Arriens started playing tennis at the age of seven. In 1990 he turned professional. He reached his highest position in the world tennis ranking in singles on July 26, 1993 with the 109th place. In the double ranking he was listed on November 19, 1991 at rank 892. Arriens achieved his only tournament victory at ATP level on November 1, 1992, when he advanced to the finals of the tournament in Guarujá as a qualifier , where he beat the Spaniard Àlex Corretja . On the second-rate Challenger Tour , he won another individual title in Kyoto in 1997 . He can also look back on twelve Grand Slam tournaments and in 1996 became German team champion in the Bundesliga tennis, in which he was active for twelve years.
For a long time he held the record for the fastest defeat in the ATP Tour : he lost in 29 minutes to Greg Rusedski in the second round of the Sydney International tennis tournament in 1996 . This record was only broken in 2014.
Trainer
Arriens has the A-Trainer license of the DTB and trained Andreas Beck , Louk Sorensen , Alexander Waske and Leif Berger , among others . In 2011 he took over the position of coach of the tennis Bundesliga club TK Kurhaus Aachen as the successor to Gideon Hilb . He was also head of the German Davis Cup team from 2013 to February 2015 and was also the national coach for the other players. After differences with Philipp Kohlschreiber , the cooperation between the DTB and Arriens was terminated by mutual agreement. Since the end of 2015, Arriens has been training the current top 50 player Jan-Lennard Struff .
Tournament victories
Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals
ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series
ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series (1)
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Germany
Guarujá
Alex Corretja
