# Kristof Vliegen

Kristof Vliegen (born 22 June 1982) is a Belgian former tennis player. He plays right-handed and he turned professional in 2001.
He was a semi-finalist in Chennai in 2006 and in May of the same year, he reached the final of the ATP tournament in Munich, setting up the first all-Belgian men's singles final against Olivier Rochus.
He is not related to fellow Belgian tennis player Joran Vliegen.

## Career
### 2006

He was a semi-finalist in Chennai in 2006 and in May of the same year, he reached the final of the ATP tournament in Munich, setting up the first all-Belgian men's singles final against Olivier Rochus. He was also the 30th seed at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the 2nd round before losing to Nicolas Mahut in straight sets.

### 2009

In Doha, the first tournament of the year he defeated Spaniard Óscar Hernández with 6–1, 6–7 and 6–7. In the next round he faced German Philipp Kohlschreiber. He was defeated in three sets 4–6, 7–6 and 6–4. At the Australian open he met Italian Simone Bolelli but lost in three long sets 6–7, 5–7 and 6–7. One week later he started in the SA Tennis Open as the seventh seed. In the first round he won in two straight sets of unranked Ross Hutchins. In the next round he defeated Czech Jan Minář. In the quarterfinals he lost to world number 6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets 4–6 and 1–6. At the Open 13 in Marseille he faced Czech Jan Hernych in the first round but lost in three sets: 6–3, 3–6 and 6–4.

## ATP career finals
### Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

* Legend
* Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
* ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
* ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–2)
* Titles by surface
* Hard (0–1)
* Clay (0–1)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
* Titles by setting
* Outdoor (0–2)
* Indoor (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Jan 2003 | Adelaide, Australia | International Series | Hard | Nikolay Davydenko | 2–6, 6–7$^{(3–7)}$ |
| Loss | 0–2 | May 2006 | Munich, Germany | International Series | Clay | Olivier Rochus | 4–6, 2–6 |

### Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

* Legend
* Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
* ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
* ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–2)
* Titles by surface
* Hard (0–2)
* Clay (0–0)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
* Titles by setting
* Outdoor (0–2)
* Indoor (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Oct 2006 | Stockholm, Sweden | International Series | Hard | Olivier Rochus | Paul Hanley Kevin Ullyett | 6–7$^{(2–7)}$, 4–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Jul 2010 | Atlanta, United States | 250 Series | Hard | Rohan Bopanna | Scott Lipsky Rajeev Ram | 3–6, 7–6$^{(7–4)}$, [10–12] |

## ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
### Singles: 16 (11–5)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (9–4)
* ITF Futures (2–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (5–1)
* Clay (6–4)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Aug 2001 | Luxembourg F2, Luxembourg | Futures | Clay | Jordane Doble | 4–4 ret. |
| Win | 1–1 | Mar 2002 | France F6, Lille | Futures | Hard | Jérôme Haehnel | 7–6$^{(7–3)}$, 7–6$^{(7–3)}$ |
| Win | 2–1 | Jun 2002 | Germany F6, Oberweier | Futures | Clay | Daniel Elsner | 6–1, 1–0 ret. |
| Win | 3–1 | Aug 2002 | Geneva, Switzerland | Challenger | Clay | Galo Blanco | 6–2, 6–2 |
| Win | 4–1 | May 2003 | Zagreb, Croatia | Challenger | Clay | Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo | 6–1, 4–6, 6–0 |
| Win | 5–1 | Oct 2003 | Groningen, Netherlands | Challenger | Hard | Joachim Johansson | 6–4, 6–4 |
| Loss | 5–2 | Apr 2004 | Barcelona, Spain | Challenger | Clay | Stan Wawrinka | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 5–3 | Apr 2005 | Paget, Bermuda | Challenger | Clay | Tomáš Zíb | 7–6$^{(10–8)}$, 6–7$^{(6–8)}$, 1–6 |
| Loss | 5–4 | Jul 2005 | Scheveningen, Netherlands | Challenger | Clay | Melle van Gemerden | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 5–5 | Oct 2007 | Mons, Belgium | Challenger | Hard | Ernests Gulbis | 5–7, 3–6 |
| Win | 6–5 | Feb 2008 | Wrocław, Poland | Challenger | Hard | Jürgen Melzer | 6–4, 3–6, 6–3 |
| Win | 7–5 | Aug 2008 | Geneva, Switzerland | Challenger | Clay | Yuri Schukin | 6–2, 6–1 |
| Win | 8–5 | Sep 2008 | Düsseldorf, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Andreas Beck | 6–0, 6–3 |
| Win | 9–5 | Sep 2008 | Grenoble, France | Challenger | Hard | Alexandre Sidorenko | 6–4, 6–3 |
| Win | 10–5 | Mar 2009 | Besançon, France | Challenger | Hard | Andreas Beck | 6–2, 6–7$^{(8–10)}$, 6–3 |
| Win | 11–5 | Jul 2009 | Scheveningen, Netherlands | Challenger | Clay | Albert Montañés | 4–2 ret. |

### Doubles: 10 (7–3)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (4–3)
* ITF Futures (3–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (1–2)
* Clay (6–1)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Jan 2001 | France F2, Angers | Futures | Clay | Wim Neefs | Vitali Shvets Relja Dulic-Fiser | 6–1, 6–3 |
| Win | 2–0 | Feb 2001 | France F4, Deauville | Futures | Clay | Wim Neefs | Kim Tiilikainen Jan Weinzierl | 6–3, 7–6$^{(7–3)}$ |
| Win | 3–0 | Aug 2001 | Netherlands F1, Enschede | Futures | Clay | Stefan Wauters | Bart De Gier Michel Koning | 7–6$^{(7–4)}$, 6–1 |
| Win | 4–0 | Mar 2005 | Barletta, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Tom Vanhoudt | Yuri Schukin Lukáš Dlouhý | 6–4, 5–7, 7–5 |
| Loss | 4–1 | Jul 2005 | Scheveningen, Netherlands | Challenger | Clay | Steve Darcis | Julien Benneteau Édouard Roger-Vasselin | 7–5, 5–7, 6–7$^{(5–7)}$ |
| Win | 5–1 | Mar 2007 | Sunrise, United States | Challenger | Hard | Konstantinos Economidis | Sebastián Prieto Juan Martín del Potro | 6–3, 6–4 |
| Loss | 5–2 | Aug 2007 | Istanbul, Turkey | Challenger | Hard | Dick Norman | James Auckland Ross Hutchins | 7–5, 6–7$^{(5–7)}$, [7–10] |
| Loss | 5–3 | Mar 2008 | Sunrise, United States | Challenger | Hard | Peter Wessels | Janko Tipsarević Dušan Vemić | 2–6, 6–7$^{(6–8)}$ |
| Win | 6–3 | Aug 2008 | Freudenstadt, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Dick Norman | Rainer Eitzinger Armin Sandbichler | 6–3, 6–3 |
| Win | 7–3 | May 2010 | Tunis, Tunisia | Challenger | Clay | Jeff Coetzee | James Cerretani Adil Shamasdin | 7–6$^{(7–3)}$, 6–3 |

## Junior Grand Slam finals
### Doubles: 1 (1 title)

| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 2000 | Wimbledon Championships | Grass | Dominique Coene | Andrew Banks Benjamin Riby | 6–3, 1–6, 6–3 |

## Performance timelines

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |

### Singles

| Tournament | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | SR | W–L | Win % |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | Q2 | Q3 | Q1 | 3R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 5 | 3–5 | 38% |
| French Open | Q1 | 1R | 2R | 1R | 3R | 1R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 7 | 3–7 | 30% |
| Wimbledon | Q1 | 1R | Q1 | 2R | 2R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 0 / 6 | 3–6 | 33% |
| US Open | 1R | 1R | Q1 | 1R | 1R | A | A | 1R | 0 / 5 | 0–5 | 0% |
| Win–loss | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 3–4 | 3–4 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 0–4 | 0 / 23 | 9–23 | 28% |
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ||||||||||||
| Indian Wells | A | A | A | 2R | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | 33% |
| Miami | Q2 | A | A | 3R | 1R | 1R | A | A | 0 / 3 | 2–3 | 40% |
| Monte Carlo | A | A | A | 3R | 3R | 2R | 1R | A | 0 / 4 | 5–4 | 56% |
| Madrid | A | 1R | A | 3R | Q2 | A | A | A | 0 / 2 | 2–2 | 50% |
| Rome | Q2 | A | A | A | Q1 | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Hamburg | A | A | A | 2R | Q1 | 1R | NMS | NMS | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | 33% |
| Canada Masters | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Cincinnati | A | A | A | 2R | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Paris | A | Q1 | 2R | 2R | Q2 | Q1 | A | A | 0 / 2 | 2–2 | 50% |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 10–8 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0 / 17 | 14–17 | 45% |

### Doubles

| Tournament | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | SR | W–L | Win % |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | 2R | 2R | 2R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 5 | 3–5 | 38% |
| French Open | 2R | A | A | 2R | 3R | 1R | A | 1R | 0 / 5 | 4–5 | 44% |
| Wimbledon | Q1 | A | A | 2R | 2R | 1R | A | 1R | 0 / 4 | 2–4 | 33% |
| US Open | A | A | A | 3R | 2R | A | A | 1R | 0 / 3 | 3–3 | 50% |
| Win–loss | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 5–4 | 5–4 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 0 / 17 | 12–17 | 41% |