Jürgen Melzer

Jurgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981 in Vienna) is an Austrian tennis player. In addition to Thomas Muster and Julian Knowle he is the only Austrian who has won a Grand Slam tournament. With its two titles in a double and his success in mixed doubles, he is one of the most successful Austrian tennis players.

• 4.1 Junior career
• 4.2 Professional Career 4.2.1 Single 4.2.1.1 ATP World Tour
• 4.2.1.2 ATP Challenger Tour
• 4.2.1.3 finals

• 4.2.2.1 ATP World Tour
• 4.2.2.2 ATP Challenger Tour
• 4.2.2.3 finals

• 4.2.3.1 Title

• 4.2.4.1 Single
• 4.2.4.2 double

Career

1999-2006

Melzer made ​​his debut at the 1999 ATP Tour, when he took up with the BA - CA Tennis Trophy in Vienna. By a 7:6 -, 2:6 -, 6:3 victory over Lars Burgsmüller he reached the second round, he lost 4:6 and 0:6 there against Nicolas Kiefer.

The following year he qualified for the Wimbledon Championships, where he lost in the first round Mark Philippoussis in four sets. More Erstrundenniederlagen arrived at the ATP tournaments Grand Prix of St. Pölten and Generali Open Add to Kitzbuhel.

2001 Melzer won the Challenger tournament in Monchengladbach. He also reached the second round at the BA- CA Tennis Trophy in Vienna to a 6:7 -, 6:4 -, 6:4 victory over Fabrice Santoro. In the second round he lost to Michel Kratochvil from Switzerland in straight sets.

2002 was Melzer at ATP tournaments twice in the quarter finals (St. Pölten and Vienna ) and once in the semifinals (Umag, Croatia).

In 2003, he reached his first final of an ATP tournament. In Newport, he was beaten in three sets itself only in the ending Robby Ginepri. He also came in Houston in the quarterfinals.

2004 Melzer managed to progress to the third round of the Australian Open, where he retired against Sjeng Schalken. Melzer played a strong clay court season: Houston and at the German Open in Hamburg, he reached the quarter -finals; in Hamburg he defeated Marat Safin 6-4, 6-4 and then defeated Lleyton Hewitt; also in St. Pölten succeeded Melzer the semi-finals, where he lost to Xavier Malisse. He also came in the Rogers Masters in Toronto to the quarterfinals; he defeated three top 20 players in the World Ranking Entry ( Dominik Hrbatý, Andre Agassi and Fernando González ), before he lost to Nicolas Kiefer in three sets. Also at the U.S. Open he reached the third round. The 2004 season, he finished at No. 40 in the ATP Champions Race.

2005 Melzer reached the third round at each Grand Slam tournaments Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. At the U.S. Open he failed in round one. He also drew twice in the semi-finals (San Jose, Houston ), once the quarterfinals (Adelaide ) and for the second time in ATP finals in St. Pölten. Also in the Doubles events at the Grand Slam tournaments he could convince. So he defeated in the first round of the Australian Open, the top-seeded duo Daniel Nestor / Mark Knowles and only lost in the semifinals to eventual champions carriers.

2006 different Melzer Although all Grand Slam tournaments in the first round, a playoff (Houston ) and twice reached on the tour but a semifinal (Munich, Newport ) before, in September 2006 he achieved his first tournament victory. With funds U.S. $ 300,000 ATP tournament in Bucharest he hit the set as number five Italian Filippo Volandri 6-1, 7-5. After ten wins in a series he lost a week later in the final in Metz Novak Djokovic. In the following BA- CA Tennis Trophy in Vienna's Stadthalle he lost in the quarterfinals to the set number three U.S. superstar Andy Roddick with 4:6 and 3:6.

2007-2009

Melzer started the year 2007 to rank 41 with a good position: he had to defend as well as any points in the first half. He began with a defeat in Doha against the qualifier Frederico Luzzi. A week later in Sydney he moved to play the semi-finals a good, but because of a gastrointestinal virus he had to cancel the match against James Blake. At the Australian Open he defeated in the first round, Ivo Karlović in three sets. In round two against Tommy Robredo him again made ​​a viral disease to create and he lost in three sets. In addition, he suffered a wrist injury. The end of February, he returned to Las Vegas back to the tour, reaching equal the final, where he defeated Lleyton Hewitt but with 4:6 and 6:7. The following Masters Series tournaments he lost in each round one. Only in Houston, where he had to defend a lot of points, he made it to the quarterfinals. Despite losing to Mariano Zabaleta Melzer lost only one seat and was still among the top 30 Then there was a little losing streak, except for a quarter-final in Munich and the second round at the French Open, where he lost to Juan Mónaco clear. In Hall Melzer lost to the Russians Nikolay Davydenko in three sets and doubles he had to retire due to a wrist injury. After a tendon rupture was diagnosed in the wrist - and that meant a forced break of half a year. Melzer was assured a "Protected Ranking ", so he could go in 2008 on a place in the top 100 at the start. After several attempts to bypass surgery, it was mid-July to Sensation: After a therapy for healers Mohamed Khalifa Melzer could train without pain. In Montreal, he made ​​his comeback and provided a great match against American James Blake, but he narrowly lost with 5:7 and 6:7. A week later at the Masters Series event of Cincinnati played against Melzer Ivo Karlović; he won against the Croats both tiebreaks and celebrated the first victory after his injury. In round two he played against Mario Ančić, another Croats; this time Melzer won in three sets. Against his nemesis Lleyton Hewitt he lost in straight sets.

At the U.S. Open Melzer lost in round two against Juan Martín del Potro. The week after he stepped on to his title defense in Bucharest. He lost in the first round against the Italian Andreas Seppi in three sets and fell in the rankings of the top 40, which he also had to relinquish the position of the best Austrian in the tennis world rankings to Stefan Koubek since January 2004 for the first time. In the Davis Cup relegation match against Brazil, he led Austria with three wins back into the world group.

At her debut in 2008, he reached the second round in each of the tournaments of Chennai and Auckland. He also failed in the second round at the Australian Open. The end of January he reached the final, which he lost against Kristof Vliegen the Challenger tournament in Wroclaw. In Sunrise, he made ​​it to the semifinals. In Pörtschach he defeated Igor Kunizyn in the quarterfinals. The three Grand Slam tournaments in Paris, London and New York, he came in the third round, respectively. In Kitzbühel he reached his first ATP singles final of the season, which he lost to Del Potro. At the height of the season in Beijing, at the Olympics, he lost in the quarterfinals to eventual Olympic champion Rafael Nadal.

More success came in 2008 in a double Melzer. He reached the final of Auckland, Wroclaw, Pörtschach and 's- Hertogenbosch; the latter, he also won. In Graz he won a Challenger tournament with his brother Gerald. During the season, he played with different partners. During the year, he broke into the world rankings Stefan Koubek again as top-ranked Austrians.

2009 celebrated Melzer at home tournament in the Wiener Stadthalle (Category ATP 250) his greatest success so far: He defeated Marin Cilic in the final and won his second ATP tournament. He retired in Umag ( against Nikolay Davydenko ) and Bangkok ( against Gilles Simon ) each of the semi-finals. He failed at the Grand Slam tournaments from Melbourne ( against Andy Murray ), Paris ( against Gaël Monfils ) and Wimbledon ( against Andy Roddick ), each in the third round. At the ATP Masters tournament of Rome ( against Fernando González ) and Shanghai ( against Feliciano López ), he left each in the second round. Melzer ended the year at position 28 in the ATP world rankings. In doubles, he won at the side of Julian Knowle tournaments from Tokyo ( Category ATP 500) and New Haven. The two reached the semi-finals of the ATP Masters tournaments from Miami and Shanghai and Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach subject in the final of Vienna.

2010 to present

With the semi-finals of the French Open in June 2010 - he lost to the eventual winner Nadal in three sets - he celebrated his biggest success so far. At Wimbledon, he stood first in the second round and lost there against defending champion Roger Federer. In the final game of Hamburg (Category ATP 500 ), he was defeated by unseeded Kazakh Andrei Golubev. To this end, he stood ( defeat Nicolás Almagro ) and in the semifinals of Dubai (Category ATP 500) against Mikhail Youzhny at the Madrid Masters in the quarterfinals. In doubles, he won at the side of Philipp Petzschner ATP tournament in Zagreb. In addition, Melzer secured as the first Austrian to Petzschner the title in the doubles competition at Wimbledon, which is, in its opinion, the greatest success of his career.

At the U.S. Open, he lost in the second round again against Federer. After Melzer in Beijing (Category ATP 500) had already failed in the second round, he succeeded with a win over the world number one Nadal in the second round of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Shanghai, a new career highlight - the last three matches against Nadal, he had lost all without winning any set. He won in the same week, even against a total of three world number one: in his winning the doubles competition of Shanghai (Partner: Leander Paes ) in the semifinals, he had to overcome the two leaders of the double world rankings, Bob and Mike Bryan. In October he was in the Wiener Stadthalle defend his title. He defeated his compatriot Andreas Haider- Maurer in a thrilling finale ( at 6:7, 4:5 residue succeeded him his first break, bottom line: 6:710, 7:64, 6:4 ) and thus won his third ATP individual stocks.

Due to its success in the 2010 calendar year, Melzer was also chosen in early November as the second tennis player after Thomas Muster (1990, 1995) to Austria's sportsman of the year. He could also be called the end of 2010 as the best " combiner ": In a ( not officially out ) combined world rankings for singles and doubles, he was 1 November 2010 to consider the lead (Single 12, Double 6 - Sum 18) before Sam Querrey, United States ( Single 22, Double 31 - Sum 53) and John Isner, USA (Single 19, Double 36 - Sum 55); Rafael Nadal was in this rating 10 (Single 1, Double 74 - Sum 75), Federer and Djokovic were not then in a double in the top 100

Melzer started in the Kooyong AAMI Classic in the 2011 season and finished third here with a win over Nikolay Davydenko. In Melbourne, he made a second round feeder. In doubles, he came to the side of Petzschner the quarter-finals and was defeated there just the Bryan brothers. Due to its yield point Melzer could advance in his career in the top ten for the first time; he is thus one of the medium sized circle of players who in the course of their careers at the same time in singles and doubles in the top 10 included ( the best in the Tennis Open Era in this regard was probably John McEnroe, longer at the beginning of the eighties time no. 1 in singles and doubles).

At the tournament in Rotterdam Melzer failed while in the second round to Marin Cilic, but could on the side of the double competition Petzschner decide for themselves, thus securing his first season title. In April 2011, Melzer defeated in the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo Masters Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4, but lost in the semifinals of the Spaniard David Ferrer 3:6, 2:6. From 18 April 2011, he was eight weeks out in the single world ranking as number 8, the best single result of his career. In July 2011, Melzer won the mixed title at Wimbledon at the side of Czech Iveta Benešová his second Grand Slam title. His third followed in the same year on the side of Petzschner in double competition of the U.S. Open .. In single it did not go so well from the middle of the year, he had fallen in derWeltrangliste ranked number 33 in late 2011.

2012 began with the single kick-off defeats in Brisbane and at the Australian Open. The first big success of the year was with the rise of the Austrian Davis Cup team into the quarter- finals of the World Group; in the 3-2 victory over Russia in Wiener Neustadt ( 10 to 12 February 2012) he was able to make two of the three points gained by him through the single games against Igor and Alex Bogomolov Kunizin, the third points had Andreas Haider -Maurer already in achieved his first match against Alex Bogomolov. Shortly thereafter, Melzer won his first tournament in Memphis the ATP World Tour 500 This was followed by several setbacks in the Davis Cup quarterfinals, the team failed to clear Spain with 1:4; until the end of July Melzer could except in Miami never reach the third round of a single petition, he was parted among others at the French Open and Wimbledon in the first or second round. Finally, he also lost his first round match at the Olympic Games against Marin Cilic, in a double competition, he retired with Alexander Peya out in the second round. In the doubles were the biggest successes of the finals in Brisbane at the beginning and the semi-finals of Wimbledon.

2013 reached Melzer at the Australian Open third round and he went in early February in Zagreb into final; afterwards he took 27th place his best finish in the world rankings for ten months. After an opening loss in Memphis, where Melzer took to defend his title, however, he had to cope with a relapse at number 49, his worst finish since August 2008. Was followed by further opening defeats, whereupon Melzer took the Challenger tournament in Dallas, in which he both the single - and the double competition was won ( with Petzschner ) for themselves. It was followed by the quarter-finals of the Miami Masters, his best result at this tournament. Immediately before the U.S. Open, he won the tournament of Winston -Salem, after he had found recently with Galo Blanco a new coach. After the final triumph against Gaël Monfils, he again reached a season high with rank 27.

Managers

Mid-May 2007 Melzer parted with his coach Karl - Heinz Wetter. Until the U.S. Open in the same year he first worked with Gilbert Schaller, then with the former number 7 in the world, Joakim Nyström from Sweden. Melzer's manager is Ronnie Leitgeb. His team includes, Jan Veldhuis ( physiotherapist and fitness coach ) and Michael Leitner book ( conditioning coach ). From late 2012 to mid-2013 Alexander Waske Melzer was coach. He is currently coached by Galo Blanco.

Personal

His father Rudolf Melzer (SPO ) was from 1998 to 2001 mayor of German - Wagram. His mother Michaela Melzer is an employee, his younger brother Gerald also professional tennis players.

Jurgen Melzer is married to the Czech tennis player Iveta Benešová since 14 September 2012. The wedding took place at Schloss Laxenburg.

Achievements

Junior career

Professional career

Singles

ATP World Tour

ATP Challenger Tour

Finals

Doubles

ATP World Tour

ATP Challenger Tour

Finals

Mixed

Title

Statistics

Singles

Doubles

Legend: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = reaching the finals / semi-finals / quarter-finals / second round; 1R, 2R, 3R = eliminated in the first / second / third main round; 1Q, 2Q, 3Q = eliminated in the first / second / third qualifying round

• 1 tournament result in brackets means that the player has not finished the tournament, it displays its current tournament status. After the tournament, the bracketing will be removed.
• 2 prior to 2009 Tennis Masters Cup.
• 3 The tournament in Miami as well as since 2004 the tournament in Indian Wells have a field of 96 players, all other Masters Tournament is one of 56 or 64 players; therefore there one round less.
• 4 The Masters tournament in Madrid was held before 2002 in Stuttgart, Essen and Stockholm. 2009 was a change in the surface of Hard Court on sand.
• 5 The Tournament of Hamburg is no longer part of the Masters Series since 2009.
• 6 In contrast to the ATP rankings are here (as well as in the number finals and won the title ) only tournaments on the ATP World Tour and the four Grand Slam tournaments and the ATP World Tour Finals counted, ie no Challenger or Futures tournaments or team events ( Davis Cup and World Team Cup). However, the latter are at the Sieg-/Niederlagen-Statistiken.
• 7 Since the 2009 season, no ATP tournaments are more played on carpet.
• 8 Stand: July 9, 2013 (after the Wimbledon Championships 2013)
• 9 The point system in the world rankings has been changed for the 2009 season. The values ​​from 2009 are comparable to the previous seasons at a ratio of 2:1.

Awards

• Austrian Sportsman of the Year (2010)