Botic van de Zandschulp

Botic van de Zandschulp (born 4 October 1995) is a Dutch professional tennis player.

Van de Zandschulp has a career high ranking of world No. 22 in singles by the ATP, achieved on 29 August 2022.

He is the current Dutch No. 2 men's singles player.

He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 60, achieved on 22 May 2023.

Van de Zandschulp has won one ATP Challenger singles title in Hamburg and one ATP Challenger doubles title in Alphen.

Van de Zandschulp's breakthrough occurred at the 2021 US Open when he became the third qualifier in US Open history to reach the quarterfinals of the tournament, after defeating seeded Casper Ruud and Diego Schwartzman.

He also became only the third male qualifier in the history of the US Open (after Nicolas Escudé in 1999 and Gilles Müller in 2008) to reach the quarterfinals.

He also became the first Dutch man to reach the quarterfinals of a major since Sjeng Schalken at the 2003 US Open and 2004 Wimbledon.

As a result, he improved 55 spots in the singles rankings, entering the top 100 for the first time in his career at world No. 62 on 13 September 2021.

He made his debut at a Masters 1000 level at the Indian Wells Masters by qualifying as the top seed into the main draw.

He lost to Marcos Giron in the first round in three sets.

At the 2021 St. Petersburg Open, Van de Zandschulp entered as a qualifier and beat Yoshihito Nishioka, Sebastian Korda, and for the biggest win in his career so far, world No.6 and top seed Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinals.

He lost to Croatian Marin Čilić in the semifinals.

At the 2021 Stockholm Open, he reached the quarterfinals where he lost to second seed Félix Auger-Aliassime.

He entered the top 60 at World No. 57 on 15 November 2021

Van de Zandschulp started his year by reaching the quarterfinals at the Melbourne Summer Set by defeating Adrian Mannarino and 8th seed Mackenzie McDonald in straight sets.

He lost to Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals despite having match points on serve in the third set.

He reached the third round at the Melbourne where he lost to world No. 2, Daniil Medvedev.

As a result, he made his top 50 debut in the rankings on 31 January 2022.

Van de Zandschulp reached the third round in Indian Wells, where he beat Tennys Sandgren and scoring his second top 10 victory over world no. 9 Félix Auger-Aliassime in three sets.

He lost to Miomir Kecmanović in the third round in straight sets.

In Miami, he lost to Mikhail Kukushkin in the first round.

His next tournament was Marrakech, where he beat Hugo Dellien in three sets in the first round, and qualifier Vít Kopřiva in straight sets in the second round to make his fourth ATP Tour-level quarterfinal overall and second of 2022.

He lost to Alex Molčan in the quarterfinals.

In Monte Carlo, he lost to Sebastian Korda in the first round.

He reached the top 40 on 25 April 2022.

He was also the third man to progress to the main draw of all four majors through qualifying in one year, the others being Elias Ymer in 2015 and Frank Dancevic in 2011.

In 2022, Van de Zandschulp reached his maiden ATP Tour final at the Bavarian International Tennis Championships.

Van de Zandschulp qualified for the first time in the main singles draw of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2021 Australian Open, where he was defeated by fellow qualifier Carlos Alcaraz.

As a result, he reached a career-high of No. 145 on 22 February 2021 and was the No. 1 Dutch tennis singles player for a brief period from 8 February 2021 until 22 March 2021.

He also qualified for the second major in 2021 and in his career at the French Open and reached the second round for his first Grand Slam win with a defeat over No. 19 seed Hubert Hurkacz.

On June 23, 2021, he was upgraded to the main draw at Wimbledon, for his third major debut in a row in 2021, as a lucky loser following the late withdrawal of the 4th seed Dominic Thiem.

He beat qualifier Grégoire Barrère in the first round and lost to 7th seed Matteo Berrettini in the second round.

In July following Wimbledon, as the second seed, he reached the final at the 2021 Dutch Open in Amersfoort.

He was defeated by his compatriot and top seed Tallon Griekspoor in the final.

He became the No. 1 Dutch player again on 30 August 2021 at world No. 117 in the rankings.

Despite having only five ATP Tour match wins before the US Open, Van de Zandschulp qualified for the last major of the year, thus becoming the only man to progress to the main draw of all four majors through qualifying that year.

He reached the third round of a major for the first time, defeating Carlos Taberner and world No. 11 and eight seed Casper Ruud.

Next, he defeated Facundo Bagnis to reach the fourth round.

There he defeated world No. 14 and eleventh seed Diego Schwartzman in five sets to reach his maiden major quarterfinal, where he lost to eventual champion Daniil Medvedev, becoming the only player to take a set off of Medvedev in the tournament.