Frederik Nielsen

Frederik Nielsen

Frederik Nielsen at Roland Garros 2013.
Country (sports)	Denmark
Residence	Lyngby, Denmark
Born	27 August 1983 Lyngby, Denmark
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 870,816
Singles
Career record	18–29 (ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draws)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 190 (15 August 2011)
Current ranking	No. 428 (1 August 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2012)
French Open	Q2 (2011)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2007)
US Open	Q1 (2010, 2011)
Doubles
Career record	53–42 (ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draws)
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 17 (1 April 2013)
Current ranking	No. 91 (18 July 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2014)
French Open	2R (2013)
Wimbledon	W (2012)
US Open	2R (2012, 2013, 2016)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	SF (2012)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2013)
French Open	2R (2013)
Wimbledon	3R (2013)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	Europe/Africa Zone Group I 1R (2012, 2013, 2015)
Last updated on: 1 August 2016.

Frederik Løchte Nielsen (born 27 August 1983) is a professional male tennis player. He is a former Wimbledon Men's Doubles champion, in 2012, and now competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour in both singles and doubles. Nielsen is coached by fellow Dane John Larsen and is a member of the Denmark Davis Cup team. His grandfather is former grand slam finalist Kurt Nielsen.

In 2012, Nielsen won the Wimbledon Men's Doubles Championship with Britain's Jonathan Marray.^[1] He thus became the first Dane ever to win a Wimbledon Championship title, his grandfather, Kurt Nielsen, having won the Wimbledon Junior Championship Boys' Singles title in 1947. Nielsen and Marray, who had only played three tournaments together previously, became also the first wildcard pairing to win the Wimbledon Men's Doubles.

Nielsen decided to end his partnership with Marray following the 2012 season in order to concentrate on his singles career.^[2] He partnered Grigor Dimitrov at Wimbledon the following year without success, and as a result dropped out of the world doubles top 50. His singles ranking also failed to rise, and to date he has only made the main draw of a grand slam singles event on one occasion. More recently, he has partnered Johan Brunström in tournaments, winning at the Aircel Chennai Open in 2014.

Debut and early years

Made ATP singles debut in Copenhagen, losing to Magnus Larsson in the first round d 6-1, 6-1. In 2003, made his Davis Cup debut in the Europe/Africa Zone Group II tie against Tunisia at Hillerod, Denmark and defeated Malek Jaziri 6-1, 6-4 in the dead rubber, Denmark winning 4-1. Won singles title at Futures event in Vietnam.

In 2004, teamed with countryman Rasmus Norby to win 5 Futures doubles titles. Reached 1 Futures Singles final. In 2005, claimed 1 doubles Futures title. Won 2 titles in 4 Futures singles finals. In 2006, won doubles title at 2 Challengers and 7 Futures. Also won 3 Futures singles titles.

In 2007, won doubles titles at 3 Challengers and Futures. 2-time singles winner at Futures. In 2008, in doubles, Nielsen won 2 Challengers and 1 Futures, all three with different partners. In 2009, won titles at 3 Challengers in doubles and 1 Futures in singles.

In 2010, came out as doubles winner at 2 Challengers and 3 Futures. Won singles Futures event in Italy. In 2011, won 5 Challengers doubles titles with 3 partners. Finalist at 3 other events.

2012: Wimbledon doubles champion

Nielsen represented Denmark at the 2012 Hopman Cup alongside Caroline Wozniacki, but the pair could not get past the Group Stages. Nielsen had a 1–4 Win-Loss record at the event, 1-1 in doubles and 0-3 in singles. He played much higher ranked opponents in Tomáš Berdych, Grigor Dimitrov and Mardy Fish. He managed to win 1 set against Fish but eventually lost 4-6, 7-6, 6-4. Nielsen and Wozniacki still managed to pull out the doubles match against Fish and Bethanie Mattek-Sands 7-5, 6-3 and won their only tie against USA.

Nielsen won the 2012 Wimbledon Championships doubles crown alongside Jonathan Marray.

He then played at the Australian Open and qualified for the main draw at a Grand Slam for the first time but lost to Kevin Anderson 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 in the first round. In February, Nielsen was selected for the Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I tie against Slovenia, which Denmark lost 5-0.

Nielsen had been friends with Jonny Marray since their early days on the senior tour,^[3] but had only played together twice before in 2006^[4] and 2008.^[5]

Playing doubles with Marray in June, their first pairing of the year, they reached the Nottingham Challenger finals, losing out to Treat Huey and Dominic Inglot in three tight sets 4-6, 7-6(9), 8-10. They compiled a 10-6 match record in 6 tournaments.

Then Nielsen and Marray received a wild card at the All England Club and began their 2012 Wimbledon Championships with a 5-set win over Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez, one of 4 teams they beat en route that qualified for Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. In the third-round, they edged out another five set victory this time against Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer 7-5 in 5th set, followed with victory over James Cerretani and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the quarters in five sets again. In the Semi-Finals they caused the biggest upset by beating No. 2 seeds Bryans in 4 sets 6-4, 7-6(9), 6-7(4), 7-6(5). In the title clash they defeated the No. 5 seeds Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau in 5-sets 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(5), 6-7(5), 6-3. Marray was first British doubles champion at Wimbledon since 1936 and Nielsen was first Dane to win the doubles crown.

Following Wimbledon, they played together in 4 tournaments (2-4 record), losing first round in Winston-Salem, second round at Us Open losing to Jesse Levine and Marinko Matosevic having beaten the Italian duo of Flavio Cipolla and Fabio Fognini in the first round. They had a quarter-final in Basel losing out to Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski.

Nielsen and Marray made their debut at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London, qualifying for the season finale as a result of their Wimbledon crown, and reached the Semi-Finals losing out to eventual champions Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez 4-6, 3-6. In the Round-Robin stage the pair defeated top pairs including Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna 6-4, 6-7(1), 12-10, Max Mirnyi and Daniel Nestor 7-6(3), 4-6, 12-10 losing only to Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau in the Group Stage.

Nielsen finished the year as top Danish player in doubles, a year-end best No. 21 individually and No. 9 in ATP Doubles Team Rankings with Marray. He also earned a career-high $334,901 in 2012 courtesy of his win at Wimbledon.

2013: Doubles career high ranking

At the start of 2013, Nielsen partnered Johan Brunstrom for the first time since September 2012 at Metz, they reached the final of 2013 Heineken Open at Auckland losing out to Colin Fleming and Bruno Soares in two tough sets 6-7(1), 6-7(2). Dropped to 1-2 overall in tour-level finals. They lost in the first round of 2013 Australian Open to Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini 3-6, 4-6.

The Dane then partnered Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov for World Tour Masters 1000 Miami and Indian Wells reaching second round of the former and Semi-Finals his first at Masters event losing out to Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 4-6, 2-6. Played with André Sá in 2013 Power Horse Cup at Düsseldorf and fell in the Semis to Andre Begemann and Martin Emmrich. Along with Matkowski, reached Semis of 2013 Aegon International losing to Colin Fleming and Jonathan Marray 11-9 in Match Tie-Break. Played with Eric Butorac at the 2013 Winston-Salem Open, reached Semi-Finals where they lost out to Daniel Nestor-and Leander Paes 3-6, 2-6.

2014: ATP 250 doubles title

Nielsen helped Denmark get promoted to 2015 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I.

Nielsen partnered Johan Brunstrom and they entered the 2014 Aircel Chennai Open in January, the pair did not lose a single set on their route to the finals and went on to win the title defeating Marin Draganja and Mate Pavic 6-2, 4-6, 10-7. This was Nielsen's first title other than Wimbledon.

In January at Copenhagen during the Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II First Round Cyprus tie, he won both his singles and doubles matches partnering Thomas Kromann.

He then partnered Igor Sijsling for the 2014 Heineken Open and reached the quarters to only go down to the top seeds Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares 5-7, 5-7. He played at the Australian Open alongside Brunstrom and reached the second round before going down to Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in a tight three-setter 6-0, 5-7, 3-6.

Next he played at the Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II Luxembourg tie in April, winning both his singles and the doubles alongside Thomas Kromann, leading Denmark to a 5-0 victory, and to the Final Round in the Europe/Africa Zone Group II.

Partnering Brunstrom, he reached the semis at the 2014 Düsseldorf Open losing out to Martin Emmrich and Christopher Kas 0-6, 5-7. At the 2014 French Open the pair lost in the first round to Spaniards Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez 5-7, 2-6. They next participated in the Wimbledon Championships falling in the second round.

In September, he played the Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II Denmark vs. Moldova tie, winning the first singles rubber and the doubles match but losing the reverse singles, thereby helping promote Denmark to the 2015 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I.

He also won 3 ITF $15000 doubles titles at Switzerland, Dublin, Great Britain in March, July and October respectively with different and 1 ATP Challenger doubles title at Charlottesville Men's Pro Challenger in 2014.

Major finals

Grand Slam: 1 (1–0)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2012	Wimbledon	Grass	Jonathan Marray	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	4–6, 6–4, 7–6^(7–5), 6–7^(5–7), 6–3

ATP career finals

Doubles: 4 (2–2)

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (1–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–2)

Finals by Surface Hard (1–2) Clay (0–0) Grass (1–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	7 July 2012	Wimbledon Championships, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Jonathan Marray	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	4–6, 6–4, 7–6^(7–5), 6–7^(5–7), 6–3
Runner-up	1.	23 September 2012	Moselle Open, Metz, France	Hard (i)	Johan Brunström	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6–7^(3–7), 4–6
Runner-up	2.	12 January 2013	Heineken Open, Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Johan Brunström	Colin Fleming Bruno Soares	6–7^(1–7), 6–7^(2–7)
Winner	2.	5 January 2014	Aircel Chennai Open, Chennai, India	Hard	Johan Brunström	Marin Draganja Mate Pavić	6–2, 4–6, [10–7]

Challenger finals

Nielsen has won Wimbledon Men's Doubles, 2012 and 1 ATP 250 Title.

Singles: 3 (0–3)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (0–3)

Outcome	No.	Date (Final)	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	6 July 2008	Dublin, Ireland	Carpet (i)	Robert Smeets	6–7^(5–7), 2–6
Runner-up	2.	14 November 2010	Loughborough, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Matthias Bachinger	3–6, 6–3, 1–6
Runner-up	3.	15 November 2014	Champaign, United States	Hard (i)	Adrian Mannarino	2–6, 2–6

Doubles: 37 (24–13)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (24–13)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	24 January 2005	Wrexham, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Tuomas Ketola	Mark Hilton Jonathan Marray	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2.	17 October 2005	Kolding, Denmark	Carpet (i)	Rasmus Nørby	Stephen Huss Johan Landsberg	6–1, 6–7^(4–7), [8–10]
Winner	1.	30 October 2006	Rimouski, Canada	Hard (i)	Kristian Pless	Jasper Smit Martijn van Haasteren	6–2, 6–4
Winner	2.	20 November 2006	Shrewsbury, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Philipp Marx	Lars Burgsmuller Mischa Zverev	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	5 February 2007	Bergamo, Italy	Carpet (i)	Kenneth Carlsen	Jerome Haehnel Jean-Rene Lisnard	3–6, 6–2, [4–10]
Runner-up	4.	24 September 2007	Grenoble, France	Hard (i)	Martin Pedersen	Jasper Smit Martijn van Haasteren	3–6, 1–6
Winner	3.	15 October 2007	Kolding, Denmark	Hard (i)	Rasmus Nørby	Philipp Petzschner Alexander Peya	4–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Winner	4.	22 October 2007	Barnstaple, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi	Jasper Smit Martijn van Haasteren	6–2, 6–7^(4–7), [10–2]
Winner	5.	19 November 2007	Shrewsbury, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Rasmus Nørby	Edward Allinson Ian Flanagan	6–3, 6–2
Winner	6.	17 March 2008	Sarajevo, Bosnia	Hard (i)	Johan Brunström	Alexander Peya Lovro Zovko	6–4, 7–6^(7–4)
Runner-up	5.	12 May 2008	Aarhus, Denmark	Clay	Martin Pedersen	Dawid Olejniczak Jean-Julien Rojer	6–7, 6–2, [8–10]
Runner-up	6.	30 June 2008	Dublin, Ireland	Carpet (o)	Jonathan Marray	Prakash Amritraj Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi	3–6, 6–7^(6–8)
Winner	7.	24 November 2008	Toyota, Japan	Carpet (i)	Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi	Ti Chen Grzegorz Panfil	7–5, 6–3
Winner	8.	25 May 2009	Carson, California (2), United States	Hard (o)	Harsh Mankad	Carsten Ball Travis Rettenmaier	6–4, 6–4
Winner	9.	20 July 2009	Recanati, Italy	Hard (o)	Joseph Sirianni	Adriano Biasalla Andrey Golubev	6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
Winner	10.	9 November 2009	Jersey, Great Britain	Carpet (i)	Joseph Sirianni	Henri Kontinen Jarkko Nieminen	7–5, 3–6, [10–2]
Runner-up	7.	5 April 2010	Monza, Italy	Clay	Martin Fischer	Daniele Bracciali David Marrero	3–6, 3–6
Winner	11.	26 July 2010	Granby, Canada	Hard (o)	Joseph Sirianni	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	4–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Runner-up	8.	20 September 2010	Bangkok (2), Thailand	Hard (o)	Yuichi Sugita	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	3–6, 5–7
Winner	12.	8 November 2010	Loughborough, Great Britain	Carpet (i)	Henri Kontinen	Jordan Kerr Ken Skupski	6–2, 6–4
Winner	13.	3 January 2011	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard (o)	Dominik Meffert	Flavio Cipolla Simone Vagnozzi	7–6^(5–7), 5–7, [10–5]
Winner	14.	7 February 2011	Bergamo, Italy	Hard (i)	Ken Skupski	Mikhail Elgin Alexander Kudryavtsev	Walkover
Runner-up	9.	21 February 2011	Wolfsburg, Germany	Carpet (i)	Dominik Meffert	Matthias Bachinger Simon Stadler	6–3, 6–7^(3–7), [7–10]
Winner	15.	4 April 2011	Monza, Italy	Clay	Johan Brunström	Jamie Delgado Jonathan Marray	5–7, 6–2, [10–7]
Winner	16.	25 July 2011	Recanati, Italy	Hard (o)	Ken Skupski	Federico Gaio Purav Raja	6–4, 7–5
Winner	17.	1 August 2011	Segovia, Spain	Hard (o)	Johan Brunström	Nicolas Mahut Lovro Zovko	6–2, 3–6, [10–6]
Runner-up	10.	8 August 2011	Binghamton, New York, United States	Hard (o)	Treat Conrad Huey	Juan Sebastian Cabal Robert Farah	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	11.	7 November 2011	Knoxville, Tennessee, United States	Hard (i)	Adam Hubble	Steve Johnson Austin Krajicek	6–3, 4–6, [11–13]
Winner	18.	23 January 2012	Heilbronn, Germany	Hard (i)	Johan Brunström	Treat Conrad Huey Dominic Inglot	6–3, 3–6, [10–6]
Runner-up	12.	23 April 2012	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	Hard (o)	Daniel King-Turner	John Paul Fruttero Raven Klaasen	7–6^(8–6), 5–7, [8–10]
Runner-up	13.	10 June 2012	Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Jonathan Marray	Treat Conrad Huey Dominic Inglot	4–6, 7–6^(11–9), [8–10]
Winner	19.	2 November 2014	Charlottesville, Virginia, United States	Hard (i)	Treat Conrad Huey	Lewis Burton Marcus Willis	3–6, 6–3, [10–2]
Winner	20.	23 August 2015	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Hard (o)	Treat Conrad Huey	Yuki Bhambri Michael Venus	7–6^(7–4), 6–7^(3–7), [10–5]
Winner	21.	4 October 2015	Tiburon, California, United States	Hard (o)	Johan Brunström	Carsten Ball Matt Reid	7–6^(7–2), 6–1
Winner	22.	18 October 2015	Fairfield, California, United States	Hard (o)	Johan Brunström	Dustin Brown Carsten Ball	6–3, 5–7, [10–5]
Winner	23.	15 November 2015	Knoxville, Tennessee, United States	Hard (i)	Johan Brunström	Sekou Bangoura Matt Seeberger	6–1, 6–2
Winner	24.	24 January 2016	Manilla, Philippines	Hard (o)	Johan Brunström	Francis Casey Alcantara Christopher Rungkat	6–2, 6–2

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	1R	2R	A	A	1–3
French Open	A	A	2R	1R	A	1R	1–3
Wimbledon	Q1	W	2R	2R	3R	1R	10–4
US Open	A	2R	2R	A	A	2R	3–3
Win–Loss	0–0	7–2	3–4	2–3	2–1	1–3	15–13
Year-end Championship
World Tour Finals	DNQ	SF	Did Not Qualify				2–2
Career statistics
Titles / Finals	0 / 0	1 / 2	0 / 1	1 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 0	2 / 4
Year-end ranking	99	21	60	94	108

References

1. "Wimbledon champions Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen secure ATP world tour finals' berth". The Daily Telegraph. London. 15 October 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
2. Wimbledon 2013: Champion Jonathan Marray ready for defence
3. "My Wimbledon: Jonathan Marray". 30 June 2014.
4. "Nottingham Challenger". ITF Tennis. 23 October 2006.
5. "Dublin Challenger". ITF Tennis. 6 July 2008.

External links

• Frederik Nielsen at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Frederik Nielsen at the International Tennis Federation
• Frederik Nielsen at the Davis Cup