Rik de Voest
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Rik de Voest is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) is a professional South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n tennis player. As of September 6, 2007, de Voest's career-high ranking was World Number 110, which he achieved on August 21, 2006.
De Voest qualified for the 2007
2007 Wimbledon Championships
The 2007 Wimbledon Championships were held between 25 June and 8 July 2007. For the first time there was equal prize money for the men's and women's singles champions. Reconstruction work on Centre Court was in progress and thus it had no roof....
Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
men's singles event
2007 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles
Roger Federer won his fifth consecutive Wimbledon to equal the record of Björn Borg, defeating Rafael Nadal in five sets in the final.-Seeds:# Roger Federer # Rafael Nadal # Andy Roddick # Novak Djoković ...
, where he lost to Marat Safin
Marat Safin
Marat Mikhailovich Safin is a retired Russian tennis player of Tatar descent. Safin won two grand slams and reached the world number 1 ranking during his career. He was also famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper on court. Safin also holds the record for most broken...
in the first round. De Voest qualified for the U.S. Open
2007 U.S. Open (tennis)
The 2007 US Open was held from 27 August to 9 September 2007, at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, New York City....
later on in 2007, where he defeated Thierry Ascione
Thierry Ascione
Thierry Ascione is a retired professional tour male tennis player from France. He is 6'2" and weighs just under . He turned pro in 2000 and retired in September, 2010....
6–2, 3–0 before Ascione retired. De Voest went on to lose to John Isner
John Isner
John Robert Isner is an American professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high rank of no. 18 on July 5, 2010, and has been as high as the second-ranked American tennis player behind Andy Roddick...
in the following round. De Voest is 12–5 in Davis Cup
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
matches; being 8–5 for singles and 4–0 for doubles.
Playing with Scott Lipsky
Scott Lipsky
Scott Lipsky is a professional tennis player from the United States. He is primarily a doubles specialist....
of the U.S., he won the Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger
2009 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger – Doubles
Carsten Ball and Travis Rettenmaier were the defending champions, however only Ball tried to defend his title.He partnered with Kaes Van't Hof, but they lost to Rik de Voest and Scott Lipsky 6–7, 4–6 in the final.-Seeds:...
in Binghamton, New York in 2009.
Doubles titles
| Legend (Doubles) |
| Grand Slam (0) |
| Tennis Masters Cup / ATP World Tour Finals (0) |
| ATP Masters Series / ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0) |
| ATP International Series Gold / ATP World Tour 500 Series (1) |
| ATP International Series / ATP World Tour 250 Series (1) |
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponent in the Final | Score in the Final |
| 1. | 2007 |  BeijingChina Open (tennis) The China Open is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Beijing, China. The men's singles and doubles events were first held in 1993, the year in which the Qatar Open and Dubai Tennis Championships were also introduced to the men's tour, as the ATP opened a series of new tournaments in... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture... |
Hard |  Ashley FisherAshley Fisher Ashley Fisher is a professional tennis player who comes from New South Wales in Australia. Fisher turned professional in 1998. Fisher has never played a major singles match on the ATP Tour, but has won four notable doubles titles on tour. The doubles specialist reached his highest doubles ranking... |
 Chris HaggardChris Haggard Chris Haggard is a professional tennis player from South Africa.After finishing runner-up in the NAIA national men's tennis championship singles draw in 1991 while playing for Auburn University-Montgomery, Haggard turned pro in 1993. He has won six ATP Tour doubles titles and finished runner-up a...  Yen-Hsun Lu |
6–7, 6–0, [10–6] |
| 2. | 2009 |  Dubai, United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a... |
Hard |  Dmitry TursunovDmitry Tursunov Dmitry Igorevich Tursunov is a Russian professional male tennis player. He was 12 years old when he came to the United States to train and further his prospects of becoming a professional player.... |
 Martin DammMartin Damm Martin Damm was a professional tennis player from Czechia. He is 6'2" 195 lb and is best known as a doubles player . ,his highest singles ranking 42 as of August 1997...  Robert LindstedtRobert Lindstedt Robert Lindstedt is a Swedish professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1998, and is a doubles specialist... |
4–6, 6–3, [10–5] |