Rainer Schüttler

Rainer Schüttler

Infobox Tennis player
playername = Rainer Schüttler


country = GER
residence = Altstätten, Switzerland
datebirth = birth date and age|1976|4|25
placebirth = Korbach, West Germany
height = height|m=1.80
weight = convert|70.0|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro = 1995
plays = Right-handed; two-handed backhand
careerprizemoney = US$6,368,380
singlesrecord = 290–274
singlestitles = 4
highestsinglesranking = No. 5 (April 26, 2004)
AustralianOpenresult = F (2003)
FrenchOpenresult = 4R (2003)
Wimbledonresult = SF (2008)
USOpenresult = 4R (2003)
doublesrecord = 109–148
doublestitles = 4
highestdoublesranking = No. 40 (July 11, 2005)
updated = October 6, 2008

Rainer Schüttler (born April 25, 1976) is a professional tennis player from Germany. He began playing tennis at the age of ten. He currently resides in Switzerland. After Wimbledon 2008, he is currently 39th in the ATP rankings.

Career

Rainer Schüttler was born in Korbach, Hesse.

He had his breakthrough year in 2003, when he finished in the ATP top 10 for the first time improving his ATP ranking for the ninth year in succession, which is the longest among current players. He also became the first German since Boris Becker in 1989 to advance to the 4th round at all Grand Slams. He became the first German to reach a Grand Slam final, at the Australian Open, since Michael Stich was the runner-up at Roland Garros in 1996.

In 2004 Schüttler reached his first career ATP Masters Series final in Monte Carlo by beating Gustavo Kuerten in the 1st round, Lleyton Hewitt in the 3rd round, Tim Henman in the quarter-final and Carlos Moyà in the semifinal. He however lost to Guillermo Coria in the final. That week, he would reach a career high ranking of No.5. Schüttler won a silver medal for Germany in tennis men's doubles with partner Nicolas Kiefer at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. 2004 was the sixth straight year in which he finished in the ATP top 50.

In 2008 Schüttler reached his first career semifinal at Wimbledon by beating Santiago Ventura, James Blake, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Janko Tipsarevic, and Arnaud Clement (6-3 5-7 7-6(6) 6-7(7) 8-6), his match with Clement was over 5 hours, completed in two days to reach the semi finals, losing to Rafael Nadal (1-6 6-7 4-6). His achievement was a big surprise, since he entered the tournament ranked 94th and with a streak of 13 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments without making it past the second round.

Career statistics

Grand Slam singles final

Runner-up (1)

Runner-ups (8)

Performance timeline

"To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only after a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2008 Summer Olympics where Rainer Shüttler was eliminated in the 2nd Round by Novak Djokovic."

External links

* [http://www.rainer-schuettler.de Official Homepage] de icon
*ATP|id=S636
* [http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?players=Schuett&weeks=12 Schüttler Recent Match Results]
* [http://steveghelper.com/RankingHistory.php?player=Schuett Schüttler World Ranking History]
*ITF male profile|number=10008938
*DavisCupplayerlink|id=10008938
* [http://www.sbznet.de/?rubrik=sport&thema=04-02-18-01 Interview with Rainer Schüttler] de icon
* [http://www.sbznet.de/?rubrik=sport&thema=03-11-15-01 Characteristics-Interview with Rainer Schüttler] de icon


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