Queen's 2010
Eleven finals lost
When Sam Querrey beat him in the 2010 Queen's final, AFP noted that Fish, then ranked 90th, had lost 11 of his 14 tour finals. He won his next final, at Newport, a month later.
Source: The Star (AFP), 14 June 2010The 21st century
Mardy Fish
United States · born Edina, Minnesota, 1981 · right-handed · Newport champion in 2010 and Wimbledon quarter-finalist in 2011
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5-7, 6-3, 6-4
Newport final of 2010 against Olivier Rochus, his first grass title, with 24 aces
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Grass singles finals: Nottingham 2003, Halle 2004, Queen's and Newport 2010
2011
Wimbledon quarter-final, lost to Rafael Nadal
No. 7
Career-high ranking, 15 August 2011
6 and 8
ATP singles and doubles titles
Playing career
Mardy Fish was born in Edina, Minnesota, in 1981 and finished school at Boca Prep in Boca Raton, Florida, where he lived for a time with the family of Andy Roddick and played on the same teams. He turned professional in 2000 and won the Olympic singles silver medal at Athens in 2004, losing the final to Nicolás Massú in five sets.
His career turned in 2010. Ranked around 90th, he lost about 30 pounds through diet and training and that summer reached the Queen's final and won Newport. In 2011 he reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals and rose to a career-high No. 7 in August. He reached the quarter-finals at three of the four majors and won 6 singles and 8 doubles titles.
At the 2012 US Open he withdrew before a fourth-round match against Roger Federer because of an anxiety disorder; he played little in 2013, not at all in 2014, and retired after the 2015 US Open. He coached part-time for USTA Player Development and in January 2019 was named the 41st captain of the US Davis Cup team. He has since won celebrity golf events, including the American Century Championship.
On grass
| Newport 2010 | Beat the fourth seed Olivier Rochus 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 in two hours and four minutes with 24 aces. It was his fourth tour title and the first on grass, giving him titles on every surface |
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| Queen's 2010 | Ranked 90th, beat the world No. 4 Andy Murray on the way to the final, dropping one set before it, then lost to Sam Querrey 7-6 (3), 7-5 |
| Lost grass finals | Nottingham 2003 to Greg Rusedski 6-3, 6-2; Halle 2004 to Roger Federer 6-0, 6-3 |
| Wimbledon 2011 | As tenth seed, beat the 2010 runner-up Tomáš Berdych in the fourth round, having been broken once in four matches, then lost his first Wimbledon quarter-final to Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Fourth round in 2012 |
| Newport doubles | Won the 2008 doubles with John Isner, beating Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi 6-4, 7-6 (7-1) |
Every grass title: 2
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| Newport, Rhode Island | ||
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| 2008 | Men's doubles Hall of Fame Open | with John Isner |
| 2010 | Men's singles Hall of Fame Open | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"I've certainly lost a lot of heartbreak finals, and it feels good to win one."
Anecdotes
The person behind the player.
Newport 2010
Thirty pounds lighter
Fish came to Newport having lost 30 pounds through a strict diet and training programme. He beat Olivier Rochus in the final for his first title on grass and said it meant a lot to win there.
Source: Long Island Tennis Magazine, July 2010Wimbledon 2011
That one huge result
After losing to Rafael Nadal in his first Wimbledon quarter-final, Fish said: "I'm lacking that one huge result. Further than the quarterfinals is where I wanted to go."
Source: Tennis.com (AP), 29 June 2011US Open 2015
Telling himself he would be OK
Fish returned in 2015 after nearly three years away and won his first-round match at his last US Open: "I spent a lot of time on the court today telling myself that I'm going to be OK."
Source: Sports Illustrated, 31 August 2015Davis Cup
A team man
On becoming US Davis Cup captain in 2019, Fish described himself as "a team-sport athlete stuck in an individual sport". As a player he went 11-8 in Davis Cup and in a 2010 tie in Colombia spent ten hours and 59 minutes on court winning three live rubbers.
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Sources
- Mardy Fish, ATP Tour player data
- "Mardy Fish wins Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships", Long Island Tennis Magazine, July 2010
- "Sam triumphs in straight sets over close friend Fish in London final", The Star (AFP), 14 June 2010
- "Fish loses to Nadal in 1st Wimbledon quarterfinal", Tennis.com, 29 June 2011
- "Mardy Fish named new U.S. Davis Cup captain", USTA, 9 January 2019
- Mardy Fish at the 2015 US Open, Sports Illustrated, 31 August 2015
- Mardy Fish, Wikipedia
- 2008 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Wikipedia
- GTC roll of grass champions, checked against a second source where one exists
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