Sander Gillé (born 15 January 1991) is a Belgian
tennis
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player.
Gillé has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 24 by the
ATP, achieved on 8 November 2021. He also has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 574, reached on 24 December 2018.
Career
2019: Three ATP doubles titles
Gillé won his first
ATP Tour
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doubles title at the
2019 Swedish Open with fellow Belgian
Joran Vliegen
Joran Vliegen (born 7 July 1993) is a Belgian tennis player. Vliegen has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 28 achieved on 14 June 2021. He also has a career high singles ranking of World No. 508 achieved on 1 August 2016. Vliegen wo ...
. A week later, they won their second title at
Gstaad
Gstaad ( ; ) is a town in the German-speaking section of the Canton of Bern in southwestern Switzerland. It is part of the municipality of Saanen and is known as a major ski resort and a popular destination amongst high society and the internati ...
. In the next week, their 11-match winning streak was ended in the final of
Kitzbühel. Two months later, Gillé and Vliegen picked up their third title of 2019 at the
Zhuhai Championships.
2020-2021: Two ATP doubles titles, first Grand Slam quarterfinal, Masters 1000 semifinal, top 25 debut
Gillé won two more titles with his partner Jordan Vliegen at the
2020 Astana Open and at the
2021 Singapore Open.
They also reached the quarterfinals at the
2020 US Open (tennis) losing to the eventual runners-up Mektic/Koolhof, their best showing as a pair at a Grand Slam thus far.
The pair made their first Masters 1000 semifinal at the
2021 Madrid Open, losing to the second-seeded pair of Pavic/Mektic. As a result, Gillé reached a career-high of 33, on 10 May 2021.
ATP career finals
Doubles: 8 (6 titles, 2 runner-ups)
Challenger and Futures finals
Singles: 2 (1–1)
Doubles: 63 (40–23)
Performance timelines
Doubles
''Current through the
2022 Davis Cup.''
Mixed doubles
''This table is current through the
2022 Australian Open
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Davis Cup
Participations: (1–1)
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indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.
References
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1991 births
Living people
Belgian male tennis players
Olympic tennis players of Belgium
Sportspeople from Hasselt
East Tennessee State University alumni
Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
20th-century Belgian people
21st-century Belgian people