# Filip Dewulf

Filip Dewulf (born 15 March 1972) is a former professional male tennis player from Belgium.
In his career, he won two ATP Tour singles titles and one title in doubles. In 1997 he reached the semifinals of the French Open, his best singles result ever and the first Belgian tennis player (male or female) to reach the semi-final at a Grand Slam tournament. He defeated Cristiano Caratti, Fernando Meligeni, Albert Portas, Àlex Corretja and Magnus Norman before he was defeated in four sets by the eventual champion, Gustavo Kuerten. This was, according to Roland Garros itself, the best performance that a qualifier has performed at a French Open, and only the third time in Grand Slam history that a qualifier had reached a semi-final. Dewulf would also reach the quarter-finals at the same event the following year, falling to eventual runner-up Àlex Corretja in straight sets. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 39, achieved in September 1997; he became the first Belgian in ATP Top 50, overall finishing four seasons as the top-ranked Belgian player.

## ATP career finals
### Singles: 2 (2 titles)

* Legend
* Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
* ATP Masters Series (0–0)
* ATP Championship Series (0–0)
* ATP World Series (2–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (1–0)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (1–0)
* Finals by setting
* Outdoors (1–0)
* Indoors (1–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Oct 1995 | Vienna, Austria | World Series | Carpet | Thomas Muster | 7–5, 6–2, 1–6, 7–5 |
| Win | 2–0 | Jul 1997 | Kitzbühel, Austria | World Series | Clay | Julian Alonso | 7–6$^{(7–2)}$, 6–4, 6–1 |

### Doubles: 1 (1 title)

* Legend
* Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
* ATP Masters Series (0–0)
* ATP Championship Series (0–0)
* ATP World Series (1–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (1–0)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
* Finals by setting
* Outdoors (1–0)
* Indoors (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Aug 1993 | Umag, Croatia | World Series | Clay | Tom Vanhoudt | Jordi Arrese Francisco Roig | 6–4, 7–5 |

## ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
### Singles: 6 (1–5)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (0–5)
* ITF Futures (1–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–1)
* Clay (1–4)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0-1 | Aug 1992 | Geneva, Switzerland | Challenger | Clay | Sergio Cortés | 7–6, 2–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 0-2 | May 1994 | Jerusalem, Israel | Challenger | Hard | Arne Thoms | 6–4, 1–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 0-3 | Jun 1994 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | Challenger | Clay | Chuck Adams | 4–6, 6–4, 6–7 |
| Win | 1-3 | Jan 2000 | France F1, Grasse | Futures | Clay | Nicolas Coutelot | 6–2, 6–2 |
| Loss | 1-4 | May 2000 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Challenger | Clay | Marcelo Charpentier | walkover |
| Loss | 1-5 | Jun 2000 | Weiden, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Daniel Elsner | 1–6, 6–7$^{(5–7>}$ |

### Doubles: 10 (6–4)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (6–4)
* ITF Futures (0–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–2)
* Clay (5–1)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (1–1)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Jul 1992 | Oberstaufen, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Tom Vanhoudt | Johan Anderson Lars-Anders Wahlgren | 6–2, 6–7, 4–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Aug 1992 | Geneva, Switzerland | Challenger | Clay | Tom Vanhoudt | Alfonso Gonzalez-Mora Marcelo Rebolledo | 6–3, 6–2 |
| Win | 2–1 | Sep 1992 | Casablanca, Morocco | Challenger | Clay | Tom Vanhoudt | Karol Kučera Andrey Merinov | 7–5, 6–3 |
| Loss | 2–2 | Nov 1992 | Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei | Challenger | Hard | Tom Vanhoudt | Owen Casey Donald Johnson | 2–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 3–2 | Feb 1993 | Lippstadt, Germany | Challenger | Carpet | Martin Laurendeau | David Engel Peter Nyborg | 7–6, 4–6, 7–6 |
| Loss | 3–3 | Mar 1993 | Garmisch, Germany | Challenger | Carpet | Tom Vanhoudt | Mike Bauer Alexander Mronz | 6–7, 6–3, 2–6 |
| Win | 4–3 | Aug 1993 | Graz, Austria | Challenger | Clay | Tom Vanhoudt | Jordi Arrese Francisco Roig | 6–7, 6–2, 6–3 |
| Win | 5–3 | Sep 1993 | Budapest, Hungary | Challenger | Clay | Tom Vanhoudt | Stefano Pescosolido Massimo Valeri | 7–5, 6–3 |
| Loss | 5–4 | May 1994 | Jerusalem, Israel | Challenger | Hard | Dick Norman | Ellis Ferreira Kevin Ullyett | 6–7, 3–6 |
| Win | 6–4 | Jul 1995 | Prague, Czech Republic | Challenger | Clay | Vojtěch Flégl | Petr Pála David Škoch | 6–7, 7–5, 6–2 |

## Performance timeline

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |

### Singles

| Tournament | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | SR | W–L | Win % |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | 2R | 1R | 2R | 2R | 1R | A | A | 0 / 5 | 3–5 | 38% |
| French Open | Q3 | A | Q3 | 1R | SF | QF | A | Q2 | 0 / 3 | 9–3 | 75% |
| Wimbledon | A | A | 1R | 2R | 1R | 2R | A | A | 0 / 4 | 2–4 | 33% |
| US Open | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | A | 0 / 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 2–4 | 6–4 | 5–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 15 | 14–15 | 48% |
| ATP Tour Masters 1000 ||||||||||||
| Miami | A | A | A | A | 2R | 2R | A | A | 0 / 2 | 2–2 | 50% |
| Monte Carlo | A | Q3 | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Hamburg | A | A | A | A | 1R | 2R | A | A | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | 33% |
| Rome | A | A | A | A | A | 2R | A | A | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Canada | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Cincinnati | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Paris | A | A | A | Q1 | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Stuttgart | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 1–4 | 3–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 11 | 4–11 | 27% |