Johannes Martinus (Jan) Simerink ( niderl. Johannes Martinus 'Jan' Siemerink ; born April 14, 1970 , Reinsburg , South Holland ) - Dutch professional tennis player , tennis coach and sports commentator. Winner of 15 ATP tournaments (4 singles), Davis Cup semifinalist (2001) for the Netherlands national team .
| Jan Simeink | |
|---|---|
| Player gender | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Reinsburg , the Netherlands |
| Citizenship | |
| Place of residence | Monte Carlo , Monaco |
| Growth | 183 cm |
| Weight | 73 kg |
| Carier start | 1989 |
| Career end | 2002 |
| Working hand | left |
| Prize money | 4,347,693 |
| Singles | |
| Matches | |
| Titles | four |
| Highest position | October 14 ( October 12, 1998 ) |
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |
| Australia | 4th round (1991) |
| France | 3rd round (1997) |
| Wimbledon | 1/4 finals (1998) |
| USA | 4th round (1998) |
| Double discharge | |
| Matches | |
| Titles | eleven |
| Highest position | October 16 ( October 14, 1996 ) |
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |
| Australia | 1/2 finals (1992) |
| France | 3rd round (1995, 1997, 1999) |
| Wimbledon | 1/2 finals (1996) |
| USA | 2nd round (1991, 1996) |
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Sports career
In 1988, Jan Simerink won the Netherlands Youth Tennis Championships under the age of 18. At the end of the same year at the prestigious junior tournament of the Orange Bowl, he reached the semifinals in singles, and won in the doubles with another representative of the Netherlands, Yakko Elting .
In 1990, Simerink won his first ATP Challenger class tournaments in doubles, and in single player he became the champion of the Netherlands among adults [2] and reached the semi-finals of the ATP main tour tournament in Singapore. A year later, at the same tournament, he had already become a champion, and together with Richard Krycekom he won the Open Championship of the Netherlands in Hilversum. Simerink also made his debut for the Dutch national team in the Davis Cup , together with Krycek officially issuing her victory in the World Cup play-off game against the Mexicans . In the course of the season, he defeated Guy Forge the eighth racket of the world (in the second round of the US Open , Brad Gilbert , the tenth racket of the world, and the players of the top twenty of the ATP ranking Andrei Cherkasov , Andrei Chesnokov and Jacob Khlasek [3] , finishing the season among the top 50 tennis players the world in singles and among the hundred best in doubles [4] .
In the first half of 1992, Simerink reached the Australian Open semi-finals in a pair with Krycek, and then beat singles in fourth and second place in the Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg rankings. However, these successes were not followed by conquered titles, at the French Open , Wimbledon Olympics in Barcelona, Simerink dropped out of the fight in the first round and eventually ended the season in more modest places than the year before. In early 1993, he and Krycek managed to win the ATP highest category tournament in Miami , beating three sown pairs on the way to the title [5] .
Having won two more ATP tournaments with different partners in 1994, in early January 1995 at the tournament in Doha (Qatar) on the way to the final, Andrei Olkhovsky won the strongest pair of the world Mark Woodford - Todd Woodbridge . Until the end of the year, he repeated this success three times. First, in June in Rosmalene (the Netherlands), paired with Krycek ph, won on the road to winning the title of their compatriots Elting and Paul Harhoys , who replaced the Australians on the first line of the world rankings, a month later in Stuttgart, inflicting one more defeat now paired with South African Ellis Ferreira and in October, in the finals of the tournament in Vienna, he won with Ferreira Woodford and Woodbridge, who regained the lead in the rating [6] . With two wins and two defeats in the finals for the year, Symerink ended it in 22nd place in the ATP doubles ranking. In 1995, he also played three times in the finals of the ATP tournaments in singles, having failed to win, but rose to the 21st place in the rankings. Four players from the world top ten - Becker, Michael Chang , Wayne Ferreira and Thomas Enquist were among the opponents he had beaten for the year, and he beat Becker and Enquist in the same tournament in Basel, losing in the final in five sets to Jim Courier [7] .
In October 1996, Simerink reached the top 16th place in the ATP pair rating [4] , winning two tournaments with Ellis Ferreira - again in Sydney after a victory over Woodford and Woodbridge and in Monte Carlo at the highest category tournament , - and then reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon and another tournament of the highest category in Cincinnati, where they once again defeated the Australian. The end of the year, Simerink and Ferreira, however, were unsuccessful, failing to get into the final ATP tournament, where they played eight of the strongest pairs in the world [8] . In singles, Simerink won Nottingham's first single title at the ATP tournaments since 1991, then in New Haven once again beat two opponents from the top ten (Krycek and Wayne Ferreyra) for one tournament and repeated this result in Stuttgart, defeating Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Goran Ivanisevic [9] . He graduated from the year in 15th place in the single-player rating [4] .
One more position to improve his best ranking in singles, Simerinka managed two years later, in October 1998 [4] , after two ATP tournaments won during the year and reaching the quarterfinals at the Wimbledon tournament. Among the rivals he beat this season were top ten players Patrick Rafter and Richard Krycek (on the way to victory in Rotterdam), Jonas Bjorkkman (at Wimbledon) and Greg Rusedski (at the US Open) [10] . After that, Symerink won two more titles in doubles in 1999 and 2000, reached the semi-finals of the Davis Cup with the Netherlands national team in 2001, winning all four meetings with rivals from Spain , Germany and France during the season, and completed performances in the summer of 2002 of the year.
At the end of his playing career, Symerink gives tennis classes to master classes, conducts administrative work in the Netherlands Tennis Federation, where he is the technical director, and works as a sports commentator [11] [12] . Since December 2006, he has held the post of captain of the Dutch national team in the Davis Cup [13] , which in 2013 led to the World Group after a three-year break [14] . Simeink remained the captain of the national team until December 2016, when Paul Harhois replaced him in this position [15] .
Position in the APR ranking at the end of the season
| Year | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singles | 143 | 26 | 57 | 53 | 82 | 21 | 15 | 78 | nineteen | 87 | 103 | 124 |
| Double discharge | 163 | 60 | 102 | 65 | 46 | 22 | 24 | 117 | 109 | 126 | 75 | 127 |
ATP Tournament Finals for a Career
| Legend |
|---|
| Grand Helmet (0) |
| World Championship ATP (0) |
| ATP Super 9 (0 + 2) |
| ATP Championship Series / ATP Gold (2 + 1) |
| ATP World / ATP International (10 + 15) |
Singles (4-8)
| Result | No | date | Tournament | Coating | Rival in the final | Score in the final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victory | one. | April 22, 1991 | Singapore | Hard | Gilad Blum | 6-4, 6-3 |
| Defeat | one. | October 14, 1991 | Vienna, Austria | Carpet (i) | Michael Stich | 4-6, 4-6, 4-6 |
| Defeat | 2 | February 1, 1993 | Marseille, France | Carpet (i) | Marc Rosse | 2-6, 6-7 1 |
| Defeat | 3 | July 24, 1995 | Netherlands Open, Amsterdam | Priming | Marcelo Rios | 4-6, 5-7, 4-6 |
| Defeat | four. | August 21, 1995 | Long Island, United States | Hard | Evgeny Kafelnikov | 6-7 0 , 2-6 |
| Defeat | five. | September 25, 1995 | Basel, Switzerland | Hard (i) | Jim Courier | 7-6 2 , 6-7 5 , 7-5, 2-6, 5-7 |
| Victory | 2 | June 17, 1996 | Nottingham, UK | Grass | Sandon stoll | 6-3, 7-6 0 |
| Defeat | 6 | August 12, 1996 | Stratton Mountain, New Haven , United States | Hard | Alex O'Brien | 6-7 6 , 4-6 |
| Defeat | 7 | October 7, 1996 | Vienna (2) | Carpet (i) | Boris Becker | 4-6, 7-6 7 , 2-6, 3-6 |
| Defeat | eight. | November 3, 1997 | Stockholm, Sweden | Hard (i) | Yunas Bjorkman | 6-3, 6-7 2 , 2-6, 4-6 |
| Victory | 3 | March 2, 1998 | Rotterdam , the Netherlands | Carpet (i) | Thomas Johansson | 7-6 2 , 6-2 |
| Victory | four. | September 28, 1998 | Toulouse , France | Hard (i) | Greg Rusedski | 6-4, 6-4 |
Doubles rank (11 + 7)
| Result | No | date | Tournament | Coating | Partner | Rivals in the final | Score in the final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defeat | one. | June 10, 1991 | Rosmalen, the Netherlands | Grass | Richard Krycek | Hendrik Jan Davids Paul Harhois | 3-6, 6-7 |
| Victory | one. | July 22, 1991 | Netherlands Open, Hilversum | Priming | Richard Krycek | Magnus Gustafsson Francisco Clavet | 7-5, 6-4 |
| Defeat | 2 | October 7, 1991 | Berlin , Germany | Carpet (i) | Daniel Vacek | Peter Korda Karel Novachek | 6-3, 5-7, 5-7 |
| Victory | 2 | March 12, 1993 | Miami, United States | Hard | Richard Krycek | Patrick Makinroy Jonathan stark | 6-7, 6-4, 7-6 |
| Victory | 3 | January 31, 1994 | Marseille, France | Carpet (i) | Daniel Vacek | Martin damm Evgeny Kafelnikov | 6-7, 6-4, 6-1 |
| Victory | four. | July 25, 1994 | Netherlands Open (2) | Priming | Daniel Orsanich | David adams Andrey Olkhovsky | 6-4, 6-2 |
| Defeat | 3 | January 2, 1995 | Qatar Open Championship, Doha | Hard | Andrey Olkhovsky | Magnus Larsson Stefan Edberg | 6-7, 2-6 |
| Victory | five. | June 12, 1995 | Rosmalen | Grass | Richard Krycek | Hendrik Jan Davids Andrey Olkhovsky | 7-5, 6-3 |
| Defeat | four. | July 17, 1995 | Stuttgart , Germany | Priming | Ellis Ferreira | Thomas Carbonel Francisco Roig | 6-3, 3-6, 4-6 |
| Victory | 6 | October 16, 1995 | Vienna, Austria | Carpet (i) | Ellis Ferreira | Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodford | 6-4, 7-5 |
| Victory | 7 | January 8, 1996 | Sydney, Australia | Hard | Ellis Ferreira | Patrick Makinroy Sandon stoll | 5-7, 6-4, 6-1 |
| Victory | eight. | 28 April 1996 | Monte Carlo, Monaco | Priming | Ellis Ferreira | Yunas Bjorkman Niklas coolie | 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 |
| Defeat | five. | January 6, 1997 | Sydney | Hard | Paul Harhois | Luis Lobo Javier Sanchez | 4-6, 7-6, 3-6 |
| Defeat | 6 | March 9, 1998 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Carpet (i) | Brett Stephen | Tom campers Menno osting | 4-6, 6-7 |
| Victory | 9. | June 15, 1998 | Rosmalen (2) | Grass | Guillaume Rau | Joshua eagle Andrew Florent | 7-6 5 , 6-2 |
| Defeat | 7 | September 28, 1998 | Toulouse , France | Hard (i) | Paul Harhois | Olivier Delautre Fabrice Santoro | 2-6, 4-6 |
| Victory | ten. | June 14, 1999 | Rosmalen (3) | Grass | Leander Paez | David Rickle Ellis Ferreira | canceled |
| Victory | eleven. | May 1, 2000 | Orlando , USA | Priming | Leander Paez | Justin gimelstob Sebastien Laro | 6-3, 6-4 |
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 ATP website
- ↑ Biography Archival copy of August 14, 2015 on the Wayback Machine on the official website (nid.)
- 1991 1991 ATP Singles Results (Eng.)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 The history of the situation in the ranking on the ATP website (English)
- 1993 1993 Lipton Championships tournament grid doubles on the ATP website (English)
- 1995 1995 ATP doubles results (eng.)
- 1995 1995 Singles Results on ATP (Eng.)
- 1996 1996 ATP doubles results (eng.)
- 1996 1996 Singles Results on ATP (Eng.)
- 1998 1998 ATP Singles Results (Eng.)
- ↑ Jan Siemerink - Oud-tennisser & Directeur Sportief KNLTB ( inc .) . SportsSpeakers. The appeal date is June 5, 2015.
- ↑ 'Dubbelrol van Jan Siemerink twijfelachtig' (nid.) . AD.nl (15-9-14). The appeal date is June 5, 2015.
- ↑ Siemerink langer Davis Cup captain ( un .) (Inaccessible link) . Omroep West (12-12-2007). The date of circulation is June 5, 2015. Archived on January 27, 2013.
- ↑ Michiel de Hoog. Netherlands return to World Group . Davis Cup (15 September 2013). The appeal date is June 5, 2015.
- ↑ Haarhuis volgt Siemerink op als Davis Cup-coach . Fox Sports (16 december 2016). The appeal date is June 20, 2018.