RiÄardas Berankis
Ričardas Berankis ( born June 21, 1990 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian tennis player.
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Life and career
2005-2007: Success as a junior and first experiences on Futures tournaments
Ričardas Berankis started at the age of two years with the tennis games. From 2005 he played on the junior tour, and there could soon celebrate tournament victories. His greatest achievements were winning the 2007 U.S. Open and reaching the semi-finals at the Australian Open in 2007 and the Wimbledon Championships 2007. He finished the 2007 to position 1 of the junior world rankings.
Back in 2006, collected Berankis also experiences on Futures tournaments in the adult area. In March 2007, he first won a Futures tournament in Portugal. In May 2007 he was appointed to the Lithuanian Davis Cup team, and won three of six games there. Later in the year Berankis still reached a Future semi-final, and ended the year ranked 707 of world tennis rankings.
2008-2009: Achievements and ATP Challenger debut
In 2008 Ričardas Berankis played increasingly tournaments in the ATP Challenger Tour. In June 2008, Berankis qualified for the main draw of an ATP tournament in Warsaw for the first time. Although he was eliminated in the first round against Wayne Odesnik, he was then performed as a first Lithuanians at all in the top 500 in the world rankings in July 2008 (previous record holder in his country was Rolandas Muraška, who made it in 2001 at No. 575 ). For the ATP tournament in Umag, he got a wild card, but lost in the first round against Fabio Fognini. As the winner of last year's junior competition Berankis got for qualification to the 2008 U.S. Open a wildcard, and made it after a victory over the top -100 player Serhiy Stachowskyj in the third qualifying round, where he narrowly failed to Björn Phau.
The year 2009 began with a Berankis finals in a Futures tournament in Germany. In March 2009, he drove a 3-2 victory over Georgia in the Davis Cup victories in two single, but was then in July 2009 against Slovenia, as well as a chance his team, which lost 0:5. Later in the year Berankis reached in Qarshi and Champaign twice the semi-finals of a Challenger tournament, he was also in two other Future - finals.
2010: Two Challenger titles and entry into the Top 100
After he had again reached in January 2010 in a Salinas Challenger semi-final to Ričardas Berankis qualified for the ATP tournament from San Jose in February 2010. There he defeated Robby Ginepri his first ATP match, and reached after a victory over Bjorn Phau even the quarter-finals, where he lost narrowly to eventual champions Fernando Verdasco. This the first time he went into the top 200 in the world rankings. After he had won the Davis Cup with Lithuania, thanks to two individual wins 3-2 over the United Kingdom, Berankis took part in the qualification for the French Open 2010. There, however, he failed in the third qualifying round to Martin Fischer. Of this he was not discouraged, but won a week later in Nottingham by defeating Gō Soeda his first Challenger title. At Wimbledon, he then succeeded on the third attempt for the first time qualifying for a Grand Slam tournament, and reached by a victory over Carsten Ball even the second round. There, however, he lost in four sets against the set at position 22 Feliciano Lopez. In August 2010 Berankis reached in Vancouver for the second time the finals of a Challenger tournament, defeated Dudi Sela but there. After he had again successfully qualified at the U.S. Open in 2010 for a Grand Slam tournament, he defeated Ryan Sweeting in the first round. In the second round he met on the set at position 13 Jurgen Melzer, whom he defeated in a tight match in five sets. A week after the U.S. Open, Berankis came with Lithuania in Davis Cup relegation match for a place in the Europe / Africa Group I. He won a single and a double, but could not prevent the 2:3 defeat to Slovenia. Due to a viral disease had Berankis after several tournaments cancel, but could reach again a Challenger - finals of the annual financial statements in Helsinki. There he benefited from the task of defending champion Michal Przysiezny and thus won his second title this year. Thus he rose in the rankings to No. 85, and was thus at the end of the youngest player in the top 100
2011: establishment on the ATP Tour and injury worries
The year 2011 began for Ričardas Berankis with the successful qualification for the ATP tournament in Brisbane. There he defeated in the first round Arnaud Clément, but then lost in a tight three- set match against the set at position 7 Florian Mayer. Even with his Australian Open debut Berankis was able to move into the second round with a three-set victory over local favorite Marinko Matosevic. There he met the embattled top 30 player David Nalbandian, who gave up after less than an hour of play at 0-2 sets down. In his first third- round match at a Grand Slam tournament Berankis defeated then but due to high error rate clearly the set at position 7 eventual semi-finalists David Ferrer. In February 2011 Ričardas Berankis came at the ATP tournament in San Jose, defeating there in the first round at position 6 set Benjamin Becker. Next, he won a contested three- set match against Donald Young, and achieved thereby, as last year the quarter-finals. He lost, however, in two tight sets against the eventual tournament winner Milos Raonic. Berankis different even for the next ATP tournaments in Memphis and Delray Beach each in the first round against the eventual tournament winner Andy Roddick and Juan Martín del Potro. In the subsequent Davis Cup match against Estonia Berankis despite second individual victories not prevent the 2:3 defeat against the Estonians. After he had retired at the Masters Series in Indian Wells and Miami in the second or first round, Ričardas Berankis had to take a long injury lay-off due to a groin problem. Thus he missed both the French Open and Wimbledon. After nearly four months out Berankis was in July 2011 in Atlanta his comeback. In some he left in the first round, in a double but he was able to reach the semi-finals along with Xavier Malisse.
Comments
For a while Berankis has been on the English-language website as Richard Berankis ATP, which the Lithuanian pronunciation of his name Ričardas comes closer than Ricarda ( with hard k).