Robin Haase

Robin Haase

Haase at the 2011 US Open
Country	Netherlands
Residence	The Hague, Netherlands
Born	(1987-04-06) 6 April 1987 (age 25) The Hague, Netherlands
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	71 kg (160 lb)
Turned pro	2005
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$1,376,614
Singles
Career record	70–72 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 39 (21 May 2012)
Current ranking	No. 39 (28 May 2012)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (2011)
French Open	2R (2011)
Wimbledon	3R (2011)
US Open	2R (2011)
Doubles
Career record	27–34 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 76 (13 June 2011)
Last updated on: 13 April 2012.

Robin Haase (born 6 April 1987 in The Hague) is a Dutch tennis player. Haase is currently the highest-ranked Dutch player, achieving his career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 39 in May 2012. He is left-handed, but plays with right hand. He is endorsed by Robey, Head, Tempo-Team and iTennis.nl.^[1]

Career

Juniors

Haase was a promising player in the Junior level, where he reached as high as no. 3 in the Juniors’ rankings on 14 March 2005. Later on in 2005, he lost the final of the Junior Grand Slam Tournament at Wimbledon to Jérémy Chardy in his last tournament at the Junior level.

2006

Haase started 2006 ranked 665. In June he played his first ATP tournament at Rosmalen losing in the first round against Juan Carlos Ferrero 4-6, 6-3, 2-6.^[2]

In September he made his debut for the Dutch Davis Cup team in the World Group Play-offs against the Czech Republic, losing against Tomas Berdych in straight sets and winning from Jan Hernych when the competition already was decided.

In November Haase won his first Challenger tournament in Nashville, beating 2 top-100 players in the process.^[3]

He further reached three semi-finals on the ATP Challenger Tour and ended the year ranked 164.

2007

In March he won his second Challenger in Wolfsburg.

In July, Haase reached his first ATP Tour semifinal at the Dutch Open in Amersfoort, where in the quarterfinals he beat the top-100 player Florent Serra. He eventually lost in straight sets, 4–6, 4–6, to Werner Eschauer. Capping off a good week, he reached the final in doubles with compatriot Rogier Wassen, but lost in straight sets, 2–6, 0–6.

In August, Haase for the first time defeated a top-10 player at the Rogers Cup, beating Tomáš Berdych, 6–4, 7–5.

Haase made his Grand Slam debut at the US Open as a lucky loser, due to the withdrawal of Mario Ančić. He lost in the first round in straight sets to the third seed and eventual runner-up Novak Djoković, 2–6, 1–6, 3–6.

2008-2010

At the 2008 Chennai Open, Haase claimed another top-20 win when he defeated the second-seeded Marcos Baghdatis, 6–3, 6–4, in the first round.

Haase pushed Lleyton Hewitt to five sets in the first round of Wimbledon 2008, with Hewitt finally winning, 7–6, 3–6, 3–6, 7–6, 2–6.

Haase returned to Wimbledon two years later, where he upset James Blake in straight sets in the first round. He was narrowly defeated by world no. 1 and eventual champion Rafael Nadal in the second round, 7–5, 2–6, 6–3, 0–6, 3–6.

2011

At Wimbledon, Haase beat world no. 22 Fernando Verdasco in the second round, 6–3, 6–4, 4–6, 6–2. In the third round, he trailed against Mardy Fish, 3–6, 7–6, 2–6, 1–1, before retiring with a knee problem.

Haase then landed his first ATP title at the Austrian Open Kitzbuhel. In the opening round, he led Potito Starace, 6–3, 2–0, before his opponent retired due to injury. In the second round, he defeated second seed Feliciano Lopez, 1–6, 6–4, 6–3, in a rain-delayed match that spanned two days. Hours later on the same day, he beat Andreas Seppi, 6–4, 6–2, in the quarterfinals.^[4] In the semifinals, he defeated qualifier Joao Souza, 6–1, 6–7, 6–4. In the final, he came out on top against experienced clay-courter Albert Montanes, 6–4, 4–6, 6–1.

At the US Open, Haase reached the second round after beating Portuguese Rui Machado 6-0, 6-4, 6-4. In the second round Haase led fourth seed Andy Murray by two sets to love, but was eventually beaten in five sets, despite coming back from 4–0 to 4–4 in the deciding set resulting in 7-6, 6-2, 2-6, 0-6, 4-6.^[5]

Haase ended the year ranked 45, his highest end of year ranking in his professional career.^[6]

2012

Robin Haase meant to start the year playing in Chennai but because of troubles obtaining a visa he had to withdraw.^[7] In Australia he lost first round matches in Sydney and Melbourne. Losing first to Alex Bogomolov Jr. and then Andy Roddick.^[8][9] At the indoor tournament of Zagreb Haase was seeded 7th and reached the quarterfinals, losing to Lukáš Lacko 4–6, 4–6.^[10]

In February he helped the Dutch Davis Cup team to a 5–0 victory over Finland in World Group I, playing a singles match and partnered in the doubles match with Jean-Julien Rojer.^[11] In Rotterdam and Indian Wells Haase lost again in the first round. This time to Nikolay Davydenko and Pablo Andujar.^[12][13]

In a Challenger tournament in Dallas he reached the quarterfinals. In the Miami Masters he lost in the second round to Jurgen Melzer 6–7, 6–3, 4–6 after winning from Marinko Matosevic.^[14][15]

In the second round of World Group I the Netherlands won 5–0 from a devalued Romanian team. Haase played two singles matches.^{[16] [17]} At the ATP tournament of Casablanca Haase was seeded 6th, but lost in the first round to Algerian Lamine Ouahab, ranked 752, with 3–6, 2–6.^[18] In the next week, Haase played the Monte-Carlo Masters. In the first round his opponent Juan Monaco retired in the third set at 7-5, 0-6, 1-3. In the second round, Haase faced Fabio Fognini, defeating him in straight sets. The third round facing Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci, who defeated 5th seed David Ferrer the previous round, Haase won 6-2, 6-3. In the quarterfinals, playing the #1 seed Novak Djokovic, who defeated him in straight sets, despite Haase breaking his serve 4 times, 6-4, 6-2. Robin Haase was the first Dutch player in 9 years reaching a Masters Tournament quarterfinals, the last being Martin Verkerk.^[19][20]

ATP Career Finals

Singles: 1 (1–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	6 August 2011	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Albert Montañés	6–4, 4–6, 6–1

Doubles: 4 (1–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	22 July 2007	Amersfoort, Netherlands	Clay	Rogier Wassen	Juan Pablo Brzezicki Juan Pablo Guzman	2–6, 0–6
Runner-up	2.	9 January 2011	Chennai, India	Hard	David Martin	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	2–6, 7–6(7–3), [7–10]
Winner	1.	20 February 2011	Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Ken Skupski	Julien Benneteau Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	6–3, 6–7(4–7), [13–11]
Runner-up	3.	12 June 2011	Halle, Germany	Grass	Milos Raonic	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6–7(8–10), 6–3, [9–11]

Challenger finals

Singles: 8 (8–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	12 November 2006	Nashville, United States	Hard	Kristian Pless	7–6(11–9), 6–3
Winner	2.	4 March 2007	Wolfsburg, Germany	Carpet (i)	Daniel Brands	6–2, 3–6, 6–1
Winner	3.	23 March 2008	Sunrise, United States	Hard	Sébastien Grosjean	7–5, 5–7, 6–1
Winner	4.	21 March 2010	Caltanissetta, Italy	Clay	Matteo Trevisan	7–5, 6–3
Winner	5.	6 June 2010	Fürth, Germany	Clay	Tobias Kamke	6–4, 6–2
Winner	6.	8 August 2010	City of San Marino, San Marino	Clay	Filippo Volandri	6–2, 7–6(10–8)
Winner	7.	29 August 2010	Manerbio, Italy	Clay	Marco Crugnola	6–3, 6–2
Winner	8.	5 September 2010	Como, Italy	Clay	Ivo Minář	6–4, 6–3

Doubles: 6 (3–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	5 August 2006	Saransk, Russia	Clay	Dekel Valtzer	Alexey Kedriouk Orest Tereshchuk	4–6, 7–5, [5–10]
Runner-up	2.	10 September 2006	Braşov, Romania	Clay	Michal Navratil	Lazar Magdincev Predrag Rusevski	4–6, 6–7(9–11)
Winner	3.	4 November 2006	Louisville, United States	Hard	Igor Sijsling	Amer Delic Robert Kendrick	w/o
Runner-up	4.	28 January 2007	Wrexham, Great Britain	Hard	Richard Bloomfield	Thomas Oger Nicolas Tourte	7–6(7–4), 5–7, [10–12]
Winner	5.	1 August 2010	Cordenons, Italy	Clay	Rogier Wassen	James Cerretani Adil Shamasdin	7–6(16–14), 7–5
Winner	6.	28 August 2010	Manerbio, Italy	Clay	Thomas Schoorel	Diego Junqueira Gabriel Trujillo-Soler	6–4, 6–4

Singles performance timeline

Current through the 2012 Internazionali BNL d'Italia.

External links

• Official Website
• Robin Haase at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Bio-File interview with Robin Haase
• Robin Haase at the International Tennis Federation

References

1. ^ http://www.robinhaase.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=7&lang=nl
2. ^ http://www.atpworldtour.com/Share/Match-Facts-Pop-Up.aspx?t=440&y=2006&r=3&p=H756
3. ^ http://beta.itftennis.com/procircuit/tournaments/men's-tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100014773
4. ^ "Haase Downs Two Seeds To Reach Semifinals In Austria". Tennis Now. 4 August 2011. http://www.tennisnow.com/News/Haase-Downs-Two-Seeds-To-Reach-Semifinals-In-Austr.aspx. Retrieved 4 August 2011. 
5. ^ http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/09/03/haase-verliest-na-vijf-sets-van-murray-op-us-open/
6. ^ http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Top-Players/Robin-Haase.aspx?t=rh
7. ^ http://post.jagran.com/Visa-problem-is-reason-for-me-not-coming-to-Chennai-Robin-Haase-1325268808
8. ^ http://www.telegraaf.nl/telesport/tennis/11272629/__Haase_onderuit_in_Sydney__.html
9. ^ http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2012/01/17/krajicek-ten-koste-van-barrois-verder/
10. ^ http://www.nu.nl/sport/2732060/haase-verliest-in-kwartfinale-zagreb.html
11. ^ http://www.nu.nl/sport/2738606/davis-cup-team-stelt-zege-veilig-finland.html
12. ^ http://www.nusport.nl/abn-amro-wtt/2741029/haase-maat-kleiner-dan-davidenko.html
13. ^ http://www.telegraaf.nl/telesport/tennis/11682099/__Haase_onderuit_in_de_VS__.html
14. ^ http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2698/Sport/article/detail/3230231/2012/03/23/Haase-uitgeschakeld-in-Miami.dhtml
15. ^ http://www.nu.nl/sport/2769141/haase-overleeft-eerste-ronde-in-miami-bakker-onderuit.html
16. ^ http://www.nineoclock.ro/romanian-davis-cup-team-boycotted/
17. ^ http://www.daviscup.com/en/results/tie/details.aspx?tieId=100017667
18. ^ http://espn.go.com/tennis/story/_/id/7795698/lamine-ouahab-ousts-sixth-seeded-robin-haase-casablanca
19. ^ http://www.sporteditie.nl/nieuws/haase_stunt_niet_tegen_djokovic
20. ^ http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2698/Sport/article/detail/3243373/2012/04/19/Haase-eerste-Nederlander-sinds-2003-in-kwartfinale-Masters-Series.dhtml

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Dutch male singles tennis players as of May 28, 2012 Robin Haase (39 ) Igor Sijsling (122 ) Thomas Schoorel (166 1) Jesse Huta Galung (217 ) Boy Westerhof (270 2) Matwé Middelkoop (338 9) Antal Van Der Duim (347 5) Nick van der Meer (356 2) Thiemo de Bakker (398 2) Milaan Niesten (679 4)