Richard Krajicek
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1971 (52 years old)
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Rotterdam, NetherlandsPosition
Tennis Player
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Richard Peter Stanislav Krajicek (Czech: Krajíček; born 6 December 1971) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. In 1996, he won the men's singles title at Wimbledon, and remains the only Dutch male player to have won a major singles title. In the quarterfinals of that tournament, he delivered Pete Sampras's only defeat at Wimbledon between 1993 and 2000. Krajicek reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in March 1999. Since 2004, he has been the tournament director of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam. He is also the author of various sports books.
Personal life
Richard Krajicek is the son of Czech immigrants. In the nineties, Krajicek had a relationship with Italian actress and model Lory Del Santo, with whom he had a premature son who died of an infection after two weeks of life. In 1999, he married model, writer and hostess of Holland's Next Top Model and Benelux's Next Top Model, Daphne Deckers, with whom he lives in Muiderberg and has two children with (son and daughter). Nicknamed "de Kraai" (Dutch for "the crow") in his home country, Krajicek has, among his siblings, half-sister and also tennis professional Michaëlla Krajicek. His distant cousin is another tennis player, the American Austin Krajicek.
Krajicek is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), a political party in the Netherlands.
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 Wimbledon 1996 ATP Mens |
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