Louis Wessels (german: Weßels; born 27 August 1998) is a German

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player.

Tennis career

On the junior tour, Wessels has a career high ITF junior ranking of 17 achieved in May 2016. Wessels has reached the doubles semifinals at three of the four junior grand slams, including the

2015 Australian Open The 2015 Australian Open was a tennis tournament that took place at Melbourne Park from 19 January to 1 February 2015. It was the 103rd edition of the Australian Open, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. Stan Wawrinka was the defend ...

, 2015 US Open and the

2016 Wimbledon Championships The 2016 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tennis tournament which took place at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The main draw commenced on 27 June 2016 and concluded on ...

. Wessels made his ATP main draw debut at the

2016 German Open The 2016 German Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 110th edition of the German Open and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2016 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg ...

, where he upset

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in the first round. This victory made him the youngest player to win a main draw match at the

2016 ATP World Tour The 2016 ATP World Tour was the global elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for the 2016 tennis season. The 2016 ATP World Tour calendar comprised the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by ...

by that time.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 18 (8–10)

Doubles: 9 (5–4)

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, Tom Kočevar-Dešman
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, Glenn Smits
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Elliot Benchetrit Elliot Benchetrit (born 2 October 1998) is a Moroccan tennis player who formerly represented France. Since 1 January 2021 Benchetrit started to represent Morocco. His highest singles ranking was No. 198 on 10 February 2020, and his highest doubl ...

Filippo Baldi Filippo Baldi (born 10 January 1996) is an Italian tennis player who was a semifinalist at the 2013 Australian Open – Boys' singles and quarterfinalist at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' singles. With Gianluigi Quinzi he won the 2 ...

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Trent Bryde Trent Bryde (born 24 August 1999) is an American tennis player. Early life Bryde, the son of Bruce and Kathi Bryde, is from Atlanta, Georgia. He attended and played collegiate tennis at the University of Georgia where he majored in consumer econ ...

Fred Gil João Frederico Limpo Franco Gil (born 24 March 1985), known as Fred Gil (), is a retired Portuguese professional tennis player, who currently competes in the ITF Men's Circuit. He is ranked no. 432 in the world by the Association of Tennis Prof ...

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Otto Virtanen Otto Virtanen (born 21 June 2001) is a Finnish tennis player. Virtanen has a career high ATP singles ranking of 176 achieved on 21 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 270 achieved on 31 October 2022. Virtanen won th ...

, Markus Eriksson

Fred Simonsson Fred Simonsson (born 27 November 1994) is a Swedish former tennis player. Simonsson has a career high ATP singles ranking of 633, achieved on 1 August 2016. His career high ATP doubles ranking of 195 was achieved on 20 February 2017. Tennis ca ...

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Tom Schönenberg , 6–2, 6–2 , - , style="background:#ffa07a;", Loss , 4–4 , , bgcolor=cffcff, Helsinki, Finland , bgcolor=cffcff, Futures , Hard , Otto Virtanen , Patrick Mayer

Alexander Vasilenko Aleksandr Vladimirovich Vasilenko (russian: Александр Владимирович Василенко; born 30 October 1986) is a Russian former professional football player. Career Vasilenko has played in the Russian Football National Lea ...

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Leopold Zima , 6–3, 6–3

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wessels, Louis 1998 births Living people German male tennis players Sportspeople from Bielefeld People from Detmold Sportspeople from Detmold (region) Tennis people from North Rhine-Westphalia