Pierre-Hugues Herbert

After beginning the year outside the top 250, Herbert rose steadily up the rankings. He qualified for the 2013 Paris Masters, where he defeated Benoît Paire for the loss of only four games in the first round of the main draw – his first ever ATP Tour main draw win. In the second round, he had two set points before losing to Novak Djokovic in straight sets. He ended the year with an ATP singles ranking of 151, compared with 257 12 months earlier.

Herbert made his Grand Slam main draw debut in 2014, first receiving a wildcard into the French Open, where he faced American number 10 seed John Isner in his opening match, losing in three tight sets. He then made it through three rounds of qualifying, beating Borna Ćorić, Daniel Kosakowski and Miloslav Mečíř, Jr. to make the main draw at Wimbledon for the first time. In the first round he faced Jack Sock, however lost in four sets despite taking the first set in a tiebreaker. Herbert got his fifth career main draw win at the ATP Tour level at the Swiss Indoors in Basel, beating Édouard Roger-Vasselin in a tight three-setter to set up a clash with 14-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal, his first meeting with a Major champion and former world number 1.

Herbert at the 2015 Winston-Salem Open

Herbert again battled through three rounds of qualifying, beating Hans Podlipnik Castillo, Facundo Argüello and Íñigo Cervantes (the latter over five sets) to make the main draw of Wimbledon. In the first round he beat Hyeon Chung in a three-hour, five-set match, clinching the final set 10–8, claiming his first win in the main draw of a grand slam. In the second round, he lost in straight sets to Bernard Tomic, the player who had beaten him in the semi-finals of Junior US Open in 2009.

In doubles, Herbert reached two Grand Slam finals alongside fellow Frenchman Nicolas Mahut. At the Australian Open, they lost the final to Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli.[6] At the US Open, they won the final against Jamie Murray and John Peers, becoming the first all-French pair to win the men's doubles title at the US Open.[7] Their US Open victory marked the sixth time that an all-French pair had won a Grand Slam men's doubles title in the Open Era.[8] On the 22nd of June, Herbert broke into the top 20 in doubles for the first time, reaching a career high of No. 20 in the world.

Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 doubles titles in a row in the first half of 2016, in Indian Wells, Miami, and Monte Carlo.[9][10] At the French Open, he and Mahut, seeded no.1, lost in the third round to Feliciano López and Marc López.

At the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, Herbert and Mahut beat Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the all-french final to win their second grand slam tournament as a team 6-4, 7-6^(7-1), 6-3.[11]

At the 2017 Rotterdam Open, Herbert defeated world no. 8 Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals for his first singles win over a Top 10-ranked player. He lost his semifinal to David Goffin.

Herbert and doubles partner Nicolas Mahut won their first title of 2017 together at the Rome Masters defeating Ivan Dodig and Marcel Granollers 4–6, 6–4, 10–3.[12] They then went on to clinch the Montreal-Cincinnati double winning both of the masters events back-to-back, defeating Rohan Bopanna and Ivan Dodig 6–4, 3–6, 10–6 at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal and defeating Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares 7-6^(8-6) 6-4 at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.[13][14]

In the Davis Cup final against Belgium, Herbert and Richard Gasquet won the doubles match to help France win the Davis cup.[15]

Herbert at the 2018 French Open

At the 2018 French Open, Hebert and doubles partner Mahut won the French Open, defeating Oliver Marach and Mate Pavić in the final, 6–2, 7–6^(7–4). This was their third Grand Slam title together.[16]

At the ATP Finals in November Herbert at Mahut progressed past the round robin stage of the tournament for the first time in four attempts, they reached the finals before being defeated by Jack Sock and Mike Bryan.[17]

In Doha, Herbert's first tournament of the year, he recorded his second top-ten win against Dominic Thiem, before falling to Thomas Berdych in the quarterfinals. In doubles in Doha Herbert partnered with David Goffin to capture their first team title together.[18]

At the Australian Open in January, Herbert and doubles partner Mahut earned the Career Grand Slam in men's doubles after defeating Henri Kontinen and John Peers in the final, 6–4, 7–6^(7–1).[19] In singles Herbert reached the third round by defeating Hyeon Chung 6–2, 1–6, 6–2, 6–4 in the second round.[20] In the third round he fell to Milos Raonic in three sets 6–4, 6–4, 7–6^(8-6).[21]

After winning the career grand slam in doubles, Herbert decided to take a brief break from doubles to focus on singles.[22]

In February Herbert reached a career high ranking in singles of 36 after he reached his third ATP tour final in Montpellier, where he fell to countryman Jo-Wilfred Tsonga.[23]

In the 2019 clay season in Monte-Carlo Herbert captured his third top 10 win against Kei Nishikori 7–5, 6–4 to reach the third round.[24] At the French Open Herbert recovered from being down two-sets-to-love in a 4–6, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2, 7-5 against 12th seed Daniil Medvedev in the first round.[25]

Herbert reunited with Nicolas Mahut to play the Paris Rolex Masters which they won defeating Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev 6–4, 6–1 in the final.[26] The pair qualified for the ATP finals for the 5th straight year,[27] where they went undefeated in the round robin stage, and then went on to lift the trophy, without dropping a set throughout the tournament. They defeated Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus in the final 6–3,6–4.[28]

Current through the 2020 Rotterdam Open.

• Pierre-Hugues Herbert at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Pierre-Hugues Herbert at the International Tennis Federation
• Pierre-Hugues Herbert at the Davis Cup
• Pierre-Hugues Herbert on IMDb