Alexander Peya

Alexander Peya
Alexander Peya at the French Open in 2016
Nickname:	Red Baron
Nation:	Austria
Birthday:	June 27, 1980
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	83 kg
1st professional season:	1998
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Michael Oberleitner, Martin Gattringer
Prize money:	$ 4,428,635
singles
Career record:	22:51
Highest ranking:	92 (April 30, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	368: 266
Career title:	17th
Highest ranking:	3 (August 12, 2013)
Current placement:	707
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: December 2nd, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Alexander Peya (born June 27, 1980 in Vienna ) is an Austrian tennis player .

Career

Peya started playing tennis at the age of five. As a teenager he worked with Günter Bresnik and Joakim Nyström .

On April 30, 2007, Peya achieved his best position in the single world rankings with rank 92 and on August 12, 2013 with rank 3, his best ranking in doubles. His career highlights include the quarter-finals at the French Open 2006 and the Wimbledon Championships 2008 , where he and his doubles partner Philipp Petzschner lost to Jonas Björkman and Kevin Ullyett in five sets. Alexander Peya has already won 14 ATP tournaments in doubles, in singles a semi-final in Zagreb 2007 is his best result.

2008

In September, the Davis Cup against Great Britain was about staying in the world group. Peya lost in the second individual against world number four and US Open finalist Andy Murray with 4: 6, 1: 6, 3: 6; However, he won the doubles with Jürgen Melzer and put Austria 2-1. Since Melzer lost the decisive individual against Murray, it was up to Peya to get the decisive point. In the last match he defeated Alex Bogdanovic 2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4, 6: 2 and made the 3: 2 victory clear for Austria.
At the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy Peya had to say goodbye in the first round against the later finalist Gaël Monfils 6: 3, 1: 6, 3: 6, but he reached the double final alongside Philipp Petzschner. The German-Austrian duo then clearly lost in the final with 1: 6 and 5: 7 against Max Mirny and Andy Ram .

2009-2014

In 2009 he was a semi-finalist with Petzschner in Memphis and Newport . He also won the tournaments of the ATP Challenger Tour in Tenerife (with Petzschner) and in Eckental (with Michael Kohlmann ).

In 2010 he won the Challenger tournaments in Busan (with Rameez Junaid) and in Cremona (with Martin Slanar).

In 2011 he reached the semi-finals in Wimbledon with his partner Christopher Kas , but ended the partnership at the end of the year and played with Oliver Marach at the beginning of 2012 , with whom he celebrated his first title at ATP level in Hamburg in July 2011 . During the year he changed partners several times, although at the beginning of 2012 he had won a preparation tournament for the Australian Open with Marach. At the side of his new double partner Bruno Soares , he won three tournaments in autumn, the ATP World Tour 250 tournament in Kuala Lumpur and the two ATP World Tour 500 events in Tokyo and Valencia .

The 2013 season was even more successful. Together with Bruno Soares, Peya won a total of five titles and played in four other finals. Among other things, he moved into a Grand Slam final for the first time at the US Open . Their greatest success was winning the title at the Masters tournament in Montreal , which they repeated the following year .

Since 2015

After a moderately successful 2015 season, Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares announced at the Erste Bank Open 2015 in the Wiener Stadthalle that they would go their separate ways the following season. Peya started with Philipp Petzschner in 2016, Soares played alongside Jamie Murray .

Private life

Peya's father is the head of the commercial social security institution , his mother is a housewife. He has a brother. Peya is married and has two sons (born in 2012 and 2015).

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (1) ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (3) ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 (6) ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 (8) ATP Challenger Tour (33)

Title after covering Hard Court (9) Sand (6) Grass (3)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 12, 2001	Tolyatti (1)	Hard court	Karol Beck	6: 2, 6: 2
2.	July 21, 2002	Tolyatti (2)	Hard court	Dmitry Vlasov	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	November 2, 2003	Aachen	Carpet (i)	Jürgen Melzer	7: 6 2 , 6: 1
4th	April 4, 2004	Busan	Hard court	Lu Yen-hsun	6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 3
5.	July 23, 2006	Istanbul	Hard court	Roco Karanušić	6: 7 3 , 6: 0, 6: 3

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 24, 2011	Hamburg	sand	Oliver Marach	František Čermák Filip Polášek	6: 4, 6: 1
2.	January 14, 2012	Auckland	Hard court	Oliver Marach	František Čermák Filip Polášek	6: 3, 6: 2
3.	September 30, 2012	Kuala Lumpur	Hard court (i)	Bruno Soares	Colin Fleming Ross Hutchins	5: 7, 7: 5, [10: 7]
4th	October 7, 2012	Tokyo	Hard court	Bruno Soares	Leander Paes Radek Štěpánek	6: 3, 7: 6 5
5.	October 28, 2012	Valencia (1)	Hard court (i)	Bruno Soares	David Marrero Fernando Verdasco	6: 3, 6: 2
6th	17th February 2013	São Paulo	Sand (i)	Bruno Soares	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	6: 7 5 , 6: 2, [10: 7]
7th	April 28, 2013	Barcelona	sand	Bruno Soares	Robert Lindstedt Daniel Nestor	5: 7, 7: 6 7 , [10: 4]
8th.	June 21th 2013	Eastbourne	race	Bruno Soares	Colin Fleming Jonathan Marray	3: 6, 6: 3, [10: 8]
9.	August 11, 2013	Montreal (1)	Hard court	Bruno Soares	Colin Fleming Andy Murray	6: 4, 7: 6 4
10.	October 27, 2013	Valencia (2)	Hard court (i)	Bruno Soares	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7: 6 3 , 6: 7 1 , [13:11]
11.	15th June 2014	Queen's Club	race	Bruno Soares	Jamie Murray John Peers	4: 6, 7: 6 4 , [10: 4]
12.	August 10, 2014	Toronto (2)	Hard court	Bruno Soares	Ivan Dodig Marcelo Melo	6: 4, 6: 3
13.	May 4, 2015	Munich	sand	Bruno Soares	Alexander Zverev Mischa Zverev	4: 6, 6: 1, [10: 5]
14th	November 1, 2015	Basel	Hard court (i)	Bruno Soares	Jamie Murray John Peers	7: 5, 7: 5
15th	October 1, 2017	Shenzhen	Hard court	Rajeev Ram	Nikola Mektić Nicholas Monroe	6: 3, 6: 2
16.	April 15, 2018	Marrakech	sand	Nikola Mektic	Benoît Paire Édouard Roger-Vasselin	7: 5, 3: 6, [10: 7]
17th	May 13, 2018	Madrid	sand	Nikola Mektic	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	5: 3 task

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 8, 1999	Nettingsdorf	sand	Georg Blumauer	Marcelo Charpentier José Frontera	6: 7 4 , 6: 3, 7: 6 3
2.	March 3, 2002	Ho Chi Minh City	Hard court	Amir Hadad	Jaymon Crabb Peter Luczak	7: 6 2 , 7: 5
3.	July 20, 2003	Tolyatti (1)	Hard court	Jun Kato	Rodolphe Cadart Benjamin Cassaigne	7: 6 7 , 6: 4
4th	September 7, 2003	Brașov	sand	Rogier Wassen	Leonardo Azzaro Stefano Galvani	6: 2, 6: 4
5.	December 6, 2003	Ischgl	Carpet (i)	Julian Knowle	Gianluca Bazzica Massimo Dell'Acqua	6: 2, 6: 3
6th	August 14, 2004	Graz (1)	Hard court	Julian Knowle	Emilio Benfele Álvarez Josh Goffi	6: 4, 6: 2
7th	February 8, 2005	Wolfsburg (1)	Carpet (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Lovro Zovko	6: 2, 6: 4
8th.	April 9, 2005	Tallahassee	Hard court	Robert Lindstedt	Goran Dragicevic Mirko Pehar	6: 2, 7: 5
9.	July 31, 2005	Valladolid	Hard court	Matwé Middelkoop	Jasper Smit Stefan Wauters	7: 6 7 , 6: 3
10.	August 13, 2005	Graz (2)	Hard court	Julian Knowle	Johan Landsberg Jean-Claude Scherrer	3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 2
11.	October 30, 2005	Seoul (1)	Hard court	Bjorn Phau	Rik De Voest Łukasz Kubot	0: 6, 6: 4, [10: 7]
12.	April 22, 2006	Cardiff	Hard court (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Filip Prpic Bjorn Rehnquist	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 7]
13.	July 30, 2006	Togliatti (2)	Hard court	Uros Vico	Alexei Kedrjuk Orest Tereshchuk	6: 4, 6: 4
14th	November 5, 2006	Seoul (2)	Hard court	Bjorn Phau	Florin Mergea Danai Udomchoke	6: 4, 6: 2
15th	November 12, 2006	Busan (1)	Hard court	Bjorn Phau	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6: 7 3 , 6: 3, [10: 6]
16.	February 25, 2007	Besancon (1)	Hard court (i)	Christopher Kas	Grégory Carraz Gilles Müller	6: 4, 6: 4
17th	March 4, 2007	Wolfsburg (2)	Hard court (i)	Lars Uebel	Joshua Goodall Jan Mertl	6: 4, 6: 4
18th	November 4, 2007	Aachen	Carpet (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Dominik Meffert Mischa Zverev	6: 3, 6: 2
19th	November 11, 2007	Eckental (1)	Carpet (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Philipp Marx Lars Uebel	6: 3, 6: 4
20th	February 24, 2008	Besancon (2)	Hard court (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Yves Allegro Horia Tecau	6: 3, 6: 1
21st	June 8, 2008	Fuerth	sand	Philipp Marx	Daniel Köllerer Frank Moser	6: 3, 6: 3
22nd	May 2, 2009	Tenerife	Hard court	Philipp Petzschner	James Auckland Joshua Goodall	6: 2, 3: 6, [10: 4]
23.	November 8, 2009	Eckental (2)	Carpet (i)	Michael Kohlmann	Philipp Marx Igor Zelenay	6: 4, 7: 6 4
24.	May 16, 2010	Busan (2)	Hard court	Rameez Junaid	Pierre-Ludovic Duclos Yang Tsung-hua	6: 4, 7: 5
25th	May 23, 2010	Cremona	Hard court	Martin Slanar	Rik De Voest Izak van der Merwe	7: 5, 7: 5
26th	November 21, 2010	Salzburg	Hard court (i)	Martin Slanar	Rameez Junaid Frank Moser	7: 6 1 , 6: 3
27.	April 17, 2011	Johannesburg	Hard court	Michael Kohlmann	Andre Begemann Matthew Ebden	6: 2, 6: 2
28.	18th March 2018	Irving	Hard court	Philipp Petzschner	Radu Albot Matthew Ebden	6: 2, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 27, 2003	Kitzbühel	sand	Jürgen Melzer	Martin Damm Cyril Suk	4: 6, 4: 6
2.	May 7, 2006	Munich (1)	sand	Bjorn Phau	Andrei Pavel Alexander Waske	4: 6, 2: 6
3.	October 12, 2008	Vienna	Hard court (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Max Mirny Andy Ram	1: 6, 5: 7
4th	February 27, 2011	Delray Beach	Hard court	Christopher Kas	Scott Lipsky Rajeev Ram	6: 4, 4: 6, [3:10]
5.	May 1, 2011	Belgrade	sand	Oliver Marach	František Čermák Filip Polášek	5: 7, 2: 6
6th	July 31, 2011	Gstaad	sand	Christopher Kas	Filip Polášek František Čermák	3: 6, 6: 7 7
7th	August 28, 2011	Winston-Salem	Hard court	Christopher Kas	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	6: 7 2 , 4: 6
8th.	July 15, 2012	Båstad	sand	Bruno Soares	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecau	3: 6, 6: 7 5
9.	May 12, 2013	Madrid	sand	Bruno Soares	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	2: 6, 3: 6
10.	June 16, 2013	Queen's Club	race	Bruno Soares	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 4, 5: 7, [3:10]
11.	July 21, 2013	Hamburg (1)	sand	Bruno Soares	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6: 3, 1: 6, [8:10]
12.	September 8, 2013	US Open	Hard court	Bruno Soares	Leander Paes Radek Štěpánek	1: 6, 3: 6
13.	3rd November 2013	Paris	Hard court (i)	Bruno Soares	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 3: 6
14th	January 3, 2014	Doha (1)	Hard court	Bruno Soares	Tomáš Berdych Jan Hájek	2: 6, 4: 6
15th	January 11, 2014	Auckland	Hard court	Bruno Soares	Julian Knowle Marcelo Melo	6: 4, 3: 6, [5:10]
16.	March 16, 2014	Indian Wells	Hard court	Bruno Soares	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4: 6, 3: 6
17th	20th June 2014	Eastbourne	race	Bruno Soares	Treat Huey Dominic Inglot	5: 7, 7: 5, [8:10]
18th	20th July 2014	Hamburg (2)	sand	Bruno Soares	Florin Mergea Marin Draganja	4: 6, 5: 7
19th	June 14, 2015	Stuttgart	race	Bruno Soares	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	7: 5, 2: 6, [7:10]
20th	September 27, 2015	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Julian Knowle	Treat Huey Henri Kontinen	5: 7, 3: 6
21st	January 8, 2016	Doha (2)	Hard court	Philipp Petzschner	Feliciano López Marc López	4: 6, 3: 6
22nd	February 14, 2016	Rotterdam	Hard court (i)	Philipp Petzschner	Nicolas Mahut Vasek Pospisil	6: 7 2 , 4: 6
23.	February 27, 2016	Acapulco	Hard court	Philipp Petzschner	Treat Huey Max Mirny	6: 7 5 , 3: 6
24.	19th June 2016	Hall	race	Łukasz Kubot	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	6: 7 5 , 2: 6
25th	July 24, 2016	Washington, DC	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Daniel Nestor Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6: 7 3 , 6: 7 4
26th	April 30, 2017	Barcelona	sand	Philipp Petzschner	Florin Mergea Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	4: 6, 3: 6
27.	February 11, 2018	Sofia	Hard court (i)	Nikola Mektic	Robin Haase Matwé Middelkoop	7: 5, 4: 6, [4:10]
28.	February 25, 2018	Rio de Janeiro	sand	Nikola Mektic	David Marrero Fernando Verdasco	7: 5, 5: 7, [8:10]
29	May 6, 2018	Munich (2)	sand	Nikola Mektic	Ivan Dodig Rajeev Ram	3: 6, 5: 7

Mixed

No.	date	competition	Topping	Partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	15th July 2018	Wimbledon	race	Nicole Melichar	Jamie Murray Wiktoryja Asaranka	7: 6 1 , 6: 3

Web links

Commons : Alexander Peya  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Alexander Peya (English)
• ITF Profile of Alexander Peya (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Alexander Peya (English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ ÖTV-News from September 21, 2008 ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Alex Peya in an interview: Masters participation is within reach
3. ↑ Peya separates from double partner Soares (kurier.at from October 20, 2015, accessed on November 2, 2015)