Jack Sock (born September 24, 1992) is an American former professional
tennis
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doubles and a current
pickleball player. He won four career singles titles and 17 doubles titles on the
ATP Tour
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, and had career-high tennis
rankings of world No. 8 in singles (on 20 November 2017) and world No. 2 in doubles (on 10 September 2018).
Sock won four
major
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* Academic major, an academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits
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* Major and minor in musi ...
doubles tennis titles: one in mixed doubles at the
2011 US Open partnering with
Melanie Oudin, and three in men's doubles, first at the
2014 Wimbledon Championships
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partnering with
Vasek Pospisil
Vasek Pospisil ( ; , ; known in born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. Pospisil has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 25, and No. 4 in doubles. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 Wimbledon Champi ...
, and then in the
2018 Wimbledon Championships
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and
2018 US Open partnering with
Mike Bryan
Michael Carl Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all time, Bryan was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's doubles for a record 506 weeks ...
. Sock also won the
2018 ATP Finals doubles title partnering with Bryan. At the
2016 Rio Olympics, Sock won both a
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have b ...
in
mixed doubles partnering with
Bethanie Mattek-Sands, and a
bronze medal
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in
men's doubles partnering with
Steve Johnson.
In tennis singles, Sock is a former junior US Open champion, victor at the
2017 Paris Masters, and semifinalist at the
2017 ATP Finals.
Personal life
Sock moved from
Nebraska
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to
Kansas
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at the age of 12 with his mother and older brother
Eric
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The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-N ...
to train at the Mike Wolf Tennis Academy, while his father stayed in
Lincoln to continue working as a financial advisor.
He graduated from
Blue Valley North High School in
Overland Park, Kansas
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, and finished his
KSHSAA 6A high school tennis career with an 80–0 record and four consecutive state championships in singles.
In high school, he also played doubles with his brother Eric, and they won the team state championship together in Jack's sophomore year. Jack went on to win two more team state championships after Eric graduated and began playing college tennis at the
University of Nebraska
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. Jack and Eric also played doubles once at the ATP Tour level as a wild card entry in the
2017 BB&T Atlanta Open.
Philanthropy
Sock appeared at the
Match for Africa 5 alongside
Roger Federer
Roger Federer ( , ; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 3 ...
,
Bill Gates
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and
Savannah Guthrie on March 5, 2018 at the
SAP Center in
San Jose, California
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. The friendly, best-of-three sets, charity exhibition match raised $2.5 million to benefit children's education in Africa, with net proceeds going to the
Roger Federer Foundation
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. Federer won the singles match 7–6, 6–4 and the doubles match 6–3.
Junior career
As a junior, Sock reached No. 22 in the world combined rankings in October 2010. He played his first
ITF junior tournament in October 2008, at age 16, at the Pan American Championships. At the
2009 US Open, his third junior tournament, he reached the semifinals of the
junior doubles with Matthew Kandath, and the third round of the
junior singles.
Sock played relatively infrequently on the junior circuit, however, entering just two further tournaments: the Dunlop Orange Bowl in 2009 and the
junior singles at the
2010 U.S. Open. At this tournament, he received a wildcard entry, but proceeded to the final. There, he defeated fellow American
Denis Kudla in three sets, to become the first American winner of the junior championships since
Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 13 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in ...
in 2000.
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SIFY News. 2010-13-09. Accessed September 9, 2011. He won the
Boy's Junior National Tennis Championship in 2010 and 2011, earning a wildcard in both years for the main draw of the
US Open.
Professional career
Early career
Sock began playing in
Futures tournaments in 2009, winning his first senior tournament on that circuit in November 2009. He entered his first qualifying draw for an
ATP tournament at the
2010 Miami Masters. His first main-draw match as a professional came at the
2010 US Open, where he lost to
Marco Chiudinelli
Marco Chiudinelli (born 10 September 1981) is a retired tennis player from Switzerland. A member of Switzerland's winning 2014 Davis Cup squad, he reached his highest singles ranking of 52 in February 2010 during a career that was often hindered ...
.
Sock finished the 2010 season ranked 878th in the world.
In 2011, he reached the final of the USA F3 tournament. He also began to play in a few tournaments at
Challenger level, with his biggest success being a quarterfinal at the
Dallas Challenger. He competed in the main draw of the
2011 Miami Masters. As 2010 US Junior champion, he received a wildcard into the
2011 US Open, winning his first ATP match against
Marc Gicquel in four sets. He advanced to play
Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 13 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in ...
, a fellow
Nebraska
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n, in the second round; however, he lost in straight sets. Sock's real breakthrough came in the
mixed doubles, however, where he advanced to the final alongside
Melanie Oudin, defeating the defending champions
Bob Bryan
Robert "Bob" Charles Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all time, Bryan was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis pl ...
and
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber (née Horn; born 21 August 1976) is a South African- American retired tennis player who represented the United States internationally since August 2007. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara B ...
in the second round. In the final, Sock and Oudin defeated
Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko (; born 30 January 1985) is an Argentine former tennis player. Although she enjoyed modest success in singles, reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 26 and winning four WTA Tour, WTA titles, her speciality was doubles, where s ...
and
Eduardo Schwank in three sets to win their first Grand Slam title, both individually and together.
After winning his first Grand Slam title, Sock returned to competing on the Challenger Tour. His most successful tournament was the
Sacramento Challenger, in which he reached the quarterfinals of the
singles tournament and, partnering with
Nicholas Monroe, the final of the
doubles tournament. Sock finished 2011 ranked No. 381 in singles and No. 370 in the doubles.
In 2012, Sock won the Futures tournament at
Plantation
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, as well as losing in the doubles final. Stepping back up to the Challenger level, he competed at the
Honolulu Challenger, making the quarterfinals of the singles tournament and, alongside
Nick Monroe, once again made the final of the doubles tournament.
Sock played in the
2012 Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, and lost in the second round to
Izak van der Merwe. Sock's next tournament was the
2012 BB&T Atlanta Open. He upset the seventh seed,
Alex Bogomolov, Jr. He made it to the quarterfinals, where he lost to
John Isner
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. At the
US Open, Sock defeated the 22nd seed,
Florian Mayer
Florian Mayer (; born 5 October 1983) is a German former professional tennis player.
Mayer reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in June 2011. Also in 2011, Mayer won his first ATP Tour title after four previous defeats in AT ...
, in the first round when Mayer retired. He then went on to defeat world No. 85
Flavio Cipolla of Italy in straight sets, setting up his first ever Grand Slam third round match against 11th seed
Nicolás Almagro
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, but was defeated in four sets. In the final two months of the 2012 season, Sock reached his first two Challenger Tour finals, winning at
Tiburon in October and finishing as runner-up in the November
Champaign-Urbana Challenger. These finals helped him rise to the top 150 for the first time.
2013: Top 100
Sock had a slow start to 2013, losing in qualifying at the
Brisbane International
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and the
2013 Australian Open. However, he received a wildcard entry into the
U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships, in which he gained his first wins of the season, reaching the quarterfinals for the second time in his career. In the doubles competition at the same tournament, Sock teamed up with
James Blake, also a wildcard entry, reaching the final, where the pair lost to the
Bryan brothers
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. Sock made it through three rounds of qualifying without dropping a set to enter the main draw of the
2013 French Open. In the first round, he defeated the accomplished player
Guillermo García López in only 1 hour and 59 minutes. He then lost to 35-year-old veteran
Tommy Haas
Thomas Mario Haas (; born 3 April 1978) is a German–American former professional tennis player. He competed on the ATP Tour from 1996 to 2017, and was ranked world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in May ...
in straight sets.
He tried to qualify for
Wimbledon
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* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
Wimbledon may also refer to:
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* W ...
for the first time, but although seeded second, lost to
Mischa Zverev
Mikhail "Mischa" Alexandrovich Zverev. (born 22 August 1987) is a German retired professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 25 on 24 July 2017.
At the 2017 Australian Open, Zverev defeated world No. 1 An ...
. He returned to the US to win his second career Challenger level title in Winnetka, Illinois on July 6, allowing him to break into the top 100 for the first time in his career. At the
US Open, he defeated
Philipp Petzschner
Philipp Petzschner (born 24 March 1984) is a retired German professional tennis player. He was known for his hard-hitting forehand and backhand slices. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 9, which he achieved in April 2011.
Car ...
in the first round, going 5 games to 2 up in the third set before Petzschner retired. Sock then went on to beat
Maximo Gonzalez, However, he lost to 18th seed
Janko Tipsarević in the third round. Following the US Open, his ranking rose to No. 86.
2014: Major doubles title

Sock began his 2014 campaign in
Auckland
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against Frenchman
Adrian Mannarino
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Te ...
. His aggressive playing style was too much for his opponent, and he won in straight sets to set up a match with German second seed
Tommy Haas
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. In a considerable upset, Sock defeated the world No. 12 in straight sets to advance to the quarterfinals. There he faced Spaniard
Roberto Bautista Agut
Roberto Bautista Agut (; born 14 April 1988) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 9 by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP in singles, achieved on 4 November 2019. Bautista Agut ...
, but lost in straight sets. He then gained his first direct entry into the
Australian Open
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main draw, after having failed to qualify the previous year. He started strongly, defeating German
Tobias Kamke
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in four sets in his opening match, before losing to former world No. 7
Gaël Monfils
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in the second round.
At
Wimbledon
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* W ...
, Sock at the last moment teamed up with Canadian
Vasek Pospisil
Vasek Pospisil ( ; , ; known in born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. Pospisil has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 25, and No. 4 in doubles. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 Wimbledon Champi ...
, and they won the men's doubles title in a five-set final against the top seeds,
Bob and Mike Bryan.
Sock beat
Bernard Tomic
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and world No. 6
Kei Nishikori
is a Japanese professional tennis player. He is the only Japanese man in the Open Era to have been ranked in the top five in singles, reaching his career-high ranking of world No. 4 in March 2015, and the second man in history to do so after ...
to reach the third round of the
2014 Shanghai Rolex Masters.
In December, he underwent hip surgery, sidelining him for the start of the 2015 season.
2015: Top 25, First ATP singles title
After missing the first two months of 2015 ATP season, Sock made his return at
2015 BNP Paribas Open. He won his first three matches, including victories over seeded players
Gilles Müller
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and
Roberto Bautista Agut
Roberto Bautista Agut (; born 14 April 1988) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 9 by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP in singles, achieved on 4 November 2019. Bautista Agut ...
. He lost in the fourth round to second seed
Roger Federer
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in straight sets. In doubles, he resumed his partnership with Pospisil to win their first Masters level tournament.
His second tournament was the
2015 Miami Open, in which he won his first two matches, including beating 21st seed
Fabio Fognini
Fabio Fognini (; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 15 July 2019. Fognini's most successful surface is Clay court#Red clay, ...
, before losing to
Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem (; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in March 2020. Thiem won 17 ATP Tour-level s ...
in the third round. He made the doubles final, again partnering with Pospisil, but lost in a third-set tiebreaker to the Bryan brothers.
Sock continued his successful start to the year by winning his first ATP tournament, the
2015 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships. En route to the title, he knocked off second seed
Roberto Bautista Agut
Roberto Bautista Agut (; born 14 April 1988) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 9 by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP in singles, achieved on 4 November 2019. Bautista Agut ...
, fifth seed
Santiago Giraldo
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, third seed
Kevin Anderson, and eighth seed
Sam Querrey
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in the final. He then competed in the
2015 Mutua Madrid Open in Spain, advancing to the second round by beating wildcard
Pablo Andújar in straight sets, before losing to 12th seed
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (; born 17 April 1985) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in February 2012. Tsonga won 18 singles titles on th ...
.
At the French Open, Sock upset 10th seeded
Grigor Dimitrov
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in the first round in straight sets. He continued his run by beating
Pablo Carreño Busta in four sets and teenager
Borna Ćorić
Borna Ćorić (; born 14 November 1996) is a Croatian professional tennis player. On 5 November 2018, he reached his best singles ranking of world No. 12. In 2022, Ćorić became the lowest-ranked champion in ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 h ...
in straight sets. At age 22, he became the youngest American to reach the round of 16 at the French Open since Pete Sampras in 1993. In the fourth round, he lost in four sets to defending champion
Rafael Nadal
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.
Sock collapsed at the
US Open, and was forced to retire against
Ruben Bemelmans
Ruben Bemelmans (; born 14 January 1988) is a Belgians, Belgian coach and former professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP ranking of world No. 84 in singles, achieved on 28 September 2015, and wo ...
despite being ahead in the match.
On November 2, Sock reached the top 25 for the first time in his career. For the second straight year, he and Pospisil finished 9th in the ATP Doubles Race to London rankings, just barely failing to qualify for the year-end championship tournament.
2016: Olympic medals, American singles No. 1
Sock began his season at the
2016 Hopman Cup, representing the USA alongside
Serena Williams
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, who was ultimately replaced by
Victoria Duval due to injury. In the round-robin stage, Sock's only singles win was over
Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý (; born 10 July 1993) is a Czech professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 35 on 27 April 2015.
Youth career
Veselý reached the No. 1 junior combined world ranking in January 2011, co ...
. Sock and Duval recorded wins in the mixed doubles over Ukraine and the Czech Republic. They did not proceed to the final.
At the
Auckland Open, Sock reached his third career ATP final by beating a top-10 player
David Ferrer
David Ferrer Ern (; ; born 2 April 1982) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in July 2013. Ferrer won 27 ATP Tour singles titles, including a ...
for the second time in his career, despite losing the first set and battling flu-like symptoms. He ended up retiring in the final due to that illness. Sock began the clay-court season by reaching his second consecutive final in
Houston
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, but was unable to defend his title after struggling with an injury in the last set of the final.
Sock played in all three tennis competitions at the Olympic Games in
Rio de Janeiro
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. Despite losing in the first round in
singles, he earned a bronze medal in
doubles with
Steve Johnson and a gold medal in
mixed doubles with
Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
At the
Shanghai Masters, Sock defeated
Milos Raonic
Milos Raonic ( sr-Cyrl, Милош Раонић, Miloš Raonić, ; born December 27, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP ...
for the first time in their last nine matches to reach his first career Masters quarterfinal. With this run, he became the top-ranked American for the first time in his career.
2017: World No. 8, Masters title, ATP Finals
Once again, Sock opened up the season with the
Hopman Cup and the
Auckland Open. He reached the final at the Hopman Cup with
Coco Vandeweghe while dropping just one set in the three round-robin matches, but lost in the final to the French team of
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet (; born 18 June 1986) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, attained in July 2007. Gasquet won 16 singles ...
and
Kristina Mladenovic
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She is a nine-time Grand Slam ...
. Sock then followed this performance with an even better result at the Auckland Open by reaching the final for the second year in a row, this time winning the title against
João Sousa
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. With the win, he moved into the top 20 for the first time. Sock finished his stretch down under by making his first appearance in the third round of the Australian Open, where he lost to
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (; born 17 April 1985) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in February 2012. Tsonga won 18 singles titles on th ...
.
In February, Sock returned home to the United States where he helped the
Davis Cup
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team sweep their 1st-round rubber against
Switzerland
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. At the end of the month, he played at the
Delray Beach Open and won his second title in two months after
Milos Raonic
Milos Raonic ( sr-Cyrl, Милош Раонић, Miloš Raonić, ; born December 27, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP ...
withdrew from the final with a hamstring injury. This title took Sock to a career high of 18 in the
ATP rankings. Sock continued his impressive streak of deep runs in Masters events by reaching his first career Masters semi-final at the
BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. Along the way, he upset No. 13
Grigor Dimitrov
Grigor Dimitrov Dimitrov (, ; born 16 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, making him the highest-ranked Bulgari ...
and No. 5
Kei Nishikori
is a Japanese professional tennis player. He is the only Japanese man in the Open Era to have been ranked in the top five in singles, reaching his career-high ranking of world No. 4 in March 2015, and the second man in history to do so after ...
, the latter of which was his first career victory over a Top 5 opponent.
After a relatively quiet middle of the season, Sock finished the year strong by winning the biggest tournament of his career at the
Paris Masters
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, defeating
Filip Krajinović
Filip Krajinović (, ; born 27 February 1992) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26 on 23 April 2018. in the final. He became the first American to win a Masters event since
Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 13 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in ...
won the
Miami Masters in 2010, and the first to win the Paris Masters since
Andre Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassi ( ; born April 29, 1970) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 101 ...
in 1999. This result was particularly impressive because Sock was a game away from going out in his first match, when he was down 5–1 to
Kyle Edmund
Kyle Steven Edmund (born 8 January 1995) is a British professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ATP rankings, ranking of world No. 14 and was the top-ranked male British tennis player from March 2018 to October 2019.
Edmund is an ...
in the third set. With the win, Sock also made his debut in the Top 10, finished the year as the top-ranked American, and qualified for the
2017 ATP Finals. He was the first American to qualify for the year-end championships in singles since
Mardy Fish
Mardy Simpson Fish (born December 9, 1981) is an American former professional tennis player. He was a hardcourt specialist. He is one of several American tennis players who rose to prominence in the early 2000s.
Fish won six tournaments on the ...
in 2011.
In the final tournament of the year, Sock rebounded from an opening match loss to
Roger Federer
Roger Federer ( , ; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 3 ...
to finish second in the
Boris Becker
Boris Franz Becker (; born 22 November 1967) is a German former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Becker won 49 c ...
group. In the round robin, he won matches against World No. 5
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić (; born 28 September 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 28 January 2018. Čilić has won 21 ATP Tour-level si ...
and then World No. 3
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player and the current world No. 3. He has won 24 ATP Tour titles in singles and two in doubles, and has been runner-up at three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, ma ...
, the latter of which was the first Top 3 opponent he ever defeated. Although Sock would lose to eventual champion
Grigor Dimitrov
Grigor Dimitrov Dimitrov (, ; born 16 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, making him the highest-ranked Bulgari ...
in the semifinals, the two wins solidified his year-end ranking in the top 10 at No. 8 in the world.
2018: Wimbledon, US Open & Tour Finals doubles titles
Sock was unable to match his success at the
Hopman Cup and the
Auckland Open from the previous year. Struggling with fitness issues, he won just one match between those two tournaments and the
Australian Open
The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Sl ...
, where he lost in the first round to
Yūichi Sugita
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. He has won one ATP singles title, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 36 on 9 October 2017.
Career
Juniors
As a junior Sugita compiled a win–loss record of 34–19 (and 26 ...
for the third time in the last six months. In particular, the tournament organizers in Auckland criticized Sock for showing a lack of effort in his match against
Peter Gojowczyk and considered withholding the $100,000 appearance fee they promised him for playing in the event.
Sock's poor start to the season continued at the
2018 Delray Beach Open, where as the top seed and defending champion he lost in the second round to
Reilly Opelka
Reilly Opelka (born 28 August 1997) is an American professional tennis player. At , he is tied (with Ivo Karlović) for the tallest-ever Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP-ranked player, and can produce serves that measure over . He has be ...
ranked number 228. However, he did win the doubles title, partnering with
Jackson Withrow.
Sock's singles struggles continued into Indian Wells and Miami. In singles at the
2018 BNP Paribas Open
The 2018 BNP Paribas Open (also known as the Indian Wells Open) was a professional tennis tournament played at Indian Wells, California in March 2018. It is the 45th edition of the men's event and 30th of the women's event, and is classified as a ...
, Sock recorded a 6–2, 7–5 win over
Thomas Fabbiano
Thomas Fabbiano (born 26 May 1989) is an Italian people, Italian former tennis player who played mostly on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 11 September 2017, he reached his then-highest Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of 70. ...
in the round of 64, but then fell 6–7, 6–4, 4–6 to
Feliciano López
Feliciano López Díaz-Guerra (; born 20 September 1981) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles ATP rankings, ranking of world No. 12 in March 2015 and doubles ranking of world No. 9 in November 2016. ...
. However, Sock won the doubles title with his partner, John Isner, after recording impressive victories over
Ivan Dodig
Ivan Dodig (; born 2 January 1985) is a Croatian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of World No. 2 in September 2023.
He is a seven-time Grand Slam champion, having won men's double ...
and
Rajeev Ram
Rajeev Ram ( ; born March 18, 1984) is an American professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 1 in men's doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Ram is a six-time major champion, having won the 2020 Australian O ...
,
Oliver Marach
Oliver Marach (born 16 July 1980) is a former Austrian professional tennis player who primarily specialised in doubles.
He achieved his highest singles ranking of world No. 82 in August 2005, but achieved most of his success in doubles where he ...
and
Mate Pavić
Mate Pavić (; born 4 July 1993) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He is the current world No. 1 in doubles by the ATP. Pavić is one of only six men to complete the Career Golden Slam in doubles.
He is a seven-time Grand Slam champio ...
, and Bob and Mike Bryan. In singles at the
2018 Miami Open, Sock recorded a 6–3, 7–6 win over
Yuki Bhambri
Yuki Bhambri (born 4 July 1992) is an Indian professional tennis player who currently specializes in doubles. He has an ATP career-high doubles ranking of world No. 26 achieved on 31 March 2025. He also has a career-high singles ranking of No. ...
the round of 64, but then fell 7–5, 6–7, 3–6 to rising star, Borna Ćorić. Sock and his partner, Nicholas Monroe, failed to record a win in doubles with a 1–6, 6–7 loss to
Jean-Julien Rojer
Jean-Julien Rojer ( "John Julian" , ; born 25 August 1981) is a Dutch professional tennis player from Curaçao, who specializes in doubles. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 3 in November 2015.
He is a four-time Grand Sla ...
and
Horia Tecău
Horia Tecău (; born January 19, 1985) is a Romanians, Romanian former professional tennis player who specialised in doubles.
He is a three-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doub ...
in the round 32.
Sock's struggles in singles continued at the
French Open
The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam ...
and
Wimbledon
Wimbledon most often refers to:
* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
Wimbledon may also refer to:
Places London
* W ...
where he recorded first round losses at both events including a loss from two sets up against the Italian
Matteo Berrettini
Matteo Berrettini (; born 12 April 1996) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in January 2022, and world N ...
at the latter event. Both losses were marked by profane outbursts and constant complaining from Sock. For this, Sock was fined $5,000. At Wimbledon, a spectator even shouted at Sock, "Put a sock in it, Jack!" Sock's success in doubles continued as he won Wimbledon along with his doubles partner,
Mike Bryan
Michael Carl Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all time, Bryan was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's doubles for a record 506 weeks ...
.
During the American Summer, Jack Sock once again lost in the first round at both the
Roger's Cup and
2018 Western & Southern Open. This was followed by a second-round exit to Nikoloz Basilashvili at the
US Open singles. Continuing his partnership with Mike Bryan, he achieved his first
US Open Men's doubles trophy, defeating
Łukasz Kubot
Łukasz Kubot (; born 16 May 1982) is a former Polish professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles.
He is a two-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2014 Australian Open with Robert Lindstedt, as well as the ...
and
Marcelo Melo
Marcelo Pinheiro Davi de Melo (; born September 23, 1983) is a Brazilian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles tennis players, world No. 1, which he achieved in 2 November 2015. ...
in straight sets.
As with last year, Sock was invited to the
2018 Laver Cup as part of Team World. He was defeated by Kyle Edmund by 6–4, 5–7, 10–6 in the afternoon session of the first day. His partnership with Kevin Anderson was more successful, winning 6–7(5), 6–3, 10–6 against
Roger Federer
Roger Federer ( , ; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 3 ...
and
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Новак Ђоковић, Novak Đoković, separator=" / ", ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at N ...
. The second evening doubles session saw him partner up with
Nick Kyrgios
Nicholas Hilmy Kyrgios ( ; ; born 27 April 1995) is an Australian professional tennis player. Kyrgios has been ranked as high as world No. 13 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 24 October 2016. He has won se ...
, scoring a straight-sets victory over Grigor Dimitrov and David Goffin. The final doubles match of the Laver Cup saw him and countryman
John Isner
John Robert Isner (born April 26, 1985) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 8 in singles and No. 14 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Considered one of the best servers ...
triumph over Roger Federer and
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player and the current world No. 3. He has won 24 ATP Tour titles in singles and two in doubles, and has been runner-up at three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, ma ...
over two sets and a tight super-tiebreak. Sock's efforts propelled Team World to a first-ever lead over Team Europe by 8–7, though Team Europe claimed the Cup at (13-8) after winning its next two singles matches.
The fall Asian swing started poorly for Sock. He was defeated in his first match of the China Open by
Nikoloz Basilashvili. Competing in doubles with countryman
Nicholas Monroe, he lost in straight sets to
Denys Molchanov
Denys Petrovych Molchanov (; born 16 May 1987) is a Ukrainian tennis player competing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has won two ATP doubles titles. He has also won 15 ITF singles and 66 doubles titles, 36 of them Challengers. On 5 January 2015 ...
and
Igor Zelenay in the first round. At the
Shanghai Masters, Sock was seeded 12th in singles but lost to
Peter Gojowczyk in the first round. Sock and
Mike Bryan
Michael Carl Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all time, Bryan was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's doubles for a record 506 weeks ...
were the top seeds in doubles, but lost in the first round to
Horacio Zeballos
Horacio Zeballos Jr. (, ; born 27 April 1985) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 1 on 6 May 2024, becoming the first Argentinian man to achieve the feat. He is a Grand Slam champion ...
and
Julio Peralta.
Sock's best singles results in 2018 came at his title defense at the
Paris Masters
The Paris Masters (formerly known as the Paris Open, and currently called the Rolex Paris Masters for sponsorship reasons) is an annual indoor tennis tournament for male professional players held in Paris, France at the Accor Arena, in the neighb ...
. Seeded sixteenth, he defeated
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet (; born 18 June 1986) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, attained in July 2007. Gasquet won 16 singles ...
and
Malek Jaziri
Malek Jaziri (; born January 20, 1984) is a Tunisian former professional tennis player. Jaziri reached his highest singles ranking on the ATP Tour of World 42 in January 2019. He primarily played on the Futures circuit and the Challenger circ ...
in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals. There, he was defeated by sixth seed
Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem (; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in March 2020. Thiem won 17 ATP Tour-level s ...
. This loss saw him fall 82 ranking places in a single week, to No. 105.
Being the only team to win two Grand Slams during the year, Sock and
Mike Bryan
Michael Carl Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all time, Bryan was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's doubles for a record 506 weeks ...
qualified on 14 October 2018 as the 5th seeds in doubles for the
2018 ATP Finals, where they defeated
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Pierre-Hugues Herbert (; born 18 March 1991) is a French professional tennis player. In doubles, he has completed the Grand Slam (tennis)#Career Grand Slam, Career Grand Slam with titles at the 2015 US Open – Men's doubles, 2015 US Open, the 20 ...
and
Nicolas Mahut
Nicolas Pierre Armand Mahut (; born 21 January 1982) is a French professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
He is a five-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having completed the career Grand Slam with victories at th ...
to win the title.
2019: Injuries and return to competition
Sock did not participate in any tournaments during the lead up to the
Australian Open
The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. It is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Sl ...
, an event in which he entered as a wild card and lost in the first round to Australian wild card
Alex Bolt, 6–4, 3–6, 2–6, 2–6. Following the tournament, he suffered an injury during a practice to two ligaments in his thumb, which required operation and left him struggling to complete tasks such as opening bottles or brushing his teeth.
After various setbacks in his return to the tour, Sock made his return to competitive tennis in July at the
Atlanta Open, where he lost to
Miomir Kecmanović 6–7(9), 6–7(5). He partnered with Jackson Withrow in the doubles draw, reaching the semifinal before falling to the pairing of
Dominic Inglot and
Austin Krajicek
Austin Krajicek ( ; born June 16, 1990) is an American professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 1 in doubles by the ATP in June 2023. He attained a career-high singles ranking of world No. 94 in October 2015.
A form ...
. He continued his efforts at the
Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, losing as a wild card in the first round of qualifying to
Mikhail Kukushkin.
He received a wild card from the
USTA
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national Sport governing body, governing body for tennis in the United States. A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and devel ...
into the men's singles main draw at the
2019 U.S. Open, extending his streak of participating in the draw to a decade, but lost in the first round. In doubles, partnering with
Jackson Withrow, he reached the quarterfinals defeating the Bryan Brothers en route but lost to 15th seed
Jamie Murray
Jamie Robert Murray (born 13 February 1986) is a British professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He is a seven-time Grand Slam (tennis), major doubles champion (five in mixed doubles and two in men's doubles), a Davis Cup winne ...
/
Neal Skupski.
Sock dropped out of the singles ATP rankings on November 4 and finished the year without a ranking.
2020: First ATP win since 2018
Sock received a wildcard into the
Delray Beach Open. There, he defeated 8th seed and defending champion
Radu Albot which would be his first ATP match win since the
2019 Laver Cup and before that the
2018 Rolex Paris Masters. He lost in the next round to
Steve Johnson in three sets. Because of the win, he re-entered the ATP rankings with a ranking of 767.
At the
Indian Wells Challenger, Sock reached his first singles final of any kind in close to three years. He lost to
Steve Johnson in straight sets. As a result, his ranking improved from No. 768 to No. 384.
Sock was forced out of tennis for five months due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
suspending competition in March. When competition resumed in August, he returned at the
US Open using a protected ranking, where he defeated
Pablo Cuevas
Pablo Gabriel Cuevas Urroz (; born January 1, 1986) is a Uruguayan tennis coach and a former professional player. Cuevas won the 2008 French Open – Men's doubles, 2008 French Open men's doubles title with Luis Horna, and was especially noted t ...
in the first round in five sets. He lost in the next round to 32nd seed
Adrian Mannarino
Adrian Mannarino (born 29 June 1988) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 17, attained on 29 January 2024. He has won five ATP Tour singles titles, three on hardcourt and two on grass.
Te ...
in straight sets. His ranking would improve to No. 303 due to the result. One month later at the
French Open
The French Open (), also known as Roland-Garros (), is a tennis tournament organized by the French Tennis Federation annually at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It is chronologically the second of the four Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam ...
, he entered the
qualifying draw as a protected ranking where he defeated
Mikael Torpegaard,
Facundo Bagnis and
Andrey Kuznetsov to qualify for the
main draw. There, he defeated
Reilly Opelka
Reilly Opelka (born 28 August 1997) is an American professional tennis player. At , he is tied (with Ivo Karlović) for the tallest-ever Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP-ranked player, and can produce serves that measure over . He has be ...
in the first round in straight sets but lost in the next round to 3rd seed
Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem (; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in March 2020. Thiem won 17 ATP Tour-level s ...
in straight sets. His ranking would improve to No. 249 because of the result.
Despite not even being ranked at the beginning of the year, Sock finished the year with a ranking of World No. 253.
2021: Doubles title, US Open third round
Sock started off the year by playing in challenger events from March to June which resulted in a doubles title at the
Orlando Open partnering with
Mitchell Krueger
Mitchell Krueger (born January 12, 1994) is an American tennis player.
He has a career-high singles ranking by the ATP of world No. 135, achieved on July 18, 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 173, achieved on April 27, 2015.
Professional caree ...
. At the
Little Rock Challenger, Sock won his first singles title of any kind in close to four years defeating 3rd seed
Emilio Gómez in the final.
Having been given a wildcard into his first ATP tournament of the year at the
Hall of Fame Open
The Hall of Fame Open is an international tennis tournament that has been held every year in July since 1976 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, the original location of the U.S. Open (tennis), U.S. National Champion ...
in Newport, Sock made his first ATP tour level quarterfinal since the
2018 Paris Masters. He beat
Alex Bolt and third seed
Yoshihito Nishioka
is a Japanese professional tennis player. He has won three ATP Tour singles titles and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 24 on 19 June 2023.
He is currently the No. 2 Japanese player.
Personal life
Marriage
Nishioka marr ...
before being defeated by eighth seed and eventual champion
Kevin Anderson in three sets. At the same tournament he partnered as a wildcard pair with
William Blumberg
William Blumberg (born January 26, 1998) is a former American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 74 achieved on 12 September 2022. He has a career-high singles ranking of No. 438 reached on 18 Febru ...
. The unseeded pair reached the finals by defeating fellow Americans
Tennys Sandgren
Tennys Loren Sandgren II ( ; born July 22, 1991) is an American former professional tennis player. He has achieved a career-high ATP singles ATP rankings, ranking of No. 41 on January 14, 2019. He played two years of college tennis at the Univer ...
and
Denis Kudla, third seeds
John-Patrick Smith
John-Patrick Tracey "JP" Smith (born 24 January 1989) is an Australian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 108 on 28 September 2015, and his highest doubles ranking of N ...
and
Harri Heliövaara
Harri Heliövaara (born 4 June 1989) is a Finnish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP as high as world No. 3 in doubles, achieved on 31 March 2025. He also attained his care ...
, and second seeds
Jonathan Erlich
Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich (; born 5 April 1977) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. During his career, he was mainly a doubles specialist, having won the men's doubles title at the 2008 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2008 Aus ...
and
Santiago González. In the final they defeated
Austin Krajicek
Austin Krajicek ( ; born June 16, 1990) is an American professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 1 in doubles by the ATP in June 2023. He attained a career-high singles ranking of world No. 94 in October 2015.
A form ...
and
Vasek Pospisil
Vasek Pospisil ( ; , ; known in born June 23, 1990) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. Pospisil has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 25, and No. 4 in doubles. Along with partner Jack Sock, he won the 2014 Wimbledon Champi ...
. He also received a wildcard into the
Citi Open where once again defeated
Yoshihito Nishioka
is a Japanese professional tennis player. He has won three ATP Tour singles titles and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 24 on 19 June 2023.
He is currently the No. 2 Japanese player.
Personal life
Marriage
Nishioka marr ...
in the first round to play world No. 3
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for ...
in the second round. The match went to three sets and the third set was decided in a tiebreak but he fell short.
Sock received a wildcard into the
US Open singles main draw. He defeated
Yoshihito Nishioka
is a Japanese professional tennis player. He has won three ATP Tour singles titles and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 24 on 19 June 2023.
He is currently the No. 2 Japanese player.
Personal life
Marriage
Nishioka marr ...
in the first round in four sets and followed his victory up with a five-set victory over 31st seed
Alexander Bublik
Alexander Stanislavovich Bublik (; born 17 June 1997) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 17, achieved on 6 May 2024 and a doubles ...
in the second round, marking the first time he made the third round of a grand slam since the
2017 Australian Open
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. In the third round, he played 4th seed
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player and the current world No. 3. He has won 24 ATP Tour titles in singles and two in doubles, and has been runner-up at three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, ma ...
and won the first set but lost the next two sets and retired early in the fourth set due to an upper right leg injury.
2022: Indian Wells title & back to top 50 in doubles & top 100 in singles
Sock partnered with
John Isner
John Robert Isner (born April 26, 1985) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 8 in singles and No. 14 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Considered one of the best servers ...
in doubles at
Indian Wells as a wildcard pair, and they won the doubles title, beating
Santiago González and
Édouard Roger-Vasselin in the final.
He reached the ATP Challenger final at the
2022 Ilkley Trophy where he lost to qualifier
Zizou Bergs.
He qualified for the
2022 Wimbledon Championships
The 2022 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tier tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Novak Djokovic successfully defended his gentleme ...
in singles after a three year absence and reached the third round. At the same tournament he reached the doubles quarterfinals with
Denis Kudla and the mixed doubles semifinals with
Coco Gauff. He returned to the top 100 in singles and to the top 50 in doubles at world No. 48 on 11 July 2022.
At the
US Open, Sock retired in the fourth set of his first round match against
Diego Schwartzman
Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (, ; born 16 August 1992) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He won four ATP Tour singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist ...
due to back injury.
2023: Retirement
On 27 August 2023, Sock announced that the
US Open would be the final event of his career. He played his last match in mixed doubles with
Coco Gauff.
Pickleball
In May 2023, Sock made his professional
pickleball debut at the PPA North Carolina Open in singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles. Sock partnered with world No. 1
Anna Leigh Waters to win the mixed doubles title. As a result, he reached #22 and #74 in the PPA Tour's men's mixed doubles and men's singles rankings, respectively.
In August 2023, it was announced that Sock had signed on to play full-time on the
PPA Tour.
As of 7 June 2024, Sock is ranked world No. 9 (and is fifth in the race) in singles.
World TeamTennis
Sock played three seasons with
World TeamTennis
World TeamTennis (WTT) was a mixed-gender professional tennis league played with a team format in the United States, which was founded in 1973.
The league's season normally took place in the summer months. Players from the ATP and WTA would ...
starting in 2017 when he debuted in the league with the
Springfield Lasers, where he also played the following year. Sock was a member of the 2020
New York Empire during the 2020 WTT season at
The Greenbrier
The Greenbrier is a luxury resort located in the Allegheny Mountains near White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in the United States.
Since 1778, visitors have traveled to this part of the state to "take the waters" of t ...
. The Empire claimed the 2020 WTT Championship with a super-tiebreaker win over the
Chicago Smash, and Sock was named the 2020 WTT Finals Male MVP.
Sportsmanship
On two occasions, Sock has conceded points where he believed the linesperson made an incorrect call.
One particular instance of this sportsmanship came at the
2016 Hopman Cup. During the match against
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt (born 24 February 1981) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) fo ...
, Hewitt was serving to stay in the first set when his first serve at 30–0 was called out by the chair umpire. Prior to Hewitt hitting his second serve, Sock said: "That was in if you want to challenge it." The review showed the serve to be in, giving Hewitt the point.
Later in the year, Sock awarded a point to
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet (; born 18 June 1986) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, attained in July 2007. Gasquet won 16 singles ...
at the
Paris Masters
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on an ace that was called out, saving Gasquet the need to use a challenge. The review confirmed that the serve did land in the box on the line.
Playing style
Sock prefers to hit with controlled spin. He often hits "whiplash" forehands, using his body-rotation and elbow to generate tremendous pace and topspin with a minimal take back. The average topspin rpm (revolutions per minute) on Sock's forehand was once measured to be at 3800 during his 2015 season, more so than that of Rafael Nadal's peak average (3200 rpm), and peaked at 5000rpm.
Andy Roddick
Andrew Stephen Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 13 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in ...
has remarked that he and young Sock have similar playing styles, saying, "
ockkind of has the half take up with the serve. He's got the flailing elbow on the forehand and the backhand." Sock feels that he and Spaniard
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for ...
actually have a more similar playing style, stating in an interview in 2012 that "Nadal prefers the forehand to the backhand and hits with incredible spin. I also like to hit with more spin than pace and prefer my forehand."
Sock has a very strong service game, being able to hit serves at speeds of up to 227 km/h (141 mph). He is fast around the court, and is particularly good at running around his backhand to hit powerful inside-in or inside-out forehands. His great court speed allows him to retrieve many shots and use his forehand, his main weapon from the baseline, more frequently. Sock aggressively slides his left foot on the ground when running to his forehand, which wore a hole in his sock and shoe, and drew blood, at the
2015 BNP Paribas Open.
Some commentators have remarked that his technique on the forehand, while quite effective, actually hinders his ability to hit returns well. If Sock has a successful singles career, it will be in spite of, not because of, his technique, according to retired American tennis champion and now commentator
Jim Courier
James Spencer Courier (born August 17, 1970) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 58 ...
.
At the net, Sock is very effective thanks to extremely fast reflexes, making him very high-rated also as doubles player.
Career statistics
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1992 births
Living people
American male tennis players
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in mixed doubles
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Sportspeople from Overland Park, Kansas
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Wimbledon champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
US Open (tennis) champions
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Hopman Cup competitors
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in tennis
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in tennis
Olympic medalists in tennis
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