Peter Wessels (; born 7 May 1978) is a former tour professional male tennis player and a coach from the Netherlands. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 72 in February 2005.

Biography

Wessels had an excellent junior career, finishing No. 5 in singles and No. 18 in doubles in the 1995 world junior rankings. In that year he reached the singles semifinals at Wimbledon and US Open juniors and captured Roland Garros junior doubles title with fellow countryman Raemon Sluiter.

His best result on the professional tour was winning the 2000 ATP tournament in Newport beating German Jens Knippschild in the final 7–6, 6–3.

He started 2006 by qualifying for the Hopman Cup tournament in Perth with Michaëlla Krajicek where the Dutch went all the way to the final only to be beaten in a very close mixed doubles by the American team of Taylor Dent and Lisa Raymond. Despite this, Wessels and Krajicek proved that they were a force to be reckoned with. At the Hopman Cup, he won 4 out of his 5 singles matches (def. Peng Sun, Gastón Gaudio, Todd Reid and Nicolas Kiefer; lost to Taylor Dent). In mixed doubles, they had a 3–2 record (def. Reid/Stosur, Peng/Sun, Grönefeld/Kiefer; lost to Raymond/Dent, Dulko/Gaudio).

In June 2007 Wessels qualified for the Ordina Open grass tournament in 's-Hertogenbosch. Ranked 488 he caused an upset in the quarterfinals by beating the number one seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo, in two sets: 6–3, 6–3. He subsequently reached the final but narrowly lost against Croat Ivan Ljubičić 6–7(5), 6–3, 6–7(4).

Since 2024, he is coaching Sorana Cirstea.

ATP career finals

Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (0–0)ATP World Series (1–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (0–0)Grass (1–1)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (1–1)Indoors (0–0)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Newport, United StatesInternational SeriesGrass Jens Knippschild7–6(7–3), 6–3Loss1–1's-Hertogenbosch, NetherlandsInternational SeriesGrass Ivan Ljubičić6–7(5–7), 6–4, 6–7(4–7)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 17 (8-9) LegendATP Challenger (6–9)ITF Futures (2–0)Finals by surfaceHard (5–4)Clay (1–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (2–2)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Lübeck, GermanyChallengerCarpet Michael Kohlmann7–6, 6–3Loss1–1Santiago, ChileChallengerClay Sebastián Prieto5–7, 4–6Loss1–2Portorož, SloveniaChallengerHard Rainer Schüttler3–6, 2–6Loss1–3Nümbrecht, GermanyChallengerCarpet Christian Vinck7–6, 4–6, 4–6Loss1–4Antwerp, BelgiumChallengerClay Dick Norman3–5 ret.Loss1–5Eckental, GermanyChallengerCarpet Alexander Popp4–6, 7–5, 2–6Win2–5France F8, MelunFuturesCarpet Thierry AscionewalkoverWin3–5Réunion Island, RéunionChallengerHard Fred Hemmes6–0, 6–2Loss3–6Sanremo, ItalyChallengerClay Potito Starace4–6, 4–6Win4–6Scheveningen, NetherlandsChallengerClay Raemon Sluiter7–5, 7–6(9–7)Loss4–7Bronx, United StatesChallengerHard Julien Jeanpierre6–7(4–7), 6–3, 3–6Win5–7Istanbul, TurkeyChallengerHard Daniele Bracciali6–3, 6–2Loss5–8Bolton, United KingdomChallengerHard Marcos Baghdatis1–6, 6–3, 2–6Win6–8Helsinki, FinlandChallengerHard Lukáš Dlouhý4–6, 6–4, 6–3Win7–8Groningen, NetherlandsChallengerHard Ivo Minář6–3, 6–2Loss7–9Saint Brieuc, FranceChallengerHard Marc Gicquel3–6, 1–6Win8–9Portugal F2, LagosFuturesHard Clément Morel6–3, 6–2

Doubles: 12 (5–7) LegendATP Challenger (4–7)ITF Futures (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–3)Clay (4–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–1)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Scheveningen, NetherlandsChallengerClay Raemon Sluiter Álex Calatrava Tom Vanhoudt7–6, 2–6, 6–7Loss0–2Lippstadt, GermanyChallengerCarpet Raemon Sluiter Andrew Richardson Myles Wakefield6–4, 6–7, 4–6Win1–2San Luis Potosí, MexicoChallengerClay Edwin Kempes José Frontera Bobby Kokavec7–6, 4–6, 7–5Win2–2Prostějov, Czech RepublicChallengerClay Edwin Kempes Tomáš Cibulec Tomáš Krupa6–4, 7–5Win3–2Edinburgh, United KingdomChallengerClay Edwin Kempes Marcos Ondruska Chris Wilkinson6–7, 6–3, 6–2Loss3–3Santiago, ChileChallengerClay Edwin Kempes Ota Fukárek Attila Sávolt6–7, 4–6Loss3–4São Paulo, BrazilChallengerClay Edwin Kempes Diego del Río Martín Rodríguez6–7, 3–6Win4–4Great Britain F1, GlasgowFuturesCarpet Edwin Kempes Marco Chiudinelli Wesley Moodie2–6, 7–6(11–9), 7–6(7–5) Loss4–5Réunion Island, RéunionChallengerHard Fred Hemmes Federico Browne Rogier Wassen1–6, 7–6(7–4), 3–6Loss4–6Bolton, United KingdomChallengerHard Melle van Gemerden Jeff Coetzee Jim Thomas5–7, 3–6Win5–6Scheveningen, NetherlandsChallengerClay Raemon Sluiter Rohan Bopanna Pablo Cuevas7–6(8–6), 7–5Loss5–7Sunrise, United StatesChallengerHard Kristof Vliegen Janko Tipsarević Dušan Vemić2–6, 6–7(5–7)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1995French OpenClay Raemon Sluiter Justin Gimelstob Ryan Wolters7–6, 7–5Loss1995US OpenHard Raemon Sluiter Lee Jong-Min Jocelyn Robichaud6–7, 2–6

Performance timeline

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