Rik de Voest

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Rik de Voest (born June 5, 1980 in Milan, Italy) is a professional South African tennis player. As of September 6, 2007, de Voest's career-high ranking was World Number 110, which he achieved on August 21, 2006. De Voest qualified for the 2007 Wimbledon men's singles event, where he lost to Marat Safin in the first round, as seen on ESPN2. Rik qualified for the U.S. Open later on in 2007, and was lucky enough to be given a match with another qualifier. He defeated Thierry Ascione 6–2, 3–0 before Ascione retired. De Voest went on to lose to John Isner in the following round. Should he have won, he would have played Roger Federer, the world number one, in the next round. De Voest is 12-5 in Davis Cup matches; being 8–5 for singles and 4–0 for doubles. He won his first ATP doubles title in Beijing alongside Ashley Fisher over Chris Haggard and Yen-Hsun Lu in the final.

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