Approximately 4.5 million of the 16 million people in the Netherlands are registered to one of the 35,000 sports clubs in the country. About two thirds of the population older than 15 years participates in sports weekly.
Richard Peter Stanislav Krajicek is a Dutch former professional tennis player. In 1996 he won the men's singles title at Wimbledon, the only Dutch player to have done so. In the quarterfinals of that tournament, he defeated Pete Sampras in straight sets. This was Sampras' only singles defeat at Wimbledon between 1993 and 2000. Since 2004, Krajicek has been the tournament director of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam. He is also the author of various sports books. Krajicek reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in March 1999.
Martin Willem Verkerk is a retired professional Dutch tennis player. As a relatively unknown player, he reached the final of the French Open in 2003, which he lost to Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero. Along the way, he beat Željko Krajan, Luis Horna, Vince Spadea and Rainer Schüttler before beating experienced clay court players Carlos Moyá and Guillermo Coria.
Xavier Malisse is a Belgian retired professional tennis player. Born in the north-western Flemish city of Kortrijk and nicknamed X-Man, he is only one of two players from Belgium to have been ranked in the top 20 of the ATP tour, with a career-high singles ranking of World No. 19.
Michaëlla Krajicek is a Dutch tennis player.
Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former world No. 1 doubles player, having reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 1995. He won six Grand Slam men's doubles titles, five with Jacco Eltingh and one with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
Peter Wessels is a presently inactive tour professional male tennis player from the Netherlands. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 72 in February 2005.
Johannes Martinus ("Jan") Siemerink is a retired tennis player from the Netherlands. The former Dutch Davis Cup captain reached a career-high ATP ranking of 14.
Hilbert van der Duim is a Dutch former speed skater. A two-time world and European champion, Van der Duim "won often but also fell often", and has become famous for some of the incidents that happened to him during his career.
The Rotterdam Open is a professional men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is part of the ATP Tour 500 series on the ATP Tour and has been held annually at the Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Robin Haase is a Dutch professional tennis player. He is currently the highest-ranked Dutch player, achieving a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 33 in July 2012. He has won two singles titles, and reached quarterfinals of the 2012 Monte Carlo Masters and semifinals of the 2017 Canada Masters. Together with countryman Igor Sijsling, Haase reached the final of the 2013 Australian Open men's doubles. Haase is left-handed but plays right-handed. His mother is Dutch and father is German.
The 1995 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 23rd edition of the event known that year as the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour. It took place at the Rotterdam Ahoy indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands, from 27 February through 6 March 1995. Fifthe-seeded Richard Krajicek won the singles title.
The 1996 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at Rotterdam Ahoy in the Netherlands. It was part of the World Series of the 1996 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from 4 March 4 through 10 March 1996. Goran Ivanišević won the singles title.
The 1997 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at Rotterdam Ahoy in the Netherlands. It was part of the World Series of the 1997 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from 3 March through 9 March 1997. Richard Krajicek won the singles title.
Igor Sijsling is a Dutch professional tennis player. He is coached by Dennis Schenk. Sijsling reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 52 on 17 February 2014. His biggest accomplishment is reaching the final of Australian Open Doubles with countryman Robin Haase in 2013, where they lost to the Bryan Brothers. In singles, he reached the third round of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships and has victories over top players including Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Milos Raonic and Mikhail Youzhny.
Kiki Bertens is a Dutch tennis player who turned professional in 2009. Her highest WTA singles ranking is No. 4, which she reached on 13 May 2019, becoming the highest ranked Dutch female player ever. Her career high in doubles is world No. 16, achieved in April 2018. To date, she has won ten singles titles and ten doubles titles on the WTA Tour including 2018 Western & Southern Open and 2019 Mutua Madrid Open. Bertens is widely regarded as a clay-court specialist, but also is successful on hard courts. Raemon Sluiter has been her coach. On 1 November 2019 she announced on Instagram that Raemon Sluiter would no longer be her coach and Elise Tamaëla would be her new coach. Tamaëla was her interim coach at the time.
Antal van der Duim is a Dutch professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 214 on 31 October 2016, and his highest ATP doubles ranking, No. 149, on 20 April 2015.
The 2016 Open de Guadeloupe was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Le Gosier, Guadeloupe between 4 and 10 April 2016.
Giulia Gabba is a former professional tennis player from Italy.
The 2020 ATP Tour is the global elite men's professional tennis circuit organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the 2020 tennis season. The 2020 ATP Tour calendar is composed of the Grand Slam tournaments, the ATP Finals, the ATP Tour Masters 1000, the ATP Cup, the ATP Tour 500 series, the ATP Tour 250 series, and the Davis Cup. Also included in the 2020 calendar are the tennis events at the Next Generation ATP Finals, and the Laver Cup, none of which distribute ranking points. Several tournaments were suspended or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the Tokyo Summer Olympics. On 17 June 2020, ATP issued revised calendar for Tour resumption.