Henri Kontinen (; born 19 June 1990) is an inactive Finnish professional

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who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. After being forced to end his singles career at a young age due to injuries, having reached a career-high ranking of No. 220, Kontinen became a successful doubles player. He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, having won the

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with

John Peers John William Peers (born 25 July 1988) is an Australian professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2017 Australian Open, where he and Henri Kontinen won the men's doubles event. Peers als ...

in men's doubles, and the 2016 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles alongside

Heather Watson Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May 1992) is a British professional tennis player. A former British No. 1, Watson has won nine titles over her career, including the mixed-doubles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships partnering Henri ...

. Kontinen and Peers also won the 2016 and 2017 ATP Finals, and reached the final at the 2019 Australian Open. He has won 21 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, and became world No. 1 for the first time on 3 April 2017, spending 26 weeks at the top of the rankings. Kontinen and Peers have also won three titles at Masters 1000 level. He has represented Finland in the Davis Cup since 2008, often alongside his younger brother, Micke, who is himself a former tennis player.

Junior career

Kontinen won the 2008 French Open boys' doubles title with Christopher Rungkat. He reached the final of the 2008 Wimbledon boys' singles which he lost to Grigor Dimitrov having beaten Bernard Tomic in the semifinal. He also reached the final of the 2008 US Open boys' doubles with Rungkat. Subsequently, Kontinen's singles development was hampered by knee injuries, and in 2013 he decided to concentrate on doubles.

Senior career

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Kontinen won his first ATP title at the Bet-at-home Cup Kitzbühel with

Jarkko Nieminen Jarkko Kalervo Nieminen (born 23 July 1981) is a Finnish former professional tennis player. His highest ranking of world No. 13, achieved in July 2006, is a Finnish record. He has won two ATP singles titles and five doubles titles in his care ...

, he also played two more finals partnering

Marin Draganja Marin Draganja (; born 13 May 1991) is a Croatian professional tennis player and competes mainly on the ATP World Tour in doubles. Draganja reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 550 on 29 April 2013, and his highest ATP doubles ranking ...

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was a breakthrough year for him as he won five titles including title at the Barcelona Open BancSabadell, his first ATP World Tour 500 series title. Together with Zheng Jie he reached semifinals of mixed doubles at the 2015 French Open. His good results continued in 2016 as he won the title at the

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in January with

. On April–May they won the

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together. At the 2016 Wimbledon Championships he reached quarterfinals of the men's doubles tournament together with Peers and the final of the

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with

, which they won in straight sets. On July Kontinen and Peers won the German Open Tennis Championships. On August Kontinen won the Winstom-Salem Open playing with Guillermo García-López. It was Kontinen's 10th doubles title in his career. He took the victory of

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with Dominic Inglot. Kontinen and Peers had a successful end for the year as they won their first Masters title at Paris Masters and the season ending ATP World Tour Finals title. Kontinen reached the top 10 in rankings as the first Finnish tennis player ever to do so. Kontinen and Peers won the 2017 Australian Open men's doubles championship in January 2017, and on 3 April 2017 Kontinen became world no. 1 doubles player—the first Finnish player, male or female, to do so. At Wimbledon in 2017, Kontinen and Peers lost in the semi-final to Łukasz Kubot and

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, the eventual champions; Kontinen also lost his no. 1 ranking to Melo. In the

, Kontinen and Watson reached the final for the second successive year, but lost to

Jamie Murray Jamie Robert Murray, (born 13 February 1986) is a Scottish professional tennis player from Scotland who specialises in doubles. He is a seven-time Grand Slam doubles champion (five in mixed doubles and two in men's doubles), a Davis Cup win ...

and Martina Hingis.

Significant finals

Grand Slam tournament finals

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

Mixed doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Year-end championships

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

Masters 1000 finals

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

ATP career finals

Doubles: 30 (24 titles, 6 runner-up)

Challengers and Futures finals

Singles: 6 (5 titles, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 28 (18 titles, 10 runner-ups)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

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

Performance timelines

Doubles

''Current after the

2021 Sofia Open The 2021 Sofia Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 6th edition of the Sofia Open as part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2021 ATP Tour. It was played at the Arena Armeec in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 27 Septe ...

.''

Mixed doubles

''Current through the 2021 Australian Open.''

References

External links

Official website
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kontinen, Henri Finnish male tennis players French Open junior champions Sportspeople from Espoo Sportspeople from Helsinki 1990 births Living people Australian Open (tennis) champions Wimbledon champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players