Peter Wessels (; born 7 May 1978) is a former
tour professional male
tennis
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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
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and
US Open juniors and captured Roland Garros junior doubles title with fellow countryman
Raemon Sluiter
Raemon Sluiter (; born 13 April 1978) is a Dutch former professional tennis player and current coach. His career-high ATP singles ranking is World No. 46, achieved in February 2003. Though he achieved only limited success during his professiona ...
.
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
Michaëlla Krajicek (; born 9 January 1989) is a Dutch former tennis player. She has won three singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one WTA 125 tournaments, WTA 125 doubles title, and 14 titles in singles and 24 in double ...
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
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. 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
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, 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.
ATP career finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 17 (8-9)
Doubles: 12 (5–7)
Junior Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Performance timeline
Singles
References
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1978 births
Living people
Dutch male tennis players
French Open junior champions
Hopman Cup competitors
Tennis players from Amsterdam
Sportspeople from Zwolle
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles