Jesper de Jong | Bio | ATP Tour

Nickname is Jes. Speaks Dutch and English.
Parents are Maureen Op de Weegh and Paul De Jong.
Began playing tennis aged four.
His mother worked at a fitness centre with squash courts. Jesper took a racquet and spent days hitting against the wall and later began taking lessons.
Tennis idol is Roger Federer and non-tennis idol is Lionel Messi.
Favourite shot is his drop shot, surface is clay, tournament is Roland Garros and city on Tour is Melbourne.
Qualified for his first Grand Slam main draw at the 2024 Australian Open, where he defeated Pedro Cachin in the first round and lost to eventual champion Jannik Sinner in the second round.
Qualified for second Grand Slam main draw at the next major, 2024 Roland Garros, where he defeated Jack Draper in the first round.
Credits all of his coaches for their role in making him the player he is today. “I had like six, seven coaches and every coach has basically their own part of the success,” he said.
Guilty pleasure is Macarons from Ladurée.
A dream for after his career is to own an Italian restaurant.
Favourite food is a good steak.
Favourite school subject was math.

(UPDATED 25 MAY 2024)

Broke into Top 500 in 2019, Top 200 in 2022 and earned career-high No. 135 in September 2023 soon after winning his 2nd Challenger title at Grodzisk Mazowiecki without losing a set.
Made ATP Tour debut at 2022 ‘s-Hertogenbosch as WC and earned 1st tour-level win at 2024 Australian Open as Q over No. 74 Cachin in his Grand Slam main draw debut.
He is 6-0 in Grand Slam qualifying in 2024, entering the draw as Q at both Australian Open and Roland Garros.
He owns an 80-61 Challenger record (2-3 in finals), came from qualifying to earn 1st final and title at 2021 Almaty-2.
Peaked at No. 38 in junior rankings, playing and winning a match at all four junior Grand Slam events in 2018 and reaching 2018 Roland Garros QF w/Erel and US Open SF w/Wenger in boys’ doubles.