Pieter Aldrich

Country(sports)

Born7 September 1965 (age 59)
Johannesburg, South Africa

Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)

Pieter Aldrich
Singles
Country (sports)	South Africa
Residence	Vereeniging, South Africa
Born	(1965-09-07) 7 September 1965 (age 59) Johannesburg, South Africa
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	1987
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$790,019
Career record	36–40
Career titles	1 1 Challenger, 0 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 64 (21 November 1988)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (1989, 1990)
Wimbledon	2R (1988, 1989)
US Open	3R (1988, 1989)
Doubles
Career record	148–83
Career titles	9 2 Challenger, 0 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 1 (23 July 1990)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (1990)
French Open	QF (1990)
Wimbledon	F (1990)
US Open	W (1990)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	RR (1990)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	1R (1992)
French Open	3R (1990)
Wimbledon	QF (1990)
US Open	SF (1989)

Pieter ("Piet") Aldrich (born 7 September 1965) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. A doubles specialist, he won two Grand Slam men's doubles titles (Australian Open and US Open)^[1] and became the world No. 1 in doubles in 1990.

Aldrich won the first of nine career doubles titles in 1988 at Charleston, South Carolina.^[2]

In 1990, Aldrich won the men's doubles titles at both the Australian Open and the US Open, partnering his fellow South African player Danie Visser. The pair were also doubles runners-up at Wimbledon that year.^[3]

1990 also saw Aldrich win his first (and only) top-level singles title at Newport, Rhode Island.^[4]^[5] His career-high ranking in singles was world No. 64, which he achieved in 1988.^[6]

Aldrich won the final doubles title of his career in 1992 in Johannesburg.^[7]

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (2 wins, 1 loss)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1990	Australian Open	Hard	Danie Visser	Grant Connell Glenn Michibata	6–4, 4–6, 6–1, 6–4
Loss	1990	Wimbledon	Grass	Danie Visser	Rick Leach Jim Pugh	6–7^(5–7), 6–7^(4–7), 6–7^(5–7)
Win	1990	US Open	Hard	Danie Visser	Paul Annacone David Wheaton	6–2, 7–6^(7–3), 6–2

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

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

Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (1–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Finals by setting
Outdoors (1–0)
Indoors (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 1990	Newport, United States	World Series	Grass	Darren Cahill	7–6^(12–10), 1–6, 6–1

Doubles: 19 (9 titles, 10 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (2–1)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters 1000 Series (0–1)
ATP 500 Series (1–0)
ATP 250 Series (6–8)

Finals by surface
Hard (5–6)
Clay (2–2)
Grass (0–2)
Carpet (2–0)

Finals by setting
Outdoors (6–9)
Indoors (3–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	May 1988	Charleston, United States	Grand Prix	Clay	Danie Visser	Jorge Lozano Todd Witsken	7–6, 6–3
Loss	1–1	May 1988	Forest Hills, United States	Grand Prix	Clay	Danie Visser	Jorge Lozano Todd Witsken	3–6, 6–7
Loss	1–2	Jun 1988	Queen's, United Kingdom	Grand Prix	Grass	Danie Visser	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	2–6, 6–7
Loss	1–3	Aug 1988	Stratton Mountain, United States	Grand Prix	Hard	Danie Visser	Jorge Lozano Todd Witsken	3–6, 6–7
Loss	1–4	Jan 1989	Sydney, Australia	Grand Prix	Hard	Danie Visser	Darren Cahill Wally Masur	4–6, 3–6
Loss	1–5	Aug 1989	Stratton Mountain, United States	Grand Prix	Hard	Danie Visser	Mark Kratzmann Wally Masur	3–6, 6–4, 6–7
Win	2–5	Aug 1989	Indianapolis, United States	Grand Prix	Hard	Danie Visser	Peter Doohan Laurie Warder	7–6, 7–6
Loss	2–6	Aug 1989	Cincinnati, United States	Grand Prix	Hard	Danie Visser	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	4–6, 4–6
Win	3–6	Oct 1989	San Francisco, United States	Grand Prix	Carpet	Danie Visser	Paul Annacone Christo van Rensburg	6–4, 6–3
Win	4–6	Nov 1989	Frankfurt, Germany	Grand Prix	Carpet	Danie Visser	Kevin Curren Eric Jelen	7–6, 6–7, 6–3
Loss	4–7	Jan 1990	Sydney, Australia	World Series	Hard	Danie Visser	Pat Cash Mark Kratzmann	4–6, 5–7
Win	5–7	Jan 1990	Melbourne, Australia	Grand Slam	Hard	Danie Visser	Grant Connell Glenn Michibata	6–4, 4–6, 6–1, 6–4
Loss	5–8	Jul 1990	Wimbledon, United Kingdom	Grand Slam	Grass	Danie Visser	Rick Leach Jim Pugh	6–7, 6–7, 6–7
Win	6–8	Jul 1990	Stuttgart, Germany	Championship Series	Clay	Danie Visser	Per Henricsson Nicklas Utgren	6–3, 6–4
Win	7–8	Sep 1990	Flushing Meadows, United States	Grand Slam	Hard	Danie Visser	Paul Annacone David Wheaton	6–2, 7–6, 6–2
Win	8–8	Oct 1990	Berlin, Germany	World Series	Carpet	Danie Visser	Kevin Curren Patrick Galbraith	7–6, 7–6
Loss	8–9	Feb 1992	San Francisco, United States	World Series	Hard	Danie Visser	Jim Grabb Richey Reneberg	4–6, 5–7
Win	9–9	Apr 1992	Johannesburg, South Africa	World Series	Hard	Danie Visser	Wayne Ferreira Piet Norval	6–4, 6–4
Loss	9–10	Apr 1992	Nice, France	World Series	Clay	Danie Visser	Patrick Galbraith Scott Melville	1–6, 6–3, 4–6

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 2 (1–1)

Legend
ATP Challenger (1–1)
ITF Futures (0–0)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (1–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 1989	Cape Town, South Africa	Challenger	Hard	Christo Van Rensburg	3–6, 1–6
Win	1–1	Jul 1989	Johannesburg, South Africa	Challenger	Grass	Wayne Ferreira	6–3, 6–3

Doubles: 2 (2–0)

Legend
ATP Challenger (2–0)
ITF Futures (0–0)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (1–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 1989	Johannesburg, South Africa	Challenger	Grass	Danie Visser	David Adams Dean Botha	7–6, 6–4
Win	2–0	Mar 1992	Indian Wells, United States	Challenger	Hard	Danie Visser	Mike Briggs Trevor Kronemann	7–6, 2–6, 7–5

Tournament	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	3R	W	1R	3R	A	A	A	1 / 4	10–3	77%
French Open	A	1R	A	QF	A	2R	A	A	A	0 / 3	4–3	57%
Wimbledon	3R	QF	QF	F	A	1R	A	A	A	0 / 5	13–5	72%
US Open	1R	1R	2R	W	A	A	A	A	A	1 / 4	7–3	70%
Win–loss	2–2	3–3	6–3	20–2	0–1	3–3	0–0	0–0	0–0	2 / 16	34–14	71%
Year-end Championships
ATP Finals	DNQ			RR	Did not qualify					0 / 1	1–2	33%
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells	A	A	SF	2R	1R	1R	A	A	Q1	0 / 4	3–4	43%
Miami	A	2R	SF	2R	QF	2R	A	A	A	0 / 5	8–5	62%
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	A	A	A	0 / 2	1–2	33%
Hamburg	A	A	SF	A	A	2R	A	A	A	0 / 2	3–2	60%
Rome	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Cincinnati	A	1R	F	QF	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 3	5–3	63%
Paris	A	QF	SF	2R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 3	3–3	50%
Win–loss	0–0	2–3	15–6	1–4	2–3	3–4	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 20	23–20	53%

v t e Tennis world No. 1 men's doubles players
Current ATP world No. 1 in bold, as of week of 16 June 2025^[update] ATP rankings was introduced on 1 March 1976
1–5	Bob Hewitt (1976 – 6 w) Raúl Ramírez (1976/1977 – 62 w) Frew McMillan (1977/1979 – 85 w) Tom Okker (1979 – 11 w) John McEnroe (1979/1989 – 269 w)
6–10	Stan Smith (1981 – 8 w) Paul McNamee (1981 – 3 w) Peter Fleming (1982/1984 – 17 w) Tomáš Šmíd (1984/1985 – 34 w) Anders Järryd (1985/1992 – 107 w)
11–15	Robert Seguso (1985/1988 – 62 w) Ken Flach (1985/1986 – 5 w) Stefan Edberg (1986/1987 – 15 w) Yannick Noah (1986/1987 – 19 w) Slobodan Živojinović (1986 – 7 w)
16–20	Andrés Gómez (1986 – 13 w) Emilio Sánchez (1989 – 6 w) Jim Grabb (1989/1993 – 13 w) Jim Pugh (1989/1990 – 26 w) Danie Visser (1990 – 27 w)
21–25	Rick Leach (1990 – 9 w) Pieter Aldrich (1990 – 19 w) David Pate (1991 – 25 w) John Fitzgerald (1991/1992 – 40 w) Todd Woodbridge (1992/2001 – 204 w)
26–30	Kelly Jones (1992 – 1 w) Mark Woodforde (1992/2000 – 83 w) Richey Reneberg (1993 – 5 w) Patrick Galbraith (1993/1994 – 4 w) Grant Connell (1993/1994 – 17 w)
31–35	Paul Haarhuis (1994/1999 – 71 w) Byron Black (1994 – 8 w) Jonathan Stark (1994 – 6 w) Jacco Eltingh (1995/1998 – 63 w) Mahesh Bhupathi (1999 – 4 w)
36–40	Leander Paes (1999/2000 – 39 w) Jared Palmer (2000/2002 – 39 w) Alex O'Brien (2000 – 5 w) Jonas Björkman (2000/2005 – 74 w) Donald Johnson (2002 – 20 w)
41–45	Mark Knowles (2002/2005 – 65 w) Daniel Nestor (2002/2012 – 108 w) Max Mirnyi (2003/2012 – 57 w) Bob Bryan (2003/2015 – 439 w) Mike Bryan (2003/2019 – 506 w)
46–50	Nenad Zimonjić (2008/2010 – 40 w) Marcelo Melo (2015/2018 – 56 w) Jamie Murray (2016 – 9 w) Nicolas Mahut (2016/2017 – 39 w) Henri Kontinen (2017 – 26 w)
51–55	Łukasz Kubot (2018 – 19 w) Mate Pavić (2018/2025 – 89 w) Juan Sebastián Cabal (2019/2020 – 29 w) Robert Farah (2019/2021 – 68 w) Nikola Mektić (2021 – 3 w)
56–60	Joe Salisbury (2022 – 26 w) Rajeev Ram (2022/2023 – 9 w) Wesley Koolhof (2022/2023 – 34 w) Neal Skupski (2022/2023 – 35 w) Austin Krajicek (2023/2024 – 26 w)
61–65	Rohan Bopanna (2024 – 8 w) Matthew Ebden (2024 – 9 w) Marcel Granollers (2024 – 22 w) Horacio Zeballos (2024 – 22 w) Marcelo Arévalo (2024/2025 – 32 w)
(year first held/year last held – number of weeks (w)) weeks record underlined.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (2 wins, 1 loss)

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Doubles: 19 (9 titles, 10 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 2 (1–1)

Doubles: 2 (2–0)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

Mixed Doubles

References

External links

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