Zizou Bergs (born 3 June 1999) is a

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professional

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player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 128 achieved on 26 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 449 achieved on 25 October 2021. He is currently the No. 2 Belgian singles tennis player.

Professional career

2020: ATP debut and first win

Bergs made his ATP main draw debut at the

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after receiving a wildcard for the singles main draw. In the first round, he recorded his first ATP victory by defeating

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in straight sets, before pushing world No. 17

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to three sets.

2021: Three ATP Challenger titles, top 200 debut

Bergs won his first Challenger title at the 2021 Saint Petersburg Challenger in March and later on in the month, would win his second Challenger title at the 2021 Lille Challenger. In June, he won his third Challenger title at the 2021 Almaty Challenger. After a second round showing at the 2021 Swiss Open Gstaad where he defeated fellow qualifier

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in the first round, he reached the top 200 at World No. 196 on 26 July 2021.

2022: Fourth Challenger title, Grand Slam & top 150 debut

He reached his first final of the season at the

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losing to

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. In May, he reached his second Challenger final of the season at the 2022 Saturn Oil Open in Troisdorf, Germany, where he lost to

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. Ranked No. 207, he won the 2022 Ilkley Trophy as a qualifier defeating lucky loser

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in the semifinals and

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in the final. As a result he won the last 2022 Wimbledon wildcard where he made his Grand Slam debut. He also climbed more then 60 positions up the rankings to a new career-high of World No. 146 on 20 June 2022.

2023: United Cup and Australian Open debut

On his debut as the No. 2 player from Belgium, he lost his two singles matches at the inaugural 2023 United Cup against world No. 196 Bulgarian

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and world No. 803 Greek Stefanos Sakellaridis. He made his debut by qualifying for the main draw at the

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defeating another Bulgarian

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.https://www.atptour.com/en/news/shang-piros-australian-open-qualifying-2023-thursday In the first round of the main draw he lost to Serbian Laslo Djere.

Future and Challenger finals

Singles: 15 (8–7)

Doubles 8 (4–4)

References

External links

* * 1999 births Living people Belgian male tennis players People from Lommel People from Neerpelt Sportspeople from Limburg (Belgium) {{Belgium-tennis-bio-stub