Denis Gremelmayr

Denis Gremelmayr ( born August 16, 1981 in Heidelberg ) is a German tennis player.

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Tennis career

Denis Gremelmayr began at the age of five years, to play tennis with his parents. As a junior in 1999 he was the number 1 in Germany and reached among others at the U.S. Open, the last sixteen.

Since 2000, he played in the adult area and was able to win for the first time a futures tournament in September 2000 in Japan. 2001 was followed by two more titles in India and the Dominican Republic, and thus the way into the top 500 of the world tennis rankings.

After another Futures title in the United Arab Emirates at the beginning of 2002, Gremelmayr was in February 2002 in Copenhagen by a victory over the then eight- year-old Robin Soderling first qualify for an ATP tournament, but lost in the first round against Irakli Labadze. The rest of the year he played mainly tournaments of the ATP Challenger Tour, and was able to reach the quarter-finals three times. His best finish so far in the world rankings was ranked 264th

In 2003 Gremelmayr was struggling with a shoulder injury. His greatest successes this year was a double title at the Challenger tournament in Fürth on the side of Simon Greul and a Futures title in the Netherlands.

Similarly, the following year was marked by injuries: Due to an injury to his right wrist Denis Gremelmayr was between April 2004 and August 2004 no tournament contest and fell back to number 720 in the world rankings. Thanks to strong results at Future tournaments at the end of the year (including a victory in Thailand) but he was able to finish again in the top 500 the year.

In 2005 there were equal to celebrate several successes: On Future - level Gremelmayr won two tournaments, and Calabasas and also achieved for the first time the finals of a Challenger tournament. He also failed to qualify this year for the ATP tournaments of 's- Hertogenbosch, Bangkok and Tokyo, and cashed in Bangkok against the Croat Roko Karanusic his first match at the ATP level. As a "reward" there was a second-round match against the former world number one Roger Federer, but where Gremelmayr had no chance. At the U.S. Open 2005 Gremelmayr tried for the first time to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament, but he lost in the third qualifying round against the Swiss Michael Lammer.

Better he made it in early 2006, when he successfully qualified and thus for the first time was at the Australian Open in the main draw of a Grand Slam. After a first round victory over the Swede Jonas Bjorkman Gremelmayr met in the second round to the set at position 13 American Robby Ginepri, he could still wrestle in five sets after a 0-2 sentence residue. In the third round but then had terminus against the eventual finalists Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus. In May 2006, Denis Gremelmayr in Munich again qualify for an ATP tournament, and defeated in the first round with the bet at position 1 Guillermo Coria first time a top 10 player. After a second-round victory over Alexander Peya he only ended in the quarterfinals by eventual tournament winner Olivier Rochus. Gremelmayr also reached at the ATP tournaments of Kitzbühel and Washington respectively the third round, and then rose for the first time into the top 100 in the world rankings. However, the rest of the year was not as successful, partly due to problems with the intervertebral disc.

Therefore Gremelmayr lost in the world ranking places again and had 2007 first again on the Challenger Tour. After he had in his career achieved in June 2007 in Kosice is the second time a Challenger final, he was in September 2007 in Dusseldorf with a victory over Andreas Haider- Maurer celebrate his first title. In November 2007, followed in Eckental the second track, where he won without a fight the final result of the task his opponent Roko Karanusic. On ATP level, the year was not as successful as the previous one: Gremelmayr could qualify for no Grand Slam tournament, and four ATP tournaments, there were respectively Erstrundenniederlagen.

This changed in 2008: At the very beginning to Gremelmayr could qualify as two years ago for the Australian Open, and reached there after beating Sergio Roitman in the second round, where he lost in five sets against Vincent Spadea scarce. Even with the ATP tour from San Jose to Zagreb he could each reach the second round before then in April 2008, two career highlights follow: In Estoril he could reach the semi-finals after victories among other things, Jarkko Nieminen, where he joined the former world number one Roger Federer was able to remove a set, but then lost in three sets. Two weeks later, he reached the semi-finals in Barcelona again, and beat on the way there, among others, the top 10 player James Blake and the clay court specialist Nicolas Almagro. Against the Spanish world number two Rafael Nadal but he was then a chance. After these two tournaments Gremelmayr achieved its best-ever World Ranking position with rank 59. In the rest of the season Gremelmayr failed in eleven ATP tournaments in the first round, including the three Grand Slam tournaments in Paris, Wimbledon and New York. Other successes this season to reach the semi-finals in Los Angeles, where he was former world number one Marat Safin defeated, among others, as well as the defense of his Challenger title in Eckental.

The 2009 season was less successful: in the first round of the Australian Open, he lost in five sets against David Ferrer. After two second-round defeats at the ATP tournaments of San José and Munich Gremelmayr difference even at the French Open in the first round against Andrei Golubev from. This was his moment last match on the ATP level. Also on Challenger level he could not build on past successes and therefore fell to the end of the season at No. 235 in the world rankings.

Therefore, he had to play for the first time in five years on Futures tournaments to earn world ranking points 2010. The first big success of the season succeeded Denis Gremelmayr in May 2010 at the Challenger tournament in Cremona, as he had to wade through qualifying and then won the tournament by defeating Marius Copil. After a double victory at the Challenger tournament in Marburg on the side of Matthias Bachinger in June 2010, followed the next month in Scheveningen with a victory over Thomas Schoorel the next Challenger title. Just two weeks later Gremelmayr celebrated the third Challenger win in less than three months in Poznan after beating the young Russians Andrei Kuznetsov. During this time he rose in the rankings from number 324 to number 142 in the following hard- court season but Gremelmayr could not continue his success; the best results in the further course of the year were a semi-final in Bangkok in September 2010 and two weeks later quarter finals in Mons.

Beginning of January 2011 Denis Gremelmayr stepped in Chennai for the first time in over a year at an ATP tournament. However, he lost his first round match against Robert Kendrick. A week later Gremelmayr succeeded at the Australian Open qualifying for the main draw. There, however, he resigned in the first round in three sets to smooth Radek Stepanek out. Two weeks later Gremelmayr could in Johannesburg against the qualifiers Nikala Scholtz first time since May of 2009 to win an ATP match. In the second round he was able to win against the top 100 player Adrian Mannarino the first set, but ultimately lost the match in three sets yet. After five consecutive Erstrundenniederlagen Gremelmayr succeeded only in April 2011 at the ATP tournament in Munich win the match. He he qualified as a lucky loser for the main draw, defeating there the top 100 player Robin Haase, before he retired in the second round against Philipp Kohlschreiber. Due to this success, he rose for the first time in over two years back into the top 100 in the world rankings. After two second-round defeats at Challengers in Prague and Zagreb, he qualified for the French Open, retired from there but in the first round against Nikolay Davydenko. At the subsequent Challenger in Fürth he came to the semifinals but lost clearly against Jan- Lennard Struff. At the tournament in 's- Hertogenbosch, he came to the quarter finals, beating Jarkko Nieminen, among others.

Denis Gremelmayr played until 2004 when TC Blau-Weiss Sundern in 1 Tennis League and was with this in 2003 and 2004 German Masters. In 2005 he moved to the TK Green-White Mannheim, with whom he was in 2005, 2007 and 2010 German champion and 2008 German Vice Champion.

Denis Gremelmayr

Tennis career

Achievements

Singles

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Doubles

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Grand Slam singles results

Grand Slam doubles results