Julian Knowle

Julian Knowle
Julian Knowle at the US Open in 2016
Nation:	Austria
Birthday:	29th April 1974 (age 46)
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	75 kg
1st professional season:	1992
Resignation:	2019
Playing hand:	Left, forehand and backhand with both hands
Trainer:	Martin Gattringer
Prize money:	$ 3,048,871
singles
Career record:	10:33
Highest ranking:	86 (July 15 2002)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	410: 368
Career title:	19th
Highest ranking:	6 (January 7, 2008)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: December 12, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Julian Knowle (born April 29, 1974 in Lauterach , Vorarlberg ) is a former Austrian tennis player . He celebrated his greatest successes with various partners in doubles, including winning the 2007 title at the US Open . In 2004 he was in the final of Wimbledon and in 2007 in Shanghai in the final of the Tennis World Cup .

Beginnings

Knowle grew up in Vorarlberg. His name comes from his grandfather, who came from India , and his grandmother was Italian . At the age of 14 he was already one of the best tennis players of his age.

Career

singles

Knowle is one of the few players on the tour who plays forehand and backhand with both hands. He achieved his best ranking in singles with 86th place in 2002, when he was in round two at both the Australian Open and the French Open . From 2004, however, came the crash in the individual ranking. He had to qualify for almost every tournament, which he often survived at the beginning. Since Chennai 2005, however, he has never been in the main draw of an ATP World Tour tournament . It was not until 2012 that he tried again at an ATP tournament in Kuala Lumpur , as the qualification there was rather weak and he was already taking part in the doubles competition. After overcoming qualification, however, he failed in round one to Albert Ramos . Nevertheless, Knowle set the current record for the oldest participant who ever qualified for the main draw of an ATP tournament.

Double and end of career

Knowle specialized more and more in doubles. Parallel to his individual career , he was already celebrating great successes such as the 2004 Wimbledon finals with his then partner Nenad Zimonjić . From 2005 he played doubles with his compatriot Jürgen Melzer . With him he won two titles ( St. Petersburg and Casablanca ) and made further finals at the end of 2006. When Melzer concentrated more on singles in 2007, Knowle played with the Swede Simon Aspelin , with whom he celebrated successes. In the summer of 2007 he won three tournaments with him ( Pörtschach , Båstad and Halle ).

He reached his preliminary career high point on September 7, 2007, when he, again at Aspelin's side, won the double title at the US Open . In the quarterfinals, the number ten seeded duo beat the top seeded twins Mike and Bob Bryan . In the final, Aspelin / Knowle prevailed against the Czechs Lukáš Dlouhý and Pavel Vízner 7: 5 and 6: 4. Knowle is the second Austrian after Thomas Muster to win a Grand Slam tournament . In autumn of the same year the duo also reached the final of the Tennis Masters Cup , where they clearly had to admit defeat Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor 2: 6 and 3: 6.

In 2009 Knowle won the doubles competitions at the ATP tournaments in New Haven and Tokyo , again at Jürgen Melzer's side .

For the 2010 season Knowle planned the collaboration with the Swede Robert Lindstedt ; however, the attempt was ended in February after four initial defeats. They achieved their best result at the Open 13 in Marseille, where they advanced to the final. After that, Knowle played with Andy Ram . At the French Open he reached the final in mixed competition and the semi-finals in men's doubles . At Wimbledon he made it to the quarterfinals in mixed .

From 2011 he played repeatedly with changing partners.

Between August 2010 and June 2011, Knowle dropped from 17th to 83rd place in the world rankings and then took part for the first time since 2005 in tournaments of the lower endowed ATP Challenger Tour , which he held in Orbetello with Igor Zelenay and in Cordenons with Michael Kohlmann won. In 2012 he was successful again on the ATP World Tour and won with František Čermák in Kitzbühel , 2013 with Filip Polášek in Zagreb and Casablanca and 2014 with Marcelo Melo in Auckland and with Andre Begemann in Halle . The two following seasons he was only able to win tournaments on the Challenger Tour, namely in 2015 in Prostějov with Philipp Oswald and in 2016 in Prague with Igor Zelenay and in Mons with Jürgen Melzer .

On June 3, 2019, Knowle ended his active career due to ongoing health problems.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (1) Tennis Masters Cup ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 (1) ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 (17) ATP Challenger Tour (29)

Title after covering Hard Court (8) Sand (8) Grass (2) Carpet (1)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 14, 1999	Kyoto	Carpet (i)	Goichi Motomura	6: 1, 6: 2
2.	August 19, 2001	Graz	Hard court	Yuri Shchukin	6: 3, 6: 2
3.	November 25, 2001	Caracas	Hard court	Michael Kohlmann	7: 6 5 , 1: 6, 6: 3
4th	February 24, 2002	Andrézieux-Bouthéon	Hard court (i)	Julien Varlet	6: 2, 6: 4

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 18, 2002	Copenhagen	Hard court (i)	Michael Kohlmann	Jiří Novák Radek Štěpánek	7: 6 8 , 7: 5
2.	July 22, 2002	Umag	sand	František Čermák	Albert Portas Fernando Vicente	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	January 6, 2003	Chennai	Hard court	Michael Kohlmann	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	7: 6 1 , 7: 6 3
4th	October 27, 2003	St. Petersburg (1)	Hard court (i)	Nenad Zimonjić	Michael Kohlmann Rainer Schüttler	7: 6 1 , 6: 3
5.	May 2, 2005	Munich	sand	Mario Ančić	Florian Mayer Alexander Waske	6: 3, 1: 6, 6: 3
6th	October 31, 2005	St. Petersburg (2)	Carpet (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Jonas Björkman Max Mirny	4: 6, 7: 5, 7: 5
7th	May 1, 2006	Casablanca (1)	sand	Jürgen Melzer	Michael Kohlmann Alexander Waske	6: 3, 6: 4
8th.	May 28, 2007	Pörtschach	sand	Simon Aspelin	Leoš Friedl David Škoch	7: 6 6 , 5: 7, [10: 5]
9.	June 17, 2007	Hall (1)	race	Simon Aspelin	Fabrice Santoro Nenad Zimonjić	6: 4, 7: 6 5
10.	July 15, 2007	Båstad (1)	sand	Simon Aspelin	Martín García Sebastián Prieto	6: 2, 6: 4
11.	September 7, 2007	US Open	Hard court	Simon Aspelin	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner	7: 5, 6: 4
12.	August 29, 2009	New Haven	Hard court	Jürgen Melzer	Bruno Soares Kevin Ullyett	6: 4, 7: 6 3
13.	October 11, 2009	Tokyo	Hard court	Jürgen Melzer	Ross Hutchins Jordan Kerr	6: 2, 5: 7, [10: 8]
14th	July 28, 2012	Kitzbühel	sand	František Čermák	Dustin Brown Paul Hanley	7: 6 4 , 3: 6, [12:10]
15th	February 10, 2013	Zagreb	Hard court (i)	Filip Polášek	Ivan Dodig Mate Pavic	6: 3, 6: 3
16.	April 14, 2013	Casablanca (2)	sand	Filip Polášek	Christopher Kas Dustin Brown	6: 3, 6: 2
17th	January 11, 2014	Auckland	Hard court	Marcelo Melo	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
18th	15th June 2014	Hall (2)	race	Andre Begemann	Roger Federer Marco Chiudinelli	1: 6, 7: 5, [12:10]
19th	23rd July 2017	Båstad (2)	sand	Philipp Petzschner	Sander Arends Matwé Middelkoop	6: 2, 3: 6, [10: 7]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 14, 1999	Kyoto	Carpet (i)	Lorenzo Manta	Giorgio Galimberti Lee Hyung-taik	6: 1, 6: 7, 6: 2
2.	August 15, 1999	Vienna	sand	Thomas Strengberger	Petr Kralert Michel Kratochvil	6: 3, 6: 2
3.	September 17, 2000	Linz	sand	Thomas Strengberger	Petr Luxa David Škoch	6: 3, 7: 5
4th	October 15, 2000	Grenoble	Hard court (i)	Lorenzo Manta	Yves Allegro Julien Cuaz	6: 3, 6: 4
5.	November 5, 2000	Yokohama	Carpet (i)	Yves Allegro	Tim Crichton Ashley Fisher	6: 3, 7: 6 2
6th	February 4, 2001	Hamburg	Carpet (i)	Lorenzo Manta	Karsten Braasch Jens Knippschild	6: 3, 7: 6 4
7th	February 18, 2001	Lübeck	Carpet (i)	Lorenzo Manta	Yves Allegro Michael Kohlmann	6: 3, 3: 6, 7: 6 2
8th.	March 4, 2001	Cherbourg-Octeville	Hard court (i)	Lorenzo Manta	Cédric Kauffmann, Frédéric Niemeyer	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
9.	September 16, 2001	Zabrze	sand	Michael Kohlmann	Karol Beck Igor Zelenay	6: 1, 7: 6 5
10.	November 4, 2001	Aachen	Carpet (i)	Michael Kohlmann	Marc-Kevin Goellner Marcos Ondruska	6: 3, 7: 6 4
11.	November 25, 2001	Caracas	Hard court	Michael Kohlmann	Tomas Behrend Daniel Melo	7: 5, 6: 3
12.	February 24, 2002	Andrézieux-Bouthéon	Hard court (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Aleksandar Kitinov Todd Perry	6: 4, 6: 7 5 , 6: 1
13.	March 9, 2003	Besançon	Hard court (i)	Jonathan Erlich	Richard Gasquet Nicolas Mahut	6: 3, 6: 4
14th	December 6, 2003	Ischgl	Carpet (i)	Alexander Peya	Gianluca Bazzica Massimo Dell'Acqua	6: 2, 6: 3
15th	August 14, 2004	Graz (1)	Hard court	Alexander Peya	Emilio Benfele Álvarez Josh Goffi	6: 4, 6: 2
16.	December 5, 2004	Milan	Carpet (i)	Daniele Bracciali	Jason Marshall Huntley Montgomery	6: 3, 6: 2
17th	August 13, 2005	Graz (2)	Hard court	Alexander Peya	Johan Landsberg Jean-Claude Scherrer	3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 2
18th	July 24, 2011	Orbetello	sand	Igor Zelenay	Romain Jouan Benoît Paire	6: 1, 7: 6 2
19th	August 21, 2011	Cordenons	sand	Michael Kohlmann	Colin Ebelthite Adam Feeney	2: 6, 7: 5, [10: 5]
20th	June 7, 2015	Prostějov	sand	Philipp Oswald	Mateusz Kowalczyk Igor Zelenay	4: 6, 6: 3, [11: 9]
21st	7th August 2016	Prague	sand	Igor Zelenay	Facundo Argüello Julio Peralta	6: 4, 7: 5
22nd	October 9, 2016	Mons	Hard court (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Sander Arends Wesley Koolhof	7: 6 4 , 7: 6 4
23.	February 25, 2017	Bergamo	Hard court (i)	Adil Shamasdin	Dino Marcan Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	6: 3, 6: 3
24.	April 29, 2017	Francavilla al Mare	sand	Igor Zelenay	Rameez Junaid Kevin Krawietz	2: 6, 6: 2, [10: 7]
25th	15th July 2017	Braunschweig	sand	Igor Zelenay	Kevin Krawietz Gero Kretschmer	6: 3, 7: 6 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 6, 2002	Mallorca	sand	Michael Kohlmann	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	2: 6, 4: 6
2.	March 3, 2003	Copenhagen	Hard court (i)	Michael Kohlmann	Tomáš Cibulec Pavel Vízner	5: 7, 7: 5, 2: 6
3.	July 14, 2003	Newport	race	Jürgen Melzer	Jordan Kerr David Macpherson	6: 7 4 , 3: 6
4th	May 3, 2004	Munich	sand	Nenad Zimonjić	James Blake Mark Merklein	2: 6, 4: 6
5.	July 5, 2004	Wimbledon	race	Nenad Zimonjić	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	1: 6, 4: 6, 6: 4, 4: 6
6th	April 17, 2006	Houston	sand	Jürgen Melzer	Michael Kohlmann Alexander Waske	7: 5, 4: 6, [5:10]
7th	October 9, 2006	Metz	Hard court (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Richard Gasquet Fabrice Santoro	6: 3, 1: 6, [9:11]
8th.	October 16, 2006	Vienna (1)	Hard court (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	4: 6, 6: 3, [10:12]
9.	October 30, 2006	St. Petersburg (1)	Carpet (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	1: 6, 6: 7 3
10.	February 26, 2007	Memphis	Hard court (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Eric Butorac Jamie Murray	5: 7, 3: 6
11.	November 18, 2007	Shanghai	Hard court (i)	Simon Aspelin	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	2: 6, 3: 6
12.	May 24, 2008	Pörtschach	sand	Jürgen Melzer	Marcelo Melo André Sá	7: 5, 6: 7 3 , [11:13]
13.	February 22, 2009	Marseille (1)	Hard court (i)	Andy Ram	Arnaud Clément Michaël Llodra	6: 3, 3: 6, [8:10]
14th	November 1, 2009	Vienna (2)	Hard court (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	6: 2, 4: 6, [9:11]
15th	February 21, 2010	Marseille (2)	Hard court (i)	Robert Lindstedt	Julien Benneteau Michaël Llodra	4: 6, 3: 6
16.	September 19, 2011	Bucharest	Sand (i)	David Marrero	Daniele Bracciali Potito Starace	6: 3, 4: 6, [8:10]
17th	May 6, 2012	Estoril	sand	David Marrero	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Jean-Julien Rojer	5: 7, 5: 7
18th	October 21, 2012	Vienna (3)	Hard court (i)	Filip Polášek	Andre Begemann Martin Emmrich	4: 6, 6: 3, [4:10]
19th	January 4, 2013	Doha (1)	Hard court	Filip Polášek	Christopher Kas Philipp Kohlschreiber	5: 7, 4: 6
20th	20th October 2013	Vienna (4)	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Florin Mergea Lukáš Rosol	5: 7, 4: 6
21st	October 27, 2013	Basel	Hard court (i)	Oliver Marach	Treat Huey Dominic Inglot	3: 6, 6: 3, [4:10]
22nd	19th October 2014	Vienna (5)	Hard court (i)	Andre Begemann	Jürgen Melzer Philipp Petzschner	6: 7 6 , 6: 4, [7:10]
23.	January 9, 2015	Doha (2)	Hard court	Philipp Oswald	Juan Mónaco Rafael Nadal	3: 6, 4: 6
24.	September 27, 2015	St. Petersburg (2)	Hard court (i)	Alexander Peya	Treat Huey Henri Kontinen	5: 7, 3: 6
25th	October 23, 2016	Moscow	Hard court (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	5: 7, 6: 4, [5:10]

Web links

Commons : Julian Knowle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Julian Knowle (English)
• ITF profile Julian Knowle (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Julian Knowle (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knowle's single comeback over quickly. In: derstandart.at. September 25, 2012, accessed August 18, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Knowle ends tennis career. vorarlberg.orf.at, June 3, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Knowle ends his career. laola1.at, June 3, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2019 .