The 2010 Wimbledon doubles champion; Jurgen Melzer
The Australian tennis ace, Jurgen Melzer was born on 22nd May 1981 in the city of Vienna. The left handed player jumped to his career high ranking of number fifteen back on 5th July this year along with his double’s ranking of number seventeen on 19th March, 2007. Although he plays with his left hand on the court however, the twenty nine years old Jurgen is a right handed in his everyday life.
He succeeded in the men’s singles matches at Wimbledon back in 1999. However for many seasons, he was known as one of the greatest players on the tour to have not advanced the round number three of a Grand Slam tournament. He finished this streak when he made his way into the semi finals of the French Open championship back in 2010. He has also had victories in doubles, more recently triumphing in the grass court Grand Slam tournament in 2010 along with his partner Philipp Petzschner.
Currently, the Australian tennis ace is going out with Croatian Austrian swimmer and Olympic medallist; Mirna Jukic. He is sponsored by Dunlop Sport as well as Adidas.
Mezler started contesting in the Futures in Australian back in 1998 and straight away succeeded in his first two matches however fell down in the next four one’s. Jurgen started contesting outside his country in Challenger as well as Futures in 1999. He participated in his first main draw contest in Vienna in the CA- tennis trophy back in 1999 where he knocked down Lars Burgsmuller 7-6(5), 2-6, 6-3 before falling down to the then world number eleven Nicolas Kiefer 4-6, 0-6.
Melzer kept on contesting in the Challengers as well as the Futures back in the following year however he managed to make his way into one quarterfinal match only. The Australian player also made his Grand Slam debut at the grass court Grand Slam tournament back in 2000 but was knocked down in a 4-6, 6-7(3), 7-5, 4-6 clash against his compatriot player Mark Philippoussis.
The 1.83 meters tall Melzer his very first Futures final match back in 2001 at Poprad, however, was hammered down in a 6-7(5), 2-6 clash with Juraj Hasko. The man succeeded in grabbing his first ever Challenger trophy in Monchengladbach, by falling down a German player Jens Knippschild in a 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 match encounter. He also succeeded in holding his very first top hundred and top twenty victory over Fabrice Santoro, then ranked number eighteen in the world with a 6-7(8), 6-4, 6-4 clash in CA Tennis Trophy back in 2001 however again was thrashed down in the next stage in a 6-7(4), 6-7(5) encounter with Michel Kratochvil.
In 2002 as well as in 2003, Jurgen contested in a number of Challenger events and thus successfully knocked down many well known players including Sargis Sargian, Andrea Gaudenzi, Vincent Spadea, Agustin Calleri, Victor Hanescu, Jack Brasington, Tommy Haas, Fernando Gonzalez,as well as Tommy Robredo.
Melzer made his way into the third round of the Grand Slam tournament on the very first occasion back in 2004 at the Australian Open championship. All through the years, the Australian tennis ace, Jurgen Melzer has improved his game as well as playing style to a great deal of extent. Melzer was knocked down in the round number one of the Australian Open at the beginning of the year, but then made his way into the semi finals of Zagreb, eventually beaten by Marin Cilic. After his quarter final game in Rotterdam, Melzer entered in the semi finals in Dubai. Later in the season, Melzer made his way into the quarter finals of the ATP Masters 1000 held in Madrid, falling down to Nicolas Almagri. However, what makes this twenty nine years Australian worth discussing is that he never gave up and thus succeeded in this year’s grass court Grand Slam doubles final along with his partner Philipp Petzschner as his biggest victory so far in his professional life. He also did manage to reach the fourth round of the tournament in the single’s event. Hence, there is certainly no doubt about the fact that Melzer definitely has a couple of successful years ahead if he continues with his hard work and practice.
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