Kristof Viegen

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Kristof Viegen Tennis player
Kristof Viegen
Nation: BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Birthday: June 22, 1982
Size: 193 cm
Weight: 75 kg
1st professional season: 2001
Resignation: 2011
Playing hand: Right
Trainer: Gunter Vanderveeren
Prize money: $ 1,964,020
singles
Career record: 89: 122
Highest ranking: 30 (October 30, 2006)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 3R (2006)
French Open 3R (2007)
Wimbledon 2R (2006, 2007, 2009)
US Open 1R (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010)
Double
Career record: 40:51
Highest ranking: 49 (June 11, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (2006-2008)
French Open AF (2007)
Wimbledon 2R (2006, 2007)
US Open AF (2006)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Kristof Viegen (born June 22, 1982 in Maaseik ) is a former Belgian tennis player . He has been a professional since 2001. He plays right handed.

Career

At the tournament in Chennai in 2006 he reached the semifinals. In May 2006, he moved into the final in Munich , where he lost the first Belgian men's individual final in the history of the ATP Tour against Olivier Rochus . Viegen reached a total of four finals in his career, two each in the singles and doubles competition. However, he was denied a tournament victory on the ATP Tour. Due to persistent injury problems, Viegen ended his career on July 14, 2011.

Davis Cup 2007

In the 1st round of the Davis Cup 2007 Kristof Viegen was the guarantee for the 3-2 victory over Australia . He defeated Lleyton Hewitt 4: 6, 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4 and finally won against Chris Guccione , whom he defeated 6: 4, 6: 4, 6: 4 Point. In the quarterfinals he lost on April 6 in the game against Germany against Tommy Haas .

successes

Legend
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP International Series
ATP World Tour 250
ATP Challenger Tour (13)

singles

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. August 25, 2002 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Geneva (1) sand SpainSpain Galo Blanco 6: 2, 6: 2
2. May 18, 2003 CroatiaCroatia Zagreb sand SpainSpain Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo 6: 1, 4: 6, 6: 0
3. October 5, 2003 NetherlandsNetherlands Groningen Hard court (i) SwedenSweden Joachim Johansson 6: 4, 6: 4
4th February 3, 2008 PolandPoland Wroclaw Hard court (i) AustriaAustria Jürgen Melzer 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3
5. August 24, 2008 SwitzerlandSwitzerlandGeneva (2) sand KazakhstanKazakhstan Yuri Shchukin 6: 2, 6: 1
6th September 7, 2008 GermanyGermany Dusseldorf sand GermanyGermany Andreas Beck 6: 0, 6: 3
7th September 28, 2008 FranceFrance Grenoble Hard court (i) FranceFrance Alexandre Sidorenko 6: 4, 6: 3
8th. March 1, 2009 FranceFrance Besançon Hard court (i) GermanyGermany Andreas Beck 6: 2, 6: 7 6 , 6: 3
9. July 12, 2009 NetherlandsNetherlands Scheveningen sand SpainSpain Albert Montañés 4: 2 task

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Bottom line
1. January 5, 2003 AustraliaAustralia Adelaide Hard court RussiaRussia Nikolai Davydenko 2: 6, 6: 7 3
2. May 7, 2006 GermanyGermany Munich sand BelgiumBelgium Olivier Rochus 4: 6, 2: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. March 26, 2005 ItalyItaly Barletta sand BelgiumBelgium Tom Vanhoudt Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Dlouhý Juri Shchukin
RussiaRussia 		6: 4, 5: 7, 7: 5
2. March 31, 2007 United StatesUnited States Sunrise Hard court GreeceGreece Konstantinos Economidis ArgentinaArgentina Juan Martín del Potro Sebastian Prieto
ArgentinaArgentina  		6: 3, 6: 4
3. August 31, 2008 GermanyGermany Freudenstadt sand BelgiumBelgium Dick Norman AustriaAustria Rainer Eitzinger Armin Sandbichler
AustriaAustria  		6: 3, 6: 3
4th May 1, 2010 TunisiaTunisia Tunis sand South AfricaSouth Africa Jeff Coetzee United StatesUnited States James Cerretani Adil Shamasdin
CanadaCanada 		7: 6 3 , 6: 3

Final participation

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Bottom line
1. October 15, 2006 SwedenSweden Stockholm Hard court BelgiumBelgium Olivier Rochus AustraliaAustralia Paul Hanley Kevin Ullyett
ZimbabweZimbabwe  		6: 7 2 , 4: 6
2. July 25, 2010 United StatesUnited States Atlanta Hard court IndiaIndia Rohan Bopanna United StatesUnited States Scott Lipsky Rajeev Ram
United StatesUnited States  		3: 6, 7: 6 4 , [10:12]

Grand Slam record

competition Career 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Australian Open 3: 5 - - - 3R 1R 2R 1R 1R
French Open 3: 7 - 1R 2R 1R 3R 1R 1R 1R
Wimbledon 3: 6 - 1R - 2R 2R 1R 2R 1R
US Open 0: 5 1R 1R - 1R 1R - - 1R

Web links

Commons : Kristof Viegen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Viegen Retires. In: tennisworldusa.org. July 14, 2011, accessed March 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Viegen, Kristof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Maaseik , Belgium