Steve Darcis

Country	Belgium
Residence	Saive, Belgium
Date of birth	13 March 1984 (1984-03-13) (age 25)
Place of birth	Liège, Belgium
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight	73 kg (160 lb; 11.5 st)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed; one-handed backhand
Career prize money	$874,590
Singles
Career record	30–37
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 44 (12 May 2008)
Current ranking	No. 120 (16 November 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1R (2008, 2009)
French Open	1R (2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	2R (2009)
US Open	2R (2008)
Doubles
Career record	11–15
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 126 (5 January 2009)
Last updated on: 15 June 2009.

Steve Darcis (born 13 March 1984 in Liège, Belgium) is a male professional tennis player. He achieved his career high ranking of #44 on 12 May 2008.

At the Dutch Open in July, 2007, in his 3rd career ATP-level tournament, he won his first ATP-level singles match and then went on to win the tournament, catapulting him into the top-150 for the first time. He beat all top-60 players en route to the title, including world #13 Mikhail Youzhny in the semi-final. His low ranking coming into the week meant that he also had to win 3 qualifying matches just to make the main draw, and his ranking of #297 made him one of the lowest ranked ATP tournament winners since 1985. Lleyton Hewitt holds the record, having been ranked #550 before winning in Adelaide in 1998. ^[1] In his next tournament in Sopot, two weeks later, he went through qualifying and defeated Nicolás Massú in round 1 to set up a confrontation with Tommy Robredo in round 2. Robredo defeated Darcis in three sets (6–1 0–6 5–7), ending Darcis' winning streak at 12 matches. Darcis entered the top 100 on 26 November 2007 by winning a Challenger event in Finland. He became World Number 86. On 2 March 2008, Darcis won his second ATP event at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships, beating Swede Robin Söderling in the final 6–3 7–6.^[2]

At the 2008 French Open, Darcis lost in the first round of the singles tournament against No. 5 seed David Ferrer of Spain in three short sets. In the doubles tournament, however, he reached the quarter-finals. With his partner, Olivier Rochus, he lost to the No. 2 seeds and eventual winners Daniel Nestor from Canada and Nenad Zimonjić from Serbia with 1–6 and 4–6.

Contents 1 2009 2 Juniors Results 3 Career finals 3.1 Singles: 3 (2-1) 4 References 5 External links

[edit] 2009

In the Brisbane International in the first week of the year, he faced American veteran Taylor Dent in the first round. He lost in two straight sets 6-7 and 2-6. The next week at the Heineken Open he lost in the first round to Yen-Hsun Lu.

At the 2009 Australian Open he again lost in the first round to French qualifier Sébastien De Chaunac. At the SAP Open he withdrew with a foot injury.

Darcis, defending his title in Memphis, lost his opening 1st round clash against Andy Roddick who defeated the Belgian 7-6(1) 6-2.

Darcis has gone on to mainly record wins at Challenger level with two semi-final appearances in Sofia and Ostrava. He reached the final of the Czech Open Challenger losing to Jan Hajek in three sets.

A promising start to the grass court season with a run to the quarter-finals of the Queen's Club Championships before defeat to Juan Carlos Ferrero. At The Championships, Wimbledon he won his first round match to equal his best performance at a grand slam before a 2nd round defeat to Ivo Karlovic.

At the US Open he lost in the first round to 32nd seed Nicolas Almagro.

He endured a torrid closing few months of the 2009 season to culminate before ending the year with a straight sets defeat to Dominik Hrbaty in round 1 of a Bratislava challenger event.

[edit] Juniors Results

Darcis was fairly successful as a junior, reaching #8 in the world in 2002.

In that year, he beat 3 future top-10 pro players: Marcos Baghdatis, Andy Murray, and Tomáš Berdych.^[3]

[edit] Career finals

[edit] Singles: 3 (2-1)

Wins (2)

Legend (Singles)

Grand Slam (0)

ATP World Tour Finals (0)

ATP World Tour 1000 Series (0)

ATP 500 Series (1)

ATP 250 Series (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	16 July 2007	Amersfoort, Netherlands	Clay	Werner Eschauer	6–1, 7–6(1)
2.	2 March 2008	Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Robin Söderling	6–3, 7–6(5)

Runner-ups (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	20 July 2008	Amersfoort, Netherlands	Clay	Albert Montañés	1–6, 7–5, 6–3

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Steve Darcis at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Darcis Recent Match Results
• Darcis World Ranking History