Martin Verkerk

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Martin Verkerk Tennis player
Martin Verkerk
Nation: NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Birthday: October 31, 1978
Size: 196 cm
Weight: 90 kg
1st professional season: 1996
Resignation: 2008
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 1,564,520
singles
Career record: 59:70
Career title: 2
Highest ranking: 14 (September 15 2003)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (2003, 2004)
French Open F (2003)
Wimbledon 2R (2004)
US Open 2R (2003)
Double
Career record: 24:37
Highest ranking: 63 (November 3, 2003)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (2004)
French Open 2R (2003, 2004, 2007)
Wimbledon 2R (2004)
US Open 2R (2003)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Martin Verkerk (born October 31, 1978 in Leiderdorp ) is a former Dutch tennis player .

Career

His greatest success was reaching the final at the French Open in 2003. There he was defeated by the Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero .

As a result, Verkerk was often haunted by bad luck with injuries. He qualified for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , but was unable to take part due to an injury. In December 2008 he resigned from active professional sports.

successes

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series (2)
ATP Challenger Tour (7)
Title after covering
Hard court
Sand (1)
race
Carpet (1)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. January 27, 2003 ItalyItaly Milan Carpet (i) RussiaRussia Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6: 4, 5: 7, 7: 5
2. July 12, 2004 NetherlandsNetherlands Amersfoort sand ChileChile Fernando González 7: 6 5 , 4: 6, 6: 4
ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. June 2, 2002 ItalyItaly Turin II sand UzbekistanUzbekistan Vadim Kutsenko 4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
2. November 17, 2002 United StatesUnited States Knoxville Hard court (i) United StatesUnited States Mardy Fish 6: 3, 6: 4
3. July 27, 2003 NetherlandsNetherlands Hilversum sand NetherlandsNetherlands John van Lottum 6: 3, 6: 1
4th April 20, 2008 GreeceGreece Athens sand RomaniaRomania Adrian Cruciat 6: 3, 6: 3

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. June 8, 2003 FranceFrance French Open sand SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero 1: 6, 2: 6, 3: 6
2. May 2, 2004 GermanyGermany Munich sand RussiaRussia Nikolai Davydenko 4: 6, 5: 7

Double

Tournament victories

ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. June 29, 2002 GermanyGermany Eisenach sand NetherlandsNetherlands Edwin Kempes BrazilBrazil Marcos Daniel Adrián García
ChileChile  		6: 3, 6: 4
2. July 14, 2002 NetherlandsNetherlands Scheveningen sand NetherlandsNetherlands Edwin Kempes ArgentinaArgentina Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto
ArgentinaArgentina  		6: 4, 6: 1
3. November 17, 2002 United StatesUnited States Knoxville Hard court (i) RussiaRussia Dmitri Tursunov United StatesUnited States Hugo Armando Sergio Roitman
ArgentinaArgentina  		6: 3, 6: 4

Final participation

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. September 15, 2002 UzbekistanUzbekistan Tashkent Hard court NetherlandsNetherlands Raemon Sluiter South AfricaSouth Africa David Adams Robbie Koenig
South AfricaSouth Africa 		2: 6, 5: 7
2. March 9, 2003 United StatesUnited States Delray Beach Hard court NetherlandsNetherlands Raemon Sluiter IndiaIndia Leander Paes Nenad Zimonjić
Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro 		5: 7, 6: 3, 5: 7

Web links

Commons : Martin Verkerk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Verkerk resigns , accessed December 22, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Verkerk, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Unfortunatelydorp , the Netherlands