Daniel Köllerer

Daniel Köllerer
Daniel Köllerer at the 2009 US Open
Nickname:	Crazy Dani
Nation:	Austria
Birthday:	17th August 1983
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	80 kg
1st professional season:	2002
Resignation:	2011
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 757,918
singles
Career record:	19:36
Highest ranking:	55 (October 19, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	6:15
Highest ranking:	87 (March 9, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Daniel Köllerer (born August 17, 1983 in Wels ) is a former Austrian tennis player and reality TV participant.

Youth and first steps

In his junior career he achieved the highest placements in the ITF world rankings of under 18-year-olds, 23rd in singles and 24th in doubles in 2001 and won one tournament in singles (1999) and two in doubles (2000).

Career

At the age of 19, Köllerer became a professional and twice Austrian champion in singles in 2005 and 2007. Initially, he mainly played tournaments of the ATP Challenger Series in order to qualify for the ATP Tour . His first major international success was reaching the quarter-finals of the Grand Prix St. Pölten in 2004. In the double competition in Kitzbühel, he reached the semifinals. He also won the doubles competitions at the Challenger tournaments in Tarragona, Karlsruhe, Genoa and Cali. In 2008 he won two Challenger tournaments. At the Acapulco tournament in 2009 he reached the round of 16 as a qualifier after a 1: 6, 6: 3 & 6: 4 victory over the number one seeded Argentine David Nalbandian , where he defended Alberto Martín in just under three hours after defending two match points with 6: 4, 5: 7 & 7: 6 (4). Ultimately, however, Köllerer had to admit defeat to Nalbandian's compatriot, Martín Vassallo Argüello , in the round of the last eight with 6: 3, 7: 6 (6). He scored his first win of the season at the Challenger of Rome. After this success, he achieved his best position to date with position 85 in the world rankings. In his first appearance at Wimbledon , he lost 7: 6 (3), 6: 2, 5: 7, 4: 6 & 4: 6 in the first round to Simone Bolelli despite a 2-0 lead. At the Swedish clay court tournament in Båstad , he reached the second round, where he had to admit defeat to Spaniard Fernando Verdasco after a match point was awarded 7: 6 (1), 2: 6 & 5: 7. In August he was removed from the Davis Cup team after constantly provoking his teammates Jürgen Melzer and Julian Knowle during the game at the Umag tennis tournament .

At the US Open 2009 he survived the first round in a Grand Slam tournament and failed in the third round against the eventual winner Juan Martín del Potro in four sets.

In March 2010 Köllerer made his Davis Cup debut against Slovakia , but lost both individual games. Also in March, he got into the second round of both the Indian Wells Masters and the Miami Masters . At the French Open , Köllerer burst into tears after the 1: 6, 2: 6, 1: 6 defeat against Teimuras Gabashvili and his management spoke of a burnout syndrome . Only one week later, on June 3, 2010, Köllerer was strangled by his opponent Stefan Koubek after a battle of words during the change of sides in the Bundesliga match between TC Gleisdorf and UTC Strasbourg . Koubek was then disqualified by the referee. Two weeks later at the Challenger Tournament in Reggio nell'Emilia , Köllerer lost in the semifinals to Federico Delbonis , but he caused another uproar because he allegedly insulted his opponent Júlio Silva racially in the first round . At the end of July 2010 Daniel Köllerer was disqualified at the Challenger tournament of Cordenons in his first round match against Robin Haase . The reason was that Köllerer had contact with his coach Markus Egger during the toilet break when changing sentences, which is forbidden in professional tennis. According to Köllerer, Egger had said nothing more than "Come on, keep it up". In September 2010, Köllerer broke off his first-round match at the Stettin Challenger Tournament against Pablo Cuevas in the third set after his opponent allegedly injured his knee with a tennis racket. The video recording did not provide sufficient information about this. At the beginning of November 2010, Köllerer had an operation on his wrist. He made his comeback in March 2011 at the future tournament in Antalya, which he won without losing a set. In April and May 2011, two more future titles followed in Italy and the Czech Republic.

Bundesliga

Köllerer competed in 2004 and 2005 for the TC Rot-Weiß Erfurt in the 2nd Bundesliga tennis . After the rise of TC Piding , he played there in the 2006 season in the 1st Bundesliga . In 2009 he was the top player at TV von 1926 Osterath ( Meerbusch ) in the second division, before he played in the 1st Bundesliga in 2010 at Rochusclub Düsseldorf .

Style of play

Köllerer was known to the last point on the tour as a dogged fighter. He was considered a specialist in clay courts. At the end of 2006, he entered the Guinness Book of Records with the longest three-set match held in a single competition in Asunción, Paraguay , as the winner of the 4:34 hour game against the Argentine Martín Vassallo Argüello .

Controversy and Lifetime Ineligibility

Because of his temperament, Köllerer was nicknamed "Crazy Dani". On October 1, 2004, he was banned from the ATP for the first time. In February 2006, he was banned for the second time, this time for six months.

On May 31, 2011 the PTIO (Professional Tennis Integrity Office) announced that Daniel Köllerer had been banned for life in three cases after almost two years of investigations due to match-fixing. He was also sentenced to a fine of $ 100,000. On March 23, 2012, during the appeal hearing, the ban was confirmed by the International Sports Court , only the fine was waived.

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000

International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250 International Series

ATP Challenger Tour (12)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 11, 2003	Samarqand	sand	Andrei Stolyarov	6: 2, 6: 3
2.	September 12, 2005	Kiev	sand	Lukáš Dlouhý	6: 0, 3: 6, 7: 5
3.	June 8, 2008	Fuerth	sand	Santiago Giraldo	6: 1, 6: 3
4th	November 3, 2008	Cali	sand	Paul Capdeville	6: 4, 6: 3
5.	April 26, 2009	Rome	sand	Andreas Vinciguerra	6: 3, 6: 3
6th	August 23, 2009	Trani	sand	Filippo Volandri	6: 3, 7: 5

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 22, 2003	Tehran	sand	Philipp Muellner	Ivo Klec Josef Neštický	without a fight
2.	October 21, 2005	Santiago de Chile	sand	Oliver Marach	Lucas Arnold Ker Giovanni Lapentti	6: 4, 6: 3
3.	June 1, 2008	Karlsruhe	sand	Frank Moser	Jun Woong-sun Joseph Sirianni	6: 2, 7: 5
4th	August 24, 2008	Geneva	sand	Frank Moser	Rameez Junaid Philipp Marx	7: 6 5 , 3: 6, [10: 8]
5.	October 6, 2008	Tarragona	sand	Dušan Karol	Marc Fornell Marc López	6: 2, 6: 2
6th	November 3, 2008	Cali	Hard court	Boris Pašanski	Diego Junqueira Peter Luczak	6: 7 4 , 6: 4, [10: 4]

Television appearances

In August 2015, Köllerer took part in the Sat.1 reality format Promi Big Brother and was the first to be elected from the company.

In October 2016 he took part in the third season of the RTL reality show Adam sucht Eva .

Web links

Commons : Daniel Köllerer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Daniel Köllerer (English)
• ITF profile of Daniel Köllerer (English)
• Davis Cup statistics from Daniel Köllerer (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Burn-out threatens career
2. ↑ Koubek chokes Köllerer
3. ^ Racism allegations against Köllerer
4. ↑ Köllerer disqualified
5. ↑ Köllerer injured by opponents?
6. ↑ Daniel Köllerer guilty: Lifelong ban  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ CAS confirms the lifelong ban for Daniel Köllerer , March 23, 2012, accessed on January 28, 2020.
8. ^ [1] Reporting by the German daily BILD