US Open Player Biography:Tommy Haas
Tommy Haas, the German star has reached the fourth round of US open after a marathon match with Robby Ginepri. Tennis fans all over are now looking at him for more surprises. Hass, a very talented player is often looked as someone who has not realized his potential and who is kind of volatile to have a strong and long standing presence.
Looking at his strong show at the ongoing US Open it seems, Tommy, who was once looked upon as Boris Becker’s heir, is ready to establish himself.
Born Thomas Mario Haas in
Hamburg,
in 1978 , Tommy started playing tennis at age of four. This 6’2″, right handed player plays best in hard court and is currently ranked 16 by the INDESIT ATP Ranking system. His career high ranking in singles came in May of 2002, when he was ranked number two.
Hass joined the renowned
Nick
Bollettieri
Academy
at age 11 and turned pro in 1996, at the age of 18. He has said that his silver medal win in
Sydney
Olympic in 2000 is one of his career best. In 2004 Tommy Haas was named the ATP Comeback Player of Year for being ranked No.17 from being unranked the previous year.
According to the ATP webpage, Tommy Haas’s current INDESIT ATP Ranking for Singles is 16.His current Stanford ATP Doubles Ranking is 477. About his career record, Tommy’s singles record stands at 361-197, he has 10 singles titles. All of this has earned him $7,368,008 in prize money.
His website www.tommyhass.com, which is in German and English, has comments from him on his matches, wins and losses. Tommy Haas’s favorite soccer team is Bayern Munich, he enjoying driving fast cars, golf and water skiing.
Let’s look at his US Open performance. Haas has played nine US Opens; his best performance was in 2004 when he reached quarter finals. He has reached the fourth round this year, where he will play Marat Safin from . Comparing the two players,
Haas defeated Alex Kuznetsov in the first round 6-2 6-4 6-0, Safin defeated Robin Vik 6-1 6-1 3-6 6-3. First round was not as easy for Safin as it was for Haas. But Safin scored an important victory by defeating the strong David Nalbandian in second round, who is fourth seeded, in a marathon match decided by a tie-breaker in 6-3 7-5 2-6 3-6 7-6 (tie break 8-6).
Haas repeated the match he played against Robby Ginepri, where he was able to hang on and bring on his best game, he defeated Safin 4-6 6-3 2-6 6-2 7-6( tie break 7-5. But sadly Haas lost the quarter final game to Nicolay Davydenko 6-4 7-6 3-6 4-6 4-6.
Although Tommy Haas was uanble to win this year’s US Open, his ranking will improve because he was able to reach the quarter finals and his improved game shows that he is ready to compete for the top position in the upcoming tournaments.
Sources:
http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/player.html?ccode=THAAS
http://www.atptennis.com/3/en/players/playerprofiles/?playernumber=H355
http://www.usopen.org/en_US/bios/cmatch/ms/atph355.html
