Adrian Mannarino

Adrian Mannarino ( born June 29, 1988 Soisy -sous- Montmorency ) is a French tennis player.

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Life and career

2004-2007: First experiences on Futures tournaments

Adrian Mannarino learned to play tennis at the age of five years and has since been coached by his father, Florent Mannarino. His three- year older brother Morgan Mannarino is also tennis player and has so far celebrate small successes in future tournaments.

After he had directly reached in October 2004 as a qualifier in his first Futures tournament quarter-finals, Adrian Mannarino opted in 2005 for a career as a professional tennis player. In April 2006 he won Spain its first futures title. Later in the year he reached two more finals, one of which he could win one. In 2007, Mannarino played mainly Futures tournaments, and was able to win two out of four finals reached.

2008: Grand Slam debut, ATP Challenger semifinals and title

2008 Adrian Mannarino could then take on the ATP Challenger Tour foot, and reached in the first few months in two tournaments the semi-finals, after he first went into the top 200 of the world tennis rankings. After he had failed in the previous two years each in qualifying, Mannarino received a wildcard for the French Open 2008. On his Grand Slam debut but he had no chance against Diego Junqueira. Also in double, he retired along with Jonathan Eysseric from as early as the first round. In the following months Mannarino reached another Challenger semi-final, but failed to qualify in both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. In September 2008, he qualified for the ATP tournament in Metz, and defeated in the first round to Andreas Seppi at position 6 set. After a victory over Rik De Voest Mannarino could throw another top 50 player out of the race in the quarterfinals with Marc Gicquel. In the semifinals, he lost in two extremely short sentences against Paul -Henri Mathieu. A week later, Adrian Mannarino reached the final for the first time in Rennes a Challenger tournament, but he lost to Josselin Ouanna. For the Masters Tournament in Paris, he received a wild card, but different in the first round against Dmitry Tursunov from. In November 2008 he won in Jersey against Andreas Beck his first Challenger title. In the world rankings, he had improved this year by almost 200 seats and ended the year ranked 134th

2009: entry into the Top 100 and injury worries

At the Australian Open 2009 Adrian Mannarino started with a wildcard, but had no chance against the eventual semi-finalists Fernando Verdasco. In April 2009, he lost in Saint- Brieuc for the second time a Challenger final against Josselin Ouanna. At the French Open he got like last year, a wild card, but against Tommy Robredo retired again in the first round. At Wimbledon, he fought his way through qualifying, but here was in the first round at Marc Gicquel terminus. In August 2009, Mannarino reached another Challenger final, in which he lost to Feliciano López in Segovia. However, he first rose then in the top 100 in the world ranking, and reached in September 2009 with his best-ever placing 88th. However, since he retired in Metz in the first round and thus his points from last year could not defend, he fell shortly afterwards back in the rankings. After Mannarino had to fight the whole year over again with knee problems, he retired in September 2009 for half a year completely out of the tournament scene back in order to cure himself.

2010: Comeback with Challenger titles and first Grand Slam match win

In March 2010 Adrian Mannarino started his comeback after he had fallen in the world rankings now up to rank 300. The first success after his return was to qualify for the ATP tournament in Nice in May 2010, however, where he lost to Olivier Rochus. At the French Open, and at Wimbledon he failed each in the third qualifying round. But this he was on the Challenger tour soon celebrate successes: In May 2010, he was still excreted in Nottingham in the semifinals, in July 2010 and August 2010, followed then in Recanati, Segovia and Istanbul three consecutive finals, of which he latter against Mikhail Kukushkin could win. At the U.S. Open, he succeeded in qualifying, and finally here he could against Pere Riba in five sets for the first time to win a Grand Slam match. In the second round, but he was then a chance against Fernando Verdasco as with last year's Australian Open. In September 2010 Adrian Mannarino got for the tournament in Metz, where two years ago he had his first major success on the ATP Tour can celebrate a wildcard. But this time, he met in the first round to Paul -Henri Mathieu, against whom he lost again. A month later Mannarino won against Steve Darcis in Mons his second Challenger title this year; while he gave during the whole tournament from a single sentence. End of October 2010, he qualified for the ATP tournament in Montpellier, and there defeated in the first round Lukáš Lacko. Although in a very tight three- set match, he lost in the second round against the set at position 5 John Isner, characterized by more than a year, he managed to re-enter the top 100 end of the season Mannarino in Helsinki could achieve even a Challenger semi-final, and finished the season in his best ever world ranking 83

2011: establishment on the ATP tour and entry into the Top 50

The year 2011 started for Adrian Mannarino with the successful qualification for the ATP tournament in Brisbane, where he, however, in the first round lost to the set at position 4 Mardy Fish. A week later he succeeded in Auckland qualification, and there he was after victories over the set at position 5 Juan Mónaco and Arnaud Clément to reach the quarter -finals. There he met on the set at position 2 Nicolás Almagro, he lost to in three sets. At the Australian Open 2011 is set Mannarino in the first round in straight three sets to Ryan Harrison through before he had to retire in the second round against Richard Gasquet in three sets. In early February 2011 was able to reach an ATP semi-finals for the second time in his career in Johannesburg Mannarino. However, he resigned in three sets against eventual champions Kevin Anderson. After two second-round defeats in Memphis and Delray Beach Mannarino succeeded the next success in early May at the Masters tournament in Madrid, where he worked in the first round, the top 50 player Juan Ignacio Chela defeated as a qualifier. In the second round he was able to win the second set 6-0 against the set at position 6 David Ferrer after losing the first set, but then lost again the third set with 0:6. After he had retired smoothly at the French Open in three sets to the started a wild card Guillaume Rufin, Adrian Mannarino celebrated his success at the next lawn tournament at London's Queen's Club. There he achieved inter alia by victories over the set Gilles Simon and Juan Martín del Potro the quarter-finals, then retired but surprisingly against James Ward of. At Wimbledon itself Mannarino continued in the first round in a four-hour five- set match against qualifier Conor Niland through, but was then a chance against the Third World Ranking Roger Federer. After that, he was first performed in the top 50 in the world rankings.

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