Jeff Coetzee (born 25 April 1977) is a South African professional
tennis player
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and competes regularly on the
ATP tour
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, as a
doubles
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specialist.
The 5'8" player plays right-handed, double-handed on both sides and has won six
ATP Tour
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doubles titles in his career. Coetzee plays doubles for the
South Africa Davis Cup team
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South Africa won the Davis Cup in 1974 by default as India withdrew from the finals as a protest ag ...
. When Jeff is not traveling, he resides in
Florida Hills
Florida Hills is a suburb of Johannesburg in Gauteng Province, South Africa. It lies to the northwest of downtown Johannesburg and north of Soweto. It is a suburb of Roodepoort
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, South Africa.
ATP Tour finals
Doubles (6–9)
Doubles runners-up (10)
*2006:
Newport (with
Justin Gimelstob
Justin Jeremy Gimelstob (born January 26, 1977) is a retired American tennis player. Gimelstob has been a resident of Morristown, New Jersey, and as of 2009 lived in Santa Monica, California.
He was the top-ranked boy in his age group at the ag ...
, lost to
Robert Kendrick and
Jürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. Melzer reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in April 2011, and a doubles ranking of world No. 6 in September 2010. He has a younger brother, Gera ...
)
Doubles performance timeline
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1977 births
Living people
Coloured South African people
South African people of Dutch descent
South African male tennis players
Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players of South Africa