- Peter Wessels
Infobox Tennis player
playername = Peter Wessels
country = NED
residence =Amsterdam, Netherlands
datebirth = birth date and age|1978|8|5
placebirth =Zwolle ,Netherlands
height = height|m=1.95
weight = convert|85|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro =1996
plays = Right-handed; one-handed backhand
careerprizemoney = $919,393
singlesrecord = 45–60
singlestitles = 1
highestsinglesranking = No. 72 (February 27 ,2005 )
AustralianOpenresult = 2R (2005)
FrenchOpenresult = 2R (2005)
Wimbledonresult = 1R (1999, 2001, 2005)
USOpenresult = 3R (1999)
doublesrecord = 10–20
doublestitles = 0
highestdoublesranking = No. 111 (October 26 ,1998 )
updated =June 23 ,2007 Peter Wessels (born
May 7 ,1978 inZwolle ,Overijssel ) is a professional maletennis player from theNetherlands . He has been ranked as high as 72 in the world (February 7 2005 ). As ofJuly 28 ,2008 , his ranking has fallen to 307.Wessels had an excellent junior career, finishing No. 5 in singles and No. 18 in doubles in the 1995 world junior rankings. In that year he reached the singles semifinals at Wimbledon and U.S. Open juniors and captured Roland Garros junior doubles title with fellow countryman
Raemon Sluiter .His best result on the professional tour was winning the 2000 ATP tournament in Newport beating German Jens Knippschild in the final 7–6 6–3.
He started 2006 by qualifying for the
Hopman Cup tournament in Perth withMichaella Krajicek where the Dutch went all the way to the final only to be beaten in a very close mixed doubles by the American team ofTaylor Dent andLisa Raymond . Despite this, Wessels and Krajicek proved that they were a force to be reckoned with. At the Hopman Cup, he won 4 out of his 5 singles matches (def. Peng Sun, Gaston Gaudio, Todd Reid and Nicolas Kiefer; lost to Taylor Dent). In Mixed Doubles, they had a 3–2 record (def. Reid/Stosur, Peng/Sun, Groenefeld/Kiefer; lost to Raymond/Dent, Dulko/Gaudio).In June 2007 Wessels qualified for the
Ordina Open grass tournament in 's-Hertogenbosch. Ranked 488 he caused an upset in the quarterfinals by beating the number one seeded SpaniardTommy Robredo , in two sets: 6–3 6–3. He subsequently reached the final but narrowly lost against CroatIvan Ljubičić 6–7 (5), 6–3, 6–7 (4).ingles wins (1)
ingles runner-up (1)
External links
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* [http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?players=Wessels&weeks=12 Wessels Recent Match Results]
* [http://steveghelper.com/RankingHistory.php?player=Wessels Wessels World Ranking History]
* [http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?countries=NED&weeks=12 Dutch Men Recent Match Results]
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