Carsten Ball
Carsten Thomas Ball ( born June 20, 1987 in Newport Beach, United States) is an Australian tennis player.
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Life and career
To 2005: career and junior career
Carsten Ball began at the age of four years with the tennis game. He is coached by his father Syd Ball, which was successful in the 1970s as a tennis pro, winning a total of seven ATP doubles titles, and also was among other things in 1974 at the Australian Open in doubles final. Carsten is born in the U.S. and grew up, but he has a dual citizenship and emerges as his father for Australia in tennis to.
Since 2002 Carsten Ball was active in the Junior Tour, where he was especially successful in the years 2004 and 2005. So he reached in January 2005 at the Australian Open quarter-finals; in a double he could advance even to the finals along with Thiemo De Bakker in the U.S. Open 2005. His best finish in the junior world ranking was No. 9 in May 2005.
2002-2007: First experiences on Futures tournaments
Parallel Carsten Ball had tried since 2002 to qualify for futures and satellite tournaments in the adult area. This, he succeeded in 2005, and at the end of the year he was able to record his first match wins. In doubles, he could even win two Future tournaments with Andrew Coelho.
To qualify for the Australian Open in January 2006, Ball was given a wild card, but he left in the first qualifying round. In doubles, he got together with Andrew Coelho a wildcard for the main draw, where she reached the second round after all. Later in the year he won a total of four Futures titles in doubles, all with his new partner Adam Feeney. They also reached the final of a Challenger in Caloundra tournament. In individual he reached this year, only once the quarter-finals of a Futures tournament.
It took until July 2007 to Carsten Ball in the first single could win a Futures tournament in the United States. In the following months he reached four other Future Finals, of which he won one, so it was first performed in November 2007 in the top 500 of the world tennis rankings. In doubles, he stayed fairly constant now in the Top 200, among other things, he had again reached in Brisbane with Adam Feeney a Challenger final.
2008: success in Challenger tournaments in singles and especially in the double
After Ball and Feeney were excreted in the previous year at the Australian Open in the second round, as they reached the second round in 2008 after all. A month later won Carsten Ball in Wolfsburg together with Izak van der Merwe his first Challenger title in doubles. Just a month later in Mexico City with Robert Smeets the next title. In May 2008, ball reached in Tunica Resorts for the first time a Challenger final in singles, but he was defeated Iván Miranda. After several challenger semi-finals and a Futures title in June 2008 Carsten Ball rose for the first time in a single in the Top 200. For the 2008 U.S. Open, he got a wild card, but he left in the first round against Viktor Troicki of. In doubles, he won this year a further four Challenger tournaments on American soil, three of them with Travis Rettenmaier. Another highlight of the year was Carsten Ball Davis Cup debut against Chile in September 2008., He could not prevent both double as a win in singles, but the 2:3 defeat.
2009: First ATP Einezlfinale and Grand Slam quarter-finals in a double
At the Australian Open 2009 got Carsten Ball with Chris Guccione, with whom he had already won together in the Davis Cup, a wildcard. As in the previous year was terminus in the second round. Even in the single he got a wildcard, however different in the first round against Michael Berrer from. In May 2009, Ball was in Sarasota for the second time in a Challenger finals, losing to James Ward. Only a month later, he lost in Yuba City again in a Challenger final, this time the tournament winner Ryler Deheart said. In doubles, however, Ball won along with Travis Rettenmaier, just like two other tournaments in May and July 2009. Late July 2009, Carsten Ball failed to qualify for the ATP tournament in Los Angeles, and then marched to victories over Top 100 players Marc Gicquel, Dmitry Tursunov, John Isner and Leonardo Mayer to the finals by. There he was defeated while Sam Querrey, but still made in the world rankings a jump to No. 145 A month later, he was at the U.S. Open again the qualification and could in the first round against Juan Pablo Brzezicki win his first Grand Slam match. However, in the second round he had no chance against the set at position 4 Novak Djokovic. Things went better in the doubles, where he and Chris Guccione could only be stopped in the quarterfinals of the Bryan brothers. In the double World Ranking Carsten Ball then rose to number 54, his previous best.
2010-2011: First ATP Challenger doubles titles and individual titles
The year 2010 began with a first round defeat for Carsten Ball against Fernando Verdasco at the Australian Open, followed by a Challenger finals in Dallas, where he lost to Ryan Sweeting. Won at the French Open in May 2010 ball in a nearly four-hour match in five sets against Philipp Petzschner before he retired in the second round as with the 2008 U.S. Open against Viktor Troicki. At Wimbledon, he was the first to qualify for the main draw, defeated there but Ričardas Berankis. In doubles, Carsten Ball and Chris Guccione came to the knockout stages, where they failed again to the Bryans. In the following grass tournament of Newport, the two were able to win against Santiago González and Balls former doubles partner Travis Rettenmaier their first ATP title. A week later she defended her also Challenger title in Aptos. In single ball reached the semi-finals in Aptos, and was a week later in Lexington in the fifth attempt with a win over Jesse Levine finally win a Challenger final. This he achieved his best ever World Ranking position with rank 108. Shortly thereafter, however, he fell in the rankings back again because he lost the points of the finals in Los Angeles. At the U.S. Open but he could still compete thanks to a wildcard and reached there after a victory over Milos Raonic like last year, the second round. There, however, was against the terminal set at position 21 Albert Montanes. In the next Davis Cup match against Belgium Carsten Ball lost both single, so that Australia 2:3 missed promotion to the World Group. In the U.S. Challenger hard court tournaments at the end of ball could reach even a semi-final in Tiburon and ended the year ranked 153 in the world rankings.
In early 2011 got Carsten Ball, as in the two previous years a wildcard for the Australian Open, but again he left already in the first round in five sets against Pere Riba from. In the doubles and mixed doubles he could reach the third round, respectively. The following months were mainly in the individual with little success for Carsten Ball: Eleven tournaments he retired in the first round or failed previously in qualifying, only the Challenger tournament in Aptos as he could reach the semi-finals last year. In doubles, he won for the third time in a row the title in Aptos with Chris Guccione, he also achieved together with Santiago Gonzalez again the second round at Wimbledon.