Rudi Molleker

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Rudi Molleker Tennis player
Rudi Molleker
Rudi Molleker at the French Open 2019
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Birthday: October 26, 2000
Size: 185 cm
Weight: 75 kg
1st professional season: 2017
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Jan Velthuis
Prize money: $ 286,597
singles
Career record: 3: 8
Highest ranking: 147 (July 1, 2019)
Current placement: 147
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (2019)
French Open 1R (2019)
Wimbledon -
US Open -
Double
Career record: 0: 2
Highest ranking: 434 (May 20, 2019)
Current placement: 443
Last update of the infobox:
July 1st, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Rudolf "Rudi" Molleker (born October 26, 2000 in Sjewjerodonezk , Ukraine ) is a German tennis player .

Personal

Molleker is the son of Roman and Tanja Molleker and moved to Oranienburg as a repatriate at the age of three . He has an older brother.

Molleker began playing tennis at an early age at the age of 5, emulating his older brother German. His talent was quickly recognized. At the age of 6, Rudi started tennis training at TV Frohnau in Berlin-Reinickendorf. Molleker, like his brother German, was trained by Benjamin Thiele very early on. Since then, he has been his constant companion as a coach and manager. In addition, Molleker trained regularly with his father Roman from the start. In 2011 he followed his coach Benjamin Thiele and moved to the Sutos 1917 club .

Career

Molleker became individual European champion in 2014 at the U14 Juniors in Pilsen and team world champion with the German U14 national team at the ITF World Junior Finals in Prostějov . After winning the ITF Grade 1 tournament in Berlin on June 25, 2017, Molleker rose to the top 10 of the ITF youth world rankings.

Molleker received a wildcard for qualifying for the German Tennis Championships 2017 in Hamburg via the DTB funding . After defeating Casper Ruud and Leonardo Mayer , the winner of the 2014 tournament and more than 800 places in the world rankings in front of him, in the qualification, he made his debut on the ATP World Tour in his first tournament participation. By moving into the main field, Molleker jumped into the top 700 of the world rankings. In the first round he met Karen Khachanov on the third seed list , to whom he was defeated 4: 6, 3: 6.

On May 20, 2018, he celebrated his greatest success so far. He won the ATP Challenger tournament in Heilbronn . In the final, he defeated his first top 100 player, Jiří Veselý, 4: 6, 6: 4 and 7: 5. After the victory, Molleker climbed into the top 300 in the world rankings. In June he played his first ATP World Tour event in Stuttgart and surprisingly won against his compatriot Jan-Lennard Struff and then lost to Lucas Pouille . After a few early defeats at tournaments, including in Halle and Hamburg , Molleker reached the semi-finals of the Challengers in Meerbusch and Stettin . At the end of the year he was in 194th place in the world rankings, just below his career high, which was 192nd in October.

In January 2019 reached Molleker about the qualifications of the Australian Open for the first time the main draw of a Grand Slam -Turniers. Here he was defeated by the Argentinian Diego Schwartzman in four sets in the first round . In May 2019, Molleker again moved into the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament via qualifying for the French Open and lost to Alexander Bublik in four sets.

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 (1)

singles

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. 20th May 2018 GermanyGermany Heilbronn sand Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jiří Veselý 4: 6, 6: 4, 7: 5

Web links

Commons : Rudi Molleker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Krieger: Rudi Molleker (16) fulfills his childhood dream at Wimbledon. In: bz-berlin.de. June 26, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Anja Reich: Tennis talent Rudolf Molleker from Oranienburg: Is that the new Boris Becker? In: berliner-zeitung.de. July 15, 2017, accessed September 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Official homepage. In: rudi-molleker.de. Retrieved May 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ German U14 juniors are world champions. In: spox.com. August 9, 2014, accessed September 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Florian Merkel: Sixteen years old, blond hair. In: spiegel.de. July 24, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Rudi Molleker crowns sensational run with Challenger title in Heilbronn. In: spox.com. May 20, 2018. Retrieved May 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Molleker, Rudi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molleker, Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Severodonetsk , Ukraine