Denis Gremelmayr

Denis Gremelmayr

Denis Gremelmayr 2010 in Aachen

Nation:

Germany

Birthday:

August 16, 1981

Size:

183 cm

Weight:

73 kg

1st professional season:

2000

Resignation:

2013

Playing hand:

Left

Trainer:

Helmut Lüthy

Prize money:

$ 1,023,334

singles

Career record:

32:58

Highest ranking:

59 (May 5, 2008)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	3R (2006)
French Open	1R (2008, 2009, 2011)
Wimbledon	1R (2008, 2011)
US Open	1R (2008)

Double

Career record:

8:15

Highest ranking:

188 (June 22, 2009)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	-
French Open	-
Wimbledon	2R (2008)
US Open	1R (2008)

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Denis Gremelmayr (born August 16, 1981 in Heidelberg ) is a former German tennis player .

Tennis career

Denis Gremelmayr started playing tennis with his parents when he was five. As a junior he was number 1 in Germany in 1999 and reached the last sixteen at the US Open .

He has been playing in the adult sector since 2000 and was able to win a future tournament in Japan for the first time in September 2000. In 2001, two more titles followed in India and the Dominican Republic and thus entry into the top 500 of the tennis world rankings .

After another future title in the United Arab Emirates at the beginning of 2002, Gremelmayr was able to qualify for an ATP tournament for the first time in February 2002 in Copenhagen by defeating the then eighteen-year-old Robin Söderling , but lost in the first round to Irakli Labadze . The rest of the year he mainly played tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour , and was able to reach the quarterfinals three times. His best place in the world rankings to date was 264th.

In 2003 Gremelmayr was struggling with a shoulder injury. His greatest successes of the year were a double title at the Challenger tournament in Fürth alongside Simon Greul and a future title in the Netherlands.

The following year was also marked by injuries: Due to an injury to his right wrist, Denis Gremelmayr was unable to play a tournament between April 2004 and August 2004 and fell back to 720th place in the world rankings. Thanks to strong results in future tournaments at the end of the year (including a win in Thailand), however, he was able to finish the year in the top 500 again.

In 2005 there were several successes to celebrate: At the future level, Gremelmayr was able to win two tournaments, and in Calabasas he also reached the final of a Challenger tournament for the first time. He was also able to qualify for the ATP tournaments in 's-Hertogenbosch , Bangkok and Tokyo this year , and won his first match at ATP level in Bangkok against the Croatian Roko Karanušić . As a “reward” there was a second round match against the then world number one Roger Federer , where Gremelmayr had no chance. At the US Open 2005 Gremelmayr tried for the first time to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament , but he lost in the third qualifying round against the Swiss Michael Lammer .

He did better at the beginning of 2006 when he successfully qualified at the Australian Open and was thus in the main draw of a Grand Slam for the first time. After a first round win over the Swede Jonas Björkman , Gremelmayr met in the second round on the 13th seeded US-American Robby Ginepri , whom he was able to bring down in five sets after a 2-0 set deficit. In the third round, however, was against the eventual finalist Marcos Baghdatis from Cyprus. In May 2006 Denis Gremelmayr was able to qualify again for an ATP tournament in Munich and defeated a top 10 player for the first time in the first round with Guillermo Coria, who was in first place. After a second round victory over Alexander Peya , he could only be stopped in the quarterfinals by the eventual tournament winner Olivier Rochus . Gremelmayr also reached the third round at the ATP tournaments in Kitzbühel and Washington and then entered the top 100 in the world rankings for the first time. However, the rest of the year was not so successful, partly due to problems with the intervertebral disc.

Therefore Gremelmayr lost places in the world rankings again and had to play on the Challenger Tour again in 2007. After he reached a Challenger final for the second time in his career in Košice in June 2007 , he celebrated his first title in Düsseldorf in September 2007 with a victory over Andreas Haider-Maurer . In November 2007 the second title followed in Eckental , where he won the final without a fight due to the abandonment of his opponent Roko Karanušić . At the ATP level, the year was not as successful as the previous one: Gremelmayr could not qualify for a Grand Slam tournament, and there were first round defeats in four ATP tournaments.

This changed in 2008: Gremelmayr was able to qualify for the Australian Open right at the start, as he did two years ago , and after beating Sergio Roitman he made it to the second round, where he lost to Vincent Spadea in five tight sets . He was also able to reach the second round at the ATP tournaments in San José and Zagreb , before two career highlights followed in April 2008: In Estoril , after victories over Jarkko Nieminen, among others, he was able to reach the semifinals, where he became the world's number one at the time Roger Federer was able to take a set off, but then lost in three sets. Two weeks later, he reached the semi-finals again in Barcelona , and on the way defeated, among others, the top 10 player James Blake and the clay court specialist Nicolás Almagro . However , he had no chance against the Spanish world number two Rafael Nadal . After these two tournaments, Gremelmayr achieved his best world ranking position with rank 59. As the season progressed, Gremelmayr failed in eleven ATP tournaments in the first round, including the three Grand Slam tournaments in Paris , Wimbledon and New York . Further successes this season were reaching the semi-finals in Los Angeles , where he defeated the former world number one Marat Safin , as well as defending his Challenger title in Eckental .

The 2009 season was less successful: In the first round of the Australian Open he lost in five sets against David Ferrer . After two second-round defeats at the ATP tournaments in San José and Munich , Gremelmayr was eliminated from the French Open in the first round against Andrei Golubew . This was his last match at the ATP level for the time being. Even at the Challenger level, he could not build on old successes and therefore fell to 235th place in the world rankings at the end of the season.

Therefore, in 2010, he had to play in future tournaments for the first time in five years to collect world ranking points. Denis Gremelmayr achieved the first big success of the season in May 2010 at the Challenger tournament in Cremona , when he first had to fight his way through the qualification and then won the tournament by beating Marius Copil . After a double victory at the Challenger tournament in Marburg at the side of Matthias Bachinger in June 2010, the next Challenger title followed the following month in Scheveningen with a victory over Thomas Schoorel . Just two weeks later, Gremelmayr was able to celebrate the third Challenger victory in less than three months in Poznan after defeating the young Russian Andrei Kuznetsov . During this time he rose in the world rankings from 324th place to 142nd place. In the following hard court season Gremelmayr could not continue his successes; the best results later in the year were a semi-final in Bangkok in September 2010 and two weeks later a quarter-final in Mons .

At the beginning of January 2011, Denis Gremelmayr competed in an ATP tournament in Chennai for the first time in over a year. However, he lost his first round match against Robert Kendrick . A week later, Gremelmayr qualified for the main draw at the Australian Open . There he was eliminated in the first round in three sets against Radek Štěpánek . Two weeks later, Gremelmayr was able to win an ATP match against qualifier Nikala Scholtz in Johannesburg for the first time since May 2009. In the second round he was able to win the first set against the top 100 player Adrian Mannarino , but ultimately lost the match in three sets. After five first round defeats in a row, Gremelmayr only won a match at the ATP tournament in Munich in April 2011 . He qualified as a lucky loser for the main field and defeated the top 100 player Robin Haase before he was eliminated in the second round against Philipp Kohlschreiber . Thanks to this success, he climbed back into the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time in over two years. After two second round defeats at Challengers in Prague and Zagreb , he qualified for the French Open , but retired there in the first round against Nikolai Dawydenko . At the next Challenger in Fürth he made it to the semi-finals but clearly lost against Jan-Lennard Struff . At the tournament in 's-Hertogenbosch , he made it to the quarter-finals, beating Jarkko Nieminen , among others .

Denis Gremelmayr played at the TC Blau-Weiß Sundern in the 1st Bundesliga until 2004 and became German champion in 2003 and 2004 . In 2005 he moved to TK Grün-Weiss Mannheim , with whom he became German champion in 2005 , 2007 and 2010 and German runner-up in 2008 .

In December 2013, Gremelmayr officially announced his retirement from tennis.

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP World Tour 250
ATP Challenger Tour (8)

singles

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	September 9, 2007	Germany Dusseldorf	sand	Austria Andreas Haider-Maurer	6: 7 ⁵ , 6: 2, 6: 4
2.	November 11, 2007	Germany Eckental (1)	Carpet (i)	Croatia Roco Karanušić	without a fight
3.	November 9, 2008	GermanyEckental (2)	Carpet (i)	Croatia Roco Karanušić	6: 2, 7: 5
4th	May 23, 2010	Italy Cremona	Hard court	Romania Marius Copil	6: 4, 7: 5
5.	July 11, 2010	Netherlands Scheveningen	sand	Netherlands Thomas Schoorel	7: 5, 6: 4
6th	July 25, 2010	Poland Poses	sand	Russia Andrei Kuznetsov	6: 1, 6: 2

Double

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	June 8, 2003	Germany Fuerth	sand	Germany Simon Greul	Germany Tomas Behrend Karsten Braasch Germany	6: 3, 1: 6, 7: 6 ⁵
2.	June 27, 2010	Germany Marburg	sand	Germany Matthias Bachinger	Spain Guillermo Olaso Grega Žemlja Slovenia	6: 4, 6: 4