Rainer Schüttler

Rainer Schüttler
Schüttler 2005 at the World Team Cup in Düsseldorf
Nickname:	shaker
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	April 25, 1976
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	75 kg
1st professional season:	1995
Resignation:	2012
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 7,407,508
singles
Career record:	327: 337
Career title:	4th
Highest ranking:	5 (April 26, 2004)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	124: 172
Career title:	4th
Highest ranking:	40 (July 11, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Rainer Schüttler (born April 25, 1976 in Korbach ) is a former German tennis player .

Tennis career

Schüttler's strengths are his baseline game, fighting spirit and footwork. He reached his best world ranking position in mid-2004 with fifth place in the entry system . Among his career highlights were the finals at the Australian Open 2003 and the Masters tournament in Monte Carlo 2004 as well as the semi-finals at the Masters Cup 2003 and Wimbledon 2008. In the course of his career he was able to play at the ATP tournaments in Doha in 1999, Shanghai 2002, Tokyo and Lyon triumph in 2003. From 1999 to 2009 Schüttler played for the German Davis Cup team , in which he has a 9: 9 record.

In 2003 Schüttler played the best tennis of his career. At the Australian Open he reached the Grand Slam final. Placed in 31st place, he beat number ten on the seeding list David Nalbandian in the quarterfinals and Andy Roddick , number nine on the seeding list, in the semifinals . He lost to second seeding list Andre Agassi in the final. The Dutchman and later finalist of the French Open, Martin Verkerk , defeated Schüttler in the round of 16 by Roland Garros. At Wimbledon and at the US Open, he was subject to number twelve in the world rankings in the round of 16, the Dutchman Sjeng Schalken . In August 2003, he beat world number one Andre Agassi in the quarterfinals of the Masters tournament in Montreal . The tournament in Tokyo in October of that year he won against the French Sébastien Grosjean . A week later he defeated Arnaud Clément in the final in Lyon. With all these successes, Rainer Schüttler qualified for the Masters Cup in Houston. There he beat Andy Roddick, number one in the world rankings, and the Argentine Guillermo Coria in the group stage . In the semifinals he was defeated by Andre Agassi. He finished the tennis year in sixth place in the world rankings.

Probably his most significant success was achieved with Nicolas Kiefer : The two won the silver medal in men's doubles at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . For this he was awarded the silver bay leaf on March 16, 2005.

Schüttler won a total of four single and four double titles. Since his success up to 2004 he has been seen less often in high-class encounters. One reason for this slump are various injuries. In early 2006, Schüttler fell ill with Pfeiffer glandular fever . In 2007 he was able to reach the quarter-finals again in doubles with Michael Kohlmann at the French Open .

In April and May 2008 he won two double titles on the ATP tour within a fortnight - on April 20, 2008 in Houston alongside Ernests Gulbis from Latvia and on May 4, 2008 at the BMW Open in Munich with partner Michael Berrer . At the tournament in Wimbledon in 2008 Schüttler also reached the semifinals for the first time after five-set wins over James Blake and Arnaud Clément , in which he was defeated in three sets against the then world number two Rafael Nadal . He improved by 55 places to 39th place in the world rankings. After failing to qualify for the 2008 Olympics , the NOK nominated him as a special case outside of the qualification criteria. Since he still would not have had the right to appear in detail, he forced it to be listed by filing a lawsuit before the CAS . In the first round he then faced Kei Nishikori from Japan , whom he defeated 6: 4, 6: 7 and 6: 3. Then it went in the second round against the favorite Novak Đoković , the Schüttler defeated 4: 6 and 2: 6 despite a great fight and good tennis. At the subsequent US Open, due to a cold, he had to give up in the first round in the game against Frenchman Florent Serra .

After the semi-finals in Chennai at the beginning of 2009, the following tournaments mostly suffered first or second round defeats. As world number 30. he also only reached the quarter-finals of the Challenger tournament at Sunrise , where he was defeated by Robin Soderling in three tight sets. In the first round of the Davis Cup he lost the opening match against Stefan Koubek , after which he did not play another match against Austria. At the World Team Cup in Düsseldorf he lost three of his four games, including a. against Robin Söderling with the maximum penalty of 0: 6 and 0: 6. The team nevertheless reached the final against Serbia, where Schüttler could not win again against Viktor Troicki . In June he reached the semi-finals at the lawn tournament in 's-Hertogenbosch , but lost it in a purely German duel against the eventual winner Benjamin Becker . At Wimbledon he only reached the second round. He lost there against Dudi Sela and slipped 53 places in the world rankings.

In early 2010 he reached the second round at the Australian Open in Melbourne with a four-set win over Sam Querrey , where he lost to Feliciano López in four sets. At the French Open in Paris, as in previous years, he did not get beyond the first round (against Guillermo García-López ). At the AEGON Championships in the Queen's Club in London, Schüttler reached the semi-finals, this time losing to Sam Querrey in three sets. At Wimbledon he was defeated in the second round by the Uzbek Denis Istomin in five sets. He then played his way to the quarter-finals in Los Angeles , but had to bend again to Sam Querrey, although he served in the third set at 5: 4 and 6: 5 to win the match. At the US Open, Schüttler lost in the first round to Frenchman Benoît Paire - in the decisive fifth set he already led 5-2 with two breaks, but lost in the tie-break. At the Thailand Open in Bangkok, Schüttler played his way through a victory over Ricardo Mello up to round two, where he was defeated 6: 7, 7: 6, 4: 6 to number four seeded Latvian Ernests Gulbis. In Saint Petersburg he reached the second round after defeating Viktor Troicki and was defeated there by the Ukrainian Oleksandr Dolhopolow . At the end of 2010, Schüttler and his former Davis Cup teammate Alexander Waske founded a professional tennis academy, the Schüttler Waske Tennis University in Offenbach, which promotes young talent. After seven years, the license from Schüttler's name in the title expired, so that the training facility is now called Alexander Waske Tennis University .

At the French Open in 2011, Schüttler already lost the opening match - again against Dolgopolov. And at the Queen's Club in London he only reached the second round. He lost to Sam Querrey in three sets.

On October 8, 2012, Schüttler announced his retirement from professional tennis.

Today Rainer Schüttler lives or lives on Lake Zurich.

Post-career activities

Tournament organization

Together with Ion Țiriac , he took over the tournament license for Düsseldorf in 2013 and organized international ATP tournaments.

Tennis coach

From 2015 he supervised the Lithuanian Ričardas Berankis at his ATP tournaments; In 2017 he switched to the coaching team of the Serbian Janko Tipsarević . In November 2018 it was announced that Schüttler will look after Germany's number one Angelique Kerber as a trainer. In July 2019, Kerber announced that it had ended its collaboration with Schüttler.

From 2020 he will be the captain of the German Fed Cup team.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam Olympic games Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series (2) ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series (6) ATP Challenger Tour (8)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (4) Sand (3) Lawn (0) Carpet (1)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 10, 1999	Doha	Hard court	Tim Henman	6: 4, 5: 7, 6: 1
2.	September 23, 2001	Shanghai	Hard court	Michel Kratochvil	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	October 5, 2003	Tokyo	Hard court	Sébastien Grosjean	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
4th	October 12, 2003	Lyon	carpet	Arnaud Clément	7: 5, 6: 3

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 26, 1997	Eckental	Carpet (i)	Petr Luxa	6: 4, 6: 1
2.	November 29, 1998	Portorož	Hard court (i)	Peter Wessels	6: 3, 6: 2
3.	November 19, 2000	Aachen (1)	Carpet (i)	Johan Settergren	7: 6 5 , 1: 6, 6: 1
4th	November 5, 2006	Aachen (2)	Carpet (i)	Yevgeny Korolyov	6: 3, 7: 5
5.	November 25, 2007	Kuala Lumpur	Hard court	Serhiy Stachowskyj	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
6th	August 28, 2011	Astana	Hard court (i)	Teimuras Gabashvili	7: 6 6 , 4: 6, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 5, 1999	Chennai	Hard court	Byron Black	4: 6, 6: 1, 3: 6
2.	January 3, 2000	Doha	Hard court	Fabrice Santoro	6: 3, 5: 7, 0: 3 up.
3.	September 24, 2001	Hong Kong	Hard court	Marcelo Ríos	6: 7 3 , 2: 6
4th	October 22, 2001	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Marat Safin	6: 3, 3: 6, 3: 6
5.	April 29, 2002	Munich	sand	Younes El Aynaoui	4: 6, 4: 6
6th	January 13, 2003	Australian Open	Hard court	Andre Agassi	2: 6, 2: 6, 1: 6
7th	September 8, 2003	Costa do Sauípe	Hard court	Sjeng Schalken	2: 6, 4: 6
8th.	April 19, 2004	Monte Carlo	sand	Guillermo Coria	2: 6, 1: 6, 3: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 22, 2001	Stuttgart	sand	Guillermo Cañas	Michael Hill Jeff Tarango	4: 6, 7: 6, 6: 4
2.	January 9, 2005	Chennai	Hard court	Lu Yen-hsun	Jonas Björkman Mahesh Bhupathi	7: 5, 4: 6, 7: 6 4
3.	April 14, 2008	Houston	sand	Ernests Gulbis	Pablo Cuevas Marcel Granollers	7: 5, 7: 6 3
4th	April 28, 2008	Munich	sand	Michael Berrer	Scott Lipsky David Martin	7: 5, 3: 6, [10: 8]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 25, 1997	Eckental	Carpet (i)	Lars Rehmann	Georg Blumauer Max Mirny	6: 4, 1: 6, 6: 3
2.	January 27, 2007	Heilbronn	Hard court (i)	Michael Kohlmann	Sander Groen Michaël Llodra	without a fight

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 20, 2003	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Michael Kohlmann	Julian Knowle Nenad Zimonjić	6: 7 1 , 3: 6
2.	August 15, 2004	Athens	Hard court	Nicolas Kiefer	Fernando González Nicolás Massú	2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3, 6: 7 7 , 4: 6
3.	4th July 2005	Gstaad	sand	Michael Kohlmann	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	6: 7 6 , 6: 7 11
4th	June 12, 2006	Hall	race	Michael Kohlmann	Nenad Zimonjić Fabrice Santoro	0: 6, 4: 6
5.	February 18, 2007	San Jose	Hard court	Chris Haggard	Eric Butorac Jamie Murray	5: 7, 6: 7 6

Balance sheet

singles

Tournament 1	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	total
Australian Open	Q2	1R	2R	1R	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	F.	3R	AF	2R	1R	-	-	F.
French Open	-	1R	1R	1R	1R	-	1R	1R	1R	AF	2R	1R	1R	1R	-	-	AF
Wimbledon	-	2R	2R	2R	HF	-	1R	1R	3R	AF	3R	2R	3R	2R	1R	-	HF
US Open	-	-	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	AF	1R	2R	3R	1R	-	-	AF
Individual titles won	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	4th
Overall wins / defeats 2	0-0	5:13	12:17	16:29	21:23	7:13	11:21	18:24	29:30	71:30	41:30	33:31	23:29	23:29	12:15	5: 2	327: 337
Year-end position	849	132	84	85	30th	130	95	89	42	6th	33	43	45	48	111	123	N / A

Double

Tournament 1	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	total
Australian Open	2R	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	-	-	-	-	2R
French Open	2R	-	-	-	VF	1R	2R	1R	-	1R	-	-	-	-	VF
Wimbledon	1R	1R	1R	-	-	2R	VF	1R	-	2R	-	-	-	-	VF
US Open	-	-	-	2R	2R	2R	1R	2R	2R	1R	-	-	-	-	2R
Double titles won	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4th
Overall wins / defeats 2	2: 6	5: 7	8:10	14: 9	13:11	13:16	18:20	19:21	12:23	5:16	9:13	2:10	2: 6	2: 4	124: 172
Year-end position	323	242	151	101	67	74	53	70	73	146	135	194	-	283	N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1R, 2R, 3R = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round or Q1, Q2, Q3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd qualifying round

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "My life is enough for four lives". In: tennisnet.com. June 11, 2011, accessed November 20, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Run and run: Rainer Schüttler, tennis star without airs. In: welt.de. Die Welt , January 23, 2003, accessed November 20, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Horst Köhler: Greetings from Federal President Horst Köhler on the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf. In: bundespraesident.de. March 16, 2005, accessed December 13, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Tennis Academy Schüttler-Waske. In: tennis-university.com. Archived from the original on November 21, 2016 ; Retrieved November 20, 2016 . 
5. ↑ After 17 years - tennis professional Rainer Schüttler quits. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt , October 8, 2012, accessed on November 20, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Malocher Schüttler puts on suit. In: sport1.de. October 9, 2010, accessed November 20, 2016 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} DTB: What does Rainer Schüttler actually do. In: www.tennis.sh. January 12, 2016, accessed November 15, 2018 . 
8. ↑ DTB: What does Rainer Schüttler actually do. In: tennismagazin.de. June 26, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2018 . 
9. ^ Coaching Carousel: Madison Keys hires Madrigal, Mertens teams with Taylor, more. In: wtatennis.com. December 18, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Kerber separates from coach Schüttler. In: Spiegel Online . July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Rainer Schüttler is the new Fed Cup captain. November 17, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 . 
12. ^ German Tennis Federation: Rainer Schüttler becomes the new Fed Cup captain. November 17, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 . 

Web links

Commons : Rainer Schüttler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Rainer Schuettler (English)
• ITF profile of Rainer Schüttler (English)
• Davis Cup statistics from Rainer Schüttler (English)