Johannes Martinus ("Jan") Siemerink (born 14 April 1970) is a retired tennis player from the Netherlands. The former Dutch Davis Cup captain reached a career-high ATP ranking of 14.

Career

Tennis

As a junior player, Siemerink was the Dutch 18-under champion in 1988. He also won the doubles title at the 1988 Orange Bowl junior championship in Florida. Siemerink turned professional in 1989. Over the course of his career, he won four top-level singles titles (at Singapore in 1991,

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in 1996, and at

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and

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in 1998). He also won ten tour doubles titles, the most significant of which were the

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in 1993 and the

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in 1996. Siemerink's best performance at a Grand Slam event came at Wimbledon in 1998, where he reached the quarterfinals by defeating

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, Jonas Björkman and

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before being knocked-out by

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. Siemerink is also known for winning a fourth set tiebreak against compatriot

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from 6–0 down in the 1994 US Open, though Krajicek eventually won the match. Siemerink played for the Netherlands in the

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between 1991 and 2001, compiling a 17–10 record. He helped the Netherlands reach the World Group semifinals in 2001. Siemerink's career-high rankings were world No. 14 in singles (in 1998) and world No. 16 in doubles (in 1996). His career prize-money totaled $4,347,693. After his playing career Siemerink was captain of the Dutch Davis Cup team from 2006 until 2016.

Other

In February 2018, Siemerink became team manager of the Amsterdam professional football club

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ATP career finals

Singles: 12 (4 titles, 8 runner-ups)

Doubles: 18 (10 titles, 7 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 5 (3–2)

Doubles: 7 (6–1)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Siemerink, Jan 1970 births Living people Dutch male tennis players Olympic tennis players of the Netherlands Sportspeople from Katwijk Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Hopman Cup competitors Tennis commentators AFC Ajax non-playing staff