# Peter Wessels

Peter Wessels (born 7 May 1978) is a former tour professional male tennis player and a coach from the Netherlands. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 72 in February 2005.

## Biography

Wessels had an excellent junior career, finishing No. 5 in singles and No. 18 in doubles in the 1995 world junior rankings. In that year he reached the singles semifinals at Wimbledon and US Open juniors and captured Roland Garros junior doubles title with fellow countryman Raemon Sluiter.
His best result on the professional tour was winning the 2000 ATP tournament in Newport beating German Jens Knippschild in the final 7–6, 6–3.
He started 2006 by qualifying for the Hopman Cup tournament in Perth with Michaëlla Krajicek where the Dutch went all the way to the final only to be beaten in a very close mixed doubles by the American team of Taylor Dent and Lisa Raymond. Despite this, Wessels and Krajicek proved that they were a force to be reckoned with. At the Hopman Cup, he won 4 out of his 5 singles matches (def. Peng Sun, Gastón Gaudio, Todd Reid and Nicolas Kiefer; lost to Taylor Dent). In mixed doubles, they had a 3–2 record (def. Reid/Stosur, Peng/Sun, Grönefeld/Kiefer; lost to Raymond/Dent, Dulko/Gaudio).
In June 2007 Wessels qualified for the Ordina Open grass tournament in 's-Hertogenbosch. Ranked 488 he caused an upset in the quarterfinals by beating the number one seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo, in two sets: 6–3, 6–3. He subsequently reached the final but narrowly lost against Croat Ivan Ljubičić 6–7$^{(5)}$, 6–3, 6–7$^{(4)}$.
Since 2024, he is coaching Sorana Cirstea.

## ATP career finals
### Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

* 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 (1–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (0–0)
* Grass (1–1)
* Carpet (0–0)
* Finals by setting
* Outdoors (1–1)
* Indoors (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Jul 2000 | Newport, United States | International Series | Grass | Jens Knippschild | 7–6$^{(7–3)}$, 6–3 |
| Loss | 1–1 | Jun 2007 | 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands | International Series | Grass | Ivan Ljubičić | 6–7$^{(5–7)}$, 6–4, 6–7$^{(4–7)}$ |

## ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
### Singles: 17 (8-9)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (6–9)
* ITF Futures (2–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (5–4)
* Clay (1–3)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (2–2)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Feb 1998 | Lübeck, Germany | Challenger | Carpet | Michael Kohlmann | 7–6, 6–3 |
| Loss | 1–1 | Oct 1998 | Santiago, Chile | Challenger | Clay | Sebastián Prieto | 5–7, 4–6 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Nov 1998 | Portorož, Slovenia | Challenger | Hard | Rainer Schüttler | 3–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 1–3 | Dec 1998 | Nümbrecht, Germany | Challenger | Carpet | Christian Vinck | 7–6, 4–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 1–4 | May 2001 | Antwerp, Belgium | Challenger | Clay | Dick Norman | 3–5 ret. |
| Loss | 1–5 | Nov 2001 | Eckental, Germany | Challenger | Carpet | Alexander Popp | 4–6, 7–5, 2–6 |
| Win | 2–5 | Mar 2003 | France F8, Melun | Futures | Carpet | Thierry Ascione | walkover |
| Win | 3–5 | Oct 2003 | Réunion Island, Réunion | Challenger | Hard | Fred Hemmes | 6–0, 6–2 |
| Loss | 3–6 | Mar 2004 | Sanremo, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Potito Starace | 4–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 4–6 | Jul 2004 | Scheveningen, Netherlands | Challenger | Clay | Raemon Sluiter | 7–5, 7–6$^{(9–7)}$ |
| Loss | 4–7 | Aug 2004 | Bronx, United States | Challenger | Hard | Julien Jeanpierre | 6–7$^{(4–7)}$, 6–3, 3–6 |
| Win | 5–7 | Sep 2004 | Istanbul, Turkey | Challenger | Hard | Daniele Bracciali | 6–3, 6–2 |
| Loss | 5–8 | Oct 2004 | Bolton, United Kingdom | Challenger | Hard | Marcos Baghdatis | 1–6, 6–3, 2–6 |
| Win | 6–8 | Nov 2004 | Helsinki, Finland | Challenger | Hard | Lukáš Dlouhý | 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 |
| Win | 7–8 | Nov 2004 | Groningen, Netherlands | Challenger | Hard | Ivo Minář | 6–3, 6–2 |
| Loss | 7–9 | Apr 2006 | Saint Brieuc, France | Challenger | Hard | Marc Gicquel | 3–6, 1–6 |
| Win | 8–9 | Mar 2007 | Portugal F2, Lagos | Futures | Hard | Clément Morel | 6–3, 6–2 |

### Doubles: 12 (5–7)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (4–7)
* ITF Futures (1–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–3)
* Clay (4–3)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (1–1)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Jul 1997 | Scheveningen, Netherlands | Challenger | Clay | Raemon Sluiter | Álex Calatrava Tom Vanhoudt | 7–6, 2–6, 6–7 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Feb 1998 | Lippstadt, Germany | Challenger | Carpet | Raemon Sluiter | Andrew Richardson Myles Wakefield | 6–4, 6–7, 4–6 |
| Win | 1–2 | Apr 1998 | San Luis Potosí, Mexico | Challenger | Clay | Edwin Kempes | José Frontera Bobby Kokavec | 7–6, 4–6, 7–5 |
| Win | 2–2 | Jun 1998 | Prostějov, Czech Republic | Challenger | Clay | Edwin Kempes | Tomáš Cibulec Tomáš Krupa | 6–4, 7–5 |
| Win | 3–2 | Sep 1998 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Challenger | Clay | Edwin Kempes | Marcos Ondruska Chris Wilkinson | 6–7, 6–3, 6–2 |
| Loss | 3–3 | Oct 1998 | Santiago, Chile | Challenger | Clay | Edwin Kempes | Ota Fukárek Attila Sávolt | 6–7, 4–6 |
| Loss | 3–4 | Oct 1998 | São Paulo, Brazil | Challenger | Clay | Edwin Kempes | Diego del Río Martín Rodríguez | 6–7, 3–6 |
| Win | 4–4 | Jan 2003 | Great Britain F1, Glasgow | Futures | Carpet | Edwin Kempes | Marco Chiudinelli Wesley Moodie | 2–6, 7–6$^{(11–9)}$, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$ |
| Loss | 4–5 | Oct 2003 | Réunion Island, Réunion | Challenger | Hard | Fred Hemmes | Federico Browne Rogier Wassen | 1–6, 7–6$^{(7–4)}$, 3–6 |
| Loss | 4–6 | Oct 2004 | Bolton, United Kingdom | Challenger | Hard | Melle van Gemerden | Jeff Coetzee Jim Thomas | 5–7, 3–6 |
| Win | 5–6 | Jul 2007 | Scheveningen, Netherlands | Challenger | Clay | Raemon Sluiter | Rohan Bopanna Pablo Cuevas | 7–6$^{(8–6)}$, 7–5 |
| Loss | 5–7 | Mar 2008 | Sunrise, United States | Challenger | Hard | Kristof Vliegen | Janko Tipsarević Dušan Vemić | 2–6, 6–7$^{(5–7)}$ |

## Junior Grand Slam finals
### Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1995 | French Open | Clay | Raemon Sluiter | Justin Gimelstob Ryan Wolters | 7–6, 7–5 |
| Loss | 1995 | US Open | Hard | Raemon Sluiter | Lee Jong-Min Jocelyn Robichaud | 6–7, 2–6 |

## Performance timeline

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

### Singles

| Tournament | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | SR | W–L | Win% |
| Grand Slam tournaments |||||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | Q1 | A | Q1 | 2R | Q1 | A | A | 0 / 4 | 1–4 | 20% |
| French Open | A | A | Q2 | Q1 | Q1 | Q1 | A | A | Q2 | 2R | Q1 | A | A | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Wimbledon | Q3 | A | A | 1R | A | 1R | A | A | A | 1R | Q2 | A | A | 0 / 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| US Open | A | 1R | Q1 | 3R | 1R | Q1 | Q1 | A | Q3 | 2R | Q3 | Q1 | A | 0 / 4 | 3–4 | 43% |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 12 | 5–12 | 29% |
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 |||||||||||||||
| Miami | A | A | A | Q2 | A | Q1 | Q2 | A | A | 1R | A | A | Q1 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Rome | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | Q2 | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Cincinnati | A | A | A | A | Q1 | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |