Piet Norval

Piet Norval
Nation:	South Africa
Birthday:	April 7, 1970
Size:	185 cm
1st professional season:	1988
Resignation:	2001
Playing hand:	Right
Prize money:	$ 1,832,303
singles
Career record:	4:12
Highest ranking:	125 (June 19 1989)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	329: 300
Career title:	14th
Highest ranking:	16 (January 16 1995)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Pieter "Piet" Norval (born April 7, 1970 in Bellville ) is a former South African tennis player .

Career

Since the beginning of his professional career in 1987, Norval played almost exclusively in doubles; as a single player he only played 16 matches. In doubles, he often played with Wayne Ferreira , with whom he won the 1991 tournament in Key Biscayne and reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon , which was lost 2: 6, 4: 6, 6: 7 to Javier Frana and Leonardo Lavalle . In 1992 he competed with Ferreira at the Summer Olympics . They were able to reach the final, but ultimately failed to Boris Becker and Michael Stich in four sets.

Other long-term double partners were Hendrik Jan Davids , Menno Oosting , Neil Broad , Kevin Ullyett and Donald Johnson . Norval had his most successful time towards the end of his career when he won four tournaments with Johnson. He was also able to win the mixed final of the French Open in 1999 together with Katarina Srebotnik .

Tournament victories

Double

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup (1)
ATP Masters Series (2)
ATP Championship Series (1)
ATP Tour (10)

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 25, 1991	Key Biscayne	Hard court	Wayne Ferreira	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	5: 7, 7: 6, 6: 2
2.	March 22, 1993	Casablanca	sand	Mike Bauer	Ģirts Dzelde Goran Prpić	7: 5, 7: 6
3.	October 18, 1993	Bolzano	Carpet (i)	Hendrik Jan Davids	David Adams Andrei Olchowski	6: 3, 6: 2
4th	May 9, 1994	Hamburg	sand	Scott Melville	Henrik Holm Anders Järryd	6: 3, 6: 4
5.	July 25, 1994	Stuttgart	sand	Scott Melville	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	7: 6, 7: 5
6th	July 15, 1996	Newport	race	Marius Barnard	Paul Kilderry Michael Tebbutt	6: 7, 6: 4, 6: 4
7th	5th August 1996	los Angeles	Hard court	Marius Barnard	Jonas Björkman Nicklas Kulti	7: 5, 6: 2
8th.	August 3, 1998	Umag	sand	Neil Broad	Jiří Novák David Rikl	6: 1, 3: 6, 6: 3
9.	October 25, 1999	Lyon	Carpet (i)	Kevin Ullyett	Wayne Ferreira Sandon Stolle	4: 6, 7: 6, 7: 6
10.	November 15, 1999	Stockholm	Hard court (i)	Kevin Ullyett	Jan-Michael Gambill Scott Humphries	7: 5, 6: 3
11.	April 17, 2000	Estoril	sand	Donald Johnson	David Adams Joshua Eagle	6: 4, 7: 5
12.	June 26, 2000	Nottingham	race	Donald Johnson	Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach	1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
13.	October 30, 2000	Basel	Carpet (i)	Donald Johnson	Roger Federer Dominik Hrbatý	7: 6, 4: 6, 7: 6
14th	December 17, 2000	Bangalore	Hard court	Donald Johnson	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	7: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4

Web links

• ATP profile of Piet Norval (English)
• ITF profile Piet Norval (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Piet Norval (English)