Pierre-Hugues Herbert (born 18 March 1991) is a French professional tennis player.
2009
Herbert won the Wimbledon boys' doubles title with partner Kevin Krawietz in 2009, beating French duo of Julien Obry and Adrien Puget in the final.
He also reached the 2009 US Open boys' singles semifinals, where he lost to eventual champion Bernard Tomic of Australia.
Herbert reached as high as No. 9 in the junior singles world rankings in October 2009.
After beginning the year outside the top 250, Herbert rose steadily up the rankings.
In the second round, he lost in straight sets to Bernard Tomic, the player who had beaten him in the semi-finals of Junior US Open in 2009.
In doubles, Herbert reached two Grand Slam finals alongside fellow Frenchman Nicolas Mahut.
At the Australian Open, they lost the final to Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli.
At the US Open, they won the final against Jamie Murray and John Peers, becoming the first all-French pair to win the men's doubles title at the US Open.
Their US Open victory marked the sixth time that an all-French pair had won a Grand Slam men's doubles title in the Open Era.
On 22 June, Herbert broke into the top 20 in doubles for the first time, reaching a career high of No. 20 in the world.
Herbert and Nicolas Mahut won three ATP World Tour Masters 1000 doubles titles in a row in the first half of 2016, in Indian Wells, Miami, and Monte Carlo.
At the French Open, he and Mahut, seeded no.1, lost in the third round to Feliciano López and Marc López.
2013
He qualified for the 2013 Paris Masters, where he defeated Benoît Paire for the loss of only four games in the first round of the main draw – his first ever ATP Tour main draw win.
In the second round, he had two set points before losing to Novak Djokovic in straight sets.
He ended the year with an ATP singles ranking of 151, compared with 257 12 months earlier.
2014
Herbert made his Grand Slam main draw debut in 2014, first receiving a wildcard into the French Open, where he faced American number 10 seed John Isner in his opening match, losing in three tight sets.
He then made it through three rounds of qualifying, beating Borna Ćorić, Daniel Kosakowski and Miloslav Mečíř Jr. to make the main draw at 2014 Wimbledon for the first time.
In the first round he faced Jack Sock, however lost in four sets despite taking the first set in a tiebreaker.
Herbert got his fifth career main draw win at the ATP Tour level at the Swiss Indoors in Basel, beating Édouard Roger-Vasselin in a tight three-setter to set up a clash with 14-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal, his first meeting with a Major champion and former world number 1.
Herbert again battled through three rounds of qualifying, beating Hans Podlipnik Castillo, Facundo Argüello and Íñigo Cervantes (the latter over five sets) to make the main draw of Wimbledon.
In the first round he beat Hyeon Chung in a three-hour, five-set match, clinching the final set 10–8, claiming his first win in the main draw of a grand slam.
2015
In doubles, he has completed the Career Grand Slam with titles at the 2015 US Open, the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, the 2018 French Open, the 2021 French Open, and the 2019 Australian Open partnering Nicolas Mahut.
2016
His career-high doubles ranking is World No. 2 achieved on 11 July 2016.
The pair have also claimed seven ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles and ATP Finals titles in 2019 and 2021.
At the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, Herbert and Mahut beat Julien Benneteau and Édouard Roger-Vasselin in the all-French final to win their second grand slam tournament as a team.
2017
At the 2017 Rotterdam Open, Herbert defeated world no. 8 Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals for his first singles win over a Top 10-ranked player.
He lost his semifinal to David Goffin.
Herbert and doubles partner Nicolas Mahut won their first title of 2017 together at the Rome Masters defeating Ivan Dodig and Marcel Granollers.
They then went on to clinch the Montreal-Cincinnati double winning both of the masters events back-to-back, defeating Rohan Bopanna and Ivan Dodig in three sets at the Coupe Rogers in Montreal and defeating Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares in two sets at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.
In the Davis Cup final against Belgium, Herbert and Richard Gasquet won the doubles match to help France win the Davis cup.
2018
At the 2018 French Open, Hebert and doubles partner Mahut won the French Open, defeating Oliver Marach and Mate Pavić in the final.
This was their third Grand Slam title together.
At the 2018 ATP Finals in November Herbert at Mahut progressed past the round robin stage of the tournament for the first time in four attempts, they reached the finals before being defeated by Jack Sock and Mike Bryan.
In Doha, Herbert's first tournament of the year, he recorded his second top-ten win against Dominic Thiem, before falling to Tomáš Berdych in the quarterfinals.
In doubles in Doha Herbert partnered with David Goffin to capture their first team title together.
At the Australian Open in January, Herbert and doubles partner Mahut earned the Career Grand Slam in men's doubles after defeating Henri Kontinen and John Peers in the final.
In singles Herbert reached the third round by defeating Hyeon Chung in the second round.
In the third round he fell to Milos Raonic in three sets.
2019
In singles, Herbert has reached four ATP career finals and achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 36 on 11 February 2019.
