Ryan Harrison (tennis)
Ryan Harrison ( born May 7, 1992, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American tennis player.
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Life and career
To 2008: career and junior career
Ryan Harrison had already held two years for the first time a tennis racket in hand. He was initially trained by his father, Pat Harrison, who had reached at least 725 Place the tennis world rankings in the 80s. Even with eleven years reached Ryan in a tournament in his hometown of Shreveport the final, however, where he lost to his father. 2005 Harrison family moved to Texas, so Ryan and his brother Christian were able to train at the Tennis Academy of John Newcombe in New Braunfels. In 2008, another move was to Florida, where Ryan has since coached at the Tennis Academy of Nick Bollettieri, the already future world stars such as Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, or Maria Sharapova had been prepared for their careers.
2006 Ryan Harrison first met in junior tournaments, and was able to quickly attracted attention with tournament victories. At the Australian Open in 2008, he came to the semifinals, and then reached with his best finish Rank 7 in the Junior World Ranking. Although he was just 16 years old and two years as a junior could have played, were the 2008 U.S. Open, where he was eliminated in the second round, the last junior tournament for Harrison.
2007-2009: ATP debut and first successes on Futures and Challenger tournaments
Instead, he now approached only in the adult area where for the first time at a futures tournament he had matches in November 2007 to win. In April 2008, Ryan Harrison got the qualification of the ATP tournament in Houston a wildcard, and took advantage of this, in order to qualify for the main draw. There, he defeated Pablo Cuevas in the first round, and was one of only ten players to have won an ATP match before her 16th birthday. Only a week later, Harrison reached with Michael Venus in Baton Rouge for the first time the finals of a Challenger tournament. At the U.S. Open in August 2008, he also received a wildcard for the qualifications, but retired in the first round.
In August 2009, Ryan Harrison won in Shingle Springs his first Futures title and defeated it in the finals also the only 17- year-old Filip Krajinović. In August 2009, he retired at the U.S. Open qualifying again in the first round, in a double but he made Kaes Van't Hof with his partner for a surprise when she and in the first round, set at position 6 Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski dropped out of the competition. In September 2009, Harrison reached two Futures finals, of which he was able to win one. Shortly thereafter, he was in Sacramento for the first time in the semifinals of a Challenger tournament.
2010: Grand Slam debut and entry into the Top 200
For the 2010 Australian Open Ryan Harrison got a wild card, which he had previously saved in a playoff tournament. On his Grand Slam debut single but he lost in the first round against Janko Tipsarevic. In the following months he was in several American ATP tournaments in the main field, some with a wildcard, partly as a qualifier. His greatest success was there the first round victory over the top 100 players Taylor Dent at the Masters tournament in Indian Wells. Two weeks earlier, he had achieved with Dent in Delray Beach the semi-finals where they had to give themselves just barely beat the Bryan brothers. In the rest of the season Harrison failed both at the French Open and Wimbledon in the qualification. When ATP Tournament Newport he got a wildcard, and reached after a victory over the top -100 player Karol Beck the quarterfinals. The biggest success for the now 18 -year-old Ryan Harrison then followed at the U.S. Open 2010: After successful qualification he met in the first round to the set at position 15 Ivan Ljubičić, whom he defeated in four sets. With this in his own words so far " biggest win of his career," he became the first American teenager since Andy Roddick in 2001, who defeated a top 20 player at a Grand Slam tournament. In the second-round match against Sergiy Stachowskyj Harrison was already leading 2-1 records, but lost the match by awarding a number of match points even in five sets. In September 2010, Ryan Harrison by Patrick McEnroe was first nominated for the U.S. Davis Cup team, he remained without game since the United States were already 3-1 against Colombia in, as it began to rain. In October 2010, Harrison reached in Tiburon for the first time the finals of a Challenger tournament, defeated there, but Tobias Kamke in straight sets clear.
2011-2012: First Challenger Title, ATP doubles title and establishment in the top 100
The year 2011 began for Ryan Harrison with the successful qualification for the ATP tournament in Brisbane, where he, however, in the first round lost to top-seeded eventual tournament champion Robin Soderling. Also at the Australian Open, for which he had already earned as a wildcard in the previous year, Harrison retired after a three-set defeat against Adrian Mannarino of in the first round. Next week, Ryan Harrison was the Challenger tournament in Honolulu by a three-set victory over Alex Kuznetsov win his first Challengertitel in singles, and also won along with Travis Rettenmaier also the doubles title. The next big success came in Harrison in March 2011 at the Masters tournament in Indian Wells, where he was successively the Top 50 Jérémy Chardy, Guillermo García- López and Milos Raonic defeated before retiring in the second round against world number two Roger Federer. In May 2011, Ryan Harrison qualified as a lucky loser the first time for the French Open, but lost in the first round in four sets against the set at position 5 two times finalist Robin Soderling. Also in Wimbledon drew Harrison a month later as a lucky loser into the main box, and then defeated in the first round, the top 50 player Ivan Dodig smooth in three sets. In the second round he met on the set at position 6 David Ferrer, against whom he was already leading 2-1 sets, as the match had to be stopped due to darkness. The next day, Harrison did not go back into the game and eventually lost in five sets yet. In the following grass tournament in Newport beginning of July 2011 Ryan Harrison could not repeat his quarter finals from the previous year, but instead he won the doubles together with Matthew Ebden his first ATP title. Two weeks later, Harrison was able to achieve, among others, by a victory over the set at position 4 Xavier Malisse for the first time in his career the semi-finals of an ATP tournament in Atlanta. There he lost indeed against the set at position 1 eventual champions Mardy Fish, but first attracted into the top 100 in the world rankings. Only a week later, Harrison reached in Los Angeles by defeating Lu Yen -Hsun another ATP semi-final, where he lost to Mardy Fish, however, again. Rest of the year proceeded without major highlights for Ryan Harrison: At the U.S. Open Ryan Harrison retired in the first round against Marin Cilic, only at the Masters tournament in Shanghai, he was again defeated by Viktor Troicki a well-known opponents.
Early 2012 lost Ryan Harrison at the Australian Open in the first round against the set at position 4 eventual semi-finalists Andy Murray. In February, he reached the semifinals, where he lost to the eventual tournament winner Milos Raonic at the ATP tournament in San Jose. After a second round participation at the Indian Wells Masters, as well as an ATP quarterfinal in Houston Harrison failed in June 2012 at the French Open in the first round on set at position 11 Gilles Simon. After reaching the semi-finals following ATP grass tournament in Eastbourne, Harrison rose for the first time into the top 50 in the world rankings.