Daniel Köllerer
Daniel Köllerer ( born August 17, 1983 in Wels, Upper Austria ) is an Austrian tennis player.
Youth and First Steps
In his junior career, he reached as high rankings in the ITF world ranking of under-18s No. 23 in singles and 24 in doubles in 2001 and won a singles tournament (1999 ) and two in the double ( 2000).
Career
Köllerer was at the age of 19 years professional and twice Austrian champion in singles in 2005 and 2007. He played mainly tournaments in the ATP Challenger Series, to receive the entitlement to attend the qualification tournaments of the ATP tour. His first major international success was reaching the quarter-finals of the Grand Prix of St. Pölten in 2004. In doubles competition of Kitzbühel he reached the semifinals. He also won the doubles competitions at the Challenger tournaments of Tarragona, Karlsruhe, Genoa and Cali. In 2008, he won two Challenger tournaments. At the tournament, he reached Acapulco in 2009 as a qualifier for a 1:6 6:3 6:4 victory over & set on number one Argentine David Nalbandian the knockout stage, where, after warding off two match points Alberto Martín in just under three hours with 6: 4 5:7 & 7:6 ( 4) low ranking. Ultimately, however, Köllerer had the compatriot of Nalbandian, Martín Vassallo Argüello, beaten in the last eight with a 6-3 7-6 ( 6). When Challenger from Rome, he made his first season victory. After this success he reached position 85 in the world rankings had hitherto been his best finish. Only a few weeks later, he again improved in the rankings. At his first appearance at Wimbledon he lost in the first round against Simone Bolelli 2-0 set lead despite still 7:6 ( 3) 6:2 5:7 4:6 4:6 &. When Swedish clay tournament in Båstad, he reached the second round of this year where he Spaniard Fernando Verdasco had to admit defeat after a vergebenem match point with 7:6 ( 1) 2:6 & 5:7 itself. In August, he was unloaded from the Davis Cup team after he constantly provokes the tennis tournament of Umag in double competition his countrymen and teammates Jurgen Melzer and Julian Knowle during the game.
At the U.S. Open, he stood for the first time the first round at a Grand Slam tournament and failed in the third round to eventual winner Juan Martín del Potro in four sets.
In March 2010 Köllerer made his Davis Cup debut against Slovakia, but lost both individual lots. Also in March, he was both the Indian Wells Masters and the Miami Masters for the second round. At the French Open Köllerer broke after 1:6 2:6 1:6 defeat against Teimuraz Gabashvili into tears and his management spoke of a burnout syndrome. Just one week later, on June 3, 2010 Köllerer was choked during the Bundesliga match between page flipping of the TC track village and the UTC Strasbourg after a war of words of his opponent Stefan Koubek. Koubek was subsequently disqualified by the referee. Two weeks later at Challengerturnier of Reggio Emilia Köllerer lost in the semifinals against Federico del Bonis, but he drew another excitement as he should have his opponent Júlio Silva racially insulted in the first round. End of July 2010 Daniel Köllerer was disqualified at the Challenger tournament in his first round match of Cordenons against Robin Haase. The reason was that Köllerer during the toilet break while block change had contact with his coach Markus Egger, which is forbidden in professional tennis. However, according to Köllerer Egger had no more than " Come on, keep it up ," said. In September 2010 Köllerer broke his first round match at the Challengerturnier of Stettin against Pablo Cuevas in the third set off after his opponent had allegedly hurt him with the tennis racket at the knee. The video recording is also not enough information. Early November 2010 Köllerer had surgery on the wrist. He made his comeback in March 2011 at the Futures tournament in Antalya, which he was able to win without dropping a set. In April and May 2011, followed by two more Futures titles in Italy and the Czech Republic.
Play
Köllerer is known on the tour as a dogged fighter to the last point. He is a specialist on clay courts. The end of 2006 he entered the longest discharged in a competition three set match in Asuncion, Paraguay, as the winner of the 4:34 hours continuous game against Argentina Martín Vassallo Argüello in the Guinness Book of Records.
Disciplinary problems
Because of his temperament Köllerer is often also called "Crazy Dani ". On 1 October 2004 he was first blocked by the ATP. In February 2006, he was the second time for 6 months, blocked by the ATP, this time.
On May 31, 2011, PTIO (Professional Tennis Integrity Office ) announced that Daniel Köllerer ongoing after nearly two years of investigations due to match-fixing in three cases to be life-long disabled. In addition, he must pay a fine of U.S. $ 100,000. It is still out on whether an appeal will Köllerer. On March 23, 2012, in the appeal hearing, this decision was confirmed by the CAS. Only the $ 100,000 penalty was issued to him.