Jacco Folkert Eltingh (born 29 August 1970) is a former professional male tennis player and former world No. 1 doubles player from the

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. He is best known for his success in doubles with fellow countryman

Paul Haarhuis Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis (born 19 February 1966) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former world No. 1 doubles player, having reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 1995. He won six Grand Sla ...

. Together they won all four Grand Slam doubles titles at least once. Eltingh is the youngest player in the

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to achieve the career Grand Slam in men's doubles. Eltingh reached his career-high singles ranking in February 1995, when he climbed to world No. 19, notably reaching the quarterfinals of both the

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and

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in 1995. In his professional career he has won four singles and 44 doubles titles. In November 2005, Eltingh was elected to the ATP Board as the player representative for Europe.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 8 (6–2)

Olympic finals

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Career finals

Doubles: 60 (44–16)

Singles (4 titles)

Doubles performance timeline

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eltingh, Jacco 1970 births Living people Australian Open (tennis) champions Dutch male tennis players French Open champions Olympic tennis players of the Netherlands People from Heerde Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics US Open (tennis) champions Wimbledon champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles Tennis commentators ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players ITF World Champions Sportspeople from Gelderland