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Sander Groen

Dutch tennis player

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Sander Groen (born 16 June 1968) is a former onprofessional tennis player from the Netherlands.

Groen enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 1 ATP doubles title and 12 Challenger doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 89 in 1997 and a career-high singles ranking of World No. 177 in 1996.

Groen is known for being the doubles partner of many top-5 singles players like Pat Cash, Goran Ivanišević, Gustavo Kuerten, Marcelo Ríos, Marat Safin, Magnus Norman, Greg Rusedski, Alex Corretja, Marc Rosset and Roger Federer. Federer won his first-ever professional title on the tour playing together with Groen in Segovia 1999. Groen recorded doubles wins over Federer, Safin, Rios, Patrick Rafter and world number 1 teams Eltingh/ Haarhuis (with Fredrik Bergh), Bhupathi/ Paes (with Jan Siemerink and with Andrei Pavel) and Knowles/ Nestor (with Laurence Tieleman) In singles Groen qualified for 9 ATP Tour events reaching the second round in 3 events and he recorded wins over Tim Henman, Richard Krajicek Felix Mantilla and Andrei Chesnokov. He won the dutch national masters in 1992 beating Fernon Wibier in the finals and was runner-up to Jan Siemerink in 1994.

In 2004 Sander Groen made his mark on the ITF senior tour by winning the men's singles over 35 world championships followed by finishing runner-up in 2005 and 2006. He also won the men's singles over 35 European championships in 2005. Up to 2016 Groen won 1 medals at ITF seniors world championships.

01Doubles titles (13)

Legend (singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (1)
Challengers (12)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	1991	Cherbourg, France	Hard (i)	Byron Talbot	Michael Daniel Brian Devening	3-6, 6-3, 7-5
2.	1992	Meran, Italy	Clay	David Prinosil	Lionel Barthez Aloïs Beust	6-4, 6-4
3.	1992	Dublin, Ireland	Hard	Arne Thoms	Douglas Geiwald Robbie Koenig	5-7, 6-4, 6-3
4.	1992	Munich, Germany	Carpet	Arne Thoms	Marcos Ondruska Grant Stafford	6-4, 7-6
5.	1993	Munich, Germany	Carpet	Arne Thoms	Jon Ireland John Yancey	6-3, 6-3
6.	1994	Singapore	Hard	Brian Devening	Leonardo Lavalle Danilo Marcelino	6-2, 7-6
7.	1997	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Goran Ivanišević	Sandon Stolle Cyril Suk	7-6, 6-3
8.	1998	Dresden, Germany	Clay	Pablo Albano	Jamie Holmes Andrew Painter	6-4, 6-3
9.	1998	Guadalajara, Mexico	Clay	Ali Hamadeh	Martín García Sebastián Prieto	6-4, 6-2
10.	1999	Segovia, Spain	Clay	Roger Federer	Ota Fukárek Alejandro Hernández	6-4, 7-6
11.	2000	Aachen, Germany	Carpet	Jan Siemerink	Michael Kohlmann Franz Stauder	6-7, 7-6, 6-3
12.	2001	Heilbronn, Germany	Carpet	Jack Waite	Petr Luxa David Škoch	1-6, 6-3, 7-6
13.	2001	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Clay	Andrea Gaudenzi	Devin Bowen Mariano Hood	7-6, 6-4

Runners-up (15)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	1992	Heilbronn, Germany	Carpet	Tomas Nydahl	Doug Eisenman Bent-Ove Pedersen	1-6, 3-6
2.	1992	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Lars Koslowski	David Prinosil Richard Vogel	3-6, 7-6, 6-7
3.	1992	Singapore	Hard	Patrick Baur	Martin Blackman Laurence Tieleman	4-6, 6-1, 6-7
4.	1993	Bergamo, Italy	Hard (i)	Arne Thoms	Cristian Brandi Cristiano Caratti	6-4, 4-6, 1-6
5.	1993	Riemerling, Germany	Clay	Arne Thoms	Maurice Ruah Mario Tabares	3-6, 3-6
6.	1993	Singapore	Hard	Grant Stafford	Jeremy Bates Christo van Rensburg	3-6, 4-6
7.	1995	Bristol, England	Grass	Arne Thoms	Lionel Barthez Stephane Simian	5-7, 5-7
8.	1996	Madras, India	Hard	Oleg Ogorodov	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	5-7, 1-6
9.	1996	Mauritius Island	Grass	Andrei Pavel	Patrick Baur Joost Winnink	1-0, RET.
10.	1997	Eilat, Israel	Hard (i)	Rogier Wassen	Patrick Baur Andrei Cherkasov	3-6, 6-7
11.	1998	Venice, Italy	Clay	Massimo Bertolini	Nebojsa Djordjevic Marcos Ondruska	6-1, 1-6, 2-6
12.	2001	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Michael Kohlmann	Jonathan Erlich Michaël Llodra	W/O
13.	2002	Segovia, Spain	Hard	Karol Beck	Tim Crichton Todd Perry	7-5, 6-7, 4-6
14.	2006	Eckental, Germany	Carpet	Torsten Popp	Joshua Goodall Ross Hutchins	5-7, 3-6
15.	2007	Heilbronn, Germany	Hard (i)	Michaël Llodra	Michael Kohlmann Rainer Schüttler	W/O

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