Martin Fischer (tennis player)

Martin Fischer
Martin Fischer 2014 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Austria
Birthday:	July 21, 1986
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	70 kg
1st professional season:	2005
Resignation:	2015
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Joachim Kretz
Prize money:	$ 640,766
singles
Career record:	5:20
Highest ranking:	117 (October 11, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	3:11
Highest ranking:	119 (May 24, 2010)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Martin Fischer (born July 21, 1986 in Dornbirn ) is a former Austrian tennis player .

Successes among the juniors

Fischer began playing tennis at the age of three and was Austrian student state champion in tennis in 1996 and vice state champion in 1998. He celebrated his greatest successes in his youth in 2004. He won the international » Halle junior tournament «. On grass he defeated the German Aljoscha Throne in the final . In the middle of his high school graduation , Martin Fischer reached the round of 16 at the junior competition of the French Open in Paris . Three weeks later he repeated his success at the junior competition at Wimbledon . At the end of his junior career, Fischer won the title of Junior European Champion in doubles in Klosters , together with his partner Philipp Oswald .

Professional career

In 2006, Fischer won the »Future Tournaments« in Pörtschach in July 2006 and Nottingham in September 2006. The highlights so far have been taking part in the ATP tournaments in the Wiener Stadthalle in October 2006 and in Kitzbühel in 2007, for each of which he won a game Card received from the organizer.

In 2007 he secured three future titles in Austria, Russia and England. Then Fischer tried to establish himself on the Challenger Tour and recorded initial success there. He made it to the last eight in Almaty for the first time and was also able to qualify for the quarter-finals in Barnstaple and Helsinki. Until November 2007, his best placement in the ATP world rankings was 257th.

In 2008 Martin Fischer was able to improve further in the ATP ranking and reached the top 200 in the ATP ranking in both singles and doubles. He won a round in the qualification at all Grand Slam tournaments, was appointed to the Austrian Davis Cup team for the first time (but not used in the 3-2 win at Wimbledon against Great Britain), and among other things defeated the German Davis Cup player Benjamin Becker and Rainer Schüttler . His game in Vienna against the Argentine world number nine Juan Martín del Potro caused a sensation , which Fischer lost 6: 7 and 6: 7.

In May 2010, Fischer qualified for the first time at the French Open for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. There he lost in the first round in five sets against the Argentine Horacio Zeballos . A month later he also managed to qualify for the main draw at Wimbledon after victories over Dominik Hrbatý , Björn Phau and Ramón Delgado . There he won in the first round smoothly in three sets against the Japanese Gō Soeda and then met the 25th placed Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci , against whom he lost in four contested sets.

On his Davis Cup debut on September 19, 2010, he won against Israeli Harel Levy 2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 0 and 6: 3 and brought Austria back into the world group.

In 2015 he ended his career and began studying business administration at the University of Liechtenstein in the winter semester .

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 (17)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 11, 2010	Oberstaufen	sand	Cedrik-Marcel Stebe	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	March 9, 2014	Kyoto	Carpet (i)	Tatsuma Ito	3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 4

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 28, 2008	Grenoble	Hard court (i)	Philipp Oswald	Niels Desein Dick Norman	6: 7 5 , 7: 5, [10: 7]
2.	September 20, 2009	Todi (1)	sand	Philipp Oswald	Pablo Santos-González Gabriel Trujillo Soler	7: 5 6: 3
3.	September 27, 2009	Palermo (1)	sand	Philipp Oswald	Pierre-Ludovic Duclos Rogério Dutra da Silva	6: 3, 7: 6 4
4th	October 18, 2009	Kolding	Hard court (i)	Philipp Oswald	Jonathan Marray Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	7: 5, 6: 3
5.	March 14, 2010	Kyoto	Carpet (i)	Philipp Oswald	Divij Sharan Vishnu Vardhan	6: 1, 6: 2
6th	May 2, 2010	Ostrava	sand	Philipp Oswald	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	2: 6, 7: 6 6 , [10: 8]
7th	October 10, 2010	Palermo (2)	sand	Philipp Oswald	Alessandro Motti Simone Vagnozzi	4: 6, 6: 2, [10: 6]
8th.	May 29, 2011	Alessandria	sand	Philipp Oswald	Jeff Coetzee Andreas Siljeström	6: 7 5 , 7: 5, [10: 6]
9.	July 3, 2011	Turin	sand	Philipp Oswald	Uladsimir Ihnazik Martin Kližan	6: 3, 6: 4
10.	July 10, 2011	Oberstaufen	sand	Philipp Oswald	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	7: 6 1 , 6: 3
11.	November 18, 2011	Salzburg	Hard court (i)	Philipp Oswald	Alexander Waske Lovro Zovko	6: 3, 3: 6, [14:12]
12.	March 24, 2012	Bath	Hard court (i)	Philipp Oswald	Jamie Delgado Ken Skupski	6: 4, 6: 4
13.	June 16, 2012	Nottingham	race	Olivier Charroin	Yevgeny Donskoy Andrei Kuznetsov	6: 4, 7: 6 6
14th	September 16, 2012	Todi (2)	sand	Philipp Oswald	Marco Cecchinato Alessio di Mauro	6: 3, 6: 2
15th	April 20, 2013	Rome	sand	Andreas Beck	Martin Emmrich Rameez Junaid	7: 6 2 , 6: 0

Grand Slam results

competition	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Australian Open	-	Q2	Q1	Q2	-
French Open	-	Q2	Q1	1R	Q1
Wimbledon	-	Q3	Q3	2R	1R
US Open	Q1	Q2	Q1	Q1	-

Q1 / Q2 / Q3 (1st / 2nd / 3rd qualifying round), 1R / 2R / 3R (1st / 2nd / 3rd round), AF (round of 16), VF (quarter-finals), HF (semifinals), F. (Final), S (win)

Web links

Commons : Martin Fischer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Martin Fischer (English)
• ITF profile of Martin Fischer (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Martin Fischer (English)
• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ After more than ten years as a professional Martin Fischer ended his career. In: insideout-tennis.de. June 24, 2015, accessed March 15, 2018 .