Steve Darcis

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Steve Darcis Tennis player
Steve Darcis
Steve Darcis at the 2019 French Open
Nickname: Shark
Nation: BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Birthday: March 13, 1984
Size: 175 cm
Weight: 78 kg
1st professional season: 2003
Resignation: 2020
Playing hand: Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer: Yannis Demeroutis
Prize money: $ 3,445,786
singles
Career record: 118: 134
Career title: 2
Highest ranking: 38 (May 22, 2017)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 3R (2017)
French Open 3R (2011)
Wimbledon 2R (2009, 2013, 2017)
US Open 2R (2008, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016)
Double
Career record: 24:45
Highest ranking: 126 (January 5, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (2010)
French Open VF (2008)
Wimbledon AF (2012)
US Open AF (2017)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Steve Darcis (born March 13, 1984 in Liège ) is a former Belgian tennis player .

Career

In 2007 Darcis surprisingly won the ATP tournament in Amersfoort against Werner Eschauer . With this he celebrated his first major success on the ATP World Tour . His other successes include reaching the semi-finals of the Challenger tournament in Sanremo in 2007 . In 2008 another tour success followed at the tournament in Memphis . His highest place in the world rankings he reached with the 44th place in May 2008. After he had been trained by Julien Hoferlin for a time, his trainer was first Réginald Willems and is now Juan Francisco Spina .

He celebrated one of his greatest successes on June 24, 2013 in the opening round of the Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament , when he defeated Rafael Nadal , who was fifth in the world rankings at the time and twelve-time Grand Slam winner, in three sets. Shortly afterwards he had to undergo an operation because of a shoulder injury and therefore fell far behind in the world rankings, as he did not play any games between October 2013 and June 2014. In 2020 he ended his career after the Australian Open .

Darcis, who played for the Belgian Davis Cup team from 2005 , led his home country back into a Davis Cup final after 111 years in September 2015 , making it the first final since the International Lawn Tennis Challenge in 1904 . In the final, Belgium lost 3-1 to Great Britain. Darcis played doubles with David Goffin and lost to Andy and Jamie Murray .

successes

Legend
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500 (1)
ATP World Tour 250 (1)
ATP Challenger Tour (13)
Title after covering
Hard Court (1)
Sand (1)
Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. November 18, 2007 FinlandFinland Helsinki Hard court (i) GermanyGermany Tobias Kamke 6: 3, 1: 6, 6: 4
2. August 1, 2010 ItalyItaly Cordenons sand SpainSpain Daniel Muñoz de La Nava 6: 2, 6: 4
3. July 10, 2011 NetherlandsNetherlands Scheveningen sand TurkeyTurkey Marsel İlhan 6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 2
4th August 7, 2011 ItalyItaly Trani sand ArgentinaArgentina Leonardo Mayer 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
5. October 12, 2014 FranceFrance Rennes Hard court (i) FranceFrance Nicolas Mahut 6: 2, 6: 4
6th January 10, 2015 New CaledoniaNew Caledonia Nouméa Hard court SpainSpain Adrián Menéndez 6: 3, 6: 2
7th June 12, 2016 FranceFrance Lyon sand BrazilBrazil Thiago Monteiro 3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 0
8th. August 14, 2016 SlovakiaSlovakia Trnava sand SpainSpain Jordi Samper Montaña 6: 3, 6: 4
9. November 6, 2016 GermanyGermany Eckental Carpet (i) AustraliaAustralia Alex De Minaur 6: 4, 6: 2
10. May 21, 2017 FranceFrance Bordeaux sand BrazilBrazil Rogério Dutra da Silva 7: 6 2 , 4: 6, 7: 5
ATP World Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. July 16, 2007 NetherlandsNetherlands Amersfoort sand AustriaAustria Werner Eschauer 6: 1, 7: 6 1
2. March 2, 2008 United StatesUnited States Memphis Hard court (i) SwedenSweden Robin Soderling 6: 3, 7: 6 5

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. July 20, 2008 NetherlandsNetherlands Amersfoort sand SpainSpain Albert Montañés 6: 1, 5: 7, 3: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. July 3, 2005 FranceFrance Montauban sand BelgiumBelgium Stefan Wauters SpainSpain Gabriel Trujillo Soler Lovro Zovko
CroatiaCroatia  		6: 4, 6: 7 5 , 6: 4
2. February 20, 2010 MoroccoMorocco Tangier sand GermanyGermany Dominik Meffert BelarusBelarus Uladsimir Ihnazik Martin Kližan
SlovakiaSlovakia  		5: 7, 7: 5, [10: 7]
3. May 5, 2013 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Ostrava sand BelgiumBelgium Olivier Rochus PolandPoland Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk
PolandPoland  		7: 5, 7: 5

Web links

Commons : Steve Darcis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary: Julien Hoferlin. In: daviscup.com. April 8, 2016, accessed November 16, 2016 .
  2. ^ Clap de fin pour Steve Darcis: “Une page importante se tourne”. In: 7sur7.be. January 16, 2020, accessed on February 24, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Murray secures the title for Great Britain. In: sport1.de. November 29, 2015, accessed November 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Darcis, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege , Belgium