The 21st century
Germany · born Augsburg, 1983 · right-handed, one-handed backhand · Halle champion 2011 and Wimbledon quarter-finalist 2012
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Grass-court singles finals: Halle 2008 and 2011, Stuttgart 2016
QF
Best Wimbledon result, 2012
16
Career-high ranking, July 2012
8
ATP singles titles, 2007 to 2017
478
Tour-level match wins
Philipp Kohlschreiber was born in Augsburg in 1983 and practised in Munich from the age of 14. He made his tour debut in Munich in 2002 and won his first title there in 2007, the first German to win the event since Michael Stich in 1994.
He won eight singles titles from 2007 to 2017: three in Munich, two in Kitzbühel, and one each in Auckland, Halle and Düsseldorf, with seven more in doubles. He was in the top 100 without a break from March 2006 to February 2021, reached No. 16 in July 2012, the month of his only major quarter-final, and won 20 of 34 Davis Cup singles rubbers for Germany. He never needed surgery.
He announced his retirement at Wimbledon in June 2022, after winning a qualifying match, and played his last match at Roehampton. In 2026 he returned briefly to play doubles at the Challenger in Mauthausen with Joel Schwärzler, whom he had been helping to coach.
| Halle 2011 | Beat Lleyton Hewitt and Gaël Monfils on the way to an all-German final, in which Philipp Petzschner retired with back pain at 7-6, 2-0 |
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| Grass finals lost | Halle 2008: lost to Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4. Stuttgart 2016: lost to Dominic Thiem 7-6, 4-6, 4-6 |
| Halle 2012 | As defending champion, beat Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-4 in the quarter-finals, days after Nadal's seventh French Open title |
| Wimbledon 2012 | Seeded 27th, beat Tommy Haas, Lukáš Rosol and Brian Baker to reach his first major quarter-final, lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6, 4-6, 7-6, 6-2 |
| Halle doubles 2009 | Won the title with Christopher Kas, beating Andreas Beck and Marco Chiudinelli 6-3, 6-4 |
| Halle | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Men's doubles | with Christopher Kas |
| 2011 | Men's singles | |
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
"For sure it's the best victory."
The person behind the player.
Halle, June 2012
Nadal had won his seventh French Open on the Monday. On the Friday, in Halle, Kohlschreiber beat him 6-3, 6-4. "He played better than me," Nadal said. Kohlschreiber's verdict: "For sure it's the best victory."
Source: Tennis AustraliaKitzbühel, 1 August 2018
Kohlschreiber married his long-term partner in Kitzbühel and played a second-round match at the tournament there the same day.
Source: ATP TourWimbledon qualifying, June 2022
He had not planned to announce anything. After a first-round qualifying win over Grégoire Barrère he was asked what came next and answered: "There is no next, it's going to be my last tournament." He chose Roehampton over a farewell in Hamburg because he did not want a big stage, and went away, he said, "with a big smile".
Source: ATP TourWimbledon 2009
In the third round Federer beat him 6-3, 6-2, 6-7, 6-1. Apart from Andy Roddick in the final, he was the only player to take a set off Federer that fortnight.
Source: WikipediaMauthausen, 2026
Four years after his last match, at 42, he partnered the 20-year-old Austrian Joel Schwärzler, whom he had been helping to coach, at a Challenger in Mauthausen. They won a round from a set down. "Singles is too physically demanding, but doubles is really fun," he said.
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