Michiel Schapers

Michiel Schapers was a Dutch tennis player who played professionally from 1982 to 2005. Schapers achieved a career-best singles ranking of #25 in the world in April 1988, and a doubles ranking of #37 in the world in February 1991. He played on the Dutch Davis Cup team from 1982 to 1990, and from 1998 to 2000 he served as the team’s captain.

Schapers won his one and only ATP Challenger singles title in November 1991 in Helsinki with victory against Alex Antonitsch. From November 1990 to August 1993 Schapers won four ATP Challenger doubles titles. On the ATP Tour he reached four singles finals but finished as the runner-up each time. He had more success as a doubles player, winning three ATP titles.

At Grand Slams Schapers reached the singles quarter-finals at the Australian Open in 1985 and 1988. He was also a quarter-finalist in the doubles at the 1986 French Open along with his partner Jaroslav Navrátil. In the mixed doubles he again reached the quarter-finals, this time at the 1987 US Open and at Wimbledon in 1991. His best performance came at the 1988 French Open when he and Brenda Schultz-McCarthy finished as runners-up to Lori McNeil and Jorge Lozano. Schapers competed in the singles at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, beating Andrey Chesnokov, Tony Mmoh, and Sergio Casal, before losing to the eventual gold medallist Miloslav Mečíř in the quarter-finals.