(7–5), 6–4, 6–4
Win	20–14	ATP World Tour Finals, United Kingdom	Tour Finals	Hard (i)	Horia Tecău	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6–4, 6–3
Win	21–14	Madrid Open, Spain	Masters 1000	Clay	Horia Tecău	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	6–4, 6–3
Loss	21–15	Cincinnati Masters, United States	Masters 1000	Hard	Horia Tecău	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	6–7^(5–7), 7–6^(7–5), [6–10]
Win	22–15	Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE	500 Series	Hard	Horia Tecău	Rohan Bopanna Marcin Matkowski	4–6, 6–3, [10–3]
Win	23–15	Geneva Open, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Horia Tecău	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	2–6, 7–6^(11–9), [10–6]
Win	24–15	Winston-Salem Open, United States	250 Series	Hard	Horia Tecău	Julio Peralta Horacio Zeballos	6–3, 6–4
Win	25–15	US Open, United States	Grand Slam	Hard	Horia Tecău	Feliciano López Marc López	6–4, 6–3
Loss	25–16	Stockholm Open, Sweden	250 Series	Hard (i)	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Oliver Marach Mate Pavić	6–3, 6–7^(6–8), [4–10]
Win	26–16	Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE (2)	500 Series	Hard	Horia Tecău	James Cerretani Leander Paes	6–2, 7–6^(7–2)
Loss	26–17	Barcelona Open, Spain	500 Series	Clay	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Feliciano López Marc López	6–7^(5–7), 4–6
Win	27–17	Winston-Salem Open, United States (2)	250 Series	Hard	Horia Tecău	James Cerretani Leander Paes	6–4, 6–2
Loss	27–18	Paris Masters, France	Masters 1000	Hard (i)	Horia Tecău	Marcel Granollers Rajeev Ram	4–6, 4–6
Loss	27–19	Rotterdam Open, Netherlands	500 Series	Hard (i)	Horia Tecău		6–7^(5–7), 6–7^(4–7)
Win	28–19	Madrid Open, Spain	Masters 1000	Clay	Horia Tecău	Diego Schwartzman Dominic Thiem	6–2, 6–3
Loss	28–20	Washington Open, United States	500 Series	Hard	Horia Tecău	Raven Klaasen Michael Venus	6–3, 3–6, [2–10]
Win	29–20	Swiss Indoors, Switzerland	500 Series	Hard (i)	Horia Tecău	Taylor Fritz Reilly Opelka	7–5, 6–3
Loss	29–21	European Open, Belgium	250 Series	Hard (i)	Wesley Koolhof	Nicolas Mahut Fabrice Martin	0–6, 1–6
Loss	29–22	Stockholm Open, Sweden	250 Series	Hard (i)	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Santiago González Andrés Molteni	2–6, 2–6
Win	30–22	Dallas Open, United States	250 Series	Hard (i)	Marcelo Arévalo	Lloyd Glasspool Harri Heliövaara	7–6^(7–4), 6–4
Win	31–22	Delray Beach Open, United States	250 Series	Hard	Marcelo Arévalo	Aleksandr Nedovyesov Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6–2, 6–7^(5–7), [10–4]
Loss	31–23	style=background:#d4f1c5	Mexican Open, Mexico	style=background:#d4f1c5	500 Series	Hard	Marcelo Arévalo	Feliciano López Stefanos Tsitsipas	5–7, 4–6
Win	32–23	French Open, France	Grand Slam	Clay	Marcelo Arévalo	Ivan Dodig Austin Krajicek	6–7^(4–7), 7–6^(7–5), 6–3
Win	33–23	Stockholm Open, Sweden (3)	250 Series	Hard (i)	Marcelo Arévalo	Lloyd Glasspool Harri Heliövaara	6–3, 6–3
Win	34–23	Adelaide International 2, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Marcelo Arévalo	Ivan Dodig Austin Krajicek	Walkover
Win	35–23	Delray Beach Open, United States	250 Series	Hard	Marcelo Arévalo	Rinky Hijikata Reese Stalder	6–3, 6–4
Win	36–23	Canadian Open, Canada	Masters 1000	Hard	Marcelo Arévalo	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	6–3, 6–1
Win	37–23	Brisbane International, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Lloyd Glasspool	Kevin Krawietz Tim Pütz	7–6^(7–3), 5–7, [12–10]
Loss	37–24	Geneva Open, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Lloyd Glasspool	Marcelo Arévalo Mate Pavić	6–7^(2–7), 5–7

Doubles performance timeline

Current through the 2023 Barcelona Open.

Tournament	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	SR	W–L
Netherlands Antilles		Curaçao
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	3R	style=background:yellow	SF	3R	3R	2R	style=background:yellow	SF	QF	3R	2R	1R	2R	A	1R	QF	3R	0 / 14	27–14
French Open	2R	1R	1R	style=background:yellow	SF	3R	3R	style=background:yellow	SF	2R	3R	1R	QF	2R	3R	bgcolor=lime	W	QF	1R	1 / 15	32–15
Wimbledon	2R	1R	2R	3R	3R	3R	bgcolor=lime	W	1R	1R	2R	QF	style=color:#767676	NH	1R	1R	2R	3R	1 / 14	21–14
US Open	1R	1R	2R	style=background:yellow	SF	QF	3R	QF	3R	bgcolor=lime	W	2R	1R	SF	3R	SF	3R	2R	1 / 15	32–15
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	2–3	2–4	6–4	11–4	9–4	7–4	16–3	6–4	10–3	3–4	6–4	6–3	4–3	10–3	9–4		3 / 57	109–54
Year-end championship
ATP Finals	Did not qualify			RR	RR	RR	bgcolor=lime	W	DNQ	RR	DNQ	RR	DNQ		RR	DNQ	DNQ	1 / 7	7–16
National representation
Summer Olympics	Not Held	1R	Not Held	1R	Not Held	2R	Not Held	2R	0 / 4	2–3
Davis Cup	A	A	A	PO	PO	1R	PO	Z1	PO	1R	RR	QR	A	A	A	F	0 / 3	22–10
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	2–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	1-2	0 / 6	24–13
ATP Masters Series 1000
Indian Wells	A	QF	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	QF	2R	QF	NH	2R	2R	1R		0 / 13	9–13
Miami	1R	1R	1R	2R	bgcolor=lime	W	1R	QF	1R	2R	2R	2R	style=color:#767676	NH	1R	1R	1R		1 / 14	10–13
Monte Carlo	A	A	2R	1R	QF	1R	2R	2R	2R	A	2R	style=color:#767676	NH	1R	SF	QF		0 / 11	5–11
Madrid	A	1R	A	QF	2R	2R	2R	bgcolor=lime	W	1R	2R	bgcolor=lime	W	style=color:#767676	NH	2R	A			2 / 10	13–8
Rome	A	1R	1R	A	2R	1R	QF	2R	1R	2R	2R	2R	QF	1R			0 / 12	4–12
Canada	A	A	2R	QF	QF	QF	QF	2R	2R	QF	3R	style=color:#767676	NH	A	QF			0 / 10	7–10
Cincinnati	A	A	2R	QF	2R	QF	QF	style=background:thistle	F	QF	SF	2R	QF	A	QF			0 / 11	15–11
Shanghai	A	A	2R	QF	QF	2R	2R	2R	style=background:yellow	SF	2R	3R	Not Held					0 / 9	8–9
Paris	2R	A	2R	style=background:thistle	F	QF	style=background:yellow	SF	QF	2R	style=background:yellow	SF	F	1R	2R	1R	2R			0 / 13	15–13
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	1–2	2–4	4–8	9–8	8–8	7–9	6–9	8–8	10–9	12–8	8–8	2–3	4–6	4–7	1–3		3 / 103	86–100
Career statistics
style=text-align:left	Titles / Finals	0 / 4	2 / 3	3 / 5	2 / 3	2 / 4	8 / 9	3 / 5	1 / 2	4 / 5	2 / 4	2 / 4	0 / 0	0 / 2	4 / 5	2 / 2		35 / 58
style=text-align:left	Overall win–loss	18–21	28–26	42–26	41–31	31–28	48–25	51–22	25–23	44–26	36–25	36–28	12–13	15–21	39–21	10–7		487–354
Year-end ranking	43	41	20	13	15	16	style=background:#9cf	3	27	7	19	20	25	38	6	18

Notes and References

Web site: Sound file. MP3. Atptour.com. 2022-08-10. 2022-11-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20221129150649/https://www.atptour.com/-/media/player-names/46a_julien-rojer_player-name-2014.mp3. live.
Web site: Een interview met Wimbledonkampioen Rojer. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/HFtZdOvtsR0 . 2021-12-15 . live. KNLTB. KNLTB. YouTube. 2015-07-14. 2018-01-22. nl.
Web site: Arevalo/Rojer Save 3 Championship Points, Capture Roland Garros Crown ATP Tour Tennis. 2022-06-05. ATP Tour. 2022-06-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20220604191033/https://www.atptour.com/en/news/roland-garros-2022-doubles-final-saturday. live.
Web site: Wesley Koolhof/Neal Skupski Feature in Standout ATP Tour Doubles Teams of 2022 | ATP Tour | Tennis . 2023-02-15 . 2023-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230215075622/https://www.atptour.com/en/news/best-of-2022-doubles . live .
Web site: 500 Wins & Counting For Jean-Julien Rojer. 2024-02-16. 2024-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20240216084042/https://www.atptour.com//en/news/rojer-500-wins-tribute. live.
Web site: The fascinating journey of Jean-Julien Rojer . Davis Cup . 2022-05-07 . 2022-06-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220610151949/https://www.daviscup.com/127566?channel%3Ddaviscupnews . live .
News: World TeamTennis Adds Stars Tiafoe, Puig, Roanic, Bouchard, & Sock As Rosters Set For 2020 . WTT.com . June 16, 2020 . June 19, 2020 . June 18, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200618042824/https://wtt.com/2020/06/16/world-teamtennis-adds-stars-tiafoe-puig-raonic-bouchard-sock-as-rosters-set-for-2020/ . live .