Philipp Petzschner

Playing career

Philipp Petzschner was born in Bayreuth, Bavaria, on 24 March 1984. His father ran a tennis school and put a racquet in his hand at four or five; he took the game seriously at 12 or 13, turned professional at 18 and won the German national championship in 2004. As a junior he won the 2002 French Open boys' doubles. His first ATP singles title came in Vienna in 2008, where he came through qualifying and beat the top seed Stan Wawrinka in the first round.

His best results came in doubles with the Austrian Jürgen Melzer. They won Wimbledon unseeded in 2010 and the US Open in 2011, and he reached a career-high doubles ranking of No. 9 in April 2011. In singles he reached the 2011 Halle final on grass, where he retired injured against Philipp Kohlschreiber. He played the singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles for Germany at the 2012 Olympics.

In 2015 he reached the Wimbledon doubles semi-finals as a qualifier with Jonathan Erlich, and in 2018 he and Tim Pütz won the Stuttgart title on grass as wild cards. He played his last tour match in Antwerp in October 2018.

On grass

Every grass title: 2

Show every title, tournament by tournament

Wimbledon
2010	Men's doubles	with Jürgen Melzer
Stuttgart
2018	Men's doubles	with Tim Pütz

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

"because I enjoyed his craziness and you never knew what was going to happen on court"