Thomas Muster

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Thomas Muster Tennis player
Thomas Muster
Nation: AustriaAustria Austria
Birthday: 2nd October 1967
(age 52)
Size: 180 cm
Weight: 78 kg
1st professional season: 1985
Resignation: (Resignation 1999, comeback 2010, official resignation 2011)
Playing hand: Left, one-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 12,266,977
singles
Career record: 621: 273
Career title: 44
Highest ranking: 1 (February 12 1996)
Weeks as No. 1: 6th
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  1
Australian Open HF (1989, 1997)
French Open S (1995)
Wimbledon 1R (1987, 1992-1994)
US Open VF (1993, 1994, 1996)
Double
Career record: 56:92
Career title: 1
Highest ranking: 94 (November 7 1988)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (1989, 1990)
French Open -
Wimbledon -
US Open 2R (1986)
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (1989)
French Open 2R (1988)
Wimbledon -
US Open -
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )
Thomas Muster 1997

Thomas Muster (born October 2, 1967 in Leibnitz , Styria ) is a former Austrian tennis player . In total, he won 44 individual tournaments in the 1980s and 1990s. His greatest success was winning the 1995 French Open title . He was also number 1 in the world rankings for a total of six weeks , making him the most successful Austrian tennis player to date. Even today he is considered one of the best clay court players in tennis history. With 80% won final games, Muster still holds the record of all players who have reached at least 25 finals. He won 44 of 55 finals.

Career

Pattern first caused a stir when he reached the finals at the Junior French Open and won the Orange Bowl in 1985. Even then, he was looked after by his long-time trainer Ronald Leitgeb . In the same year he turned professional and won his first tournament in 1986 in Hilversum . His playing style as a left-hander was characterized by strong topspin, which was particularly suitable for clay courts. Nevertheless, he was not a pure baseline player and occasionally scattered net attacks, where he always played the backhand with one hand.

In 1988, Muster won four tournaments and finished in the top 20 for the first time. In 1989 he reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open, where he lost in four sets in a tight game against the then number 1 in the world, Ivan Lendl . On March 31, 1989, he won the semi-finals against Yannick Noah in Key Biscayne , but was hit by a drunk driver just hours later, with a serious knee injury. Six months later he celebrated his comeback in an exhibition match against Ivan Lendl, who would have been his final opponent in Key Biscane.

In 1990 he was able to celebrate tournament victories again, three on clay, one on hard court. 1995 was the most successful year for Muster, winning 40 games in a row on clay between February and July. After the semi-final victory over Andrea Gaudenzi in Monaco in 1995 , he collapsed. Nevertheless, Muster competed in the final against Boris Becker the next day . After defending two match points, Muster managed to turn the game around and win in five sets. In May, Muster also won the French Open against Michael Chang and thus celebrated his only Grand Slam title. On February 12, 1996, Thomas Muster was number 1 in the world rankings, initially only for one week, then a month later for another five weeks.

He was named Austrian Sportsman of the Year in 1990 and 1995. Muster won the last ATP title in 1997 in Key Biscayne. In 1999 he ended his career after the first round at the French Open against Nicolás Lapentti without officially announcing his resignation. In total, he won 44 ATP titles, most of them on clay. In 2005 Muster made a small comeback on the ATP Tour at the BA-CA Tennis Trophy in Vienna, playing in doubles alongside Oliver Marach .

The strength of the pattern on sand and hard courts contrasts with weaker balances on faster indoor floors and lawns in the ATP Tour. However, he mainly played on clay (320 wins / 109 losses) and hard court (118/59) and less often indoors (35/46) and on grass (6/9). The result is the curiosity of being the only number 1 in the world to never have won a game at Wimbledon. After all, he won three games at the renowned grass tournament in the Queen's Club in 1996 and was only defeated by Stefan Edberg in three sets in the semi-finals .

Muster is the most successful Austrian Davis Cup player . He stands at 36 single wins with 8 defeats and 8 double wins with 10 defeats. Muster led the Austrian team to the semi-finals in 1990 and won his individual games against Michael Chang and Andre Agassi . His team lost 3-2 at the Ernst Happel Stadium after Horst Skoff lost the decisive match against Chang despite a 2-0 set lead, which was canceled on Sunday when the score was 2-1 and played to the end on Monday.

Between February 2003 and September 2006 Muster was the Austrian Davis Cup captain. He has been playing on the ATP Champions Tour since 2003 . Despite his great fighting spirit, Muster was also repeatedly known for funny interludes and shows on and around the tennis court. In June 2005 he played for a TV-total show with Elton in doubles against Stefan Raab / Boris Becker at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle . In November 2009 he decided a show match - which was also announced as a "gender battle" - against the Austrian Sybille Bammer for himself.

On June 16, 2010, Muster announced his entry for the single and double competition of the Challenger tournament in Braunschweig , where he received a wildcard from the organizer . He lost to Conor Niland 2: 6, 1: 6 in the first round . Also in the double competition he was eliminated in the first round. He also suffered first-round defeats at the Challenger tournaments in Kitzbühel , Como , Rijeka and Palermo . Only at the fifth tournament after his comeback was he able to record his first victory on September 21, 2010: at the Challenger tournament in Ljubljana , Muster defeated the Slovenian Borut Puc 6: 3, 6: 1. However, he was defeated by the Italian Alessio di Mauro in the second round . Muster was able to achieve 7 ATP points and place himself back in the top 1000 of the ATP world rankings. On October 26, 2010 he played against Andreas Haider-Maurer after a break of more than ten years at an ATP tournament, the BA Trophy in Vienna. He lost the match 2: 6, 6: 7, but was celebrated by the audience. Muster ended his first “comeback season” with a record of one win in eight defeats and 980th place in the ATP world rankings. In 2011 he played again at the ATP tournament in Vienna , but lost again in the first round - against the then 18-year-old Dominic Thiem , who received a wildcard for this tournament and was able to celebrate his first victory on the ATP World Tour.

In January 2020, Muster temporarily worked as a trainer for Thiem, the collaboration was ended after three weeks.

Private

Thomas Muster was married to Australian TV presenter Jo Beth Taylor from 2000 to 2005 and they have a son, born in 2001. On April 25, 2010, he married Caroline Ofner, the mother of his daughter, who was born in 2009.

Records

In 1995, Thomas Muster was the first player to win twelve tournaments in singles, which is a record on the ATP Tour to this day . Since 2006 he has shared this record with Roger Federer , who also achieved this historic number that year.

Muster is the only world number one in the Open Era who couldn't win a single match at Wimbledon. The now 25 other world number one have all reached at least the round of 16 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club .

In addition, Thomas Muster has the best odds of winning ATP finals of all players who reached the final in at least 25 tournaments. He himself won 80% of it.

Tournament victories

Thomas Muster won 44 tournaments in singles and one in doubles in his career. In addition, he was in eleven individual tournaments and one double tournament in the final.

Legend
Grand Slam (1)
ATP Masters Series (8)
ATP Tour (35)

singles

No. date competition Final opponent Result
1. Aug 3, 1986 NetherlandsNetherlands Hilversum SwitzerlandSwitzerland Jakob Hlasek 6: 1, 6: 3, 6: 3
2.  Jul 4, 1988 United StatesUnited States Boston United StatesUnited States Lawson Duncan 6: 2, 6: 2
3. Jul 25, 1988 FranceFrance Bordeaux HaitiHaiti Ronald Agénor 6: 3, 6: 3
4th  Aug 8, 1988 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague ArgentinaArgentina Guillermo Pérez Roldán 6: 4, 5: 7, 6: 2
5. 19 Sep 1988 ItalyItaly Bari UruguayUruguay Marcelo Filippini 2: 6, 6: 1, 7: 5
6th  Jan. 1, 1990 AustraliaAustralia Adelaide United StatesUnited States Jimmy Arias 3: 6, 6: 2, 7: 5
7th  March 5, 1990 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca ArgentinaArgentina Guillermo Pérez Roldán 6: 1, 6: 7, 6: 2
8th. May 14, 1990 ItalyItaly Rome (1) RussiaRussia Andrei Chesnokov 6: 1, 6: 3, 6: 1
9. Jun 10, 1991 ItalyItaly Florence (1) AustriaAustria Horst Skoff 6: 2, 6: 7, 6: 4
10.  Sep 9 1991 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Geneva AustriaAustria Horst Skoff 6: 2, 6: 4
11. Apr 20, 1992 MonacoMonaco Monte Carlo (1) United StatesUnited States Aaron Krickstein 6: 3, 6: 1, 6: 3
12.  Jun 8, 1992 ItalyItaly Florence (2) ItalyItaly Renzo Furlan 6: 3, 1: 6, 6: 1
13. Aug 24, 1992 CroatiaCroatia Umag (1) ArgentinaArgentina Franco Davin 6: 1, 4: 6, 6: 4
14th Feb 22, 1993 MexicoMexico Mexico City (1) SpainSpain Carlos Costa 6: 2, 6: 4
15th  Jun 7, 1993 ItalyItaly Florence (3) SpainSpain Jordi Burillo 6: 1, 7: 5
16. Jun 14, 1993 ItalyItaly Genoa SwedenSweden Magnus Gustafsson 7: 6, 6: 4
17th  Aug 2, 1993 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel SpainSpain Javier Sánchez 6: 3, 7: 5, 6: 4
18th  Aug 9, 1993 San MarinoSan Marino San Marino ItalyItaly Renzo Furlan 7: 5, 7: 5
19th 23 Aug 1993 CroatiaCroatia Umag (2) SpainSpain Alberto Berasategui 7: 5, 3: 6, 6: 3
20th 27 Sep 1993 ItalyItaly Palermo SpainSpain Sergi Bruguera 7: 6, 7: 5
21st Feb 21, 1994 MexicoMexico Mexico City (2) BrazilBrazil Roberto Jabali 6: 3, 6: 1
22nd Apr 25, 1994 SpainSpain Madrid SpainSpain Sergi Bruguera 6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 4, 7: 5
23. Jun 13, 1994 AustriaAustria St. Poelten (1) SpainSpain Tomás Carbonell 4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
24. Feb. 27, 1995 MexicoMexico Mexico City (3) BrazilBrazil Fernando Meligeni 7: 6, 7: 5
25th  Apr 3, 1995 PortugalPortugal Estoril (1) SpainSpain Albert Costa 6: 4, 6: 2
26th Apr 10, 1995 SpainSpain Barcelona (1) SwedenSweden Magnus Larsson 6: 2, 6: 1, 6: 4
27. Apr 24, 1995 MonacoMonaco Monte Carlo (2) GermanyGermany Boris Becker 4: 6, 5: 7, 6: 1, 7: 6, 6: 0
28. May 15, 1995 ItalyItaly Rome (2) SpainSpain Sergi Bruguera 3: 6, 7: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
29 Jun 11, 1995 FranceFrance French Open United StatesUnited States Michael Chang 7: 5, 6: 2, 6: 4
30th Jun 19, 1995 AustriaAustria St. Poelten (2) Czech RepublicCzech Republic Bohdan Ulihrach 6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 1
31. Jul 17, 1995 GermanyGermany Stuttgart Outdoor (1) SwedenSweden Jan Apell 6: 2, 6: 2
32.  Aug 7, 1995 San MarinoSan Marino San Marino ItalyItaly Andrea Gaudenzi 6: 2, 6: 0
33. Aug 21, 1995 CroatiaCroatia Umag (3) SpainSpain Carlos Costa 3: 6, 7: 6, 6: 4
34. Sep 11 1995 RomaniaRomania Bucharest AustriaAustria Gilbert Schaller 6: 3, 6: 4
35. Oct 23, 1995 GermanyGermany eat United StatesUnited States MaliVai Washington 7: 6, 2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
36.  March 4, 1996 MexicoMexico Mexico City (4) Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jiří Novák 7: 6, 6: 2
37.  Apr 8, 1996 PortugalPortugal Estoril (2) ItalyItaly Andrea Gaudenzi 7: 6, 6: 4
38. Apr 15, 1996 SpainSpain Barcelona (2) ChileChile Marcelo Ríos 6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1
39. Apr 22, 1996 MonacoMonaco Monte Carlo (3) SpainSpain Albert Costa 6: 3, 5: 7, 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2
40. May 13, 1996 ItalyItaly Rome (3) NetherlandsNetherlands Richard Krajicek 6: 2, 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3
41. Jul 15, 1996 GermanyGermany Stuttgart Outdoor (2) RussiaRussia Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6: 2, 6: 2, 6: 4
42.  Sep 9 1996 ColombiaColombia Bogotá EcuadorEcuador Nicolás Lapentti 6: 7, 6: 2, 6: 3
43. Feb 10, 1997 United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai CroatiaCroatia Goran Ivanišević 7: 5, 7: 6
44. March 17, 1997 United StatesUnited States Key Biscayne SpainSpain Sergi Bruguera 7: 6, 6: 3, 6: 1

Double

No. date competition partner Final opponent Result
1. 19 Sep 1988 ItalyItaly Bari ItalyItaly Claudio Panatta ItalyItaly Francesco Cancellotti Simone Colombo
ItalyItaly  		6: 3, 6: 1

Awards

literature

  • Thomas Muster, Christian Hackl: Aufschlag - my life, my success , Edition Tau, Bad Sauerbrunn, 1995, ISBN 3-900977-73-9
  • Thomas Muster: TOP TENNIS - With the special training program by Ronald Leitgeb; 1990 by Verlag Orac in Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna; Editor: Dr. Gerhard Friedrich

Web links

Commons : Thomas Muster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The ten best clay court players of all time ( Memento from April 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Rating as a clay court player according to the official ATP biography on September 9, 2016
  3. ↑ < http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/06/roger-federer-stats-best-tennis-player-ever-goat-wimbledon-us-open-stats 35 facts that prove Roger Federer is the greatest player ever > USA today, 2015-06-25
  4. ↑ Style of play according to the official ATP biography on September 9, 2016
  5. ↑ ATP balance at tennisresult.net (including ATP Challenger), accessed on September 9, 2016
  6. ↑ Thomas Muster wins the battle between the sexes against Sybille Bammer
  7. ↑ Thomas Muster is back from vacation - laola ( Memento from June 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ www.atpworldtour.com Profile Thomas Muster ATP World Tour
  9. ↑ How far can Thomas Muster get? - tennisnet.com
  10. ↑ Pattern finally puts an end to it. In: sport1.de. November 26, 2011, accessed March 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ ORF at / agencies red: Tennis: Thiem separates from Muster again. January 25, 2020, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Thomas Muster: Secret wedding in the village. April 26, 2010, accessed March 13, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Guillermo Vilas holds the records before the introduction of the ATP Tour with 16 individual titles and 46 wins in a row in 1977.
  14. ^ State awards until 2008 , accessed on September 13, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Muster, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH October 2nd, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Leibnitz , Styria , Austria