John-Laffnie de Jager

John Laffnie de Jager ( born March 17, 1973 in Johannesburg ) is a former South African tennis player.

Life

De Jager won by the side of Karim Alami the junior competition of the U.S. Open in 1991 and the following year became a professional tennis player. He played a few games on the ATP Challenger Tour and failed to qualify for Wimbledon, where he lost in the first round Richard Krajicek. As a result, he focused completely on the double and won the along with Byron Talbot in Madeira and by Christo Van Rensburg in Jerusalem in the same year his first two Challengerturniere. In 1992, he won the Kremlin Cup his first doubles tournament on the ATP World Tour. Overall, he won seven tournaments with changing partners. A further twelve times he stood in a final, including the 1999 Weissenhofsiedlung tournament in Stuttgart. Among others, he reached the final of the 1998 Gerry Weber Open at the side of Marc -Kevin Goellner. Its highest listing in the tennis world ranking he reached in 1992 with position 313 in single and in 2000 with position 11 in doubles.

His best individual result at a Grand Slam tournament was to qualify for the first round of Wimbledon. In the doubles competition, he reached the semifinals of the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. He had a different partner each, these were the South Africans Marcos Ondruska ( Australian Open 1993), Robbie Koenig ( U.S. Open 1998) and David Adams ( Wimbledon 2000). In addition, he was twice in the Mixed final, 1995 at the side of Jill Hetherington at the French Open and Larisa Neiland 1997 at the Australian Open.

De Jager played between 1999 and 2002 six double roles for the South African Davis Cup team, his record was five wins was a defeat. In the Summer Olympics 2000, he went to South Africa and reached to the side of David Adams the semifinals. There they were subject to the subsequent gold medal winners Sébastien Lareau and Daniel Nestor of Canada.

After his retirement from professional sports de Jager was the team manager of the South African Davis Cup team.

Achievements

Doubles

Win

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