Sam Groth

Sam Groth
Sam Groth at Wimbledon in 2016
Nation:	Australia
Birthday:	October 19, 1987
Size:	193 cm
Weight:	100 kg
1st professional season:	2006
Resignation:	2018
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Billy Hoarse
Prize money:	$ 1,715,167
singles
Career record:	37:58
Highest ranking:	53 (August 10, 2015)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	55:50
Career title:	2
Highest ranking:	24 (February 2, 2015)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Samuel "Sam" Groth (born October 19, 1987 in Narrandera , New South Wales ) is a retired Australian tennis player . With 263 km / h he holds the record for the hardest serve in tennis.

Career

In 2005 Groth reached the junior double finals at Wimbledon on the side of Briton Andrew Kennaugh . Since his first professional season in 2006 he has been mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour . In singles he won his first title in Rimouski in 2014 , while in doubles he has already won 15 titles. He made his Grand Slam debut in 2009 thanks to a wildcard at the Australian Open . There he was eliminated, however, despite a 1-0 lead in the end with 1: 3 sets in the opening round against Mardy Fish . With Chris Guccione , he won his first title on the ATP World Tour by winning the doubles competition in Bogotá in July 2014 . In the following months he reached the finals in Washington with Leander Paes and the finals in Shenzhen and Moscow with Guccione . He achieved his highest single placement in the world rankings in October 2014 with 87th place in singles and 31st place in doubles.

In May 2012 he hit at the Challenger tournament in Busan, South Korea, in the game against the Belarusian Uladsimir Ihnazik, the fastest serve ever recorded with 263 km / h. He exceeded the world record set by Ivo Karlović in March 2011 by 12 km / h.

After the Australian Open 2018 he ended his career and announced that he would play Australian football from now on.

In September 2014 he made his debut for the Australian Davis Cup team .

From 2009 to 2011 he was married to tennis player Jarmila Gajdošová .

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP World Tour 500 ATP World Tour 250 (2) ATP Challenger Tour (23)

Title after covering Hard Court (1) Sand (0) Grass (1)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 23, 2014	Rimouski	Hard court (i)	Ante Pavic	7: 6 3 , 6: 2
2.	May 3, 2015	Taipei	Carpet (i)	Konstantin Kravchuk	6: 7 5 , 6: 4, 7: 6 3
3.	June 7, 2015	Manchester	race	Luke Saville	7: 5, 6: 1
4th	October 23, 2016	Las Vegas	Hard court	Santiago Giraldo	6: 7 4 , 6: 4, 7: 5

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	20th July 2014	Bogotá	Hard court	Chris Guccione	Nicolás Barrientos Juan Sebastián Cabal	7: 6 5 , 6: 7 3 , [11: 9]
2.	July 16, 2016	Newport	race	Chris Guccione	Jonathan Marray Adil Shamasdin	6: 4, 6: 3

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	December 9, 2007	Burnie (1)	Hard court	Joseph Sirianni	Nima Roshan Jose Statham	6: 3, 1: 6, [10: 4]
2.	May 16, 2008	New Delhi	Hard court	Colin Ebelthite	Mohammad Ghareeb Ilya Marchenko	2: 6, 7: 6 5 , [10: 8]
3.	August 8, 2009	Campos do Jordão	Hard court	Joshua Goodall	Rogério Dutra da Silva Júlio Silva	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
4th	February 7, 2010	Burnie (2)	Hard court	Matthew Ebden	James Lemke Dane Propoggia	6: 7 8 , 7: 6 4 , [10: 8]
5.	February 13, 2011	Caloundra	Hard court	Matthew Ebden	Pavol Červenák Ivo Klec	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 1]
6th	5th January 2013	Nouméa	Hard court	Toshihide Matsui	Jose Statham Artem Sitak	7: 6 6 , 1: 6, [10: 4]
7th	February 10, 2013	Adelaide	Hard court	Matt Reid	Greg Jones James Duckworth	6: 2, 6: 4
8th.	March 24, 2013	Rimouski	Hard court (i)	John-Patrick Smith	Philipp Marx Florin Mergea	7: 6 5 , 7: 6 7
9.	May 11th, 2013	Kunming	Hard court	John-Patrick Smith	Gō Soeda Yasutaka Uchiyama	6: 4, 6: 1
10.	November 10, 2013	Knoxville	Hard court (i)	John-Patrick Smith	Carsten Ball Peter Polansky	6: 7 6 , 6: 2, [10: 7]
11.	February 8, 2014	Dallas	Hard court (i)	Chris Guccione	Ryan Harrison Mark Knowles	6: 4, 6: 2
12.	5th April 2014	Leon	Hard court	Chris Guccione	Marcus Daniell Artem Sitak	6: 3, 6: 4
13.	April 26, 2014	Shenzhen	Hard court	Chris Guccione	Dominik Meffert Tim Pütz	6: 3, 7: 6 5
14th	May 4, 2014	Taipei	Carpet (i)	Chris Guccione	Austin Krajicek John-Patrick Smith	6: 4, 5: 7, [10: 8]
15th	May 11, 2014	Gimcheon	Hard court	Chris Guccione	Austin Krajicek John-Patrick Smith	6: 7 5 , 7: 5, [10: 4]
16.	May 7, 2016	Busan	Hard court	Leander Paes	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	4: 6, 6: 1, [10: 7]
17th	October 9, 2016	Stockton	Hard court	Brian Baker	Matt Reid John-Patrick Smith	6: 2, 4: 6, [10: 2]
18th	November 6, 2016	Charlottesville	Hard court (i)	Brian Baker	Brydan Klein Ruan Roelofse	6: 3, 6: 3
19th	18th March 2017	Drummondville	Hard court (i)	Adil Shamasdin	Matt Reid John-Patrick Smith	6: 3, 2: 6, [10: 8]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	3rd August 2014	Washington	Hard court	Leander Paes	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	5: 7, 4: 6
2.	September 28, 2014	Shenzhen	Hard court	Chris Guccione	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	4: 6, 6: 7 4
3.	19th October 2014	Moscow	Hard court (i)	Chris Guccione	František Čermák Jiří Veselý	6: 7 2 , 5: 7

Web links

Commons : Samuel Groth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Sam Groth (English)
• ITF profile of Sam Groth (English)
• Davis Cup statistics from Sam Groth (English)
• Profile of Sam Groth on "tennis.com.au" (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Samuel Groth succeeds in serving world record. In: sportal.de. May 12, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Maximilian Kisanyik: Plans after the career: Will Sam Groth swap the tennis racket for a football egg? In: spox.com. December 30, 2017, accessed April 10, 2018 .