Daniel Brands
Daniel Fabian Brands ( born July 17, 1987 in Deggendorf ) is a German tennis player.
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Career
Daniel Brands played from 2004 to Future tournaments. In 2006 he succeeded in the Czech Republic the first victory in such a tournament.
In April 2007 he was given a wildcard for the tournament of Munich, and was able to directly win on ATP level against Martin Verkerk his first match before he had to retire against his fellow countryman Alexander Waske. After he had reached this year in Wolfsburg and Almaty two finals at Challenger tournaments, Brands ended the year 2007 to rank 216 of the world tennis rankings.
At the French Open in May 2008, he first came to the main round of a Grand Slam tournament. As a qualifier, he failed in the first round to Dmitry Tursunov in three sets. In July 2008, Brands was at the ATP Tournament Kitzbühel qualify and defeated Eric Prodon in the first round before losing in the second round against Eduardo Schwank. Two weeks later he won in Timisoara with a win over Daniel Munoz de la Nava his first Challenger title.
In May 2009, Daniel Brands again received a wildcard in Munich, and was able to Siegen there advance on Stefan Koubek, Julien Benneteau and Potito Starace to the semifinals, where he lost to Mikhail Youzhny. Then he could qualify for the French Open as it did last year, but lost again in the first round in a nearly four-hour five- set thriller Robert Kendrick. In July 2009 Brands starting with a wildcard at the German Open in Hamburg, and was able to defeat the set at position 1 top 10 player Gilles Simon in the second round, before retiring in the second round against Paul -Henri Mathieu. After him in Vienna in the first round rematch against Robert Kendrick was succeeded in October 2009, Brands won in November 2009 in Eckental against Dustin Brown his second Challenger title, and has risen for the year for the first time in the top 100 in the world ranking.
Thus it was in January 2010 directly qualified for the Australian Open, but lost in the first round against Evgeny Korolev. In April 2010, Daniel Brands won with a win over Pablo Andújar his third Challenger title in Monza, and also reached the final in Tunis. In May 2010 he started at the French Open, where he met in the first round to the set of rank 8 Jo -Wilfried Tsonga. After nearly four hours Brands lost in a tight match against the local hero. A month later at Wimbledon Brands celebrated his biggest success so far: After victories over Igor Andreev, Nikolay Davydenko, and Victor Hanescu he made the knockout phase, where he later finalist Berdych defeated in four sets. This he achieved in the world rankings with rank 66 its hitherto best placement. At the U.S. Open in August 2010 Brands Benjamin Becker defeated in the first round in three short sentences. Just one month later, in the quarterfinals of the Thailand Open 2010 in Bangkok after beating Ilya Marchenko and Thiemo de Bakker to re- encounter between the two Germans, and again kept Becker the upper hand. In the last tournament of the year Brands failed to win more major round match, and fell out of the top 100 in the world rankings by the end out.
For the Australian Open 2011, he was still qualified, but different as in the previous year in the first round against Serhiy Stachowskyj from. A week later he reached the final, where he lost in two tight sets against Bastian Knittel the Challenger tournament in Heilbronn. In the following ATP Tournament Zagreb itself Brands sat in the first round in an extremely tight three- set match against Ivo Karlović by, ended up being a chance against the set at position two Ivan Ljubičić. Since then, he had won only one game in a qualification. At the French Open, he retired in 2010 as early as the first round. Since he retired in the first qualifying round at Wimbledon and thus could not defend his second round last year, Brands slipped to No. 220 on the world rankings. In July, he still won, however, in Oberstaufen his fourth Challenger title in November was followed in Helsinki, the fifth. This enabled him to conclude in 2011 to position 110 in the world rankings this year.
2012 was a mixed year for brands. At the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon, he already retired from each qualifying. At the U.S. Open he made the jump into the main draw and won his first match against Adrian Ungur. In the second round, however, he had to concede defeat Marin Cilic in five sets. On the ATP Tour, he reached his best result with the quarter- final in Bucharest. By winning the tournament in Eckental he scored his sixth tournament victory so far on the ATP Challenger Tour.
Right at the beginning of 2013 he celebrated the semifinals of Doha a success with the feeder. At the 2013 BMW Open he lost in the semifinal against Philipp Kohlschreiber. In August 2013, reached No. 51 in the world rankings his highest ever placing.
For Daniel Brands in 2014 began well at first. At the tournament in Doha, he stood after beating Nikolay Davydenko and at number two seed David Ferrer in the quarterfinals. There he was, however, no chance against Frenchman Gael Monfils and lost with 2:6 and 1:6. In the following tournaments he resigned seven times from right in the opening round before the end of March glandular fever, he was diagnosed.
Davis Cup
2013 was Daniel Brands his debut for the German Davis Cup team. In relegation match against Brazil, he came in a double and single in the third for use. With its 3-0 victory against Thomaz Bellucci in the individual and thus predetermining the end 3:1 for Germany he secured an early class whereabouts.