Florian Mayer

Florian Mayer ( born October 5, 1983 in Bayreuth ) is a German tennis player. He plays in the 1st Bundesliga for the TK Kurhaus Aachen.

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  • 3.1 Individual
  • 3.2 double

Biography

Mayer joined in 2001 the professional circus on. His breakthrough came three years later when he was the only German survived the first round at the Australian Open, he retired in round two then made ​​against the Argentine David Nalbandian. In 2004, he also reached the French Open in the second round by defeating the number 14 in the world, Fernando González. At the Estoril Open, he was in April 2004 for the first time in the semifinals of an ATP tournament.

At the Wimbledon tennis tournament he entered in 2004 with victories over the set of number 3 Argentine Guillermo Coria and Wayne Ferreira to the quarter-finals. He improved to a place among the top 50 in the ATP world rankings. His highest ever ranking he reached in 2011 with 18th place

The IDEA Prokom Open in Sopot he stood in August 2005, shortly before his first victory at an ATP tournament, but he lost the final against Gael Monfils in three sets. In 2006 he again reached the final of Sopot and this time defeated Nikolay Davydenko. In the second round of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, he defeated then 2007 Davydenko, retired in the quarterfinal against Marcos Baghdatis but from.

Mayer trained in the TennisBase the Bavarian Tennis Federation in Oberhaching near Munich. He played in the 2005 season of tennis Bundesliga 1 FC Nuremberg at number 1 Florian Mayer broke up at the end of the 2005 summer season by his longtime trainer Ulf Fischer, then worked for a time with Stefan Eriksson together and was then coached by Markus Wislsperger.

In May 2008, ended Mayer already be tennis year: He laid after a surgery on his left index finger on a seven month break a tournament to the joy of tennis to win back. Therefore, he slipped in ATP world rankings from number 409.

In 2009 he celebrated his greatest successes on the ATP Challenger Tour. He won there the tournaments in Bangkok (hard court ) and Karlsruhe (clay ) and stood in Nomea (hard court ), Sofia (clay ) and Istanbul ( Hard Court ) each in the finals. At the end of the year he was 61 in the ATP world rankings.

In 2010 he was defeated in the semifinals of Hamburg ( Category: World Tour 500 ) the eventual champions Andrei Golubev. At the Grand Slam tournaments in Melbourne ( against Juan Martín del Potro ) and Wimbledon ( against Lu Yen - hsun ) lost each in the third round. He also won two hard court tournaments in the ATP Challenger Tour (Nouméa and Sunrise) in the first quarter. He reached after beating Kevin Anderson and Mikhail Youzhny, the third round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters 1000th At the end he failed in two sets to Jo -Wilfried Tsonga. His next tournament denied Mayer in Stockholm. After victories over Feliciano López, among others, as well as the world ranking fifth Robin Soderling, he reached for the first time in over four years, an ATP final. There, however, he was defeated by top-seeded Roger Federer. He finished the season with a match record of 23:18 and earned 513 955 U.S. dollars in prize money.

He began the year 2011 with a quarter -final and one semi-final in Brisbane and Sydney. At the first Grand Slam tournament of the year in Melbourne, he was able to defeat Nikolay Davydenko in four sets, before he also failed in the second round in four sets to Kei Nishikori. At the indoor tournament in Zagreb Mayer reached his second semifinal of the season, in which he defeated compatriot Michael Berrer in straight sets. In Dubai, he played his way to the quarter-finals, he lost in straight sets against eventual champions Novak Djokovic. After a first round defeat in Indian Wells Mayer reached the second round, where he failed in the tiebreak of the decisive set to Tomáš Berdych at the Miami Masters. In April 2011, he played in Munich to the finals before, but as already five years earlier he had in Sopot admit defeat Nikolay Davydenko in three sets. Two days later, he played his first round match against Madrid Viktor Troicki which he won in three sets for itself, in the second round, he was eliminated by the eventual semi-finalists Thomaz Bellucci. Mayer could also take the Masters tournament in Rome and reached the quarter-finals his good form. He dropped out after the first set against Andy Murray recovered completely and was subject at the end of a significantly in three sets. Mayer was then on his way to fifth German triumph at the World Team Cup in Dusseldorf Germany the decisive player - he won all his singles. In the world rankings for the first time before he moved into the top 20. In the subsequent French Open, he lost in the second round after recovered first set against Alejandro Falla. In Halle he came to the quarter- final, which he lost to Gaël Monfils. In Hamburg, he retired in the quarterfinals in two tight sets against Nicolas Almagro from. After he had reached at the U.S. Open for the first time the third round, Mayer was the last clay court tournament of the season in Bucharest win in five attempts with a smooth final victory against Pablo Andújar his first ATP title. In the second round of Shanghai he beat the then world number two Rafael Nadal in straight sets.

2012 was after 2004 with a four- set victory over Richard Gasquet for the second time the quarter-finals at Wimbledon Mayer. In the previous rounds, Mayer had to go twice over five sets and had to fend against Jerzy Janowicz doing even two match points. Then Mayer reached at Hamburg Rothbaum the quarter-finals where he was defeated Tommy Haas in straight sets itself. At the Olympic Games renounced Mayer, to focus on the North American hard court tournaments. For this he was heavily criticized in the media. The U.S. Open 2012 were for Mayer already with the first round ends. He gave the match against the Americans Jack Sock on in the third set at the registry of 3:6, 2:6, 2:3. In the Davis Cup Mayer joined the relegation match against Australia as a top player for the German team. With two distinct three-set wins over Lleyton Hewitt and Bernard Tomic, he played a major role in the 3-2 win and the associated league in the world group.

Achievements

Singles

Tournament Win

ATP Challenger Tour
ATP World Tour

Finals

Doubles

Finals

Performance at Grand Slam tournaments

Specified is reached, the round

Singles

Doubles

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