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Ernests Gulbis
Nickname(s)
The Gull, Ernie
Country
 Latvia
Residence
Jūrmala, Latvia
Date of birth
August 30, 1988 (age 20)
Place of birth
Riga, Latvia SSR
Height
1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight
76 kg (170 lb)
Turned pro
2004
Plays
Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money
$951,099
Singles
Career record:
44 - 47
Career titles:
0
Highest ranking:
38 (August 4, 2008)
Infobox last updated on: March 2, 2009.

Ernests Gulbis (pronounced [ˈærnəsts ˈgulbis], born August 30, 1988) is a Latvian professional tennis player. As of February 22, 2009, he is ranked 42nd in the world in men's singles. In 2008, Gulbis won his first ATP Tour doubles title in Houston, teaming with Rainer Schuettler. His career highlights also include a quarterfinal appearance at the 2008 French Open, where he lost a tight match to Novak Djokovic, and a 4th round appearance at the 2007 US Open, upsetting two seeds along the way.
Gulbis is currently coached by Karl Heinz Wetter. He was formerly coached by Nikola Pilić, the former professional Croatian tennis player and Croatian and German Davis Cup captain, and began training at the Niki Pilic Tennis Academy in Germany at the age of 12.[1]
Personal life
Gulbis comes from a very wealthy family. He first started playing tennis with his grandmother and considers basketball, football and hockey as his favorite sports. His father, Ainārs, is an investment businessman while his mother, Milēna, a theater actress. The second of five children, Gulbis has three sisters (Elīna, Laura and Monika) and a younger brother named Kristaps.[2] Gulbis comes from a sporting family and his grandfather, Alvils, was one of the starting five players on ASK Rīga, the Soviet Union basketball team that won the European Championships.[3] His other grandfather, Uldis Pūcītis, was a popular actor and film director.
Gulbis can speak Latvian, Russian, English and a little German.[3]

Tennis career
The highlights of his career up to 2006 include reaching the final of the Oberstaufen Challenger in July 2006, where he lost to Michal Tabara; reaching the final of the Tampere Challenger, also in July 2006, where he lost to Florian Mayer; reaching the semi-finals of ATP St. Petersburg Open as a wildcard in October, where he lost to Mario Ančić; and winning the Eckental Challenger in November, where he defeated Philipp Petzschner. In the 2008 US Open second round, Gulbis played a grueling 4 setter against Andy Roddick, yet lost. Later when interviewed, it was discovered that both he and his American opponent shared a birthday the moment the match rolled past midnight and into the early hours of the next day, August 30.

2007
Gulbis started his season as a qualifier in the Sydney Medibank International, losing in the first round to Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus.[4] He was subsequently defeated in the first qualifying round of the Australian Open.
Gulbis was relatively successful on the Challenger circuit in 2007. He reached the quarterfinals in Bergamo (l. to Fabrice Santoro) and the semifinals in Heilbronn (l. to Michaël Llodra). Gulbis won his second Challenger title by triumphing over the local favorite, Édouard Roger-Vasselin, at the Besançon Challenger in France, enabling him to break into the ATP Top 100 for the first time in his career. In his next tournament, the Sarajevo Challenger, Gulbis emerged victorious in both the singles and doubles events.
In the first week of October, he won the Mons Challenger in Belgium (d. Kristof Vliegen) as the top seed, breaking into the AP Top 50 for the first time in his career and surpassing Juan Martín del Potro as the highest-ranked player born in 1988. This win also meant a fourth, consecutive title, which drew some attention to him by tennis pundits.

Grand Slam debut
Gulbis defeated Potito Starace at the 2007 U.S. Open.
Gulbis announced his arrival on the Grand Slam stage in the 2007 French Open by defeating the British veteran, Tim Henman in straight sets to advance to the second round. It was heralded by the British Davis Cup captain, John Lloyd, as "... a brilliant performance from Gulbis, that is just pure and utter talent."[5] Gulbis' run was halted in the second round by Spaniard Álbert Montañés, with a 1–6, 2–6, 6–1, 6–7(3) defeat, in a rain-interrupted match.
At Wimbledon, his second Grand Slam participation, Gulbis again was drawn to face Marcos Baghdatis in the first round. He succeeded in winning the first set off the tenth-seeded Cypriot before succumbing in four sets.[6] Gulbis debuted in Grand Slam doubles by teaming up with Ivan Ljubičić, with whom he had reached the semi-finals of the 2007 Ordina Open.
At the 2007 U.S. Open, Gulbis upset the No. 30 seed, Potito Starace, in the first round and the No. 8 seed, Tommy Robredo, in the third round, winning by a convincing score of 6–1, 6–3, 6–2. In that match, Gulbis broke Robredo six times and had 39 winners to Robredo's seven. [7] Gulbis' fine run was finally halted by former world Number 1, Carlos Moyà, to whom he lost in four sets. [8]

2008
Gulbis serving to David Nalbandian at the 2008 Pacific Life Open.
At the first round of the 2008 Australian Open, Gulbis lost to Marat Safin 0–6, 4–6, 6–7. He reached the second round of the 2008 Pacific Life Open, where he lost a tight match to former Grand Slam finalist David Nalbandian with the score of 6–4, 4–6, 7–64. At one point he was up a break in the third set, having served out the previous game with 4 aces, but he eventually lost the match in the tiebreak. In the first round of the 2008 Miami Masters, he defeated Dominik Hrbatý, but in the second round met Nikolay Davydenko. After winning the first set 6-3, he lost the following two sets in tiebreaks.
His biggest result to date occurred when he reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open. Through the tournament he beat Simon Greul, seventh seed James Blake, Nicolas Lapentti and home-favourite Michaël Llodra.[9] In the quarterfinals he lost to the third seed Novak Djokovic in a tight match with the score line 5-7, 63-7, 5-7.
In his next tournament, he reached the third round of the 2008 Queen's Club Championships, beating Kristof Vliegen and 12th seed Andreas Seppi. He lost to 6th seed Andy Murray with 7-5, 1-6, 4-6.
In the first round at Wimbledon, Gulbis defeated 6'10" American John Isner, but he lost in the 2nd round to the 2nd seed and eventual champion Rafael Nadal with a score line of 5-7, 6-2, 7-62, 6-3. Other than Roger Federer, he was the only player to take a set off the eventual champion. In a post match interview, Nadal noted how difficult the return game against Gulbis' serve was, and that he felt Ernests was going to run away with the match if it wasn't for a rain delay that transpired.
Gulbis defeated Jarkko Nieminen, Arnaud Clément, and James Blake at the 2008 Cincinnati Masters but lost in the quarterfinal to #3 seed Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-4.
At the US Open, Gulbis defeated Thomas Johansson in the first round before losing to Andy Roddick in the second, (3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 7-5). It was his and Andy's birthday.

2009
Gulbis began the year strongly by defeating former training partner Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the Brisbane International tournament before falling in the second round to Paul-Henri Mathieu 3-6, 4-6. He lost in the second round of 2009 Australian Open to Igor Andreev in 5 sets after beating Albert Montañés in the first round in straight sets.
Gulbis was seeded 3rd heading into the 2009 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, but was defeated in the 1st round by former World No. 8 Marcos Baghdatis.

Davis Cup
Gulbis has played in three Davis Cup ties for Latvia this year, winning all seven of the rubbers in which he participated (4 singles; 3 doubles with Deniss Pavlovs).[10] [11] [12] His participation in the tie against Monaco in September helped Latvia to qualify for the Europe/Africa Zone Group I tier of Davis Cup for the first time in its history.[12]

Playing style
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Gulbis primarily employs an offensive baseline playing style, although is fairly comfortable playing from all court positions. Gulbis' most consistent shot is his forehand, which has been likened to that of American James Blake's for its rapid pace and relatively flat execution; his forehand is taken with a medium swing and with high levels of wrist action, which attributes to the explosive nature of the shot. His arsenal of forehand shots is nearly complete, and thus can be extremely disruptive and turn a defensive position into an offensive one. His running forehand has a slice action, but consistently lands extremely deep in the court, allowing for adequate recoil time to regain court position. Gulbis also has a particularly excellent array of finesse shots, including the high lob and drop shot, both of which he can strike from any position, including from deep in the court. His drop shot in particular has been noted as one of his more effective shots, as the power and depth of his groundstrokes push his opponents far behind the baseline, which makes the drop shot more effective. Gulbis' primary weakness is his consistency, which has been known to break down during tough situations. Gulbis' foot speed is only moderate, although his return of serve is varied and dangerous, particularly on second serves and, due to his height, kick serves. In his televised matches in 2007 and early 2008 his serve would have been described as moderate, but has recently vastly improved in speed and variety, having served out several games with no returns against the incredible returners David Nalbandian and Rafael Nadal.
Despite having prodigious talent for his age, Gulbis can be prone to nervousness when down in a set or match, which can cause tight matches to be more mentally straining on him. Similarly to Marat Safin, Gulbis' playing style is extremely tactical and aggressive, and relies more on making winners than drawing errors, which can sometimes lead to a very high unforced error count. Gulbis excels on all surfaces. Despite playing a style more attuned to fast surfaces, his strong showing at the French Open is attributed to his powerful and flat strokes which can play through clay.

Kei Nishikori
Country
 Japan
Residence
Bradenton, Florida, USA
Date of birth
29 December 1989 (age 19)
Place of birth
Shimane, Japan
Height
1.77 m (5 ft 91⁄2 in)
Weight
68 kg (150 lb)
Turned pro
2007
Plays
Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money
US $373,793
Singles
Career record:
21–19
Career titles:
1
Highest ranking:
56 (2 February 2009)


Infobox last updated on: 19 January 2009.
Kei Nishikori (錦織 圭 Nishikori Kei?) (born 29 December 1989 in Shimane, Japan) is a Japanese tennis player. He began playing tennis at the age of five and on 17 July 2007 he qualified for his first ATP main draw event at the Countrywide Classic in Los Angeles, California at the age of 17.
Junior career
Nishikori won the 2004 title at the Riad 21 Tournament in Rabat, Morocco and was a quarterfinalist at the 2006 Junior French Open. He partnered with Emiliano Massa of Argentina to win the 2006 Junior French Open. Nishikori won the 2007 Luxilon Cup held at the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open by defeating Michael McClune.

2006
Nishikori qualified and won the title at the ITF Futures event in Mazatlan, Mexico. He began the year by receiving a wildcard to the Kyoto Challenger in Kyoto, Japan.

2007
A finalist in two USTA Pro Circuit events, Nishikori lost to Donald Young in Little Rock, Arkansas and Alex Bogomolov, Jr. in Carson, California. He partnered with Donald Young to win the doubles title at Little Rock, Arkansas. He paired with triple-French Open champion, Gustavo Kuerten at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida where they lost in the first round. Nishikori served as a hitting partner for Roger Federer at Wimbledon. After his ATP main draw debut in Los Angeles, he qualified for the Indianapolis Tennis Championships in July 2007. He beat Alejandro Falla in the first round 6–4 6–3 to record his first ATP main draw win. He followed that up with a 3-set win over Michael Berrer, the eliminator of 7th seed Robby Ginepri, to advance to his first ever ATP quarterfinal. He lost to Dmitry Tursunov but Nishikori became the youngest player to reach the quarterfinals at Indianapolis since Boris Becker, who went on to reach the semifinals, in 1985. In his third career ATP event, Nishikori defeated Teimuraz Gabashvili in the first round in Washington, DC before falling to Julien Benneteau in the second. Attempted to qualify for the ATP Masters Series Canada and for his first Grand Slam at the U.S. Open. Qualified for the ATP event in Beijing and lost in the first round to Ivan Ljubičić. Nishikori received a wildcard to the ATP event in Tokyo, Japan where he lost in the first round to Zack Fleishman. He participated in the draw ceremony in Tokyo and received the Tokyo Sports Writers Club award. Nishikori represented Japan at the Asian Hopman Cup 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand.

2008
Nishikori started the year by reaching the semifinals of the Miami challenger tournament. He then entered the Delray Beach tournament as a qualifier ranked 244. He gained entrance to the main draw by defeating Nicolas Todero and Alex Bogomolov Jr. In the first round, he defeated Florian Mayer due to a retirement in the second set. In the second round, Nishikori defeated Amer Delic, another qualifier. In the quarterfinals he won against Bobby Reynolds. In the semis he upset Sam Querrey. In the final, Nishikori upset number one seed James Blake in three sets, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, to become the first Japanese man in nearly 16 years to win an ATP event.[1] He lost in the first round of the Miami Masters to the Spanish player Albert Montañés. He faced James Blake again, this time at the River Oaks International tournament in Houston, Texas in the first round but Kei lost 6-4, 6-4. He went out in the third round of the 2008 Queen's Club Championships against Rafael Nadal on 12 June 2008. The final score was 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to Rafael Nadal, who won the match in just over two hours. Despite facing the world number two, Nishikori played well in the match, and showed promise. His performance, however, faded in the final set as fatigue set in against Nadal's impressive level of fitness. His first Grand Slam appearance at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships on 23 June 2008 ended in a first round forfeiture to French player Marc Gicquel. Suffering from an abdominal muscle strain, Nishikori retired after the second set after winning the first set by 6-4, but losing the second by 5-7. In August he entered the Beijing Olympics on an wildcard place given by the International Tennis Federation.[2] There he lost in the first round to Rainer Schüttler of Germany.
Nishikori made his debut in the US Open defeating 29th seeded Juan Mónaco 6-2, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 in the first round. He cruised to the third round after downing Croatian Roko Karanusic. On 30 August 2008 he became the first Japanese player to reach the Round of 16 at the US Open in 71 years, when he beat 4th seed David Ferrer in five sets 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 7-5 in what was considered one of the tournaments major upsets. He lost his chance however, to compete in the quarter-finals when he was beaten by 17th seed Juan Martín del Potro in straight sets, losing 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.
In the Japan Open Tennis Championships he made it to the Round of 16 before losing to Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-1, 6-2.
Nishikori was handed a wildcard for the Stockholm Open, where he made it to his second ATP level semifinal of the year, despite playing with a knee injury. He received a walkover in his quarterfinal against Mario Ančić, who had to withdraw due to illness. In the semifinal he was beaten by fourth seed Robin Söderling 6-1, 6-0.

2009
Nishikori made a disappointing start to the season, losing to Jurgen Melzer 7-5, 6-2, 6-1, in the first round of the Australian Open. On 25 March Nishikori was named 2008 ATP Newcomer of the Year and became the first Asian player to win the award. [3]

Personal
Nishikori lives in Florida, trains at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, and is coached by Glenn Weiner. His parents are Kiyoshi and Eri and has a sister. His hobbies include baseball, golf, reading, and listening to music. He is represented by Olivier van Lindonk of IMG.

Equipment
Nishikori currently uses the Wilson K-Tour racket and wears the adidas Edge Group clothing and the adidas Barricade V shoes. He is also sponsored by Sony.

Marin Cilic
Country
 Croatia
Residence
Zagreb, Croatia
Date of birth
September 28, 1988 (age 20)
Place of birth
Međugorje, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina,
SFR Yugoslavia
Height
1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight
81 kg (180 lb)
Turned pro
2005
Plays
Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money
$1,256,402
Singles
Career record:
71–52
Career titles:
3
Highest ranking:
No. 15 (April 27, 2009)

Infobox last updated on: March 2, 2009.
Marin Čilić (born September 28, 1988 in Međugorje, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a tennis player from Croatia. His career high ATP ranking is no. 15, achieved on April 27, 2009.
Junior circuit (2004-2005)
Marin began playing on the juniors ITF circuit in spring of 2004. At start, he played on clay courts, wining the La Vie Junior Cup Villach in singles, and the Dutch Junior Open in doubles. He then, qualified for the 2004 US Open, where he lost in the second round to Sam Querrey. In 2005, he won 2005 French Open title in Boys' single, beating Andy Murray in the semis, and Antal van der Duim in the final. He finished the 2005 ranked number two, behind American Donald Young. In his junior years, he won six tournamnets in singles, and four in doubles.

ATP Tour 2004-2007
In 2004, he played one Futures event (Croatia F1), at which he reached the second round; he finished the year tied at No. 1463 on the rankings of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP Tour). He played seven Futures tournaments in 2005, winning one, the Croatia F3 event; two Challenger tournaments, in Zagreb and Geneva; and one ATP International Series tournament, on Croatia Open Umag, where he lost in the opening round. He finished the year ranked No. 587.
In 2006, he played three Futures, winning the Croatia F1 and Croatia F2 events, nine challengers, nine International Series events (reaching the semis at Gstaad), and two Davis Cup ties, against Austria and Argentina. By the end of the year, he was ranked No.170.
In 2007, he won the first and second professional tournaments of his career: the Casablanca Challenger (in April) and the Rijeka Challenger (in May). In June, at the Queen's Club tournament in London, he beat Tim Henman in the first round, after trailing 2–4 in the final set, and reached the quarterfinals, where he fell to Andy Roddick. After that performance, he reached a new career-high ranking of No. 101 on June 18, 2007.
In the World Group playoffs in the first round of the 2007 Davis Cup, he beat Benjamin Becker from Germany. Croatia went on to lose to Germany in the best-out-of-five round robin format of singles and doubles.

2008
In 2008, he has reached the semi-finals in the Chennai Open, in both singles and doubles. In the singles, he beat Viktor Troicki 3–6, 7–6(6), 6–1 in the first round, Nicolas Mahut 6–2, 6–4 in the second round, Robin Haase 4–6, 6–2, 6–3 in the quarterfinals and eventually went out 6–2, 6–3 in the semi-finals to Mikhail Youzhny who went on to win the tournament.
Čilić made it to the 4th round of the Australian Open 2008, taking out 2 seeds on his way, including 2007 Australian Open finalist Fernando González. James Blake went on to beat him 6–3, 6–4, 6–4 in the 4th round. He then already achieved his goal for the year of reaching the top 40. His 4th round result at the Australian Open put him at #39 in the ATP rankings.
Čilić also made it to the 4th round of Wimbledon, beating Jarkko Nieminen 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-7(6), 7-5 in the 2nd round and knocking off the fourteenth seed Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(6). He lost in straight sets to Arnaud Clément. At the Canada Masters, he defeated Andy Roddick in Toronto in order to reach the quarter-final stage, thus making it his best performance in a Masters Series tournament so far. He lost in three sets to Gilles Simon in quarter-finals.
Čilić played the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven, Connecticut where he won his first ATP title. He defeated Viktor Troicki, Jürgen Melzer, Igor Andreev and 2007 finalist Mardy Fish in the final, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.
Čilić reached the 3rd round of the US Open, losing to Novak Djokovic 6-7(7), 7-5, 6-4, 7-6(0). In the first round, he defeated Julien Benneteau in five sets, in a match that lasted more than four hours, winning the deciding set by 6-2. He then defeated Robby Ginepri in four sets, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5.

2009
He won his first title of 2009 and second career ATP title in the 2009 Chennai Open, defeating first-time finalist Indian Somdev Devvarman.[1]
He reached the fourth round of the Australian Open after beating David Ferrer in straight sets, equalling his 2008 record. In the fourth round, he was defeated by Juan Martin del Potro in 4 sets. Cilic would later win the PBZ Zagreb Indoors defeating compatriot Mario Ancic in the final 6-3, 6-4. He helped his country whitewash Chilean opponents in the Davis Cup first round tie by winning the opening singles match and by joining forces with Mario Ancic to win the doubles rubber.

Sam Querrey
Country
United States
Residence
Thousand Oaks, CA United States
Date of birth
October 7, 1987 (age 21)
Place of birth
San Francisco, CA United States
Height
1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight
91 kg (200 lb; 14.3 st)
Turned pro
2006
Plays
Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money
$1,149,213
Singles
Career record:
61–64
Career titles:
1
Highest ranking:
No. 33 (January 19, 2009)
Infobox last updated on: February 23, 2009.
Sam Austin Querrey [1](born October 7, 1987 in San Francisco, California, United States) is a professional American tennis player from Thousand Oaks, California. As of February, 2009, he is the fourth-highest ranked American and thirty-fourth ranked player in the world. Querrey stands at 6'6" and weighs 200 pounds. His height allows him to play with a huge serve and forehand. Querrey holds the record for most consecutive service aces since the ATP began keeping records of those statistics, with ten.
Early Expectations
Many tennis experts have touted Querrey as America's next great talent, including Davis Cup Captain Patrick McEnroe. Querrey turned down a scholarship offer from USC to turn pro.[2] He cracked the top 100 World Singles rankings following his third round performance at the Australian Open. He is sometimes referred to as "The New Todd Martin".

Career
2006
On June 11, 2006, Querrey became the first player to win a challenger event in his pro debut. He claimed tournament victories in the Yuba City and Winnetka challengers. He won his first round match at the Indian Wells Masters tournament over Bobby Reynolds, before falling to James Blake in three sets. He defeated American Vince Spadea at the Countrywide Classic in Los Angeles. At the US Open, Querrey defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets before falling to Gastón Gaudio.

2007
At the 2007 Australian Open he advanced to the third round. He defeated José Acasuso, the 27th seed, in the first round. In the second round, he defeated Frenchman Florent Serra in straight sets, but in the third round lost to 7th seed Tommy Robredo in four sets.
At the 2007 Indianapolis Tennis Championships he hit 10 consecutive aces when he defeated James Blake in a quarterfinal. This is believed to be an Open Era record[3].
At the 2007 Western and Southern Masters he defeated thirteenth seed Mikhail Youzhny and advanced to the quarterfinals after defeating Argentina's Juan Mónaco, who had defeated Rafael Nadal the previous round. He lost to #9 seed James Blake, but made his top 50 debut at #47 afterwards. At this time, Querrey was the 3rd ranked American behind Andy Roddick and James Blake.
In August 2007 at the U.S. Open Austrian Stefan Koubek defeated Querrey in the first round 7–6(1) 6–1 6–1. Querrey started the 2008 season with a loss to Joseph Sirianni, a 33 year old with no career wins on the ATP Tour.

2008
In January 2008 at the Australian Open Querrey defeated Belgian Olivier Rochus in the first round 6–3 6–2 7–5. In the second round he then beat Russian Dmitry Tursunov 7–6 (5) 4–6 6–4 6–2. He lost in the third round to the eventual champion, Serbian Novak Djokovic, 6–3 6–1 6–3.
In March 2008 Querrey won his first ATP level tournament at the Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas. In the final Querrey defeated qualifier Kevin Anderson of South Africa in three tight sets, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4. The next month, at the Monte Carlo Masters, Querrey reached the quarter-finals, defeating former French Open champion Carlos Moyà, Andreas Seppi, and number seven seeded Richard Gasquet.
Querrey played tennis for the USA at the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008. He advanced to the fourth round of the US Open by defeating 14th seed Ivo Karlović of Croatia, where he was defeated in 4 sets by world no.1 Rafael Nadal, 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-3.
Querrey was tapped to play for the US in the Davis Cup semifinals against Spain as a replacement for James Blake, who had withdrawn citing exhaustion. In Querrey's first ever Davis Cup match, he lost to Rafael Nadal in four sets, 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.

2009
Querrey participated in the 2009 Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand in January, where he was the sixth seed. Querrey made it all the way to the final, where he was defeated in straight sets by top-seed Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 6-4. A day prior to the final, Querrey had a notable semifinal performance in which he beat the second-seed David Ferrer. Querrey was 5-2 down in the third set but managed to push Ferrer into a third-set tiebreak which he eventually won with a final score of 3-6, 6-3, 7-6.
In the 2009 Australian Open, Querrey lost in his opening round to Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6, 6-3, 6-2.
In the SAP Open, Querrey prevailed against Cypriot wild card Marcos Baghdatis 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(5) in a challenging opener. Baghdatis jumped out to a 4-0 advantage in the third-set tie-break but failed to hold onto the lead as Querrey levelled the score at 4-all and proceeded to close out the match by winning the final three points. Querrey then rolled past Denis Gremelmayr 6-3, 6-2 in 52 minutes.

Other Information
Querrey plays with the Prince O3 Hybrid Tour, switching from the Diablo prior to the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. He wears the adidas Competition Group as his attire.[4]
Querrey is also known for his unique fan base known as The Samurai. The group derives from Querrey's Thousand Oaks origin, and have been seen at many tournaments.
Querrey's tennis doubles partner is often 6'9", 23 year old John Isner of the United States.

Donald Young
Country
 United States
Residence
Atlanta, Georgia
Date of birth
July 23, 1989 (age 19)
Place of birth
Chicago, Illinois
Height
1.82 m (5 ft 111⁄2 in)
Weight
72 kg (160 lb; 11.3 st)
Turned pro
2004
Plays
Left-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money
$430,552
Singles
Career record:
10–33
Career titles:
0
Highest ranking:
No. 73 (April 21, 2008)
Infobox last updated on: October 16, 2008.

Donald Oliver Young, Jr. (born July 23, 1989) is a professional tennis player from the United States. While ball-boying at the age of 10, Young had the opportunity to play with tennis legend John McEnroe. McEnroe would later say that Young "...has hands like another lefty I know very well."[1]
Young has a career-high ATP ranking of 73. As of March 23, 2009, he has an ATP rank of 162.
Career
Young is coached by his father, Donald Young Sr., and mother, Illona, who are both tennis teaching professionals. Born in Chicago, Young now resides in Atlanta, Georgia
He turned professional in 2004, but has mostly won matches in Futures and Challenger events, lower level pro tennis tournaments. He currently has a career ATP singles record of 8-26, all 8 victories coming in the last 12 months. Due to the slow start, his handlers were often criticized for pushing him too fast during the early stages.[2]
Young was, for a period of time in 2005, ranked the # 1 junior player in the world. Young was the youngest male to win a Grand Slam Event winning the Australian Open Junior Championships in 2005. A record he held until the Australian Open in 2008, when Bernard Tomic won the event 2 months younger than Young. Young also won the U.S. Open Junior Doubles Championship with Alex Clayton

2007
In January 2007 he reached the finals of a Futures tournament on the ITF Men's Circuit, as well as winning a Futures title in April. This was his biggest success in the professional ranks.
In July 2007, Young won the Junior Wimbledon title, beating number 1 seed Vladimir Ignatic 7–5, 6–1 in the final. Shortly thereafter, Young won a Challenger tournament and his ranking rose sharply to 221.
His rank rose sharply, from 92 to 7th on the Junior ITF circuit (as of July 13, 2007), after he won the Junior Wimbledon Championships. He opted to play only some of the grand slam tournaments in 2007, and concentrate on playing professional tournaments.
On August 19, 2007, Young won his first-ever ATP Tour level singles match. In the first round of New Haven he beat fellow American Amer Delic in three sets: 4–6, 6–3, 6–4. In the following round, he lost a tight three-setter to Russian Nikolay Davydenko 2–6, 6–4, 5–7.
In 2007 Young received a wild card into the main US Open draw. On August 27, 2007, Young defeated Australian Chris Guccione 6–7(2), 6–3, 6–2, 6–3 in the first round. This was his first career victory in a grand slam match. On August 30, Young won his second round match by default. It was against heavily favored opponent Richard Gasquet of France, who had fallen ill during the procession of the tournament and officially withdrew after morning practice. On September 1, Young fell in the third round to unseeded Feliciano López of Spain in 4 sets, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6, 7-5.
Young carried the momentum into the fall, making it to the finals of 4 challenger tournaments and posting an overall fall record of 21-7 on the challenger circuit.[3] This was enough to hoist him into the top 100 on the ATP rankings.
His talents were recognized by the Association of Tennis Professionals in December, 2007, as for Young was one of eleven honored in the 2007 Century Club[4]

2008
In the Australian Open, Young lost in the 1st round to Michael Berrer in 4 sets. There were much higher hopes for Young as he made it to the quarterfinals of the tennis tournament in Memphis. Young defeated Sam Warburg and Alejandro Falla in the first and second rounds respectively, before losing in a tough 3 set match to Jonas Bjorkman.
In Indian Wells, Young made it to the third round. He defeated Bobby Reynolds. Then in the second round, he took out the 32 seed, Feliciano López in three sets. He lost to the 2007 Indian Wells champion Rafael Nadal in the third round. He lost in the first round of the French Open, then continued to lose a close four set match in the first round of the Wimbledon against fellow American Jesse Levine.
At a "Super-9" Masters Series event, the Canadian Open. Young won two preliminary matches to qualify for the tournament before dropping his first round match to Gilles Simon 6-1, 6-3.
At the Countrywide Classic in Los Angeles, he recently defeated well-known player Tommy Haas (ranked ATP 40 at the time) 6-2, 6-4.
In the first round of the US Open, Young lost to James Blake in a 5-set thriller. He came back from down a break to win the fourth set. Although the final set was tied 4-4, with the help of two key calls overturned on challenges in the last two games, Blake won 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.
Young won the Sacramento Challenger tournament on October 13, 2008.

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