Peter Wessels

Peter Wessels
Country (sports)	Netherlands
Residence	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Born	7 May 1978 (age 45); Zwolle, Netherlands
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Turned pro	1996
Retired	2009
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$928,863
Singles
Career record	45–60
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 72 (7 February 2005)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2005)
French Open	2R (2005)
Wimbledon	1R (1999, 2001, 2005)
US Open	3R (1999)
Doubles
Career record	12–21
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 111 (26 October 1998)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (1999)
	Last updated on: 10 June 2022.

Last updated March 03, 2024

Peter Wessels (born 7 May 1978) is a former tour professional male tennis player and a coach from the Netherlands. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 72 in February 2005.

Biography

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 US 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 with Michaëlla 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 of Taylor Dent and Lisa 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, Gastón Gaudio, Todd Reid and Nicolas Kiefer; lost to Taylor Dent). In mixed doubles, they had a 3–2 record (def. Reid/Stosur, Peng/Sun, Grönefeld/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 Spaniard Tommy Robredo, in two sets: 6–3, 6–3. He subsequently reached the final but narrowly lost against Croat Ivan Ljubičić 6–7⁽⁵⁾, 6–3, 6–7⁽⁴⁾.

Since 2024, he is coaching Sorana Cirstea.^[1]

ATP career finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–0)
ATP World Series (1–1)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (1–1)
Carpet (0–0)

Finals by setting
Outdoors (1–1)
Indoors (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2000	Newport, United States	International Series	Grass	Jens Knippschild	7–6^(7–3), 6–3
Loss	1–1	Jun 2007	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	International Series	Grass	Ivan Ljubičić	6–7^(5–7), 6–4, 6–7^(4–7)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 17 (8-9)

Legend
ATP Challenger (6–9)
ITF Futures (2–0)

Finals by surface
Hard (5–4)
Clay (1–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (2–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Feb 1998	Lübeck, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Michael Kohlmann	7–6, 6–3
Loss	1–1	Oct 1998	Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	5–7, 4–6
Loss	1–2	Nov 1998	Portorož, Slovenia	Challenger	Hard	Rainer Schüttler	3–6, 2–6
Loss	1–3	Dec 1998	Nümbrecht, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Christian Vinck	7–6, 4–6, 4–6
Loss	1–4	May 2001	Antwerp, Belgium	Challenger	Clay	Dick Norman	3–5 ret.
Loss	1–5	Nov 2001	Eckental, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Alexander Popp	4–6, 7–5, 2–6
Win	2–5	Mar 2003	France F8, Melun	Futures	Carpet	Thierry Ascione	walkover
Win	3–5	Oct 2003	Réunion Island, Réunion	Challenger	Hard	Fred Hemmes	6–0, 6–2
Loss	3–6	Mar 2004	Sanremo, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Potito Starace	4–6, 4–6
Win	4–6	Jul 2004	Scheveningen, Netherlands	Challenger	Clay	Raemon Sluiter	7–5, 7–6^(9–7)
Loss	4–7	Aug 2004	Bronx, United States	Challenger	Hard	Julien Jeanpierre	6–7^(4–7), 6–3, 3–6
Win	5–7	Sep 2004	Istanbul, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Daniele Bracciali	6–3, 6–2
Loss	5–8	Oct 2004	Bolton, United Kingdom	Challenger	Hard	Marcos Baghdatis	1–6, 6–3, 2–6
Win	6–8	Nov 2004	Helsinki, Finland	Challenger	Hard	Lukáš Dlouhý	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
Win	7–8	Nov 2004	Groningen, Netherlands	Challenger	Hard	Ivo Minář	6–3, 6–2
Loss	7–9	Apr 2006	Saint Brieuc, France	Challenger	Hard	Marc Gicquel	3–6, 1–6
Win	8–9	Mar 2007	Portugal F2, Lagos	Futures	Hard	Clément Morel	6–3, 6–2

Doubles: 12 (5–7)

Legend
ATP Challenger (4–7)
ITF Futures (1–0)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–3)
Clay (4–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 1997	Scheveningen, Netherlands	Challenger	Clay	Raemon Sluiter	Álex Calatrava Tom Vanhoudt	7–6, 2–6, 6–7
Loss	0–2	Feb 1998	Lippstadt, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Raemon Sluiter	Andrew Richardson Myles Wakefield	6–4, 6–7, 4–6
Win	1–2	Apr 1998	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Edwin Kempes	José Frontera Bobby Kokavec	7–6, 4–6, 7–5
Win	2–2	Jun 1998	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Edwin Kempes	Tomáš Cibulec Tomáš Krupa	6–4, 7–5
Win	3–2	Sep 1998	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	Challenger	Clay	Edwin Kempes	Marcos Ondruska Chris Wilkinson	6–7, 6–3, 6–2
Loss	3–3	Oct 1998	Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Edwin Kempes	Ota Fukárek Attila Sávolt	6–7, 4–6
Loss	3–4	Oct 1998	São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Edwin Kempes	Diego del Río Martín Rodríguez	6–7, 3–6
Win	4–4	Jan 2003	Great Britain F1, Glasgow	Futures	Carpet	Edwin Kempes	Marco Chiudinelli Wesley Moodie	2–6, 7–6^(11–9), 7–6^(7–5)
Loss	4–5	Oct 2003	Réunion Island, Réunion	Challenger	Hard	Fred Hemmes	Federico Browne Rogier Wassen	1–6, 7–6^(7–4), 3–6
Loss	4–6	Oct 2004	Bolton, United Kingdom	Challenger	Hard	Melle van Gemerden	Jeff Coetzee Jim Thomas	5–7, 3–6
Win	5–6	Jul 2007	Scheveningen, Netherlands	Challenger	Clay	Raemon Sluiter	Rohan Bopanna Pablo Cuevas	7–6^(8–6), 7–5
Loss	5–7	Mar 2008	Sunrise, United States	Challenger	Hard	Kristof Vliegen	Janko Tipsarević Dušan Vemić	2–6, 6–7^(5–7)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1995	French Open	Clay	Raemon Sluiter	Justin Gimelstob Ryan Wolters	7–6, 7–5
Loss	1995	US Open	Hard	Raemon Sluiter	Lee Jong-Min Jocelyn Robichaud	6–7, 2–6

Performance timeline

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	DNQ	A	NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	Q1	A	Q1	2R	Q1	A	A	0 / 4	1–4	20%
French Open	A	A	Q2	Q1	Q1	Q1	A	A	Q2	2R	Q1	A	A	0 / 1	1–1	50%
Wimbledon	Q3	A	A	1R	A	1R	A	A	A	1R	Q2	A	A	0 / 3	0–3	0%
US Open	A	1R	Q1	3R	1R	Q1	Q1	A	Q3	2R	Q3	Q1	A	0 / 4	3–4	43%
Win–loss	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–3	0–2	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–4	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 12	5–12	29%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Miami	A	A	A	Q2	A	Q1	Q2	A	A	1R	A	A	Q1	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 1	0–1	0%

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References

↑ "Sorana Cirstea – QF Press Conference – 2024 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships". 23 February 2024.

External links

Peter Wessels at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Peter Wessels at the International Tennis Federation
Peter Wessels at the Davis Cup

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[1] "Sorana Cirstea – QF Press Conference – 2024 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships". 23 February 2024.

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