Danie Visser

Danie Visser (b. 26 July 1961, in Rustenburg, South Africa) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. A doubles specialist, he won 3 Grand Slam men's doubles titles (2 Australian Open and 1 US Open). Visser reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1990.

Visser won the first of 17 career doubles titles in 1985 at Bristol. In 1990 he won the men's doubles titles at both the Australian Open and the US Open, partnering his fellow South African player Pieter Aldrich. The pair were also doubles runners-up at Wimbledon that year. Visser won the Australian Open doubles crown again in 1993, partnering Laurie Warder. Visser won the final doubles title of his career in 1994 at Manchester.

Visser's best singles ranking was World No. 59, which he attained in 1984.

Grand Slam men's doubles finals (4)

Wins (3)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1990	Australian Open	Pieter Aldrich	Grant Connell Glenn Michibata	6–4, 4–6, 6–1, 6–4
1990	U.S. Open	Pieter Aldrich	Paul Annacone David Wheaton	6–2, 7–6(3), 6–2
1993	Australian Open (2)	Laurie Warder	John Fitzgerald Anders Järryd	6–4, 6–3, 6–4

Runner-up (1)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1990	Wimbledon	Pieter Aldrich	Rick Leach Jim Pugh	7–6(5), 7–6(4), 7–6(5)

Doubles titles (17)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	1985	Bristol, England	Grass	Eddie Edwards	John Alexander Russell Simpson	6–4, 7–6
2.	1986	Bristol, England	Grass	Christo Steyn	Mark Edmondson Wally Masur	6–7, 7–6, 12–10
3.	1988	Charleston, U.S.	Clay	Pieter Aldrich	Jorge Lozano Todd Witsken	7–6, 6–3
4.	1989	Indianapolis, U.S.	Hard	Pieter Aldrich	Peter Doohan Laurie Warder	7–6, 7–6
5.	1989	San Francisco, U.S.	Carpet	Pieter Aldrich	Paul Annacone Christo van Rensburg	6–4, 6–3
6.	1989	Frankfurt, Germany	Carpet	Pieter Aldrich	Kevin Curren Eric Jelen	7–6, 6–7, 6–3
7.	1990	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Pieter Aldrich	Grant Connell Glenn Michibata	6–4, 4–6, 6–1, 6–4
8.	1990	Stuttgart Outdoor, Germany	Clay	Pieter Aldrich	Per Henricsson Nicklas Utgren	6–3, 6–4
9.	1990	U.S. Open, New York	Hard	Pieter Aldrich	Paul Annacone David Wheaton	6–2, 7–6, 6–2
10.	1990	Berlin, Germany	Carpet	Pieter Aldrich	Kevin Curren Patrick Galbraith	7–6, 7–6
11.	1991	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Gary Muller	Guy Forget Jakob Hlasek	7–6, 6–4
12.	1992	Johannesburg, South Africa	Hard	Pieter Aldrich	Wayne Ferreira Piet Norval	6–4, 6–4
13.	1992	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Patrick Galbraith	Andre Agassi John McEnroe	6–4, 6–4
14.	1993	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Laurie Warder	John Fitzgerald Anders Järryd	6–4, 6–3, 6–4
15.	1993	Bologna, Italy	Clay	Laurie Warder	Luke Jensen Murphy Jensen	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
16.	1993	Lyon, France	Carpet	Gary Muller	John-Laffnie de Jager Stefan Kruger	6–3, 7–6
17.	1994	Manchester, England	Grass	Rick Leach	Scott Davis Trevor Kronemann	6–4, 4–6, 7–6

Runner-ups (25)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	1982	Munich, Germany	Clay	Tian Viljoen	Chip Hooper Mel Purcell	6–4, 7–6
2.	1983	La Quinta, U.S.	Hard	Tian Viljoen	Brian Gottfried Raúl Ramírez	6–3, 6–3
3.	1983	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Tian Viljoen	Pablo Arraya José Luis Clerc	1–6, 6–4, 6–4
4.	1985	Livingston, U.S.	Hard	Eddie Edwards	Mike De Palmer Peter Doohan	6–3, 6–4
5.	1986	Toronto Indoor, Canada	Carpet	Christo Steyn	Wojtek Fibak Joakim Nyström	6–3, 7–6
6.	1986	Atlanta, U.S.	Carpet	Christo Steyn	Andy Kohlberg Robert Van't Hof	6–2, 6–3
7.	1986	Cincinnati, U.S.	Hard	Christo Steyn	Mark Kratzmann Kim Warwick	6–3, 6–4
8.	1986	Tel Aviv, Israel	Hard	Christo Steyn	John Letts Peter Lundgren	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
9.	1987	Philadelphia, U.S.	Carpet	Christo Steyn	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	3–6, 6–1, 7–6
10.	1988	Philadelphia, U.S.	Carpet	Kevin Curren	Kelly Evernden Johan Kriek	7–6, 6–3
11.	1988	Forest Hills, U.S.	Clay	Pieter Aldrich	Jorge Lozano Todd Witsken	6–3, 7–6
12.	1988	London/Queen's Club, England	Grass	Pieter Aldrich	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	6–2, 7–6
13.	1988	Stratton Mountain, U.S.	Hard	Pieter Aldrich	Jorge Lozano Todd Witsken	6–3, 7–6
14.	1989	Sydney Outdoor, Australia	Hard	Pieter Aldrich	Darren Cahill Wally Masur	6–4, 6–3
15.	1989	Stratton Mountain, U.S.	Hard	Pieter Aldrich	Mark Kratzmann Wally Masur	6–3, 4–6, 7–6
16.	1989	Cincinnati, U.S.	Hard	Pieter Aldrich	Ken Flach Robert Seguso	6–4, 6–4
17.	1990	Sydney Outdoor, Australia	Hard	Pieter Aldrich	Pat Cash Mark Kratzmann	6–4, 7–5
18.	1990	Wimbledon, London	Grass	Pieter Aldrich	Rick Leach Jim Pugh	7–6, 7–6, 7–6
19.	1991	Munich, Germany	Clay	Anders Järryd	Patrick Galbraith Todd Witsken	7–5, 6–4
20.	1991	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Cassio Motta	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	4–6, 6–3, 6–2
21.	1992	San Francisco, U.S.	Hard (i)	Pieter Aldrich	Jim Grabb Richey Reneberg	6–4, 7–5
22.	1992	Nice, France	Clay	Pieter Aldrich	Patrick Galbraith Scott Melville	6–1, 3–6, 6–4
23.	1992	Paris Indoor, France	Carpet	Patrick Galbraith	John McEnroe Patrick McEnroe	6–4, 6–2
24.	1993	Stockholm, Sweden	Carpet	Gary Muller	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6–1, 3–6, 6–2
25.	1995	Nottingham, England	Grass	Patrick Galbraith	Luke Jensen Murphy Jensen	6–3, 5–7, 6–4

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Grand Slams
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	2R	NH	3R	1R	3R	W	1R	3R	W	1R	2R	A	2 / 10	18–7
French Open	1R	3R	2R	1R	2R	1R	A	1R	A	QF	QF	2R	1R	1R	2R	A	0 / 13	12–13
Wimbledon	1R	3R	2R	2R	1R	3R	1R	QF	QF	F	2R	1R	3R	2R	1R	A	0 / 15	21–15
U.S. Open	A	2R	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	1R	2R	W	1R	3R	1R	2R	1R	A	1 / 14	13–13
Grand Slam SR	0 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 3	2 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	1 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 0	3 / 52	N/A
Annual Win-Loss	0–2	6–3	2–3	1–3	1–4	4–3	1–3	3–4	6–2	19–2	4–4	5–4	8–3	2–4	2–4	0–0	N/A	64–48
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells	These Tournaments Were Not Masters Series Events Before 1990									2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	0 / 6	1–6
Miami										2R	QF	2R	2R	QF	1R	A	0 / 6	5–6
Monte Carlo										A	2R	2R	A	QF	A	A	0 / 3	3–3
Rome										A	1R	A	2R	1R	1R	A	0 / 4	1–4
Hamburg										A	F	2R	A	1R	A	A	0 / 3	5–3
Canada										A	A	W	2R	A	A	A	1 / 2	5–1
Cincinnati										QF	2R	QF	1R	1R	A	A	0 / 5	4–5
Stuttgart (Stockholm)										A	QF	2R	F	2R	A	A	0 / 4	7–4
Paris										2R	1R	F	1R	1R	A	A	0 / 5	4–5
Masters Series SR	N/A									0 / 4	0 / 8	1 / 8	0 / 7	0 / 8	0 / 3	0 / 0	1 / 38	N/A
Annual Win-Loss	N/A									1–4	9–8	14–7	5–7	6–8	0–3	0–0	N/A	35–37
Year End Ranking	N/A			96	90	30	68	14	10	1	33	20	21	85	176	1259	N/A

A = did not attend tournament
NH = tournament not held

External links

• Official ATP profile

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Name	Visser, Danie
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Short description	Tennis player
Date of birth	26 July 1961
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