Wesley Whitehouse
Wesley Whitehouse ![]() |
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Birthday: | March 13, 1979 | ||||||||||||
Size: | 191 cm | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 91 kg | ||||||||||||
1st professional season: | 1998 | ||||||||||||
Resignation: | 2007 | ||||||||||||
Playing hand: | Left | ||||||||||||
Trainer: | Mike van Zutphen | ||||||||||||
Prize money: | $ 195,247 | ||||||||||||
singles | |||||||||||||
Career record: | 4: 7 | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 217 (August 2, 2004) | ||||||||||||
Double | |||||||||||||
Career record: | 3: 6 | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 137 (November 22, 1999) | ||||||||||||
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Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) |
Wesley Whitehouse (born March 13, 1979 in Durban , South Africa ) is a former South African- New Zealand tennis player .
Career
In his time as a youth player, Whitehouse was seen as the great hope of South African tennis after winning the 1997 singles title at Wimbledon and also reaching the finals of the French Open and the US Open .
Whitehouse mainly plays on the Future Tour and the ATP Challenger Tour . On the former he has so far won eight singles titles and 13 doubles titles. He also won six doubles titles on the Challenger Tour, which he also specializes in. In 1998 Whitehouse made his debut on the ATP World Tour at ATP Chennai in singles and doubles. A year later he came in doubles at the Wimbledon Championships for his only appearance at a Grand Slam tournament , where he advanced to the round of 16. After several injuries that kept throwing him back, doctors advised him to stop playing tennis in 2007.
Since then, Whitehouse has only played sporadically at tournaments in his home country in South Africa, New Zealand and the United States . Most recently in 2015 and 2016 in Auckland , where he and his partner Finn Tearney were eliminated in the first round. He mainly works as a coach at the West Harbor Tennis Club in Auckland .
successes
Legend (number of victories) |
Grand Slam |
Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals |
ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 |
ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 |
ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 |
ATP Challenger Tour (6) |
Double
Tournament victories
No. | date | competition | Topping | partner | Final opponent | Result |
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1. | April 19, 1998 |
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race |
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7: 6, 7: 6 |
2. | August 16, 1998 |
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Hard court |
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7: 5, 2: 6, 7: 5 |
3. | 3s. October 1999 |
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Hard court |
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7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 2 |
4th | August 20, 2000 |
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Hard court |
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3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2 |
5. | October 1, 2000 |
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Hard court |
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6: 3, 6: 4 |
6th | April 7, 2007 |
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Hard court |
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6: 3, 6: 4 |
Individual evidence
- ^ Former Wimbledon champ gets the west into the swing. In: .stuff.co.nz. July 1, 2011, accessed on September 16, 2018 .
Web links
- ATP profile of Wesley Whitehouse (English)
- ITF profile Wesley Whitehouse (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Whitehouse, Wesley |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African-New Zealand tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Durban , South Africa |