But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game.

Open Krajicek lost a quarterfinal matchup to Yevgeny Kafelnikov. His career-high singles ranking was world no. The following year he reached the semifinals at the French Open where he lost in four sets to the defending champion Jim Courier.

Since 2004 Krajicek has been the tournament director of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam. Richard Peter Stanislav Krajicek (born 6 December 1971) is a Dutch former professional tennis player.