Rainer Schüttler

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Rainer Schüttler (Template:IPA; born 25 April 1976) is a German former professional tennis player. Schüttler was the runner-up at the 2003 Australian Open and a semifinalist at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. He won an Olympic silver medal in doubles at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 5 in April 2004.

Early life

He began playing tennis at the age of nine. He resides in Switzerland.

Career

2003–2009

In 2003, Schüttler became the first German since Boris Becker in 1989 to advance to the fourth round at all Grand Slam tournaments. 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. En route to the final, which he lost in straight sets to Andre Agassi,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> he defeated Andy Roddick who would end the season as world No 1.

In 2004, Schüttler reached his first career ATP Masters Series final in Monte Carlo by beating Gustavo Kuerten in the first round, Lleyton Hewitt in the third round, Tim Henman in the quarterfinal and Carlos Moyá in the semifinal. In the final, he lost to Guillermo Coria. That week, he would reach a career-high ranking of No. 5. Schüttler won a silver medal for Germany in 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.

Schüttler reached his first career semifinal at Wimbledon by beating Santiago Ventura, James Blake, Guillermo García López, Janko Tipsarević, and Arnaud Clément. His five set match with Clément was over five hours, completed in two days to reach the semifinals, in which Schuettler saved a match point at 6–5 down in the fifth set. He was defeated by eventual champion Rafael Nadal in straight sets. 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.

His 2009 season Schüttler started off at the Chennai Open, beating Prakash Amritraj. In the second round, he beat Simon Greul and in the quarterfinals Björn Phau. Unfortunately Schuettler had to withdraw from his semifinal match against Somdev Devvarman because of a wrist injury. He also withdrew from the tournament in Sydney. At the Australian Open, he was seeded 30th but lost in the first round to Israeli Dudi Sela. He also participated in the doubles with Lu Yen-hsun, but they were defeated by Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach. In the first round in Rotterdam, he lost to Mario Ančić. He played the Open 13 in Marseille, defeating Laurent Recouderc in the first round.

He competed at the ARAG World Team Cup in Germany, helping his country reach the final, where they lost to Serbia.

In the second round at Wimbledon, though seeded 18th, he was upset by Dudi Sela.[1]Template:Dead link

Schüttler at the 2011 French Open

2010–2011

He reached the second round of the Australian Open defeating Sam Querrey in four sets. However he lost to Feliciano López in four sets, too. At the French Open, he again suffered a first-round exit, this time against Guillermo García López in straight sets. He reached the semifinal of the Aegon Championships at the Queens Club in London but lost to Sam Querrey in three sets 7–6, 5–7, 3–6. Despite his good form he was defeated by Denis Istomin in the second round of Wimbledon in five sets. At the quarterfinal of the Countrywide Classic in Los Angeles, Schüttler could not manage to close out the match against Querrey despite serving for it at 5–4 and 6–5 in the deciding set. He was knocked out in the first round of the US Open losing to Benoît Paire. At the Thailand Open in Bangkok, Schüttler beat Ricardo Mello in round one for a second round berth against Ernests Gulbis. He lost 6–7, 7–6, 4–6 in a close match.

In 2010, Schüttler and his former Davis Cup companion Alexander Waske founded the Schüttler Waske Tennis-University, a tennis academy for professional tennis players.

Schüttler started the tour at the Qatar Open where he confronted Teymuraz Gabashvili in the singles, but lost 3–5, 6–7. He also played doubles with Guillermo García López confronting Marco Chiudinelli and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, to whom they lost 1–6, 2–6. At the Australian Open, he played ninth seed Fernando Verdasco in the first round, but lost 1–6, 3–6, 2–6. He then played several Challenger series tournaments. At Wimbledon, he defeated Thomaz Bellucci in the first round, but lost to Feliciano López in the second 6–7, 7–6, 2–6, 2–6.

Schüttler officially retired in October 2012.

Significant finals

Olympic final

Doubles: 1 (silver medal)

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Silver 2004 Athens Olympics Hard Template:Flagicon Nicolas Kiefer Template:Flagicon Fernando González
Template:Flagicon Nicolás Massú		 2–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–7(7–9), 4–6

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Result Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Loss 2003 Australian Open Hard Template:Flagicon Andre Agassi 2–6, 2–6, 1–6

Masters Series finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Result Year Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 2004 Monte Carlo Clay Template:Flagicon Guillermo Coria 2–6, 1–6, 3–6

ATP Tour finals

Singles: 12 (4 titles, 8 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–1)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–1)
ATP Championship Series (1–0)
ATP International Series (3–6)
Finals by surface
Hard (3–6)
Clay (0–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (3–7)
Indoors (1–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 [[1999 Qatar Open – Singles|Template:Dts]] Doha, Qatar World Series Hard Template:Flagicon Tim Henman 6–4, 5–7, 6–1
Loss 1–1 [[1999 Gold Flake Open – Singles|Template:Dts]] Chennai, India World Series Hard Template:Flagicon Byron Black 4–6, 6–1, 3–6
Loss 1–2 [[2000 Qatar Open – Singles|Template:Dts]] Doha, Qatar International Series Hard Template:Flagicon Fabrice Santoro 6–3, 5–7, 0–3 ret.
Win 2–2 [[2001 Heineken Open Shanghai – Singles|Template:Dts]] Shanghai, China International Series Hard Template:Flagicon Michel Kratochvil 6–3, 6–4
Loss 2–3 [[2001 Salem Open – Singles|Template:Dts]] Hong Kong, Hong Kong International Series Hard Template:Flagicon Marcelo Ríos 6–7(3–7), 2–6
Loss 2–4 [[2001 St. Petersburg Open – Singles|Template:Dts]] St. Petersburg, Russia International Series Hard (i) Template:Flagicon Marat Safin 6–3, 3–6, 3–6
Loss 2–5 [[2002 BMW Open – Singles|Template:Dts]] Munich, Germany International Series Clay Template:Flagicon Younes El Aynaoui 4–6, 4–6
Loss 2–6 [[2003 Australian Open – Men's singles|Template:Dts]] Melbourne, Australia Grand Slam Hard Template:Flagicon Andre Agassi 2–6, 2–6, 1–6
Loss 2–7 [[2003 Brasil Open – Singles|Template:Dts]] Costa do Sauipe, Brazil International Series Hard Template:Flagicon Sjeng Schalken 2–6, 4–6
Win 3–7 [[2003 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's singles|Template:Dts]] Tokyo, Japan Championship Series Hard Template:Flagicon Sébastien Grosjean 7–6(7–5), 6–2
Win 4–7 [[2003 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon – Singles|Template:Dts]] Lyon, France International Series Carpet (i) Template:Flagicon Arnaud Clément 7–5, 6–3
Loss 4–8 [[2004 Monte Carlo Masters – Singles|Template:Dts]] Monte Carlo, Monaco Masters Series Clay Template:Flagicon Guillermo Coria 2–6, 1–6, 3–6

Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (1–0)
ATP International Series (3–4)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–2)
Clay (3–1)
Grass (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (4–3)
Indoors (0–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 [[2001 Stuttgart Open – Doubles|Template:Dts]] Stuttgart, Germany Championship Series Clay Template:Flagicon Guillermo Cañas Template:Flagicon Michael Hill
Template:Flagicon Jeff Tarango 		4–6, 7–6(7–1), 6–4
Loss 1–1 [[2003 St. Petersburg Open – Doubles|Template:Dts]] St. Petersburg, Russia International Series Hard (i) Template:Flagicon Michael Kohlmann Template:Flagicon Julian Knowle
Template:Flagicon Nenad Zimonjić 		6–7(1–7), 3–6
Win 2–1 [[2005 Chennai Open – Doubles|Template:Dts]] Chennai, India International Series Hard Template:Flagicon Lu Yen-hsun Template:Flagicon Mahesh Bhupathi
Template:Flagicon Jonas Björkman 		7–5, 4–6, 7–6(7–4)
Loss 2–2 [[2005 Allianz Suisse Open Gstaad – Doubles|Template:Dts]] Gstaad, Switzerland International Series Clay Template:Flagicon Michael Kohlmann Template:Flagicon František Čermák
Template:Flagicon Leoš Friedl 		6–7(6–8), 6–7(11–13)
Loss 2–3 [[2006 Gerry Weber Open – Doubles|Template:Dts]] Halle, Germany International Series Grass Template:Flagicon Michael Kohlmann Template:Flagicon Fabrice Santoro
Template:Flagicon Nenad Zimonjić 		0–6, 4–6
Loss 2–4 [[2007 SAP Open – Doubles|Template:Dts]] San Jose, United States International Series Hard Template:Flagicon Chris Haggard Template:Flagicon Eric Butorac
Template:Flagicon Jamie Murray 		5–7, 6–7(6–8)
Win 3–4 [[2008 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Doubles|Template:Dts]] Houston, United States International Series Clay Template:Flagicon Ernests Gulbis Template:Flagicon Pablo Cuevas
Template:Flagicon Marcel Granollers Pujol 		7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win 4–4 [[2008 BMW Open – Doubles|Template:Dts]] Munich, Germany International Series Clay Template:Flagicon Michael Berrer Template:Flagicon Scott Lipsky
Template:Flagicon David Martin 		7–5, 3–6, [10–8]

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles (6–8)

Legend
ATP Challenger (6–8)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (3–6)
Carpet (3–2)
Result W–L Template:NsDateTemplate:Ns Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0-1 Template:Dts Lübeck, Germany Challenger Carpet Template:Flagicon Geoff Grant 3–6, 3–6
Win 1-1 Template:Dts Eckental, Germany Challenger Carpet Template:Flagicon Petr Luxa 6–4, 6–1
Loss 1-2 Template:Dts Bad Lippspringe, Germany Challenger Carpet Template:Flagicon Michael Kohlmann 6–4, 6–7, 5–7
Win 2-2 Template:Dts Portorož, Slovenia Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Peter Wessels 6–3, 6–2
Loss 2-3 Template:Dts Bratislava, Slovakia Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Davide Sanguinetti 5–7, 1–6
Win 3-3 Template:Dts Aachen, Germany Challenger Carpet Template:Flagicon Johan Settergren 7–6(7–5), 1–6, 6–1
Loss 3-4 Template:Dts Graz, Austria Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Florian Mayer 4–6, 7–5, 2–6
Win 4-4 Template:Dts Aachen, Germany Challenger Carpet Template:Flagicon Evgeny Korolev 6–3, 7–5
Win 5-4 Template:Dts Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Sergiy Stakhovsky 7–6(7–2), 6–2
Loss 5-5 Template:Dts Athens, Greece Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Lu Yen-hsun 6–3, 6–7(3–7), 4–6
Loss 5-6 Template:Dts Rhodes, Greece Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Dudi Sela 6–7(3–7), 3–6
Loss 5-7 Template:Dts Dallas, United States Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Alex Bogomolov Jr. 6–7(5–7), 3–6
Loss 5-8 Template:Dts Cremona, Italy Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Igor Kunitsyn 2–6, 6–7(2–7)
Win 6-8 Template:Dts Astana, Kazakhstan Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Teymuraz Gabashvili 7–6(8–6), 4–6, 6–4

Doubles (2–0)

Legend
ATP Challenger (2–0)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Carpet (1–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Template:Dts Eckental, Germany Challenger Carpet Template:Flagicon Lars Rehmann Template:Flagicon Georg Blumauer
Template:Flagicon Max Mirnyi 		6–4, 1–6, 6–3
Win 2–0 Template:Dts Heilbronn, Germany Challenger Hard Template:Flagicon Michael Kohlmann Template:Flagicon Sander Groen
Template:Flagicon Michaël Llodra 		walkover

Performance timelines

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Singles

Tournament 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 SR W–L Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A Q3 Q1 Q2 1R 2R 4R 3R F 1R 2R 1R 1R 2R 1R 2R 1R Q2 0 / 13 15–13 Template:Tennis win percentage
French Open A A Q1 Q2 1R 1R 1R 2R 4R 1R 1R 1R Q3 1R 1R 1R 1R A 0 / 12 4–12 Template:Tennis win percentage
Wimbledon A Q1 Q1 1R 2R 3R 2R 3R 4R 3R 1R 1R A SF 2R 2R 2R A 0 / 13 19–13 Template:Tennis win percentage
US Open A A Q2 Q2 1R 3R 2R 1R 4R 1R 2R 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R A A 0 / 12 7–12 Template:Tennis win percentage
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–4 5–4 5–4 5–4 15–4 2–4 2–4 0–4 0–2 6–4 1–4 2–4 1–3 0–0 0 / 50 45–50 Template:Tennis win percentage
Year-end championships
Tennis Masters Cup did not qualify SF did not qualify 0 / 1 2–2 Template:Tennis win percentage
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics NH A not held 2R not held 1R not held 2R not held A 0 / 3 2–3 Template:Tennis win percentage
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells A A A A A A 1R QF SF 2R 2R 2R 1R 1R 2R 2R 2R A 0 / 11 11–11 Template:Tennis win percentage
Miami A Q1 Q1 A 1R 1R 2R 2R 3R 2R 2R Q1 Q1 1R 3R 1R 2R A 0 / 11 5–11 Template:Tennis win percentage
Monte Carlo A A A A A 1R 1R 1R 2R F 1R A A A 1R A A A 0 / 7 6–7 Template:Tennis win percentage
Rome A A A Q2 A A 1R 1R QF 1R 1R A A A A A A A 0 / 5 3–5 Template:Tennis win percentage
Hamburg Q1 A Q1 Q1 3R 2R 1R 2R 3R 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R A A A A 0 / 10 7–10 Template:Tennis win percentage
Madrid (Clay) not held held on hard 1R A A A 0 / 1 0–1 Template:Tennis win percentage
Canada A A A A 1R A A 1R SF 1R A A A A 2R A A A 0 / 5 5–5 Template:Tennis win percentage
Cincinnati A A A A 3R A A QF SF 1R A A A A Q2 A A A 0 / 4 9–4 Template:Tennis win percentage
Stuttgart A Q2 A Q1 1R 1R 1R not held 0 / 3 0–3 Template:Tennis win percentage
Madrid (Hard) not held 1R 2R 2R A A A 1R held on clay 0 / 4 0–4 Template:Tennis win percentage
Shanghai not held 1R A A A 0 / 1 2–1 Template:Tennis win percentage
Paris A A A A 1R A A 1R QF 1R A A A 1R A A A A 0 / 5 2–5 Template:Tennis win percentage
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 4–6 1–4 1–6 7–9 21–9 5–9 2–5 2–2 0–2 0–5 4–6 1–2 2–2 0–0 0 / 67 50–67 Template:Tennis win percentage
Career statistics
Year-end ranking 446 332 117 109 47 45 43 33 6 42 88 97 99 33 85 84 132 855

Doubles

Tournament 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 SR W–L Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A A A 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R 2R 2R 0 / 10 4–10 Template:Tennis win percentage
French Open A A A A A 1R A 1R 2R 1R QF A A A 2R 0 / 6 5–6 Template:Tennis win percentage
Wimbledon A A A A A 2R A 1R QF 2R A A 1R 1R 1R 0 / 7 5–7 Template:Tennis win percentage
US Open A A A A Q1 1R 2R 2R 1R 2R 2R 2R A A A 0 / 7 5–7 Template:Tennis win percentage
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–4 1–2 2–4 4–4 2–4 5–3 1–2 0–2 1–2 2–3 0 / 30 19–30 Template:Tennis win percentage
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics not held A not held F-S not held 1R not held 0 / 2 4–2 Template:Tennis win percentage
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells A A A A A A 1R QF 1R A A A 1R A A 0 / 4 2–4 Template:Tennis win percentage
Miami A A A A A A 2R 1R A A A A 1R A A 0 / 3 1–3 Template:Tennis win percentage
Monte Carlo A A A 1R Q1 A 2R A A A A A A A A 0 / 2 1–2 Template:Tennis win percentage
Rome A A A A Q1 A A A A A A A A A A 0 / 0 0–0 Template:Tennis win percentage
Hamburg Q2 2R 2R 2R 1R 1R 1R 2R 2R 2R 1R 2R not held 0 / 11 7–11 Template:Tennis win percentage
Canada A A A A A 2R 2R 1R A A A A A A A 0 / 3 2–3 Template:Tennis win percentage
Cincinnati A A A A A 1R 1R 2R A A A A A A A 0 / 3 1–3 Template:Tennis win percentage
Stuttgart A A 2R 1R A not held 0 / 2 1–2 Template:Tennis win percentage
Madrid (Hard) not held A A 2R A A A A held on clay 0 / 1 1–1 Template:Tennis win percentage
Paris A A A A A 1R 1R A A A A A A A A 0 / 2 0–2 Template:Tennis win percentage
Win–loss 0–0 1–1 2–2 1–3 0–1 1–4 3–7 5–6 1–2 1–1 0–1 1–1 0–2 0–0 0–0 0 / 31 16–31 Template:Tennis win percentage
Career statistics
Year-end ranking 428 276 424 199 135 144 73 72 53 74 69 99 151 243 323

Top 10 wins

Season 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Total
Wins 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 3 7 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 19
# Player Rank Event Surface Rd Score Template:Tooltip
1997
1. Template:Flagicon Thomas Enqvist 7 Chennai, India Hard 1R 6–6 ret. 229
1999
2. Template:Flagicon Tim Henman 7 Doha, Qatar Hard F 6–4, 5–7, 6–1 124
3. Template:Flagicon Carlos Moyá 2 Chennai, India Hard QF 6–1, 3–0 ret. 71
2001
4. Template:Flagicon Juan Carlos Ferrero 5 Hong Kong Hard QF 6–3, 7–6(8–6) 44
5. Template:Flagicon Juan Carlos Ferrero 5 St. Petersburg, Russia Hard (i) 1R 7–6(10–8), 6–4 46
2002
6. Template:Flagicon Yevgeny Kafelnikov 4 Doha, Qatar Hard QF 7–5, 6–4 43
7. Template:Flagicon Thomas Johansson 8 Munich, Germany Clay 1R 7–5, 6–3 29
8. Template:Flagicon Yevgeny Kafelnikov 5 Cincinnati, United States Hard 1R 6–3, 6–2 26
2003
9. Template:Flagicon Andy Roddick 10 Australian Open, Melbourne Hard SF 7–5, 2–6, 6–3, 6–3 36
10. Template:Flagicon Andy Roddick 6 Indian Wells, United States Hard QF 6–3, 6–2 15
11. Template:Flagicon Jiří Novák 9 Rome, Italy Clay 3R 6–4, 7–6(7–2) 13
12. Template:Flagicon Andre Agassi 1 Montreal, Canada Hard QF 2–6, 6–2, 6–3 8
13. Template:Flagicon Sébastien Grosjean 10 Tokyo, Japan Hard F 7–6(7–5), 6–2 8
14. Template:Flagicon Guillermo Coria 4 Template:Nowrap Hard RR 6–3, 4–6, 6–2 6
15. Template:Flagicon Andy Roddick 1 Template:Nowrap Hard RR 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3) 6
2004
16. Template:Flagicon Tim Henman 7 Monte Carlo, Monaco Clay QF 6–3, 6–1 6
17. Template:Flagicon Carlos Moyá 8 Monte Carlo, Monaco Clay SF 7–6(7–5), 6–4 6
2008
18. Template:Flagicon James Blake 8 Wimbledon, London Grass 2R 6–3, 6–7(8–10), 4–6, 6–4, 6–4 94
2009
19. Template:Flagicon Gilles Simon 7 World Team Cup, Düsseldorf Clay RR 6–4, 6–4 29

Coaching career

After retirement, he began his coaching career and has coached Janko Tipsarević, Sergiy Stakhovsky and Vasek Pospisil. Since November 2018, he coached former world No. 1, Angelique Kerber. In July 2019, Kerber announced they had split on social media.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Personal life

In 2014 Rainer met Serbian Jovana Sesevic, whose sister Biljana is married to another former top 10 player, Janko Tipsarević.<ref>Twitter message</ref> They married in 2015 and have two sons (Noah and Leon) and now mostly reside in Switzerland.

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