Christo van Rensburg


Christo van Rensburg is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.
Van Rensburg turned professional in 1983. He won his first doubles title on ATP Tour later that year at Cleveland.
Van Rensburg won 20 top-level doubles titles during his career, including one Grand Slam men's doubles title at the Australian Open in 1985, partnering Paul Annacone. He also won two ATP singles titles at Orlando in 1987, and at Johannesburg in 1989. Van Rensburg's career-high rankings were world No. 19 in singles and world No. 5 in doubles. He retired from the professional tour in 1995.
Van Rensburg is one of only two men to beat Pete Sampras in straight sets at Wimbledon, the other being 1996 champion Richard Krajicek.

ATP career finals

Singles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0[Verizon Tennis Challenge|]Orlando, United StatesGrand PrixHarddts|Nov 1988

Doubles: 32 (20 titles, 12 runners-up)


ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0[Grand Prix Cleveland|]Cleveland, United StatesGrand PrixHard|1928

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 6 (5–1)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1-0Cape Town, South AfricaChallengerHarddts|Jul 1991

Doubles: 8 (6–2)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Newcastle, United KingdomChallengerGrass