Izak van der Merwe

Izak van der Merwe
Nation:	South Africa
Birthday:	January 26, 1984
Size:	196 cm
Weight:	88 kg
1st professional season:	2005
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Rodrigo Leander
Prize money:	$ 430,017
singles
Career record:	15:16
Highest ranking:	113 (August 1, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	8: 8
Highest ranking:	94 (July 18, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Izak van der Merwe (born January 26, 1984 in Johannesburg ) is a former South African tennis player .

Career

Van der Merwe won three singles titles on the Challenger Tour , as well as 14 other doubles titles. On the ATP Tour , he achieved his best result in 2011 at the SA Tennis Open , when he was equipped with a wildcard and was able to advance to the semifinals and only there was defeated by the Indian Somdev Devvarman . At Grand Slams he was only able to qualify for the main draw at Wimbledon , in 2008 in singles and in 2011 in doubles. He did not succeed in a subsequent victory.

Van der Merwe had been a member of the South African Davis Cup team since 2006 .

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250

ATP Challenger Tour (17)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 7, 2010	Campos do Jordão	Hard court	Ricardo Mello	7: 6 6 , 6: 3
2.	April 16, 2011	Johannesburg	Hard court	Rik DeVoest	6: 7 2 , 7: 5, 6: 3
3.	November 6, 2011	Charlottesville	Hard court (i)	Jesse Levine	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 7, 2007	Tallahassee	Hard court	Wesley Whitehouse	John Paul Fruttero Mirko Pehar	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	March 2, 2008	Wolfsburg	Carpet (i)	Carsten Ball	Richard Bloomfield Ken Skupski	7: 6 5 , 6: 3
3.	May 10, 2008	Tunica resorts	Sand (i)	Vladimir Obradović	Ryler DeHeart Todd Widom	7: 6 5 , 6: 4
4th	August 2, 2009	Belo Horizonte	Hard court	Márcio Torres	Juan-Pablo Amado Eduardo Schwank	without a fight
5.	July 25, 2010	Lexington	Hard court	Raven Klaasen	Kaden Hensel Adam Hubble	5: 7, 6: 4, [10: 6]
6th	October 10, 2010	Sacramento	Hard court	Rik De Voest	Nicholas Monroe Donald Young	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 7]
7th	November 14, 2010	Knoxville	Hard court (i)	Rik De Voest	Alex Bogomolov junior Alex Kuznetsov	6: 1, 6: 4
8th.	November 20, 2010	Champaign (1)	Hard court (i)	Raven Klaasen	Ryler DeHeart Pierre-Ludovic Duclos	4: 6, 7: 6 12 , [10: 4]
9.	May 8, 2011	Savannah	sand	Rik De Voest	Sekou Bangoura Jesse Witten	6: 3, 6: 3
10.	July 17, 2011	Bogotá	sand	Treat Conrad Huey	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	7: 6 3 , 6: 7 5 , [7: 2] Disq.
11.	July 24, 2011	manta	Hard court	Brian Dabul	Marcel Felder Daniel Garza	6: 1, 6: 7 2 , [11: 9]
12.	November 19, 2011	Champaign (2)	Hard court (i)	Rik De Voest	Martin Emmrich Andreas Siljeström	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 4]
13.	April 22, 2012	Sarasota	sand	Johan Brunström	Martin Emmrich Andreas Siljeström	6: 4, 6: 1
14th	May 20, 2012	Fargʻona	Hard court	Raven Klaasen	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6: 3, 6: 4

Web links

• ATP profile of Izak van der Merwe (English)
• ITF profile of Izak van der Merwe (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Izak van der Merwe (English)