Michael Lammer

Michael Lammer
Nation:	Switzerland
Birthday:	March 25, 1982
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	80 kg
Resignation:	2015
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Dario Camenzind
Prize money:	$ 533,475
singles
Career record:	7:24
Highest ranking:	150 (November 9, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	10:15
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	213 (November 2, 2009)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Michael Lammer (born March 25, 1982 in Zurich ) is a former Swiss tennis player .

life and career

Michael Lammer started playing tennis at the age of six. He quickly achieved great success in tennis: in 1994 he became Swiss champion in the U12 age group in both singles and doubles (alongside Roger Federer ), and in the following years he was Swiss runner-up three times. At the age of 15 he then moved to the Swiss Tennis high-performance center in Biel . There he took part in a new project, the Tennis Etudes by Swiss Tennis, so that he could attend school in addition to training. In 1999 he became Swiss Champion and Vice European Champion in the U18 age group, and reached the quarter-finals of the U18 World Junior Championships in Miami . His best placement in the junior world rankings was 7th in May 2000. After graduating from high school in Biel in 2002 , he turned to tennis.

The highlights of his career include the two Grand Slam qualifications for the US Open 2005 and the Australian Open 2006 . At the US Open, he beat the top 100 player Kevin Kim in the first round and then lost to Dominik Hrbatý, who was in 15th position . At the Australian Open, however, he was defeated by Andy Roddick , then number 2 in the world rankings, in the first round . Thanks to these good performances, he was then called up to the Swiss Davis Cup team , where he made his debut against Australia. He lost his match against Peter Luczak , the game was lost 3-2.

His greatest successes as a single player are two Challenger titles in Montauban in 2007 and Puebla in 2008. In November 2009, Lammer qualified for the main draw at the ATP tournament in Basel and defeated Daniel Köllerer in the first round . He then rose to 150th place in the world rankings. The best result so far at an ATP tournament was reaching the quarter-finals in Auckland in January 2010. Here he defeated, among others, the former world number one Juan Carlos Ferrero , who scored 3: 1 had to give up for Lammer due to injury. Michael Lammer won the ATP tournament in Gstaad in doubles alongside his compatriot Marco Chiudinelli in August 2009 . In the course of the tournament, they defeated the numbers 1, 2 and 3 on the seeding list.

In 2014 he was part of the Swiss team that won the Davis Cup against France for the first time . He was used both in the first round and in the semi-finals. In March 2015 he competed in Indian Wells with Roger Federer in doubles for his last career match. After the opening defeat, he ended his career.

Michael Lammer plays in the tennis team of the Grasshopper Club Zurich , with whom he has been six times Swiss national league A champion.

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

ATP World Tour Finals

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP World Tour 500

ATP World Tour 250 (1)

ATP Challenger Tour (2)

singles

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	July 8, 2007	Montauban	sand	Thierry Ascione	1: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6 4
2.	November 23, 2008	Puebla	Hard court	Rainer Eitzinger	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 4

Double

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	August 2, 2009	Gstaad	sand	Marco Chiudinelli	Jaroslav Levinský Filip Polášek	7: 5, 6: 3

Web links

• ATP profile of Michael Lammer (English)
• ITF profile of Michael Lammer (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Michael Lammer (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Lammer's tennis career ( memento from November 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad 2009 double draw
3. ↑ At the side of Roger Federer - Michael Lammer breaks up , tennisnet.com. Retrieved March 16, 2015.