Tim Smyczek
Tim Smyczek ( born December 30, 1987 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American tennis player.
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Life and career
2002-2005: Junior Career
Tim Smyczek began at the age of three years with the tennis games. Since 2002 he has appeared regularly at international junior tournaments. During his junior career, he reached several finals and won a title. His best result at Grand Slam tournaments was reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon in 2005.
2002-2007: Initial Successes in Futures tournaments
Already in 2002, Tim Smyczek first appeared in the qualifying campaign for a future tournament. It was not until the end of 2004, until he was able to win a Futures main round match for the first time and was thus the first time out in the tennis world rankings. In 2006, he was finally able to then win his first title, he also reached this year two more Futures semi-finals, and was able to defeat the top -200 player Rajeev Ram during his Challenger debut in Yuba City. In 2007 Smyczek remained untitled, his best result was reaching a futures Finals
2008-2009: ATP debut and first Challenger final
In February 2008, Tim Smyczek could qualify for the first time in San Jose for the main draw of an ATP tournament. However, he lost his debut against the top 100 players Mardy Fish, with whom he trained regularly since then. As the year progresses Smyczek reached a Future Finals, and also made use of increasingly prevail even in Challenger tournaments. So he reached there a semifinal and a quarterfinal. For more ATP tournaments he could not qualify this year, so he left, among others at the U.S. Open, as in 2005 and 2006 in the first qualifying round. Nevertheless, he finished first time one year in the top 400 in the world rankings. The next major success came in Tim Smyczek then in June 2009 at the Challenger tournament in Winnetka, where he marched as a qualifier to the finals, including, inter alia, the top 200 players Donald Young defeated before losing in the final against Alex Kuznetsov. In the following months he still reached a challenger semi-finals and quarter -finals, but the qualification to an ATP tournament was denied him this year.
2010: first ATP match win and Grand Slam debut
This was Tim Smyczek then finally in February 2010 as two years earlier in San José, but he lost in the first round against Benjamin Becker. Even a month later at the Indian Wells Masters, he lost as a qualifier in the first round just against the former world number one Carlos Moyá. In March 2010 Smyczek was in Rimouski for the second time in his career in a Challenger final, but he lost again against Rik De Voest. In June 2010 he reached the finals like last year in Winnetka, but this time he went against Brian Dabul as losers from the square. In July 2010, Tim Smyczek then succeeded his biggest success: the ATP tournament in Los Angeles, he won a qualifier against the top 100 players Teimuraz Gabashvili his first ATP match. In the second round against the world rankings Fourth Andy Murray Smyczek was able to win a set but lost the match in three sets to the eventual finalists. In August 2010 Smyczek reached at the USTA U.S. Open Wildcard Playoffs the final, and sat there in his first best-of -five match in three sets against Ryan Harrison through, making it a wildcard for the U.S. Open 2010 secured. On his Grand Slam debut, he then met in the first round to the set at position 26 Thomaz Bellucci, he retired against in three sets. After he had reached a Challenger semifinals in September, Smyczek finished first one year in the top 200 in the world rankings.
2011: First ATP quarter-finals and challenger title
In early 2011 Tim Smyczek missed qualifying for the Australian Open. In February 2011 he was given a wildcard for the ATP tournament in San Jose. After a first round win over Robert Farah, he sat down in the second round in three sets to the set at position 8 Kei Nishikori through, and thus reached his first ATP quarterfinal. There, however, he was parted in two tight sets against the top 20 player Gaël Monfils. In the world rankings, he improved by this success at position 158, his best-ever placing. A month later, Tim Smyczek at the Masters tournament in Indian Wells after successful qualification with Ilya Marchenko defeat a top 100 player again. In the second round he had against the set at position 32 Philipp Kohlschreiber already three match points, but they could not convert and lost the match in the final tiebreak of the third set. After he was eliminated in Houston as qualifier against eventual champions Ryan Sweeting in the first round, Tim Smyczek end of April 2011 put the final of the USTA French Open wild card playoffs in four sets against Donald Young by, and thus won a wild card for his second Grand Slam tournament. At his French Open debut but he had already lost in the first round to eventual quarter-finalists Juan Ignacio Chela. After he had failed in the ATP tour at London's Queen's Club in Atlanta and in qualifying to Smyczek could qualify in Los Angeles and Washington for the main draw in July 2011, left there but in each case in the first round. Rest of the year passed without further highlights for Smyczek.
At the beginning of 2012 Smyczek failed narrowly in the final qualifying round of the Australian Open. After he lost in February 2012 in San Jose as a qualifier just in the first round, he was two weeks later prevail in Delray Beach in the first round against the top 20 players Jurgen Melzer, who had just won the tournament in Memphis. In the second round Smyczek difference but then against the set at position 8 Bernard Tomic. Beginning of March 2012, he managed the Indian Wells Masters, as in the two previous years the successful qualifying for the main draw, followed by a first round defeat. In April 2012 Smyczek reached a Challenger final inter alia, by a victory over the top -100 player Igor Kunizyn in Tallahassee for the fourth time in his career. There he benefited after winning the first set of the injury-related task his opponent Frank Dancevic and thus won his first title.