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Rogier Wassen

Rogier Wassen
Wassen 2009 US Open.jpg
Country (sports)  Netherlands
Residence Düsseldorf, Germany
Born (1976-08-09) 9 August 1976 (age 40)
Roermond, Netherlands
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro 1994
Retired 2012–2014
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money $1,087,985
Singles
Career record 4–13
Career titles 0
Highest ranking No. 143 (24 May 1999)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Q1 (2001)
French Open Q3 (1997)
Wimbledon Q3 (2002)
US Open Q2 (1995, 2001)
Doubles
Career record 112–146
Career titles 5
Highest ranking No. 24 (10 September 2007)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open QF (2007)
French Open 3R (2004, 2007, 2009)
Wimbledon 3R (2005, 2008, 2009)
US Open 3R (2004, 2007)

Rogier Wassen (born 9 August 1976) is a Dutch tennis player who competed regularly on the ATP Tour as a doubles player from 1994 to 2011.

Wassen reached his highest doubles ranking on the ATP Tour on 10 September 2007 when he became World No. 24. The right-hander has won three ATP doubles titles. The Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand in 2006 and 2007 teaming up with Andrei Pavel and Jeff Coetzee respectively. In 2007 he won the Ordina Open in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, again with Jeff Coetzee. In 2009, he reached the finals of the 2009 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, Rhode Island, partnering with Michael Kohlmann.

He is nicknamed "Da Professor" by good friend and doubles partner Dustin Brown. He returned in doubles at 2013 Marburg Open, in partnership with Artem Sitak, losing in the first round against Vahid Mirzadeh and Denis Zivkovic



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