Gijs Brouwer

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Gijs Brouwer
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Brouwer in 2023
Country (sports)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Born (1996-03-14) 14 March 1996 (age 28)
Houston, United States
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro2016
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach Michiel Schapers
Prize money US$636,517 [1]
Singles
Career record11–12 (47.8%)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 114 (27 February 2023)
Current rankingNo. 198 (18 March 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open Q1 (2023, 2024)
French Open Q1 (2023)
Wimbledon 1R (2023)
US Open 2R (2022)
Doubles
Career record0–1 (0%)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 148 (22 August 2022)
Current rankingNo. 442 (6 November 2023)
Last updated on: 25 March 2024.

Gijs Brouwer (born 14 March 1996) is a Dutch tennis player. Brouwer has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 114 achieved on 27 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 148 achieved on 22 August 2022. [2]

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Brouwer has won two ATP Challenger doubles titles at the 2021 Puerto Vallarta Open with Reese Stalder and at the 2022 Tallahassee Tennis Challenger with Christian Harrison.

Career

2022: ATP & Major debut & top-50 win, top 150 in singles & doubles

On his ATP Tour debut at the 2022 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, Brouwer as a qualifier, made the quarterfinals after defeating Feliciano López and J. J. Wolf. He lost to third seed and eventual champion Reilly Opelka in the quarterfinals. [3] As a result he made his top 300 debut at world No. 286.

In May, he reached his first Challenger final at the 2022 Tunis Open losing to Roberto Carballés Baena.

He made his Grand Slam debut at the US Open as a qualifier. [4] He recorded his first Major win defeating world No. 45 Adrian Mannarino. [5] He reached the top 150 in the singles rankings on 12 September 2022.

2023-24: First top-10 win & ATP semifinal, top 125

Ranked No. 160, after the withdrawal of Gaël Monfils, Brouwer wildcard was promoted into the main draw Rotterdam, [6] where he defeated top-50 player Marc-Andrea Hüsler in the first round. [7] [8] He moved on to his first hard court quarterfinal after fourth seed Holger Rune retired in the second set of the match, his biggest, first top-10 win, and only his fifth on the ATP tour. [9] As a result he moved more than 40 positions to a new career high in the top 120 at No. 116 on 20 February 2023. [10] It was the first time a Dutch duo, Brouwer and Tallon Griekspoor, reached the quarterfinals in singles of the home tournament, since Raemon Sluiter and Sjeng Schalken in 2003. [11]

Brouwer repeated his Houston result from 2022, again reaching the quarterfinals after defeating Aleksandar Kovacevic and fourth seed John Isner. He went one step further to reach his first ATP semifinal with again a win over fifth seed J.J. Wolf in the quarterfinals, losing also to top seed and eventual champion Frances Tiafoe in the semifinals. He moved back to No. 116 in the rankings on 10 April 2023. He made his debut at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships after qualifying. He also qualified for the 2023 Moselle Open as a lucky loser directly into the second round replacing second seed Alex de Minaur after his late withdrawal.

Brower qualified for the 2024 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston for a third year in a row defeating Mitchell Krueger in the last round of qualifying.

Challenger and Future Finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–1)
ITF Futures Tour (0–0)
Titles by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentCategorySurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1 May 2022 Tunis, TunisiaChallengerClay Flag of Spain.svg Roberto Carballés Baena 1–6, 1–6

Doubles: 3 (2–1)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (2–1)
ITF Futures Tour (0–0)
Titles by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (2–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentCategorySurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0 Nov 2021 Puerto Vallarta, MexicoChallengerHard Flag of the United States.svg Reese Stalder Flag of Mexico.svg Hans Hach Verdugo
Flag of Mexico.svg Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela
6–4, 6–4
Win2–0 Apr 2022 Tallahassee, USAChallengerClay Flag of the United States.svg Christian Harrison Flag of Ecuador.svg Diego Hidalgo
Flag of Colombia.svg Cristian Rodríguez
4–6, 7–5, [10–6]
Loss2–1 Aug 2022 Lexington, USAChallengerHard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Aidan McHugh Flag of India.svg Yuki Bhambri
Flag of India.svg Saketh Myneni
6-3, 4-6, [8-10]

Record against top 10 players

Wins over top 10 players

Brouwer has a 1–0 (100%) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

Season2023Total
Wins11
#PlayerRankEventSurfaceRdScoreGBR
2023
1. Flag of Denmark.svg Holger Rune 9 Rotterdam, NetherlandsHard (i)2R6–4, 4–0 ret.160

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