The American Tennis ace, John Robert Isner
John Robert Isner, an American tennis star was born on April 26, 1985. The twenty five years old Isner gained his highest professional ranking during this year on May 10 and is presently the Number Two tennis player in the United States of America with Andy Roddick being the highest ranked U.S player. His most darling victories were against his compatriot Andy Roddick in the US Open back in 2009 and most recently against Nicolas Mahut in the lengthiest ever match in the history of world tennis at Wimbledon, 2010. It lasted for a period of ten hours and 65 minutes stretching over three days.
Born in the city of North Carolina, Isner along with his two brothers Jordan and Nathan started playing the game of tennis at a small age of 11 under the coaching of Rob Stephens as well as Oscar Blacutt at a tennis academy in Carolina. Isner graduated from a high school called Walter Hines in Greensboro and later on specialized in speech communication from the University of Georgia. The right handed player presently lives in Florida where he practices in an academy called Saddle brook along with his compatriot players including Mardy Fish as well as James Blake.
Isner with a built of 2.06 meters, has one of the strongest serves in the world of tennis. The reviewers have always talked of his attire particularly when it helps him in hitting powerful serves on the most important occasions of the game. He is also famous for backing up his serves attacking to the net.
Isner started his international career back to summer 2007. Initially, Isner required wild cards for entry into the basic draws of each championship as he started off with a ranking of 839 in the world. The American tennis player triumphed in the USA F14 Futures as his first ever tournament victory in the professional career. He straight away defeated the top three seeded players in the tournament.
Later on, Isner further worked on his game and ended the Lexington challenge with a victory to his name in the month of July and improved his career rankings to 416 just after a period of 30 days. Few weeks later, Isner was lucky enough to get a wild card entry into the Legg Mason tennis Classic tournament in Washington, D.C. The youngster intelligently made use of the golden opportunity given to him and listed his first ever victories against the top 100 tennis stars. He defeated Benjamin Becker, Wayne Odesnik, Tim Henman, Tommy Haas as well as Gael Monfils and finally made his way into the finals. Andy Roddick his opponent snatched the victory from Isner with a 6–4, 7–6 match set in the final however his phenomenal week elevated his spot to 193 in the world’s ranking within a period of five weeks and seven days after turning pro.
His victory at Washington gave him another wild card for three ATP championships namely the US Open, the Master Series tournament in Cincinnati as well as the New Haven. Isner defeated Becker in the New Haven championship and more importantly Jarkko Nieminen in his first US Open tournament.
After his tremendous start, Isner never looked back and participated in a number of tournaments and kept on improving his career record with every single match that he has played so far. Isner is known for his strong serves on the court. He has set a couple of records including the most games played, most aces made and most winners in a single clash. More recently, his lengthiest ever match in the history of world tennis has set another record for the rising star of United States, John Isner.
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