Mardy Fish

Mardy Fish
Mardy Fish 2009 in Delray Beach
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	December 9, 1981
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	82 kg
1st professional season:	2000
Resignation:	2015
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Mark Knowles
Prize money:	$ 7,392,041
singles
Career record:	301: 218
Career title:	6th
Highest ranking:	7 (August 15, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	134: 102
Career title:	8th
Highest ranking:	14 (July 6, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Mardy Fish (born December 9, 1981 in Edina , Minnesota ) is a retired American tennis player .

Career

Fish turned pro tennis at the age of 18. In the first few years he played mostly smaller tournaments until he was successful in doubles with Andy Roddick in Houston in 2002 .

In 2003 he won his first individual title at the Stockholm Open with a final victory over the Swede Robin Söderling . He finished the year twentieth in the world rankings .

In 2004 he reached the finals of the SAP Open in San José and the Gerry Weber Open in Halle. In August he won the silver medal for the USA at the Olympic Games in Athens when he lost to Chilean Nicolás Massú in the final . There were no further successes in this or the following season.

In 2006, Fish celebrated his second tournament victory when he won the Houston ATP tournament with a final victory over Jürgen Melzer . He also reached the quarter-finals in Newport , Washington and Metz .

At the beginning of 2007, Fish caused a stir with the quarter-finals at the Australian Open . The semi-finals in Auckland and Memphis and the quarter-finals in San José were further successes. After a half-year dry spell, he reached the final of New Haven in August 2007 , which he lost 5: 7, 4: 6 to James Blake .

On March 22, 2008 he defeated Roger Federer 6-2 and 6-3 in the semifinals of the Indian Wells Masters . He lost the final against Novak Đoković .

The 2009 season turned out to be extremely successful with reaching the finals at the ATP tournament in Doha and the victories in Delray Beach as well as in the double competition of the Indian Wells Masters . After early defeats in the Masters tournaments in Paris and Rome , Fish achieved his greatest success so far in a Grand Slam tournament in the doubles competition at Wimbledon . At the side of James Blake, he only lost in the semi-finals against eventual tournament winners Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić .

At the Davis Cup encounter against Croatia in July, he suffered an abdominal muscle injury in the game against Marin Čilić , which prevented him from participating in the LA Tennis Open in Los Angeles. When he returned to the tour, he was defeated by the German Philipp Petzschner in the first round of the Legg Mason Tennis Classics . He also had to cancel the US Open , where he was placed 25th, due to an injury.

The 2010 season began for Fish with a double title at the ATP tournament in San José with his compatriot Sam Querrey , when they defeated the German-Argentinian team Benjamin Becker / Leonardo Mayer in the final there. In the grass season he reached the finals twice; in the Queen's Club he was defeated by Sam Querrey 6: 7 ³ and 5: 7, in Newport Fish celebrated his fourth title on the ATP World Tour , his first individual title on grass. He defeated the Belgian Olivier Rochus in the final in three sets. As a result, he again achieved a place in the top 50 of the tennis world rankings .

The North American hard court season was even more successful. Fish immediately won the following tournament in Atlanta by defeating his compatriot John Isner in three hard-fought sets with 4: 6, 6: 4 and 7: 6 ⁴ . This success brought him 14 places up to 35th place in the ATP ranking. In Washington he won the double competition with Mark Knowles against Tomáš Berdych and Radek Štěpánek . At the Masters tournament in Cincinnati , Fish confirmed his strong form. He reached the final and on the way beat the top ten players Fernando Verdasco , Andy Roddick and Andy Murray , whom he defeated for the third time this season. In the final he was defeated, despite a very good performance, to Roger Federer, who just got the upper hand with 6: 7 ⁵ , 7: 6 ¹ and 6: 4. Despite the defeat in the final, he climbed to 21st place in the world rankings. After the US Open, where he was traded as an insider tip, but failed in the round of 16 at the eventual finalist Novak Đoković, he was in the top 20 for the first time since 2004 in 2010 he played in Beijing , after which he was sidelined due to an injury.

The 2011 season started modestly. At the preparatory tournament in Brisbane and at the Australian Open , he was eliminated in the second round. But already at the following hard court tournaments in North America, Fish advanced further; in Memphis , Delray Beach and the Masters tournament in Miami he reached the semi-finals, only in Indian Wells he had to accept a surprising opening defeat against the young Milos Raonic . With his results, Fish moved into the top ten for the first time and replaced Andy Roddick as number 1 in the US men. The clay court season in Europe was less successful, but he was able to celebrate a success in Roland Garros . There he moved into the third round for the first time, in which he had to admit defeat to Frenchman Gilles Simon . After that, Fish was unable to play a preparatory tournament for Wimbledon due to injury . Nevertheless, he reached the quarter-finals of the lawn classic, which he lost to the eventual finalist Rafael Nadal . The Davis Cup encounter against Spain was disappointing when he lost both individual games in front of a home crowd and thus sealed the elimination of the USA. Fish started the North American hard court season successfully in the summer. He was able to defend his title in Atlanta , beating his compatriot John Isner in the final like last year. Also a week later in Los Angeles he reached the final, but there he was defeated by the Latvian Ernests Gulbis . Fish was also very successful at the Masters tournament in Montreal ; until 2011 he had never reached the second round there, this time he made it to the finals, where he was narrowly defeated by world number one Đoković. So he was left behind at the fourth attempt in the final of a Masters tournament; however, participation in the finals gave him valuable points and he equalized his record with position 7 in the world list. The following week he reached the semi-finals in Cincinnati , which he lost to Andy Murray after defeating Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals. With these good results, Fish won the US Open Series in 2011 - with the highest number of points since its inception.

After his departure from the Miami Masters in the 2012 season, Fish suffered from acute heart problems and panic attacks , and had to do without tournament starts several times. In 2013 he still suffered from the consequences. He missed all Grand Slam tournaments and only appeared in five events, in which he completed a total of eight games. He fell far behind in the world rankings, in September 2013 he finished 359th. In 2014 he did not take part in any tournament, he was no longer listed in the individual rankings .

In July 2015, he announced his retirement after the US Open. He still played the tournaments in Atlanta and Cincinnati and then retired from the US Open in the second round.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam Olympic Summer Games Tennis Masters Cup ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1) ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 (2) ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 (11)

Title after covering Hard Court (9) Sand (3) Grass (2) Carpet (0)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 20, 2003	Stockholm	Hard court (i)	Robin Soderling	7: 5, 3: 6, 7: 6 4
2.	April 10, 2006	Houston	sand	Jürgen Melzer	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
3.	March 1, 2009	Delray Beach	Hard court	Yevgeny Korolyov	7: 5, 6: 3
4th	5th July 2010	Newport	race	Olivier Rochus	5: 7, 6: 3, 6: 4
5.	July 25, 2010	Atlanta (1)	Hard court	John Isner	4: 6, 6: 4, 7: 6 4
6th	July 24, 2011	Atlanta (2)	Hard court	John Isner	3: 6, 7: 6 6 , 6: 2

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 10, 2003	Delray Beach	Hard court	Jan-Michael Gambill	0: 6, 6: 7 5
2.	June 23, 2003	Nottingham	race	Greg Rusedski	3: 6, 2: 6
3.	August 18, 2003	Cincinnati (1)	Hard court	Andy Roddick	6: 4, 6: 7 3 , 6: 7 4
4th	February 16, 2004	San Jose (1)	Hard court (i)	Andy Roddick	6: 7 13 , 4: 6
5.	June 14, 2004	Hall	race	Roger Federer	0: 6, 3: 6
6th	August 22, 2004	Athens	Hard court	Nicolás Massú	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2, 3: 6, 4: 6
7th	August 27, 2007	New Haven (1)	Hard court	James Blake	5: 7, 4: 6
8th.	March 23, 2008	Indian Wells	Hard court	Novak Đoković	2: 6, 7: 5, 3: 6
9.	August 23, 2008	New Haven (2)	Hard court	Marin Čilić	4: 6, 6: 4, 2: 6
10.	February 15, 2009	San Jose (2)	Hard court (i)	Radek Štěpánek	6: 3, 4: 6, 2: 6
11.	June 13, 2010	Queen's Club	race	Sam Querrey	6: 7 3 , 5: 7
12.	August 22, 2010	Cincinnati (2)	Hard court	Roger Federer	7: 6 5 , 6: 7 1 , 4: 6
13.	July 31, 2011	los Angeles	Hard court	Ernests Gulbis	7: 5, 4: 6, 4: 6
13.	August 14, 2011	Montreal	Hard court	Novak Đoković	2: 6, 6: 3, 4: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 29, 2002	Houston (1)	sand	Andy Roddick	Neville Godwin Jan-Michael Gambill	6: 4, 6: 4
2.	February 16, 2004	San Jose (1)	Hard court	James Blake	Rick Leach Brian MacPhie	6: 2, 7: 5
3.	April 19, 2004	Houston (2)	sand	James Blake	Rick Leach Brian MacPhie	6: 3, 6: 4
4th	July 7, 2008	Newport	race	John Isner	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6: 4, 7: 6 1
5.	February 13, 2009	Memphis	Hard court (i)	Mark Knowles	Travis Parrott Filip Polášek	7: 6, 6: 1
6th	March 9, 2009	Indian Wells	Hard court	Andy Roddick	Max Mirny Andy Ram	3: 6, 6: 1, [14:12]
7th	February 15, 2010	San Jose (2)	Hard court (i)	Sam Querrey	Benjamin Becker Leonardo Mayer	7: 6 3 , 7: 5
8th.	August 8, 2010	Washington, DC	Hard court	Mark Knowles	Tomáš Berdych Radek Štěpánek	4: 6, 7: 6 7 , [10: 7]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 27, 2006	Memphis	Hard court	James Blake	Chris Haggard Ivo Karlović	6: 0, 5: 7, [5:10]
2.	May 15, 2011	Rome	sand	Andy Roddick	John Isner Sam Querrey	walkover
3.	4th August 2013	Washington, DC	Hard court	Radek Štěpánek	Julien Benneteau Nenad Zimonjić	6: 7 5 , 5: 7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ESPN.com Fish's Return from Abdominal Injury
2. ↑ Fish does not participate in the US Open (English)
3. ^ Mardy Fish withdraws from US Open due to health issues , theguardian.com, accessed September 13, 2013
4. ↑ Mardy Fish retires after the US Open career , NZZ, July 22, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2015.
5. ↑ Fish with defeat in Rente Sport1.de, September 2, 2015, accessed on September 2, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Mardy Fish  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Mardy Fish (English)
• ITF profile Mardy Fish (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Mardy Fish (English)
• Official Homepage (English)