Joe Salisbury ( ; born 20 April 1992) is a British professional

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player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. He is a five-time

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champion, having won the 2020 Australian Open, the 2021 US Open and the 2022 US Open in men's doubles, partnering

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. Salisbury has also won two mixed doubles titles, at the 2021 French Open and US Open alongside

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. He also finished runner-up at the 2021 Australian Open in men's doubles and the

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in mixed doubles, with Ram and

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respectively. In April 2022, Salisbury became the third British world No. 1 in either singles or doubles, after

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and Andy Murray. He has won twelve doubles titles on the

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, including three at

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level, and the 2022 ATP Finals. Salisbury made his

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debut for Great Britain in 2021, and also competed at the

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alongside Andy Murray.

Personal

Salisbury is from

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in southwest London. He went to

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, Wimbledon, leaving in 2010. He trained at the Sutton Tennis Centre under Jeremy Bates and played college tennis at the

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College career

Salisbury represented the

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from 2010 until his graduation in 2014. As he had experienced injury problems during his junior career he was not heavily recruited by American colleges and the decision to offer him a spot at Memphis was a "gamble" on the part of head coach Paul Goebel. Salisbury finished his college career with 97 doubles wins, the most in school history, and his 25 singles wins in his final year was also a Memphis record at the time.

Professional career

2014: ATP debut

Salisbury made his ATP Tour main-draw debut at the U.S. National Indoor Championships partnering

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, losing to the

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in the first round.

2018: First ATP doubles title

He reached the semifinals in the Wimbledon men's doubles with

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. Playing alongside

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, he won his first

doubles title at the Shenzhen Open.

2019-20: New partnership, Australian Open doubles title, world No. 3

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in 2019, he played alongside

during the men's doubles. They made it to the round of 16. Also with Ram, Salisbury won the 2020 Australian Open, beating wildcards

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and

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in the final. As a result, he reached a career-high ranking ofworld No. 3, on 10 February 2020.

2021: French Open mixed-doubles, US Open doubles & mixed, first Masters titles

He competed in the

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with partner

to defend their title, but they lost to

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and

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in the final. He won the mixed-doubles title at the

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with

. He also reached the mixed doubles final of the

partnering

. He reached the final and won his first Masters 1000 in Canada at the

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with Ram, defeating world No. 1 and No. 2 Croatians, Pavic and Mektic, his second final for the year at a Masters level after the Italian Open, where they lost to the Croatian pair. At the US Open Salisbury partnering with Ram reached the final, defeating

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in a long and narrow three hours match with three tiebreaks, saving four match points in the quarterfinals and

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/ Steve Johnson in the semifinals. The pair won the men’s doubles championship, defeating

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in the final. It was the first time in the Open Era that two Britons met in a major men's doubles final and the first time in 12 years that the US Open men’s doubles final went to a deciding set. As a result he equaled his best career ranking of World No. 3 in doubles on 20 September 2021. Seeded second, he also won his second mixed-doubles Grand Slam title at the US Open, again with Krawczyk, defeating

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and

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in straight sets. He became the first man since Bob Bryan in 2010 to win the US Open doubles and mixed titles in the same year. At the San Diego Open, Salisbury won his eight title and third of the season partnering

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2022: World No. 1, US Open champion, Two Masters titles

At the Miami Open, Salisbury and Ram reached the quarterfinals, losing to eventual champions

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and

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. Following this result, Salisbury became the new world No. 1 in men's doubles on 4 April 2022. He became the second British man to be doubles number one, after

. He won the 2022 Monte-Carlo Masters with Ram defeating sixth seeded pair of Robert Farah and

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. The duo reached the semifinals at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships, losing to

and

in five sets. Ram and Salisbury had a successful summer hardcourt season, winning the

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and clinching their third Grand Slam title together while defending their title at the 2022 US Open with a straight-sets win over second seeds Neal Skupski and

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. They became just the second team to repeat as men's doubles champions at this Major in the Open Era other than Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde who went also back-to-back in New York.

Significant finals

Grand Slam tournament finals

Men's doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Mixed doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Year-end championships

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

ATP career finals

Doubles: 20 (12 titles, 8 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 1 (1–0)

Doubles: 36 (18–17)

Doubles performance timeline

''Current through the 2022 ATP Finals.''

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Salisbury, Joe 1992 births Living people English male tennis players British male tennis players Memphis Tigers men's tennis players Tennis people from Greater London Universiade medalists in tennis Universiade gold medalists for Great Britain Australian Open (tennis) champions French Open champions US Open (tennis) champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players of Great Britain ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players People educated at King's College School, London