DURHAM, N.C. – Former Duke men's tennis doubles All-America Theo Winegar continued his Wimbledon success Saturday with a second round victory. Winegar and doubles partner Jean-Julien Rojer upset No. 9 seed Hugo Nys and Edouard Roger-Vasselin to march on to the third round.Â
Playing at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Winegar secured the upset with a 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (10-6) victory. With the opening set even at each game until 5-5, Rojer and Winegar broke and held to take it. The second set was quite similar, but neither side could break and the two headed to the tiebreaker. Rojer and Winegar were even at 2-2 in the tiebreaker before Nys and Roger-Vasselin snuck ahead 4-2. Rojer and Winegar narrowed the gap to 4-3 and 6-5, but Nys and Roger-Vasselin held on for the set.
The deciding set repeated the second and headed back to the tiebreaker. With a 3-3 tie, Rojer and Winegar captured the next three points to go up 6-3. Nys and Roger-Vasselin answered with consecutive points to trail just 6-5. Rojer and Winegar took control from there with three straight points to lead 8-5 before closing out the victory.
In the third round the two will face No. 6 seed Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic.
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Former Duke men's tennis players Theo Winegar and Ramsey Smith, now the Blue Devils' head coach,
pose for a photo at Wimbledon after Winegar's second round doubles victory.
Winegar, who graduated from Columbia in May 2024 and joined the Blue Devils for the 2024-25 campaign, earned ITA Doubles All-America honors in 2025 after finishing No. 3 in the final doubles rankings with Cooper Williams. Winegar was also an All-ACC Doubles First Team selection in 2025. Pairing with Williams, Winegar earned a spot in the US Open main draw last summer.Â
As a Blue Devil, Winegar led the team with 25 doubles wins (25-14), including a 14-7 dual match record and a 4-4 mark in conference play. He notched notable doubles wins with Williams over the No. 21 Notre Dame pairing of Sebastian Dominko and Chase Thompson in the ACC Championship second round (6-4), No. 6 Braden Shick and Fons Van Sambeek of NC State in the ACC Championship quarterfinals (6-2) and No. 9 Alex Kotzen and Alejandro Moreno of Tennessee in the NCAA Championship second round (6-3).
Winegar also graduated with his Master of Management Studies from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in May 2025.
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