Philipp Petzschner

Philipp Petzschner

Country (sports)	Germany
Residence	Pulheim, Germany
Born	March 24, 1984 Bayreuth, Germany
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 3,747,722
Singles
Career record	88–107
Career titles	1 1 ATP Challenger Tour
Highest ranking	No. 35 (14 September 2009)
Current ranking	No. 1256 (2 May 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2012)
French Open	2R (2009, 2011)
Wimbledon	3R (2009, 2010)
US Open	2R (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	2R (2012)
Doubles
Career record	149–141
Career titles	6 19 ATP Challenger Tour
Highest ranking	No. 9 (4 April 2011)
Current ranking	No. 37 (2 May 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2011)
French Open	3R (2012)
Wimbledon	W (2010)
US Open	W (2011)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	RR (2010, 2011)
Olympic Games	1R (2012)
Mixed doubles
Career record	5–7
Career titles	0
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2009, 2011, 2012)
US Open	QF (2012)
Other mixed doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2012)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	SF (2007)
Last updated on: 2 May 2016.

Philipp Petzschner (born March 24, 1984) is a professional German tennis player. He is known for his hard-hitting forehand and bursts of speed around the court. His career-high doubles ranking is world no. 9, which he achieved in April 2011.

Career

Juniors

As a junior Petzschner reached as high as No. 8 in the world in 2002 (and No. 1 in doubles). He reached the semi-finals of the 2001 Jr Wimbledon tournament, and won the 2002 French Open Jr doubles event.

2007

In 2007 US Open qualifying, he defeated fellow German player Benjamin Becker in the first round, before losing to Tommy Haas in four sets.

2008

In 2008 he qualified for Wimbledon, where he fell to Croatian Mario Ančić in the second round.

In October, he captured his first ATP title in Vienna, after he won his qualifying round matches and defeating top seed Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round.

2009

At the 2009 Australian Open, he was defeated by Brian Dabul in the first round. At Roland Garros, Petzschner reached the second round after defeating Canadian Peter Polansky in five sets. There, he lost to Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in straight sets. At the 2009 Gerry Weber Open, he took revenge for that defeat. He won in three sets before losing to Olivier Rochus from Belgium in the second round. At Wimbledon, he beat Rajeev Ram in the first round, then Mischa Zverev in the second round, but lost to Lleyton Hewitt in the third round. He reached the last sixteen in Washington, D.C. and Montreal. Petzschner was defeated by Juan Carlos Ferrero in the second round of the 2009 US Open after leading two sets to love.

He was not able to defend his title in Vienna as he had to pull out due to an injury.

2010

He lost in the first round of the 2010 Australian Open when comfortably leading two sets to love against Florian Mayer. In February, he won his first doubles title with Jürgen Melzer at the 2010 PBZ Zagreb Indoors. At the same event, he reached the singles semifinal, where he lost to Michael Berrer. In late February, he reached his second semifinal of the season in Memphis, but he was defeated by American John Isner. At the Gerry Weber Open in Halle/Westfalen in June, Petzschner lost to world no. 2 Roger Federer in a tough semifinal encounter. At Wimbledon, Petzschner was defeated after a comeback of eventual champion and world no. 1 Rafael Nadal in five sets after leading 2–1 in the third round. In the Wimbledon Championships Doubles, Petzschner won his first Grand Slam title with Jürgen Melzer. They were the first unseeded players to win this competition in five years. This also made Petzschner the first German man to win a Grand Slam tournament since Boris Becker won the Australian Open in 1996.

At the 2010 US Open Petzschner lost in straight sets to Novak Djokovic in the second round.

At the end of August, he qualified for the World Tour Doubles Finals in London with Jürgen Melzer. They were knocked out in the group stage of the competition, finishing third.

Petzschner finished the year as world no. 57 in singles and world no. 20 in doubles. He earned a career-high prize money of $702,058, with a match record of 21–19 in singles and 22–16 in doubles.

2011

Petzshcner and Melzer reached the doubles quarterfinal at the 2011 Australian Open, when they lost to Bob and Mike Bryan. In singles play, Petzschner was defeated in five sets by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the first round of the tournament. In Rotterdam, Petzschner won his third doubles title partnering Jürgen Melzer.

The height of Petzschner's season was reached when he and his partner Jürgen Melzer won the US Open Men's Doubles final, defeating the sixth seeded Polish team of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski. A controversy occurred at 2–2 in the second set, when a ball bounced on Petzschner's left shin and the chair umpire ruled the play valid. When asked, Petzschner nodded ambiguously, even though the video replay later confirmed that the ball was returned illegally. Nevertheless, the incident did not affect the match's final result 6–2, 6–2.

Petzschner reached his first singles quarterfinal of the season in Dubai, defeating Andreas Seppi and Philipp Kohlschreiber, before falling to Tomáš Berdych. He represented Germany in the Davis Cup first-round tie against Croatia in Zagreb. Partnering Christopher Kas, he defeated Ivo Karlović and Ivan Dodig in five sets to give Germany a 2–1 lead. In the deciding fifth rubber, Petzschner replaced Florian Mayer and secured Germany's quarterfinal spot with a three-set win against Karlović.

At the 2011 BMW Open in Munich, he reached his first singles semifinal of the season. He defeated Ivan Dodig, Mikhail Youzhny, and Potito Starace, before losing to Florian Mayer. At the World Team Cup in Düsseldorf, Petzschner won the deciding doubles match partnering Philipp Kohlschreiber in the final against Argentina. In singles, he gave Germany a 1–0 lead against Russia, defeating Igor Andreev in straight sets.

Petzschner reached his second career singles final in Halle, on grass. He retired injured while trailing compatriot Kohlschreiber love-two in the second set.

2012

Petzschner reached the finals of the UNICEF Open, losing to David Ferrer in straight sets.^[1]

2015

Petzschner failed to qualify for any ATP singles events this year. However, in doubles he and partner Jonathan Erlich achieved success by reaching the Wimbledon semifinal as qualifiers. His year-end doubles ranking was no. 50.

2016

At the beginning of the year Petzschner and partner Alexander Peya got to three finals (Doha, Rotterdam and Acapulco), but lost them all.

In March he reached a quarterfinal of a Masters 1000 tournament for the first time in three and a half years at the Miami Open.

Playing style

Petzschner has a powerful serve (up to 230 km/h) and forehand. His slice backhand is very flat and dangerous, which he utilises so much to the extent that he comparably rarely hits a topspin or flat two-handed backhand.^[2] He is also an excellent player at the net, which makes him a better doubles player.

Personal life

He married singer Dewi Sulaeman of the pop group Bellini in September 2010. They have one adopted son.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (2–0)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2010	Wimbledon Championships	Grass	Jürgen Melzer	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	6–1, 7–5, 7–5
Winner	2011	US Open	Hard	Jürgen Melzer	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–2, 6–2

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up)

Winner – Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (1–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	October 12, 2008	Bank Austria-TennisTrophy, Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Gaël Monfils	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	June 12, 2011	Gerry Weber Open, Halle, Germany	Grass	Philipp Kohlschreiber	6–7^(5–7), 0–2 ret.
Runner-up	2.	June 23, 2012	UNICEF Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherland	Grass	David Ferrer	3–6, 4–6

Doubles: 12 (6 titles, 6 runners-up)

Legend (Doubles)
Grand Slam tournaments (2–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (1–3)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (3–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	12 October 2008	Bank Austria-TennisTrophy, Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Alexander Peya	Max Mirnyi Andy Ram	1–6, 5–7
Winner	1.	7 February 2010	PBZ Zagreb Indoors, Zagreb, Croatia	Hard (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Arnaud Clément Olivier Rochus	3–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Winner	2.	3 July 2010	Wimbledon, London, England	Grass	Jürgen Melzer	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	6–1, 7–5, 7–5
Runner-up	2.	18 July 2010	MercedesCup, Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Christopher Kas	Carlos Berlocq Eduardo Schwank	6–7^(5–7), 6–7^(6–8)
Winner	3.	13 February 2011	ABN AMRO Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Michaël Llodra Nenad Zimonjić	6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
Winner	4.	16 July 2011	MercedesCup, Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Jürgen Melzer	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–3, 6–4
Winner	5.	10 September 2011	US Open, New York, United States	Hard	Jürgen Melzer	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	7 January 2012	Brisbane International, Brisbane, Australia	Hard	Jürgen Melzer	Max Mirnyi Daniel Nestor	1–6, 2–6
Winner	6.	19 October 2014	Erste Bank Open, Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Andre Begemann Julian Knowle	7–6^(8–6), 4–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	4.	8 January 2016	Qatar ExxonMobil Open, Doha, Qatar	Hard	Alexander Peya	Feliciano López Marc López	4–6, 3–6
Runner-up	5.	14 February 2016	ABN AMRO Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard (i)	Alexander Peya	Nicolas Mahut Vasek Pospisil	6–7^(2–7), 4–6
Runner-up	6.	27 February 2016	Mexican Open, Acapulco, Mexico	Hard	Alexander Peya	Treat Huey Max Mirnyi	6–7^(5–7), 3–6

ATP Challenger Tour titles

Singles (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	14 October 2007	Rennes, France	Hard (i)	Gilles Muller	6–3, 6–4

Doubles (19)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	22 August 2004	Mönchengladbach, Germany	Clay	Christopher Kas	Karsten Braasch Franz Stauder	3–6, 6–2, 7–6^4
2.	21 November 2004	Eckental, Germany (1)	Carpet (i)	Christopher Kas	Daniele Bracciali Petr Luxa	6–4, 7–6^5
3.	6 February 2005	Wolfsburg, Germany	Carpet (i)	Alexander Peya	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Lovro Zovko	6–2, 6–4
4.	22 May 2005	Dresden, Germany	Clay	Christopher Kas	Bart Beks Martijn van Haasteren	6–7^2, 6–2, 6–4
5.	9 October 2005	Mons, Belgium (1)	Carpet (i)	Christopher Kas	Tomas Cibulec Tom Vanhoudt	7–6^4, 6–2
6.	13 November 2005	Eckental, Germany (2)	Carpet (i)	Christopher Kas	Torsten Popp Jasper Smit	6–3, 7–5
7.	29 January 2006	Heilbronn, Germany	Carpet (i)	Christopher Kas	Lukas Dlouhy David Skoch	6–7^2, 6–3, [10–4]
8.	26 February 2006	Besançon, France	Hard (i)	Christopher Kas	Jean-Claude Scherrer Lovro Zovko	6–2, 6–2
9.	23 April 2006	Cardiff, Great Britain	Hard (i)	Alexander Peya	Filip Prpic Björn Rehnquist	4–6, 6–3, [10–7]
10.	9 September 2007	Donetsk, Ukraine	Hard (i)	Simon Stadler	Patrick Briaud Nicholas Monroe	3–6, 7–5, [10–6]
11.	14 October 2007	Rennes, France	Hard (i)	Björn Phau	Filip Polasek Igor Zelenay	6–2, 6–2
12.	4 November 2007	Aachen, Germany	Carpet (i)	Alexander Peya	Dominik Meffert Mischa Zverev	6–3, 6–2
13.	11 November 2007	Eckental, Germany (3)	Carpet (i)	Alexander Peya	Philipp Marx Lars Uebel	6–3, 6–4
14.	24 February 2008	Besançon, France	Hard (i)	Alexander Peya	Yves Allegro Horia Tecau	6–3, 6–1
15.	3 May 2009	Tenerife, Spain	Hard (i)	Alexander Peya	James Auckland Josh Goodall	6–2, 3–6, [10–4]
16.	13 March 2013	Dallas, United States	Hard	Jürgen Melzer	Eric Butorac Dominic Inglot	6–3, 6–1
17.	22 February 2015	Wroclaw, Poland	Hard (i)	Tim Puetz	Frank Dancevic Andriej Kapas	7–6^4, 6–3
18.	11 October 2015	Mons, Belgium (2)	Hard (i)	Ruben Bemelmans	Rameez Junaid Igor Zelenay	6–3, 6–1
19.	8 November 2015	Eckental, Germany (4)	Carpet (i)	Ruben Bemelmans	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	7–5, 6–2

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2001	French Open	Clay	Markus Bayer	Alejandro Falla Carlos Salamanca	6–3, 5–7, 4–6
Winner	2002	French Open	Clay	Markus Bayer	Ryan Henry Todd Reid	7–5, 6–4

Performance timelines

Current till 2016 Rome Masters

Doubles

Tournament	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	A	2R	3R	QF	3R	A	A	A	1R	0 / 6	8–6	57%
French Open	1R	A	A	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	A	A		0 / 6	2–6	25%
Wimbledon	2R	A	QF	2R	W	QF	SF	A	A	SF		1 / 7	22–6	79%
US Open	2R	A	QF	1R	1R	W	2R	1R	A	1R		1 / 8	11–7	61%
Win–Loss	2–3	0–1	6–2	2–4	8–3	12–3	9–4	0–2	0–0	4–2	0–1	2 / 27	43–25	63%
National Representation
Summer Olympics	Not Held		A	Not Held			1R	Not Held				0 / 1	0–1	0%
Davis Cup	A	SF	QF	Absent		QF	1R	Absent		PO	1R	0 / 5	4–5	44%
Win–Loss	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–3	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0 / 6	4–6	40%
Year-End Championships
World Tour Finals	Did Not Qualify				RR	RR	Did Not Qualify					0 / 2	2–4	33%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	Absent					2R	A	1R	Absent			0 / 2	1–2	33%
Miami Masters	Absent				1R	SF	A	1R	Absent		QF	0 / 4	5–4	56%
Monte Carlo Masters	Absent					2R	Absent					0 / 1	0–1	0%
Madrid Masters	Absent						2R	Absent				0 / 1	0–1	0%
Rome Masters	Absent						2R	Absent				0 / 1	1–1	50%
Canada Masters	Absent			QF	QF	1R	Absent					0 / 3	3–3	50%
Cincinnati Masters	Absent				2R	2R	1R	Absent				0 / 3	0–3	0%
Shanghai Masters	Not Held			2R	A	2R	QF	Absent				0 / 3	2–3	40%
Paris Masters	Absent											0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	1–3	4–6	3–4	0–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	0 / 19	12–19^1	39%
Career statistics
	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	Career
Titles / Finals	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 0	2 / 3	3 / 3	0 / 1	0 / 0	1 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 3	6 / 12
Overall Win–Loss	7–11	1–2	17–13	17–21	22–16	34–26	21–21	4–7	5–1	7–11	14–9	149–141^2
Win %	39%	33%	57%	45%	58%	57%	50%	36%	83%	39%	61%	51.38%
Year-end ranking	71	138	41	55	20	10	38	158	184	50		$1,520,861

¹ including Hamburg Masters 2002 (1R)
² including Overall Win-Loss 2001 (0–1) and 2002 (0–2)

Singles

Tournament	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	Q2	Q1	1R	1R	1R	2R	A	A	Q2	A	0 / 4	1–4	20%
French Open	A	A	A	2R	1R	2R	1R	1R	A	A		0 / 5	2–5	29%
Wimbledon	A	A	2R	3R	3R	1R	2R	1R	A	A		0 / 6	6–6	50%
US Open	A	2R	Q3	2R	2R	2R	2R	1R	Q2	A		0 / 6	5–6	45%
Win–Loss	0–0	1–1	1–1	4–4	3–4	2–4	3–4	0–3	0–0	0–0	–	0 / 21	14–21	40%
National Representation
Summer Olympics	Not Held		A	Not Held			2R	Not Held				0 / 1	1–1	50%
Davis Cup	A	0–2	0–0	Absent		2–0	0–0	Absent		0–0	0–0	0 / 4	2–2	50%
Career statistics
Titles / Finals	0 / 0	0 / 0	1 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	1 / 3
Overall Win–Loss	0–0	1–2	10–9	15–25	21–19	24–22	10–17	3–5	1–2	0–0	0–0	88–107^1		45%
Year-end ranking	312	185	66	80	57	63	115	206	421	749		$2,226,360

¹ including Overall Win-Loss 2003 (2–3), 2004 (1–1) and 2005 (0–2)

References

1. "Philipp Petzschner". Retrieved 2012-06-23.
2. Lin, Charles (2010). "USO Day 4: Djokovic wins over Petzschner in rowdy evening match", essentialtennis.com, 3 September 2010.

External links

• Philipp Petzschner at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Philipp Petzschner at the International Tennis Federation
• Philipp Petzschner at the Davis Cup