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Treat Huey

Treat Huey

Filipino-American tennis player


Treat Conrad Huey (/ˈtrɛt ˈhji/;[1] born August 28, 1985) is a Filipino-American former tennis player who represented the Philippines in international competitions. Huey specialized in doubles and reached eighteen finals, winning 8 titles on the ATP World Tour. He won titles at the 2012 Citi Open, 2013 Swiss Indoors, and 2014 Aegon International alongside Dominic Inglot, 2015 Estoril Open with Scott Lipsky, 2015 St. Petersburg Open and 2015 Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur with Henri Kontinen, 2016 Abierto Mexicano Telcel with Max Mirnyi and the 2017 Los Cabos Open with Juan Sebastián Cabal. He turned professional in 2008 and he started representing the Philippines in the Davis Cup and the Southeast Asian Games in 2009.

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Treat Huey (right) with his Coach Othmane Garma and doubles partner Max Mirnyi after winning the Mexican Open 2016
Huey (right) with partner Inglot at the 2012 US Open
Huey at the 2013 French Open

Huey reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 18 in July 2016. Among his partners were Somdev Devvarman, Brian Battistone, Jeff Coetzee, Harsh Mankad, Jerzy Janowicz, Dominic Inglot, Jack Sock, Jonathan Erlich, Scott Lipsky, Max Mirnyi and Henri Kontinen.

In 2012, Huey became a member of the World Team Tennis' Washington Kastles. Huey also participated in the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL). Treat Huey participated as coach and player in the IPTL with the Philippine Mavericks.

He is the first Filipino player to reach the doubles semifinals at the Wimbledon Championships partnering Belarusian Max Mirnyi.[2]

He is the first Filipino player (with his partner Max Mirnyi) to reach the top 8 doubles team to compete in 2016 ATP YEAR END FINALS held in London.

On July 1, 2023, Huey returned to his college alma mater, University of Virginia, as Assistant Coach of UVA Men's Tennis.

Huey played his first and last ATP tournaments at the Citi Open in his hometown Washington, D.C.[3]

On July 31, the 2023 Mubadala Citi DC Open tournament organizers held a Retirement Ceremony in Huey's honor with his family, fellow ATP doubles players, his ATP coach and his coach from JTCC were he trained as a junior.

Career highlights

2015: New partnership, Three ATP titles

Huey started the year by reaching the Australian Open third round alongside Jonathan Erlich, losing to Feliciano López and Max Mirnyi in straight sets.

He then reached the semifinals of the 2015 Ecuador Open Quito with new partner Scott Lipsky, losing to Víctor Estrella Burgos and João Souza in two tiebreak sets. He then reached the semifinals of the 2015 Memphis Open with Lipsky, losing to Artem Sitak and Donald Young in two tight sets. He continued his good run of form at the 2015 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, reaching the quarterfinals with Lipsky but losing to Raven Klaasen and Leander Paes in straight sets. He then lost in the first round of the 2015 Abierto Mexicano Telcel with Lipsky, losing to Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo in straight sets.

He then represented the Philippines at the 2015 Davis Cup partnering Francis Casey Alcantara. The defeated Sri Lanka's Sharmal Dissanayake and Dineshkanthan Thangarajah. The Philippines went on to win the tie 5–0.

He went on to play the 2015 Irving Challenger, reaching the quarterfinals with partner Lipsky, losing to Pablo Andújar and Diego Schwartzman in straight sets. He then reached the final of the 2015 US Men's Clay Court Championships with Lipsky, losing to Ričardas Berankis and Teymuraz Gabashvili in straight sets. He went on to play the 2015 Sarasota Challenger, but he and Lipsky were forced to retire in their quarterfinal match with Hyeon Chung and Divij Sharan leading 7–6(6), 0–1. They next played the 2015 BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, losing to Colin Fleming and Jonathan Marray in three sets in the quarterfinals.

Huey and Lipsky then went on to win their first team title and the fourth of Huey's career at the 2015 Estoril Open against top seeds Marc López and David Marrero. Huey and Lipsky next participated at the 2015 Geneva Open reaching the semifinals losing to Raven Klaasen and Yen-Hsun Lu in two tight sets. They then competed at the 2015 French Open losing in the first round to Marin Draganja and Henri Kontinen in three sets.

He then participated at a Challenger event in Ilkley, Great Britain with Somdev Devvarman losing in the first round to Johan Brunström and Matwé Middelkoop in three sets. He next competed with regular partner Scott Lipsky at the 2015 Aegon Open Nottingham losing in the first round to top seeds Marcel Granollers and Leander Paes in three sets. In July, Huey and Lipsky then played at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships beating 12th seeds Pablo Cuevas and David Marrero in straight sets before going on to lose to Jonathan Erlich and Philipp Petzschner. He then travelled to Taiwan to play the 2015 Davis Cup Asia/Oceana group II 2nd round against Chinese Taipei in which he partnered compatriot Ruben Gonzales to win the doubles rubber.

He went on to win two more titles at the 2015 St. Petersburg Open in September and at the 2015 Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur in October with Henri Kontinen.

Significant finals

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

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ATP career finals

Doubles: 18 (8 titles, 10 runner-ups)

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Challenger and Futures finals

Doubles: 52 (29 titles, 23 runner-ups)

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Doubles performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through the 2022 Delray Beach Open.

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References

  1. "The pronunciation by Treat Huey himself". ATPWorldTour.com. Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
  2. Songalia, Ryan (July 8, 2016). "Filipino Treat Huey, Max Mirnyi falter in Wimbledon semis". Rappler. Archived from the original on July 8, 2016. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  3. "Hoo-rizons: That Time Former UVA Tennis Star Treat Huey Beat Roger Federer". October 28, 2019. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved January 24, 2020.

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