Jürgen Melzer
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| Country (sports) |
 Austria
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| Residence | Deutsch-Wagram, Austria |
| Born |
22 May 1981 Vienna, Austria |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Turned pro | 1999 |
| Plays | Left-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Coach(es) | Galo Blanco |
| Prize money | US$ 9,916,405 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 348–333 |
| Career titles | 5 |
| Highest ranking | No. 8 (18 April 2011) |
| Current ranking | No. 157 (6 March 2017) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 4R (2011) |
| French Open | SF (2010) |
| Wimbledon | 4R (2010, 2013) |
| US Open | 4R (2010) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Olympic Games | QF (2008) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 303–247 |
| Career titles | 13 |
| Highest ranking | No. 6 (13 September 2010) |
| Current ranking | No. 118 (6 March 2017) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | SF (2005) |
| French Open | QF (2005) |
| Wimbledon | W (2010) |
| US Open | W (2011) |
| Other doubles tournaments | |
| Tour Finals | RR (2010, 2011) |
| Olympic Games | 2R (2012) |
| Mixed doubles | |
| Career titles | 1 |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | W (2011) |
| US Open | 1R (2012) |
| Team competitions | |
| Davis Cup | QF (2012) |
| Last updated on: 6 March 2017. | |
Jürgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981 in Vienna) is an Austrian tennis player. He 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 is a left-handed tennis player, but is right-handed in everyday life. He has a younger brother, Gerald Melzer, with whom he has played doubles in several tournaments.
In 1999, he won the boys' singles event 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 Grand Slam event. He ended this streak by reaching the semifinals of the French Open in 2010, losing to Rafael Nadal after coming from two sets down to defeat Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals. As of the end of 2016, he remains the only person to defeat Djokovic from two sets to love down. He has also had success in doubles, winning the men's doubles event at Wimbledon in 2010 and the US Open in 2011 with Philipp Petzschner, as well as the mixed doubles event at Wimbledon in 2011 with his then future (and later ex-) wife Iveta Benešová.
He endorses Bidi Badu and Dunlop Sport. Melzer is currently coached by Galo Blanco.
Melzer married his girlfriend, Iveta Benešová, a WTA Tour tennis player, on 14 September 2012 and divorced in 2015.
As a junior, Melzer reached as high as world no. 26 in 1998 (and no. 24 in doubles), and won the 1999 Jr Wimbledon title.
In 1998, Melzer started playing in Futures in his country, where he won his first two matches, but lost the next four.
In 1999, he started playing outside of Austria in Futures and Challengers. He competed in his first main-draw match in the 1999 CA-TennisTrophy in Vienna, Austria, where he defeated Lars Burgsmüller, before losing to then world no. 11 Nicolas Kiefer in two sets.
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