Sander Groen

Template:Short description Sander Groen (born 16 June 1968) is a former professional 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. 61 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 11 medals at ITF seniors world championships.

Doubles 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)	Template:Flagicon Byron Talbot	Template:Flagicon Michael Daniel Template:Flagicon Brian Devening	3–6, 6–3, 7–5
2.	1992	Meran, Italy	Clay	Template:Flagicon David Prinosil	Template:Flagicon Lionel Barthez Template:Flagicon Aloïs Beust	6–4, 6–4
3.	1992	Dublin, Ireland	Hard	Template:Flagicon Arne Thoms	Template:Flagicon Douglas Geiwald Template:Flagicon Robbie Koenig	5–7, 6–4, 6–3
4.	1992	Munich, Germany	Carpet	Template:Flagicon Arne Thoms	Template:Flagicon Marcos Ondruska Template:Flagicon Grant Stafford	6–4, 7–6
5.	1993	Munich, Germany	Carpet	Template:Flagicon Arne Thoms	Template:Flagicon Jon Ireland Template:Flagicon John Yancey	6–3, 6–3
6.	1994	Singapore	Hard	Template:Flagicon Brian Devening	Template:Flagicon Leonardo Lavalle Template:Flagicon Danilo Marcelino	6–2, 7–6
7.	1997	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Template:Flagicon Goran Ivanišević	Template:Flagicon Sandon Stolle Template:Flagicon Cyril Suk	7–6, 6–3
8.	1998	Dresden, Germany	Clay	Template:Flagicon Pablo Albano	Template:Flagicon Jamie Holmes Template:Flagicon Andrew Painter	6–4, 6–3
9.	1998	Guadalajara, Mexico	Clay	Template:Flagicon Ali Hamadeh	Template:Flagicon Martín García Template:Flagicon Sebastián Prieto	6–4, 6–2
10.	1999	Segovia, Spain	Clay	Template:Flagicon Roger Federer	Template:Flagicon Ota Fukárek Template:Flagicon Alejandro Hernández	6–4, 7–6
11.	2000	Aachen, Germany	Carpet	Template:Flagicon Jan Siemerink	Template:Flagicon Michael Kohlmann Template:Flagicon Franz Stauder	6–7, 7–6, 6–3
12.	2001	Heilbronn, Germany	Carpet	Template:Flagicon Jack Waite	Template:Flagicon Petr Luxa Template:Flagicon David Škoch	1–6, 6–3, 7–6
13.	2001	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Clay	Template:Flagicon Andrea Gaudenzi	Template:Flagicon Devin Bowen Template:Flagicon Mariano Hood	7–6, 6–4

Runners-up (15)

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

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