John Peers

Not to be confused with John Piers.

John Peers

John Peers playing at Roland Garros 2013
Country	Australia
Residence	Melbourne, Australia[1]
Born	(1988-07-25) 25 July 1988 Melbourne, Australia
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2011
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders/Baylor Bears
Prize money	$451,293
Singles
Career record	0–0 (in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draws, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 456 (11 June 2012)
Doubles
Career record	74–51 (in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draws, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	5
Highest ranking	No. 27 (13 January 2014)
Current ranking	No. 43 (17 November 2014)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2015)
French Open	3R (2014)
Wimbledon	3R (2014)
US Open	QF (2013)
Last updated on: 23 January 2015.

John Peers (born 25 July 1988) is an Australian professional tennis player who competed mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour both in singles and doubles until 2013 when he began to focus solely on doubles and began competing on the ATP World Tour.

Peers reached his career-high of World No. 27 in doubles in January 2014. His highest ATP singles ranking is World No. 456 in June 2012.^[2]

John Peers went to Mentone Grammar and led the 1STS team to two premierships. His first when he was in Year 7 in 2001 and his second when he was in Year 12 in 2006.

Professional career

2013

Peers began the 2013 season playing with fellow Australian John-Patrick Smith, receiving a wildcard into the Australian Open. It was here that Peers gained his first ever Grand Slam victory, upsetting Polish duo of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in their opening match; in the second round they fell to Sergiy Stakhovsky and Mikhail Youzhny in straight sets. In February, Peers teamed up with established doubles specialist Jamie Murray, a partnership that immediately looked to be a successful one, as the pair reached the semifinals of their first tournament together at the Open Sud de France. A couple of months later, Peers and Murray won their first title together, defeating 13-time Grand Slam champions and world number 1 pair Bob and Mike Bryan in the final of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships after coming back from a set down.^[3]

The pair played their first Grand Slam tournament together at the French Open, however despite taking out the 15th seeded team of Knowle and Polášek in the first round, they ultimately fell in their next match against Colombian duo of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah Maksoud. This however allowed them to compete at the Aegon Trophy, a Challenger event which they ultimately won. Peers and Murray then went on to have a fairly successful grass court season, reaching the quarterfinals of the Aegon Championships, and the semifinals of the Aegon Championships. They headed to Wimbledon in a confident mindset, however went out in the first round to James Blake and Jurgen Melzer in a 5 set thriller that ended 14-12 in an 87-minute final set. Their early loss did not dishearten them however, and the pair went on to win their second title of the year a few weeks later, at the Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad.

At the US Open, the pair had their most successful run at a Grand Slam tournament, making it all the way to the quarterfinals, defeating 9th seeds David Marrero and Fernando Verdasco on the way. In the end the pair went out to eventual finalists Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in three sets. Next up for the pair was the Asian swing of tournaments, where the pair had their best run of results to date, making two finals in a row and competing in their first Masters 1000 tournament as a pair. At the PTT Thailand Open, the pair were seeded third, and went on to win their third title of the year. Peers and Murray defeated multiple Grand Slam champion and former world number 1 Leander Paes on their way to the final, where they defeated Tomasz Bednarek and Johan Brunström in three sets. The following week, Peers and Murray reached their second final in a row, Peers' first ever ATP 500 final at the Rakuten Japan Open. Despite a close first set, the pair lost to established doubles pairing of Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in straight sets.

Peers competed in his first ever Masters 1000 tournament at the Shanghai Masters, where he and Murray defeated established doubles champions Julien Benneteau, Nenad Zimonjić and Robert Lindstedt on their way to the semifinals, where they lost in straight sets to Spanish duo of Marrero and Verdasco, in a closely fought contest that ended up being decided by two tiebreakers.

2014

Peers began the year with regular doubles partner Jamie Murray at the Brisbane International. The pair made it to the semi-finals before they lost to Daniel Nestor and Mariusz Fyrstenberg in straight sets.Their next tournament was the Heineken Open. They made the quarterfinals before withdrawing from the tournament. At the Australian Open they were the 15th seeds (the first time they were a seeded pair in a grand slam tournament). They made the second round before losing to Raven Klaasen and Eric Butorac in straight sets.

Peers played next at the 2014 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament with Julian Knowle while Jamie Murray was out with injury. The pair made it to the quarterfinals before losing to Julien Benneteau and Édouard Roger-Vasselin. Peers next played at the 2014 Open 13 with Jesse Huta Galung but the pair lost in the first round. Peers next played at the 2014 Dubai Tennis Championships with previous partner Julian Knowle but the pair lost in the first round.

Peers next played the BNP Paribas Open with regular partner Jamie Murray but the pair lost in the first round to J Benneteau and É Roger-Vasselin. They next played at the Sony Open Tennis but lost in straight sets to sixth seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić.

Peers and Murray started their clay court season at the Grand Prix Hassan II where they were seeded econd. They made the semi-finals bfore losng to Lukáš Dlouhý and Tomasz Bednarek in straight sets. They made a second consecutive semi-final at the BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy before loising to top seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecău.

At the BMW Open the pair defeated the top seeds Raven Klaasen and Eric Butorac in the semi-finals before defeating Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins 6-4, 6-2 to win their first title of the year.^[4] They lost in the opening round of the Mutua Madrid Open, but managed to bounce back and reach the semi-finals of the Düsseldorf Open. They followed this up by reaching the third round of the French Open, which was both their best result at the tournament, where they were defeated by top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan.^[5]

They followed up the defeat by making the final of the Aegon Championships defeating the Bryan brothers in the second round but were beaten by second seeds Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares. They then lost their opening match of the Aegon International. At Wimbledon they were seeded 14th and made the third round before losing in five sets to Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 10 (5 titles, 6 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–3) ATP World Tour 250 Series (5–3)

Finals by Surface Hard (2–4) Clay (3–0) Grass (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	13 April 2013	US Men's Clay Court Championships, Houston, United States	Clay	Jamie Murray	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	1–6, 7–6(7–3), [12–10]
Winner	2.	28 July 2013	Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Jamie Murray	Pablo Andújar Guillermo García-López	6–3, 6–4
Winner	3.	29 September 2013	PTT Thailand Open, Bangkok, Thailand	Hard (i)	Jamie Murray	Tomasz Bednarek Johan Brunström	6–3, 3–6, [10–6]
Runner-up	1.	6 October 2013	Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Jamie Murray	Rohan Bopanna Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6–7(5–7), 4–6
Winner	4.	4 May 2014	BMW Open, Munich, Germany	Clay	Jamie Murray	Colin Fleming Ross Hutchins	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	15 June 2014	Aegon Championships, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Jamie Murray	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	6–4, 6–7(4–7), [4–10]
Runner-up	3.	23 August 2014	Winston-Salem Open, Winston-Salem, United States	Hard	Jamie Murray	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	27 September 2014	Proton Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard (i)	Jamie Murray	Marcin Matkowski Leander Paes	6–3, 6–7(5–7), [5–10]
Winner	5.	11 January 2015	Brisbane International, Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Jamie Murray	Alexandr Dolgopolov Kei Nishikori	6-3, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	5.	15 February 2015	Rotterdam Open, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Jamie Murray	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	6-3, 3-6, [8–10]
Runner-up	6.	26 April 2015	Barcelona Open, Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Jamie Murray	Marin Draganja Henri Kontinen	3-6, 7-6(8–6), [11–9]

Challenger finals

Doubles (12)

Legend ATP Challengers (12)

Finals by Surface Hard (7–3) Clay (0–1) Grass (1–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	4 February 2012	Burnie, Australia	Hard	John-Patrick Smith	Divij Sharan Vishnu Vardhan	6–2, 6–4
Winner	2.	11 February 2012	Caloundra, Australia	Hard	John-Patrick Smith	John Paul Fruttero Raven Klaasen	7–6(7–5), 6–4
Winner	3.	15 April 2012	León, Mexico	Hard	John-Patrick Smith	César Ramírez Bruno Rodríguez	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	9 June 2012	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Clay	Colin Ebelthite	Hsieh Cheng-peng Lee Hsin-han	5–7, 5–7
Runner-up	2.	7 July 2012	Winnetka, US	Hard	John-Patrick Smith	Devin Britton Jeff Dadamo	6–1, 2–6, [6–10]
Winner	4.	29 July 2012	Lexington, US	Hard	Austin Krajicek	Tennys Sandgren Rhyne Williams	6–1, 7–6 (7–4)
Runner-up	3.	5 August 2012	Vancouver, Canada	Hard	John-Patrick Smith	Maxime Authom Ruben Bemelmans	4–6, 2–6
Winner	5.	12 August 2012	Aptos, US	Hard	Rik de Voest	Chris Guccione Frank Moser	6–7 (5–7), 6–1, [10–4]
Runner-up	4.	15 September 2012	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Adrián Menéndez	Karol Beck Lukáš Dlouhý	6–3, 2–6, [6–10]
Winner	6.	6 October 2012	Belém, Brazil	Hard	John-Patrick Smith	Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler	6–3, 6–2
Winner	7.	4 November 2012	Charlottesville, US	Hard	John-Patrick Smith	Jarmere Jenkins Jack Sock	7–5, 6–1
Winner	8.	9 June 2013	Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Jamie Murray	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	6-2, 6-7(3–7), [10-6]

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2012	2013	2014	SR	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	2R	2R	0 / 2	2–2
French Open	A	2R	3R	0 / 2	3–2
Wimbledon	1R	1R	3R	0 / 3	2–3
US Open	A	QF	1R	0 / 2	3–2
Win–Loss	0–1	5–4	5–4	0 / 8	10–9

Amateur tennis

Peers played varsity tennis for the Middle Tennessee State University Blue Raiders before transferring school to play for Baylor University Bears.^[1] While representing the Blue Raiders John earned all-conference honours from the Sun Belt in 2009 and 2010 in singles and doubles. Peers also received the Sun Belt Conference MVP in 2009. During his time at Baylor University John was named All-Big 12 in both singles and doubles and received ITA All-American honours in doubles. Paired with Roberto Maytin they finished the season ranked No. 5 in the National doubles ITA rankings Peers also earned ITA Texas Region Arthur Ashe Sportsmanship Award.

References

External links

• John Peers at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• John Peers at the International Tennis Federation

Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Australian male doubles tennis players, as of 6 April 2015 1. John Peers (25 5) 2. Sam Groth (30 7) 3. Chris Guccione (41 2) 4. Rameez Junaid (77 1) 5. John-Patrick Smith (83 4) 6. Lleyton Hewitt (103 1) 7. Andrew Whittingon (126 3) 8. Alex Bolt (136 ) 9. Matt Reid (194 8) 10. Dane Propoggia (208 6)