Full name | Jasper Smit |
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Country (sports) | Netherlands |
Born | 17 November 1980 |
Plays | Right-handed |
Prize money | $94,414 |
Singles | |
Career record | 0–1 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 413 (8 November 2004) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 2–8 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 121 (3 March 2008) |
Jasper Smit (born 17 November 1980) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.
Smit, a right-handed player, featured most successfully in the doubles format, in which he reached 121 in the world. [1]
All of his eight main draw doubles appearances on the ATP Tour were with countryman Martijn van Haasteren and included two quarter-finals. The pair reached the quarter-finals at the Dutch Open Amersfoort in 2007 by upsetting second seeds Tomas Behrend and Christopher Kas, then in 2008 they were quarter-finalists at the Zagreb Indoors. He also won three Challenger titles partnering van Haasteren.
As a singles player he appeared in his only ATP Tour main draw at the 2006 Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open in Mumbai, for a first round loss to Gouichi Motomura. He took part in the qualifying draw for the 2006 Wimbledon Championships. In 2010 he won a match over then world number 62 Pablo Cuevas on clay at the Scheveningen Challenger. [2]
Retired from professional tennis, Smit was still playing in Dutch league tennis at the age of 36. [3]
No. | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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1. | 2006 | Dublin, Ireland | Carpet | Martijn van Haasteren | Colin Fleming Jamie Murray | 6–3, 2–6, [10–8] |
2. | 2006 | Helsinki, Finland | Hard | Martijn van Haasteren | Ernests Gulbis Deniss Pavlovs | 7–6(8–6), 6–2 |
3. | 2007 | Grenoble, France | Hard | Martijn van Haasteren | Frederik Nielsen Martin Pedersen | 6–3, 6–1 |
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