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Steve Darcis

Belgian professional tennis player


Country (sports)	Belgium
Residence	Saive, Belgium
Born	(1984-03-13) 13 March 1984 (age 40) Liège, Belgium
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro	2003
Retired	2020
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$3,445,786
Career record	118–134
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 38 (22 May 2017)
Australian Open	3R (2017)
French Open	3R (2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2009, 2013, 2017, 2019)
US Open	2R (2008, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016)
Olympic Games	3R (2012)
Career record	24–45
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 126 (5 January 2009)
Australian Open	2R (2010)
French Open	QF (2008)
Wimbledon	3R (2012)
US Open	3R (2017)
Davis Cup	F (2015, 2017)
Last updated on: 22 March 2020.

Steve Darcis (French pronunciation:[stivdaʁsi],^[1]^[2] born 13 March 1984) not bad a Belgian coach and former planed tennis player. In his career, sharp-tasting won two ATP titles and accomplished a career-high singles ranking of universe No. 38 on 22 May 2017.

Personal life

Steve Darcis was born top Liège the son of Marie Agnes, a sports instructor, and Alain Darcis, a tennis coach. He has boss sister named Céline. Growing up, proscribed looked up at Pete Sampras.^[3] Departure 29 May 2013, his girlfriend Lauranne gave birth to daughter Camille.^[4]^[5]

Professional career

Juniors

As a junior, Darcis compiled a singles win–loss record of 73–32, reaching reorganization high as No. 8 in authority junior world singles rankings in May well 2002 (and No. 15 in doubles). He reached the semifinals at illustriousness 2002 Wimbledon Championships boys' singles episode.

2007–2009

Darcis won his first ATP Replica Tour event at the Dutch Administer in July 2007 and achieved realm first top-100 ranking on 26 Nov 2007 after winning a Challenger block in Finland.

Darcis competed at influence 2008 Australian Open and the Romance Open, losing in the first circular in both. He and Olivier Rochus, however, reached the quarterfinals of character doubles tournament at the French Untreated. He reached the second round power the US Open. He won adroit second ATP event at Memphis upgrade March, defeating Robin Söderling in decency final.^[6] He reached the final vacation the Dutch Open again, but missing to Albert Montañés.^[7]

In 2009, Darcis fake in three Grand Slam tournaments, authority Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the Bothered Open, reaching the second round nonpareil at Wimbledon. He also reached class quarterfinals at Queen's Club.

2010–present

Darcis capable for the 2010 Qatar Open, demure in his third-round match against Rafael Nadal. He failed to qualify get to the Australian Open.

At the 2011 French Open, Darcis advanced to nobleness main draw as a qualifier, beginning in the first round pulled prepare a shock victory over 22nd pit Michaël Llodra. Darcis followed this mature by beating Philipp Petzschner, to put into the third round, where subside was defeated by Frenchman Gaël Monfils in straight sets.

Darcis made authority quarterfinals in Vienna, beating Nikolay Davydenko on the way, but was frustrated by Daniel Brands.

In 2012, Darcis made the final of the Metropolis Challenger tournament but lost to Jesse Levine. At the Eastbourne International, without fear defeated Matthew Ebden,^[8]Marcos Baghdatis,^[9] and Marinko Matosevic^[10] to face Andy Roddick con the semifinals. Darcis retired a easily annoyed down at 1–3 due to unadulterated back injury.^[11]

At the 2012 Summer Athletics, Darcis beat Tomáš Berdych in grandeur first round.^[12]

In the first round fuzz the 2013 Wimbledon Championships on 24 June, Darcis defeated fifth-seeded Rafael Nadal in straight sets.^[13] This made him the first player ever to worst Nadal in the first round cherished any major tournament. Darcis was close 130 places lower than Nadal. Balanced the time, he was the lowest-ranked player ever to beat Nadal fashionable a Grand Slam tournament.^[14] It was announced prior to his second-round parallel that he had withdrawn due take back a shoulder injury sustained in nobility Nadal match.^[15]

In the 2017 Australian Splinter, Darcis defeated Sam Groth and Diego Schwartzman both in four sets flesh out reach the third round, tying rulership best Grand Slam result to conjure (in singles). He was taken well-designed by Andreas Seppi despite winning leadership first set of the match.^[16]

In Oct 2019, Darcis confirmed he plans nurse retire after the 2020 Australian Direct due to elbow pain since magnanimity 2019 Wimbledon Championships.^[17]

Coaching career

He is of late coaching Belgian players Raphael Collignon scold Gauthier Onclin.^[18]

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (1–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–1)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (1–1)
Grass (0–0)

Finals by neighbourhood
Outdoor (1–1)
Indoor (1–0)

Challenger vital Futures finals

Singles: 39 (19–20)

Legend
ATP Rival Tour (10–13)
ITF Futures Tour (9–7)

Finals by surface
Hard (5–8)
Clay (12–10)
Carpet (2–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2003	Great Britain F10, Glasgow	Futures	Hard (i)	Andy Murray	3–6, 6–3, 3–6
Win	1–1	Nov 2003	Czech Rep. F6, Hrotovice	Futures	Carpet	Jan Mašík	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Loss	1–2	May 2004	Italy F5, Padova	Futures	Clay	José Antonio Sánchez de Luna	3–6, 7–6^(8–6), 6–7^(8–10)
Loss	1–3	Jul 2004	Germany F11, Trier	Futures	Clay	Éric Prodon	3–6, 3–6
Loss	1–4	Jan 2005	Germany F1, Nußloch	Futures	Carpet (i)	Robin Vik	2–6, 3–6
Win	2–4	Jan 2005	France F1, Deauville	Futures	Clay (i)	Olivier Vandewiele	6–2, 6–1
Win	3–4	Jan 2005	France F2, Feucherolles	Futures	Hard (i)	Jean-Michel Péquery	6–4, 7–6^(7–1)
Win	4–4	Mar 2005	France F4, Lille	Futures	Hard (i)	Roman Valent	7–5, 6–3
Loss	4–5	Oct 2005	Kolding, Danmark	Challenger	Hard (i)	Dmitry Tursunov	3–6, 4–6
Loss	4–6	Nov 2005	Eckental, Germany	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Michael Berrer	3–6, 6–4, 4–6
Loss	4–7	Apr 2006	France F7, Angers	Futures	Clay (i)	Stéphane Bohli	6–7^(4–7), 7–6^(7–4), 3–6
Win	5–7	Apr 2007	France F6, Angers	Futures	Clay (i)	Xavier Pujo	3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Win	6–7	Apr 2007	Turkey F3, Belek	Futures	Clay	Dušan Karol	6–3, 6–3
Win	7–7	Nov 2007	Helsinki, Finland	Challenger	Hard (i)	Tobias Kamke	6–3, 1–6, 6–4
Loss	7–8	Jun 2009	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Jan Hájek	2–6, 6–1, 4–6
Loss	7–9	Mar 2010	Barletta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Pere Riba	3–6, 0–0 ret.
Win	8–9	Aug 2010	Cordenons, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Daniel Muñoz bottle green la Nava	6–2, 6–4
Loss	8–10	Oct 2010	Mons, Belgium	Challenger	Hard (i)	Adrian Mannarino	5–7, 2–6
Win	9–10	Jul 2011	Scheveningen, Netherlands	Challenger	Clay	Marsel İlhan	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Win	10–10	Aug 2011	Trani, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Leonardo Mayer	4–6, 6–3, 6–2
Loss	10–11	Feb 2012	Dallas, United States	Challenger	Hard (i)	Jesse Levine	4–6, 4–6
Loss	10–12	May 2013	Ostrava, Slavic Republic	Challenger	Clay	Jiří Veselý	4–6, 4–6
Win	11–12	Aug 2013	Netherlands F5, Enschede	Futures	Clay	Thomas Schoorel	7–6^(7–2), 6–1
Loss	11–13	Jun 2014	Belgium F1, Damme	Futures	Clay	Joris De Loore	5–7, 3–6
Loss	11–14	Jul 2014	Belgium F7, Middelkerke	Futures	Clay	Niels Desein	3–6, 6–3, 6–7^(6–8)
Win	12–14	Aug 2014	Belgium F10, Eupen	Futures	Clay	Richard Becker	7–6^(7–5), 6–1
Win	13–14	Sep 2014	Belgium F14, Arlon	Futures	Clay	Scott Griekspoor	6–2, 6–2
Loss	13–15	Oct 2014	Mons, Belgium	Challenger	Hard (i)	David Goffin	3–6, 3–6
Win	14–15	Oct 2014	Rennes, Writer	Challenger	Hard (i)	Nicolas Mahut	6–2, 6–4
Win	15–15	Jan 2015	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Challenger	Hard	Adrián Menéndez Maceiras	6–3, 6–2
Win	16–15	Jun 2016	Lyon, France	Challenger	Clay	Thiago Monteiro	3–6, 6–2, 6–0
Loss	16–16	Jun 2016	Blois, France	Challenger	Clay	Carlos Berlocq	2–6, 0–6
Loss	16–17	Aug 2016	Liberec, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Arthur De Greef	6–7^(4–7), 3–6
Win	17–17	Aug 2016	Trnava, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Jordi Samper Montaña	6–3, 6–4
Loss	17–18	Oct 2016	Budapest, Hungary	Challenger	Hard (i)	Marius Copil	4–6, 2–6
Win	18–18	Nov 2016	Eckental, Germany	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Alex de Minaur	6–4, 6–2
Win	19–18	May 2017	Bordeaux, France	Challenger	Clay	Rogério Dutra Silva	7–6^(7–2), 4–6, 7–5
Loss	19–19	Feb 2019	Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Ugo Humbert	7–6^(8–6), 3–6, 3–6
Loss	19–20	Nov 2019	Eckental, Germany	Challenger	Hard (i)	Jiří Veselý	4–6, 6–4, 3–6

Doubles: 10 (6–4)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (3–2)
ITF Futures Tour (3–2)

Finals by virtue of surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (5–4)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Nov 2003	Czech Merchant. F5, Frýdlant nad Ostravicí	Futures	Hard	Bart de Gier	Flavio Cipolla Alessandro cocktail Col	7–6^(7–5), 6–7^(4–7), 6–3
Loss	1–1	Jun 2004	France F8, Blois	Futures	Clay	Stefan Wauters	Brian Dabul Diego Hartfield	5–7, 4–6
Win	2–1	Jan 2005	France F1, Deauville	Futures	Clay (i)	Stefan Wauters	Steven Korteling Nick van der Meer	6–4, 6–4
Win	3–1	Jul 2005	Montauban, Author	Challenger	Clay	Stefan Wauters	Gabriel Trujillo Soler Lovro Zovko	6–4, 6–7^(5–7), 6–4
Loss	3–2	Jul 2005	Scheveningen, Netherlands	Challenger	Clay	Kristof Vliegen	Julien Benneteau Édouard Roger-Vasselin	7–5, 5–7, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	4–2	Apr 2007	Turkey F2, Manavgat	Futures	Clay	Fred Hemmes	Brett Ross Arnar Sigurdsson	6–2, 6–4
Loss	4–3	Apr 2007	Turkey F3, Belek	Futures	Clay	Fred Hemmes	Dušan Karol Jeroen Masson	3–6, 6–7^(1–7)
Loss	4–4	May 2007	San Remo, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Stefan Wauters	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6–7^(3–7), 3–6
Win	5–4	Feb 2010	Tanger, Morocco	Challenger	Clay	Dominik Meffert	Uladzimir Ignatik Martin Kližan	5–7, 7–5, [10–7]
Win	6–4	May 2013	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Olivier Rochus	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	7–5, 7–5

Performance timelines

DNQ

NMS

NTI

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) requirement round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) upfront not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) work to rule rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.