Steve Darcis

Steve Darcis is a Belgian player of Tennis born the March 18th 1984 with Liege. Its surface of predilection is the hard one.

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It is Alain Darcis who inoculated the virus of tennis to his son. Owner of Tennissimo and professor of tennis, this Inhabitant of Li2ege confines himself in his role of father. He does not hesitate besides to take leave to accompany his son during his displacements in order to support it. Steve is coaché by Réginald Willems. Regarded a long time as one of the hopes of Belgian tennis, the pupil of the Center of the AFT with Mons spent time to leave the shade.

2007

At 23 years, Steve Darcis left the shade thanks to its epopee to Amersfoort. At the time of tournament ATP in the Netherlands, it aligned the trifle of eight consecutive successes to cap the bay-trees and to set out again with a check of 50.000 €. He hustled the hierarchy by évinçant four players of the Signal 70 of which one of Signal 15. During this exceptional week, the Inhabitant of Li2ege successively beat, on the Dutch ground beaten, the French Marc Gicquel (ATP 39) and Gilles Simon (ATP 51) before beating the Russians Igor Andreev (ATP 53) and Mikhail Youzhny (ATP 14). And, finally, it clearly dominated (6-1, 7-6) the veteran Autrichien Werner Eschauer (ATP 125) at the time of a match played in several episodes because of the rain. Pointed around the 300e place of the world hierarchy at the beginning of week, Darcis is found with the 146e world place on Monday, July 23. Steve Darcis thus became the fifth Belgian player to gain a tournament ATP since the beginning of the open era, in 1968. It joined in the book of the exploits Bernard Mignot, Filip Dewulf, Olivier Rochus and Xavier Malisse. The Inhabitant of Li2ege has also entered the book of the records while becoming the player the least best classified to the world ranking (ATP 297) gaining a tournament ATP for more than three years. It acted at the time of the German Tommy Haas, then classified 349ème world player following wounds, which gained the Tournoi of Houston in March 2004.

End of July to Sopot, in Poland, Steve Darcis passes by the qualifications. Nevertheless, it goes to Poland with moral of steel. The Inhabitant of Li2ege continues his walk consequently ahead. After its victory with Amersfoort two weeks before, Steve Darcis takes down its 11th consecutive victory into simple by curtly drawing aside Argentinian the Gaston Gaudio in qualification over the score of 6-2, 6-0. And ventures it does not stop there: after having beaten Gaston Gaudio in qualifications, Steve is ebsuite come with end from the Olympic champion, Chilean the Nicolas Massu, with the first turn of the tournament. The Inhabitant of Li2ege asserted himself in three sets: 6-7 (8/10), 7-6 (7/0) and 6-4. With the 2nd turn, Steve Darcis is inclined in three sets 1-6, 6-0, 7-5 vis-a-vis Tommy Robredo, 2nd head of series and 7th player of the world, in 1:37 mn of play.

One month later, he manages to qualify himself for the US Open one, the first Large Slam of his career where he inclines himself with the first turn with the honors in four sets vis-a-vis Tommy Haas.

He integrates the top100 for the first time of his career the November 19th 2007 after his victory in the Challenger tournament of Helsinki against German Tobias Kamke. First victory of its career in this type of tournament.

Prize list

Titrate into simple (1)

Finale into simple (0)

No final ATP lost for the moment

Titrate in double (0)

No tournament ATP gained for the moment

Titrate in tournament Challenger (1)

2007: Helsinki

Course in Large Slam

Into simple

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