Raemon Sluiter

Raemon Sluiter

Country (sports)	Netherlands
Residence	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Born	(1978-04-13) 13 April 1978 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	1996
Retired	2009
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed both sides)
Prize money	$1,716,082
Singles
Career record	90–131 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 46 (24 February 2003)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2000, 2006)
French Open	3R (2004, 2006)
Wimbledon	3R (2001)
US Open	2R (2002, 2006)
Doubles
Career record	25–41 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 97 (8 September 2003)

Raemon Sluiter (born 13 April 1978, in Netherlands; RAY-mon SLIGHT-er) is a former professional male tennis player from the Netherlands. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 46 in February 2003. Sluiter's career highlights have been mostly on home soil: ATP finals in Amsterdam (2000), Rotterdam (2003), Amersfoort (2003) and in s'Hertogenbosch (2009). He also reached the semifinals with the Dutch Davis Cup team in 2001.

He announced his retirement in February 2008, which took effect after he played his home event in Rotterdam. In April 2009 he returned to professional tennis, battling from the qualifying rounds to the final of a Futures tournament in Albufeira, Portugal. In June 2009 he reached the final of the ATP event in Rosmalen, becoming the lowest ranked professional player (866th) in history to reach an ATP final, losing to Benjamin Becker.

Sluiter's best performance in a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the third round of Wimbledon in 2001. Arguably, his biggest individual win came in the first round of the following year's tournament, when he beat 20th seed and former World #1 Yevgeny Kafelnikov in five sets.

Singles titles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	5 July 1999	Bristol	Grass	Chris Wilkinson	6–3, 6–7, 7–6
2.	1 November 1999	Aachen	Carpet	David Prinosil	2–6, 6–4, 7–6
3.	9 July 2001	Scheveningen	Clay	Paul-Henri Mathieu	6–3, 6–4
4.	28 January 2002	Lübeck	Carpet	Alexander Popp	6–2, 3–0 ret.
5.	25 February 2002	Hamburg	Carpet	Neville Godwin	6–1, 6–3
6.	1 April 2002	Tunis	Clay	Mario Radic	6–2, 7–5
7.	8 July 2002	Scheveningen	Clay	Salvador Navarro	7–6, 6–7, 7–6
8.	21 February 2005	Lübeck	Carpet	Alexander Waske	7–6, 7–6
9.	21 November 2005	Prague	Carpet	Nicholas Thomann	6–3, 7–5
10.	23 July 2007	Poznań	Clay	Júlio Silva	6–4, 6–3

Miscellaneous

Sluiter is a football fan and supports his local team, Feyenoord; during the 2003/04 season he was their official ambassador. He is also known to be a big fan of the band Pearl Jam. His girlfriend is field hockey player Fatima Moreira de Melo.

External links

• Raemon Sluiter at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Raemon Sluiter at the International Tennis Federation
• Raemon Sluiter at the Davis Cup