Gilles Müller
Alexandre Lisiecki
Gilles Müller ( born May 9, 1983 in Schifflingen ) is a Luxembourgian tennis player. He won the previous six Challenger Tournaments and reached the finals of a tournament three times in the ATP World Tour.
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Career
Junior Tennis
2001 reached Gilles Müller junior players the finals of Wimbledon, where he lost to the Swiss Roman Valent in three sets. A little later he surpassed that success at the U.S. Open, where he secured his first Grand Slam title in the final against Wang Yeu - tzuoo. He finished the year at No. 1 on the junior world rankings and began his professional career.
First Notable successes
In the first years Müller attended numerous Futures tournaments, of which he completed a total of four victorious. In 2004, he won in the semifinals of the ATP Tournament Washington against the then world number - Sixth Andre Agassi in straight sets, but was defeated in the final Lleyton Hewitt significantly. By further good results he played himself into the top 100 in the world rankings.
This upward trend continued in 2005, as the Luxembourg for the first time in his pro career the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament reached - at the French Open in 2005, he did not make it past the first round. Things went better at the Wimbledon Championships in 2005, where he defeated in the second round Rafael Nadal in four sets. In the first round of the 2005 U.S. Open he beat with Andy Roddick in three short sentences another top -10 player. At the Masters Tournament in Los Angeles Müller reached the final but lost in straight sets to Andre Agassi. In August of the same year, he finished 59th place in the world rankings, which was his best-ever placing.
Crisis and new successes in 2008
The next few years were much worse: Significant achievements were made and finally had to go back Müller compete in Challenger tournaments. By his own admission, he lost at this time a lot of confidence and even toyed with the idea to end his career since his accumulated earnings not even cover the expenses.
Only at the U.S. Open 2008 Gilles Muller made a stir when he played up in the quarter-finals, reaching the best Grand Slam result in Luxembourg's tennis history. He defeated one after Laurent Recouderc, Tommy Haas, Nicolas Almagro and Nikolay Davydenko, before the eventual champions Roger Federer was defeated in three tight sets itself. A surprising success, especially Müller himself was not even sure before the tournament if he would survive the qualification and had not booked a hotel room for the duration of stay for that.
Rollercoaster 2009-2010
In the meantime, he was back among the top 100 in the world rankings in 2009, but passed because of predominantly poor results and injury. Only in the Australian Open 2009, he was briefly in focus, as he looks at the Spaniard Feliciano Lopez delivered a true marathon match in the first round: 4:22 h took the encounter in which the Luxembourg final 16:14 in the fifth rate prevailed. He also won the following game against Bernard Tomic, but then lost in four sets against Juan Martín del Potro.
The year 2010 was again better for Müller: He could not celebrate tournament victory despite several finals, but achieved significantly better results than the previous year. Thus he fought in the world rankings back up and finished the year ranked 134 after he was temporarily slipped down to rank 459.
2011: Another tournament victory and climb into the top 50
When Challenger tournament in Nouméa in January 2011, Müller only lost in the final against Frenchman Vincent Millot. He then qualified for the Australian Open in 2011 and defeated in the first round of the German Simon Stadler 6-3, 7-6 ( 5), 6-4. In the second round he met Robin Soderling, however, was the world ranking fourth inferior to 3:6, 6:7 and 1:6. Shortly thereafter, he participated in the ATP Challenger in part in Courmayeur and reached the final, which he lost to Nicolas Mahut with 6:7, 4:6. At the tournament in Bergamo Müller moved like last year in the final, but lost again.
He helped Luxembourg in Davis Cup with two victories in a 3-2 win against Ireland, but resigned in the following tournaments from early. In qualifying for the French Open in 2011 had Müller suffered a setback and was defeated in the second round of the Romanians Victor Crivoi with 7:61, 6:75, 5:7. In June 2011, however, he succeeded in a Challenger tournament in Nottingham another success when he won the top 100 player Ryan Sweeting defeated, among others, and moved into the finals. This he won against the German Matthias Bachinger with 7:64, 6:2, and celebrated his first tournament victory since 2008, through which he was advancing on place 93 in the world rankings. For the Wimbledon Championships 2011 Müller received a wild card, so he did not have to play through the qualification, but immediately came into the main draw. In the first round he won with 7:65, 7:63, 3:6, 6:3 against Tommy Haas and then profited from the injury-related task Milos Raonic Canadian who secured him a place in the third round. There he met the world number one Rafael Nadal and forced him among other things, a high charge rate twice in the tiebreaker, but could not take advantage of its opportunities and defeated the Spaniard at the end smooth with 6:76, 6:75, 0:6. With the off in the third round Müller hired his greatest Wimbledon success in 2005 and improved in the world rankings by 11 ranks at number 81
Due to this success, he canceled his participation in the Challenger tournament in Pozoblanco and participated in July at the Atlanta Tennis Championships, where he as a qualifier reached the second round in 2010. He immediately came into the main draw, defeating there to kick off the set number 7 American Alex Bogomolov Jr. 6-3, 7:66. Then sat Müller laboriously Robby Ginepri in straight sets against by surpassing the quarter-finals to be previous year. There he played against the number 32 in the world rankings, Kevin Anderson, who surprisingly defeated him with 6:73, 6:73. He reached for the first time since 2005 ATP Tour semifinals and met John Isner, however, he lost to in three sets.
Then Müller also participated in the ATP tournaments in Los Angeles, Washington and Winston -Salem, left there but each to get up early. At the U.S. Open in 2011 he had a three-set victory against Frenchman Edouard Roger -Vasselin in the second round, he sat down against Ernests Gulbis 3:6, 7:64, 6:4, 7:65 through. Also the duel against Igor Kunizyn ended Müller victorious 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. In the second round he met Rafael Nadal, who beat him again in three sets. In Metz, he was victorious, among others in the quarterfinals against world ranked 15th Richard Gasquet and retired in his second ATP semi-final of the year against Ivan Ljubičić. From these results, Müller met for the first time in his career in the top 50 before.
The end of the year, however, was less enjoyable for the Luxembourg: An early Challenger -off in Rennes followed by more bad results, including a defeat in the first ATP 500 - round in Basel against Andreas Seppi.
2012
Müller began his tennis in 2012 in Brisbane, where he won a narrow first round victory over Ricardo Mello. Then it came to a clash with the world rankings Fourth Andy Murray, against the miller, the sensation was almost: He won the first set and had been in the second match points, gave the game but end up with 6:4, 6:74, 0: 6 from. At the Australian Open in 2012, he had been in the first round, pack your bags and did not come in the following tournaments over the respective first game out. Thus it fell out of the top 50 and finished in early February 63rd
Only at the Indian Wells Masters Müller succeeded again a relevant victory, when he defeated the emerging and set to number 36 Australian Bernard Tomic 4:6, 7:6, 6:0. In the second round he lost to Janko Tipsarevic significantly. His slight upward trend continued in Miami with a three-set win over Alex Bogomolov Jr. continues; his second round match against Andy Roddick ended again with a clear defeat. The two successes are however sufficient to bring him meanwhile back at square 60. Then he played the Challenger tournaments in Dallas and Naples, where he was eliminated in the quarter, however, or knockout round. In Dallas, he failed against equipped with a wildcard Tommy Haas with 4:6 and 3:6.
In Belgrade, the set point 8 Müller defeated in the first round to Lukáš Lacko 6-0 Slovaks, 4:6, 6:3, and then the Argentine Eduardo Schwank 6-3, 7-6, thus reached his first quarterfinal in in 2012. preparation for the Rome Masters 2012, he participated at the local Challenger and reached as topgesetzter players the final, which he lost to Poland Jerzy Janowicz. On the same day he won his first qualifying match for the Masters Tournament against Vasek Pospisil, but injured his quadriceps on and had to cancel further participation. At the French Open 2012 Muller sat down in the first round with 2:6, 7:5, 3:6, 6:4, 8:6 against the qualifier Igor Sijsling through and reached the second round of the tournament for the first time in his career. Fernando Verdasco counter he then won the first set in the tiebreaker, but lost the match in four sets.