Cedrik-Marcel Stebe
Cedrik -Marcel Stebe ( born October 9, 1990 in Muehlacker ) is a German tennis player.
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Life and career
Junior career with U.S. Open title
Cedrik -Marcel Stebe began at the age of three years, to play tennis. Since 2006 he has participated in international youth tournaments and won several titles there in the following years. In 2008 he reached the U.S. Open quarter-finals in a single, double, he could even win the title along with Nikolaus Moser. In this tournament, there also was a first contact with the former world number one Roger Federer, who wanted to do with Stebe a training session, for which it did not come from lack of time. Cedrik -Marcel Stebe After addition was able to reach the semifinals at the Orange Bowl, he finished 2008 ranked 5th Junior World Ranking.
2008-2009: Initial Successes in Futures tournaments and win at the German Championships
His debut on the ATP Challenger Tour Cedrik -Marcel Stebe was in June 2008 in Braunschweig, where he was given a wildcard. With a victory over the top -400 players Artem Sitak where he won his first world ranking points. Later in the year he took part in several Futures tournaments, and could reach two semi-finals in the Dominican Republic. In January 2009, Cedrik -Marcel Stebe got the Challenger tournament in Heilbronn a wild card, but lost in the first round of the top 100 players Arnaud Clément. In March 2009, Stebe stood in Zaragoza for the first time in a futures - finals, in August 2009, followed by another finals in Dortmund. In Munich and Stuttgart, he first attempted to qualify for ATP tournaments, but managed not to jump into the main draw. When Challenger tournaments he could not win a match in this year, yet he climbed in the world rankings in the meantime up to rank 523 to Financial Statements Cedrik -Marcel Stebe then won the German Tennis Championships in Offenburg by defeating Kevin Deden.
2010: First Future title and first Challenger final
The year 2010 started for Cedrik -Marcel Stebe with a first round victory over the top -200 players Michał Przysiezny the Challenger tournament in Heilbronn. In April 2010, Stebe won his first Futures title in Padua, and then moved into the top 500 in the world rankings. In July 2010, he achieved his greatest success up to that point in his career: When Challenger tournament in Oberstaufen, he moved as a qualifier, among others, by beating the top 200 player Lukáš Rosol and Pablo Andújar to the semifinals one. There he sat down in two tight sets against the set at position 1 top 100 players by Simon Greul and was thus in his first Challenger final. There he was defeated, although Martin Fischer, but was then able to achieve his best ever World Ranking position with rank 322. Three weeks later failed Stebe at the ATP tournament in Umag only just in the last qualifying round. This was his last success in 2010 because he due to a back injury and several diseases long tournament breaks had to take it.
2011: Grand Slam debut, Challenger titles and into the top 100
In February 2011, then Cedrik -Marcel Stebe got into the tournament scene, and immediately began a winning streak of 17 matches in a row. First he won in Antalya two consecutive Futures tournaments and gave it only a single sentence from. Then he qualified at the Challenger tournament in Kyoto for the main round, and marched there, among others, by victories over defending Yuichi Sugita and the set at position 1 Gō Soeda to the finals by where it then but in three sets against his fellow countryman Dominik Meffert lost. A week later Stebe succeeded in the Challenger tournament in Guangzhou to a second-round victory over the set at position 2 Lukáš Lacko in the quarter-finals rematch against Meffert. After he retired, although in the semifinals to eventual tournament winner Uladzimir Ihnazik, but still increased due to the recent success in the world rankings by over 100 places to rank 234th in the following weeks reached Stebe yet another Challenger semifinals in Pingguo and a Challenger quarter-final in Rome. In May 2011, then Cedrik -Marcel Stebe came at the French Open for the first time in qualifying at a Grand Slam tournament, but lost Simon Greul in the second qualifying round. In June 2011, Stebe managed in Halle for the first time the qualification to an ATP tournament. He took the crucial qualifying match against Leonardo Mayer nearly four hours until he was able to prevail in short supply in three sets. In the first round Stebe then lost against Philipp Kohlschreiber, but was the eventual champions remove the only player to a set. Two weeks later at Wimbledon he managed the initial qualification at a Grand Slam tournament. Here, the final qualifying match against Ryan Harrison took because of numerous rain delays a total of three days, until finally Stebe won in five sets. In the first round he had to retire in three tight sets against Grigor Dimitrov. After he had failed in July 2011 at the Challenger tournament in Oberstaufen in the semifinals to eventual winners Daniel Brands, Cedrik -Marcel Stebe got for the ATP tournament in Stuttgart a wildcard. There he reached the only German by a three-set victory over the set at position 6 Nikolay Davydenko the second round. After another narrow victory over a top 50 player Fabio Fognini Stebe was then for the first time in an ATP quarterfinal. There, however, he lost to eventual finalists clearly Pablo Andújar. A week later received Cedrik -Marcel Stebe and for the ATP tournament in Hamburg a wildcard. In the first round, he sat down in straight sets against Juan Carlos Ferrero through, which had not won the title two days earlier in Stuttgart. In the second round Stebe met for the second time in eight days on Nikolay Davydenko, he could defeat again. In the second round, he retired then, however, against set at number 8 Fernando Verdasco eventual semi-finalists. End of August 2011 failed Cedrik -Marcel Stebe at the U.S. Open in the first qualifying round. However, he immediately traveled to Bangkok, where he won his first Challenger title with a final victory over Amir Weintraub. Just a week reached Stebe in Shanghai another Challenger final. There he won in three sets over Alexander Kudryavtsev and thus won his second title. The next tournament in Ningbo finally Stebes winning streak ended after 13 matches when he had to retire in the semifinals due to a wrist injury. Due to this success, he moved into the world rankings end of October 2011 for the first time into the top 100 in the world. He also qualified as one of eight players for the ATP Challenger Tour Finals, which were held in November 2011 in São Paulo. There, he moved with two preliminary round wins semi-finals, which he could barely win against Andreas Beck. In the final Stebe then continued in straight sets against Dudi Sela by, against whom he had previously still lost in the first round. Due to this success, he rose in the world ranking up to rank 81
2012: Davis Cup debut
Cedrik -Marcel virtue of its placement Stebe was directly qualified for the 2012 Australian Open. There he met in the first round in the sold-out Rod Laver Arena on the local favorite and former world number one Lleyton Hewitt. This won the first two sets, Stebe but fought his way back into the match and won the third set. In the fourth sentence, he was already leading a double break, but then lost the last six games in a row and thus the match. In February 2012, Stebe was appointed for the first time in the squad of German Davis Cup team because of disease-related loss of Philipp Kohlschreiber. After the German team already was behind after the first two days with 0-3 against Argentina, Stebe was allowed to compete in the meaningless final singles match against Eduardo Schwank against whom he won the honor point in two sentences. When relegation match against Australia Stebe was again in the squad. His first singles match against Bernard Tomic lost Stebe with 1:3, before he met her in the crucial fourth single to Lleyton Hewitt. In contrast to the Australian Open but was Stebe after initial residue of the better players and secured with its 3-0 victory over Hewitt in the league for Germany.
Since 2009: Career as a club player
Cedrik -Marcel Stebe played in the years 2009 and 2010 in the 2nd Bundesliga for Tennis TV Reutlingen. For the 2011 season he moved to the two -time German champion TK Kurhaus Aachen. There he played for both the league team, which won second place in the final table, as well as for the Bundesliga team. With this he was able to win all four of his singles matches and thus contributed its part to ensure that the team was German champion in 2011.