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Jasper Smit
Dutch tennis player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jasper Smit (born 17 November 1980) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.
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Biography
Smit, a right-handed player, featured most successfully in the doubles format, in which he reached 121 in the world.[1]
All of his eight main draw doubles appearances on the ATP Tour were with countryman Martijn van Haasteren and included two quarter-finals. The pair reached the quarter-finals at the Dutch Open Amersfoort in 2007 by upsetting second seeds Tomas Behrend and Christopher Kas, then in 2008 they were quarter-finalists at the Zagreb Indoors. He also won three Challenger titles partnering van Haasteren.
As a singles player he appeared in his only ATP Tour main draw at the 2006 Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open in Mumbai, for a first round loss to Gouichi Motomura. He took part in the qualifying draw for the 2006 Wimbledon Championships. In 2010 he won a match over then world number 62 Pablo Cuevas on clay at the Scheveningen Challenger.[2]
Retired from professional tennis, Smit was still playing in Dutch league tennis at the age of 36.[3]
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Challenger titles
Doubles: (3)
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