Jarkko Nieminen

Jarkko Nieminen
Jarkko Nieminen 2015 in Roland Garros
Nickname:	Jacket
Nation:	Finland
Birthday:	July 23, 1981
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	78 kg
1st professional season:	2000
Resignation:	2015
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Jan de Witt
Prize money:	$ 7,743,345
singles
Career record:	405: 348
Career title:	2
Highest ranking:	13 (July 10 2006)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	150: 192
Career title:	5
Highest ranking:	42 (January 28, 2008)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jarkko Nieminen (born July 23, 1981 in Masku ) is a former Finnish tennis player .

Career

Junior Tour

Nieminen started playing tennis at the age of four. In 1999 he defeated Kristian Pless from Denmark in the final of the Junior Grand Slam tournament of the US Open . With this success he made it to 9th place in the junior world rankings that year.

2000 to 2004

Nieminen turned pro in 2000. He finished 2001 in the top 100 for the first time after a solid season in which he won four Challenger titles (Wolfsburg, Tampere, Córdoba and Maia). In December 2001 he was also the first Finn to reach (since Leo Palin in Sofia) an ATP final: As a qualifier, he reached the final of the ATP tournament in Stockholm, in which he was finally defeated by the Dutchman Sjeng Schalken .

In 2002, Nieminen became the first Finn to make it into the top 50 in the world. This year he reached the finals in Estoril and Mallorca .

In 2003 he moved Munich into its fourth ATP final. He finished the year in the top 40.

In 2004 he finished in the top 100 for the fourth year in a row, despite having been sidelined for three months due to an injury. He reached three semi-finals (Sydney, Dubai and Beijing).

2005 to 2009

In 2005, Nieminen won a Challenger title in Prostějov (Czech Republic). At the Australian Open , he made it into the third round after winning over Davide Sanguinetti and Paradorn Srichaphan . There he had to give up because of an abdominal muscle strain at the score of 3: 6, 2: 5 against Roger Federer . At the French Open in Roland Garros, Nieminen surprisingly defeated superstar Andre Agassi , who was suffering from a back injury, and made it to the second round. There he was defeated by Igor Andreev in four sentences. At Wimbledon , Nieminen lost his opening game against Tim Henman in just five sets. He also reached the semifinals in Munich, Stuttgart, Bangkok and Tokyo. His best performance of the year was the quarter-finals of the US Open , where he lost to Lleyton Hewitt in five sets.

The 2006 season should be Nieminen's best season so far. In the first month he managed a 9-2 match record with a quarter-finals in Adelaide and his first title on the ATP Tour in Auckland . There he clearly defeated Mario Ančić 6: 2, 6: 2 in the final . He also reached round three at the Australian Open , in which he was defeated by David Nalbandian . At the ATP Masters Series tournament in Indian Wells, he reached his first quarter-finals in a tournament of this category. On April 17th he made it into the top 20 in the world for the first time. In the quarter-finals of Barcelona Nieminen led against defending champion Rafael Nadal 6: 4 and 4: 1, but could not win the match in the end. When Nieminen was eliminated in the first round at Roland Garros, the grass season began for him. He reached the second round in Halle and the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, in which he lost to Nadal. Back on clay, he reached 13th place in the world ranking position on July 10th after moving into the semi-finals in Båstad , where he lost to Tommy Robredo . At the US Open, Nieminen lost his opening game against Xavier Malisse . In Stockholm he reached the final and lost there to James Blake . He also reached the semi-finals in Rotterdam and Munich. This year Nieminen recorded a positive match balance on all surfaces: 30:14 on hard court, 16: 8 on clay, 5: 3 on grass and 4: 3 on carpet. This season was also his financially best with $ 894,565 in prize money.

In 2007 he ended the year in the top 30 in the world for the third time in a row, after reaching the finals in Basel , among others . He also celebrated the first double title of his career in Mumbai at the side of the Swede Robert Lindstedt .

In 2008 he reached the final in Adelaide, but this time he was defeated by Michaël Llodra in straight sets. He was also able to top his round of 16 from last year at the Australian Open. He made it to the quarter-finals where he was stopped by Rafael Nadal. He represented Finland at the Olympic Games in Beijing , but lost there in the first round against the Swede Thomas Johansson . At the US Open , alongside Robert Lindstedt, he achieved his best double result in a Grand Slam tournament to date by reaching the round of eight.

The year 2009 began for the Finn with a final in Sydney , where he lost out to David Nalbandian . At the Australian Open he had to give up in the first round against Paul-Henri Mathieu because of a groin injury. Although he won the doubles tournament in San José alongside Rohan Bopanna in February, injuries continued to plague him. After many first round defeats, he had to give up again at the Challenger tournament in Tunis in the semifinals against Gastón Gaudio and then undergo wrist surgery. His three-month forced break, through which he missed the French Open, among other things, he ended at the tournament in New Haven with a first round defeat. At the US Open he reached the second round, where he lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga . After that, Nieminen reached the quarter-finals in Stockholm. After that he played mainly on the Challenger level, where he was able to celebrate a tournament victory in Jersey . At his home tournament in Helsinki, Nieminen lost in the quarterfinals against his young compatriot Henri Kontinen. At the end of the season, Nieminen reached the final of the Challenger tournament in Salzburg after victories in the quarterfinals against Daniel Köllerer and in the semifinals against Karol Beck, in which he was defeated by Michael Berrer . But with the final, Nieminen was able to secure his top 100 position at the end of the season.

2010 to end of career in 2015

At the ATP tournament in Gstaad , Nieminen and his Swedish partner Johan Brunström won his second title in doubles against the Brazilians Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares . In 2012, Nieminen won his second ATP title in Sydney after 2006 against the French Julien Benneteau . In the same tournament he came in doubles with Matthew Ebden in the final, but the two lost to Mike Bryan and Bob Bryan . He won his third double title in Munich in 2013 with the Russian Dmitri Tursunow against the Cypriot-American doubles Marcos Baghdatis and Eric Butorac .

In the first round of the Sony Open 2014 , Nieminen won against Bernard Tomic in 28 minutes and 20 seconds. That was the fastest victory in the history of the ATP Tour . In the same year he won his fourth doubles title with his compatriot Henri Kontinen in Kitzbühel against the Italian Daniele Bracciali and the Kazakhs Andrei Golubew . He won his fifth and final doubles title in 2015 in Buenos Aires , this time with the Brazilian André Sá , the opponents were the Spaniard Pablo Andújar and the Austrian Oliver Marach .

At the If Stockholm Open 2015 he ended his career after defeats in the singles and doubles competition.

Davis Cup

Jarkko Nieminen played a total of 33 games for the Finnish Davis Cup team between 1999 and 2015 . With 45 wins against 11 defeats in singles and 14 wins against 15 defeats in doubles, Nieminen is the most successful player in his country.

Private

Jarkko Nieminen, whose parents are chemists and who has an older sister, is married to the Finnish national badminton player Anu Nieminen .

successes

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 (7) ATP Challenger Tour (14)

Title after covering Hard Court (3) Sand (4) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 9, 2006	Auckland	Hard court	Mario Ančić	6: 2, 6: 2
2.	January 15, 2012	Sydney	Hard court	Julien Benneteau	6: 2, 7: 5

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 25, 2001	Wolfsburg	Carpet (i)	Andy Fahlke	3: 6, 6: 2, 7: 5
2.	July 29, 2001	Tampere (1)	sand	Mattias Hellström	6: 1, 6: 0
3.	August 11, 2001	Pozoblanco	Hard court	Paul-Henri Mathieu	6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 3
4th	September 30, 2001	Maia	sand	Feliciano López	5: 7, 6: 3, 6: 4
5.	July 28, 2002	Tampere (2)	sand	Richard Gasquet	7: 5, 7: 6 2
6th	November 17, 2002	Helsinki (1)	Hard court (i)	Lovro Zovko	7: 5, 4: 6, 7: 5
7th	June 5, 2005	Prostějov	sand	Ivo Minář	6: 1, 6: 3
8th.	November 15, 2009	jersey	Carpet (i)	Stéphane Robert	4: 6, 6: 1, 7: 5
9.	March 21, 2010	Marrakech	sand	Oleksandr Dolhopolov	6: 3, 6: 2
10.	17th November 2013	Helsinki (2)	Hard court (i)	Ričardas Berankis	6: 3, 6: 1

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 29, 2001	Stockholm	Hard court	Sjeng Schalken	6: 3, 3: 6, 3: 6, 6: 4, 3: 6
2.	April 15, 2002	Estoril	sand	David Nalbandian	4: 6, 6: 7 5
3.	May 6, 2002	Mallorca	sand	Gastón Gaudio	2: 6, 3: 6
4th	May 5, 2003	Munich	sand	Roger Federer	1: 6, 4: 6
5.	October 16, 2006	Stockholm	Hard court	James Blake	4: 6, 2: 6
6th	October 29, 2007	Basel	Hard court	Roger Federer	3: 6, 4: 6
7th	January 6, 2008	Adelaide	Hard court	Michaël Llodra	3: 6, 4: 6
8th.	January 17, 2009	Sydney	Hard court	David Nalbandian	3: 6, 7: 6 9 , 2: 6
9.	October 3, 2010	Bangkok	Hard court (i)	Guillermo García-López	4: 6, 6: 3, 4: 6
10.	October 23, 2011	Stockholm	Hard court (i)	Gaël Monfils	5: 7, 6: 3, 2: 6
11.	May 25, 2013	Dusseldorf	sand	Juan Mónaco	4: 6, 3: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 24, 2007	Mumbai	Hard court	Robert Lindstedt	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	7: 6 3 7: 6 5
2.	August 1, 2010	Gstaad	sand	Johan Brunström	Marcelo Melo Bruno Soares	6: 3, 6: 7 4 , [11: 9]
3.	May 5, 2013	Munich	sand	Dmitri Tursunov	Marcos Baghdatis Eric Butorac	6: 1, 6: 4
4th	2nd August 2014	Kitzbühel	sand	Henri Kontinen	Daniele Bracciali Andrei Golubew	6: 1, 6: 4
5.	March 1, 2015	Buenos Aires	sand	André Sá	Pablo Andújar Oliver Marach	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 7]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 29, 2000	Tampere	sand	Ville Liukko	Steven Randjelovic Dušan Vemić	6: 0, 4: 6, 6: 3
2.	September 14, 2001	Budapest	sand	Oliver Marach	Yuri Shchukin Orest Tereshchuk	6: 2, 6: 2
3.	November 16, 2013	Helsinki (1)	Hard court (i)	Henri Kontinen	Dustin Brown Philipp Marx	7: 5, 5: 7, [10: 5]
4th	15th November 2014	Helsinki (2)	Hard court (i)	Henri Kontinen	Jonathan Marray Philipp Petzschner	7: 6 2 , 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 29, 2009	Bangkok	Hard court	Andrew Kratzmann	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	3: 6, 6: 7 4
2.	February 15, 2009	San Jose	Hard court (i)	Rohan Bopanna	Tommy Haas Radek Štěpánek	2: 6, 3: 6
3.	October 24, 2010	Stockholm	Hard court	Johan Brunström	Eric Butorac Jean-Julien Rojer	3: 6, 4: 6
4th	January 15, 2012	Sydney	Hard court	Matthew Ebden	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	1: 6, 4: 6

Web links

Commons : Jarkko Nieminen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Jarkko Nieminen (English)
• ITF profile Jarkko Nieminen (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Jarkko Nieminen (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Career Titles. In: atpworldtour.com. Retrieved November 30, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Jarkko Nieminen breaks Greg Rusedski's fastest win record in Miami. In: theguardian.com. March 21, 2014, accessed November 13, 2017 . 
3. ↑ James Buddell: Emotional Nieminen Calls It A Career In Stockholm. In: atpworldtour.com. October 21, 2015, accessed November 13, 2017 .