Sander Gillé

Sander Gillé (born 15 January 1991) is a Belgian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles.
He has a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 18 by the ATP, achieved on 25 September 2023. He also has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 574, reached on 24 December 2018.
Gillé has won eight ATP Tour doubles titles with partner Joran Vliegen, including an ATP Masters 1000 title at the 2024 Monte-Carlo Masters.

Career

2019: Three ATP doubles titles

Gillé won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the 2019 Swedish Open with fellow Belgian Joran Vliegen. A week later, they won their second title at Gstaad. 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 Major quarterfinal, Masters semifinal, top 25

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 No. 33 on 10 May 2021.

2023: First Grand Slam doubles final, top 20 debut

At the 2023 French Open, Gillé having never get passed the third round at this Major, partnering Vliegen as an unseeded pair, they reached their first Major final defeating fourth seeds Croatians Nikola Mektić/Mate Pavić, Roman Jebavý/ Luis David Martínez, ninth seeds Santiago González/Édouard Roger-Vasselin, 14th seed Argentines Andrés Molteni/Máximo González and 12th seeds Andreas Mies/Matwé Middelkoop. In the final, they lost to Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek in straight sets. He made his top 20 debut on 7 August 2023.

2024–2025: First Masters 1000 title, new partnership

At the 2024 Monte-Carlo Masters with Vliegen, they defeated wildcard pair of Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Sonego, defending champions and second seeds Austin Krajicek and Ivan Dodig in the second round, and sixth seeds Tim Pütz and Kevin Krawietz to reach the semifinals. They reached their first Masters 1000 final upsetting third seeds Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers. They won their first Masters title defeating alternate pair of Alexander Zverev and Marcelo Melo. They became just the second and third Belgians to win a Masters 1000 doubles title after Xavier Malisse won in Indian Wells in 2010.

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (runner-up)

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 1 (title)

ATP career finals

Doubles: 15 (8 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 2 (1–1)

Doubles: 63 (40–23)

Performance timelines

Doubles

''Current through the 2024 Monte-Carlo Masters.''

Mixed doubles

''This table is current through the 2024 US Open.''

Davis Cup

Participations: (1–1)

* 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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gille, Sander
1991 births
Living people
Belgian male tennis players
Olympic tennis players for Belgium
Sportspeople from Hasselt
East Tennessee State University alumni
Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
21st-century Belgian sportsmen
Tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics