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Key facts
- Country sports
- Austria
- Residence
- Deutsch-Wagram , Austria
- Born
- ( 1981-05-22 ) 22 May 1981 (age 45) , Vienna , Austria
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Plays
- Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
- Prize money
- US$10,739,212
- Career record
- 350–334
- Highest ranking
- No. 8 (18 April 2011)
- Australian open
- 4R ( 2011 )
- French open
- SF ( 2010 )
- Wimbledon
- 4R ( 2010 , 2013 )
- Us open
- 4R ( 2010 )
- Olympic games
- QF ( 2008 )
- Tour finals
- F ( 2020 )
- Davis cup
- QF ( 2012 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Austria
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jürgen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Spouse
- Iveta Benešová
- Sibling
- Gerald Melzer
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- tennis
- Country for sport
- Austria
- Mass
- 81
- Official website
- www.juergen-melzer.at
- Image
- Jürgen Melzer - Gala Nacht des Sports 2010.jpg
- Height
- 183
- Residence
- Deutsch-Wagram
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- Commons category
- Jürgen Melzer
- date of birth
- 1981-05-22
- singles record
- 350–334
- doubles record
- 375–297
- prize money
- 10739212
- start of work period
- 1999-00-00
- ranking
- 6
- social media followers
- 38848
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Encyclopedic overview
Jürgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981) is an Austrian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. Melzer reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in April 2011, and a doubles ranking of world No. 6 in September 2010. He has a younger brother, Gerald Melzer, with whom he played doubles in several tournaments.
In 1999, Melzer won the boys' singles title at Wimbledon. For many years, he was known as one of the best players on the tour not to have progressed past the third round of a major. He ended this by reaching the semifinals of the 2010 French Open, losing to Rafael Nadal after coming from two sets down to defeat Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals. He was the only person to defeat Djokovic from two sets down until João Fonseca did so sixteen years later.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jürgen Melzer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.