Wesley Whitehouse (born 13 March 1979) is a South African-born New Zealand

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player.

Biography

Whitehouse lives or has lived in between

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, South Africa and

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but currently lives in

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, New Zealand

Career

Juniors

In 1997 he was Wimbledon Tennis Junior Champion defeating

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of Germany 6–3, 7–6⁽⁶⁾. He was also a finalist in both the Australian Open and US Open juniors in the same year. He has played in many other tournaments since then.

Pro tour

Whitehouse reached a career-high singles ranking on the

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of world No. 214. He defeated

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at Indianapolis in 2006.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

Performance timeline

Singles

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 12 (8–4)

Doubles: 28 (19–9)

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Whitehouse, Wesley 1979 births Living people Tennis players from Durban Sportspeople from Phoenix, Arizona Sportspeople from Pretoria South African expatriates in the United States South African male tennis players New Zealand male tennis players South African people of British descent New Zealand people of South African descent White South African people Wimbledon junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles