Luke Johnson (tennis)


Luke Johnson is a British professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He achieved his career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 28 on 21 July 2025. Johnson has won three doubles titles on the ATP Tour with Sander Arends. He has also won 13 titles on the ATP Challenger Tour and 21 on the ITF World Tennis Tour. He also has a career-high singles ranking of No. 606 set on 29 November 2021.

Personal life

Johnson grew up in the Leeds suburb of Roundhay and attended The Grammar School at Leeds. He played cricket up until the age of 16 but then decided to focus exclusively on tennis.
He moved to the United States for his higher education and played tennis for Clemson University.

Career

2019: Grand Slam tournament debut

Johnson made his ATP Tour and Grand Slam tournament main draw debut simultaneously at the Wimbledon after receiving a wildcard for direct entry into the men's doubles draw. Partnering compatriot Evan Hoyt, the pair were defeated in the first round by Nicholas Monroe and Mischa Zverev.

2024: First ATP Title, top 100

Johnson reached the top 100 in the rankings at world No. 83 on 29 January 2024 when he won a ATP Challenger Tour title at the BW Open with Skander Mansouri.
At the back end of the 2024 season, Johnson won his 10th Challenger doubles title at the Porto Open and his sixth of the season, at the Saint-Tropez Open, playing alongside Sander Arends.
Once again partnering Arends, Johnson won his first ATP Tour level doubles title at the last tournament of the season at the Moselle Open, defeating Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Albano Olivetti in the final. The following week he was back on the ATP Challenger Tour and won his 12th career title and seventh of the season at the All In Open in Lyon, partnering Lucas Miedler to a straight sets win over Sergio Martos Gornés and David Pichler in the final. He ended the year inside the top 60 rankings with a career highest rank of No. 58 on 30 December 2024.

2025: ATP 500 title, broken wrist

Reuniting with Sander Arends, Johnson won the doubles title at the Hong Kong Open, defeating Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev in the final. Johnson reached the top 50 on 31 March 2025, following reaching the semifinals with Arends at the Open Occitanie in Montpellier, France and the quarterfinals in Dallas, Texas.
In April, Johnson and Arends won their second ATP title of the season and first at the ATP 500 level, at the Barcelona Open, defeating fellow Brits and former world No. 1 players Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski in the final.
At the French Open, Johnson and Arends reached the quarterfinals, losing to Hugo Nys and Edouard Roger-Vasselin. Johnson suffered a broken wrist when he fell during qualifying at the Queen's Club Championships in June, forcing him to withdraw from Wimbledon.

2026: Australian Open semifinal

Partnering Jan Zieliński, Johnson reached the semifinals at the Australian Open, defeating fourth seeds Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavić in the quarterfinals,.before losing in the last four to wildcard entrants Jason Kubler and.Marc Polmans in three sets.

Doubles performance timeline

Men's doubles

''Current through the 2026 Australian Open.''

ATP career finals

Doubles: 3 (3 titles)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0[2024 Moselle Open – Doubles|]Moselle Open, France250 SeriesHard

ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Doubles: 57 (34–23)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Turkey F1, AntalyaFuturesHard