Björn Phau

Björn Phau

Björn Phau at the 2011 Australian Open
Country	Germany
Residence	Weilerswist, Germany
Born	4 October 1979 (1979-10-04) Darmstadt, West Germany
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Turned pro	1999
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$1,801,553
Singles
Career record	68–117
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	59 (19 June 2006)
Current ranking	134 (30 January 2012)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2R (2005, 2006)
French Open	1R (2000, 2005, 2006, 2011)
Wimbledon	1R (2005, 2006, 2009)
US Open	2R (2001, 2005, 2006)
Doubles
Career record	23–32
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	55 (23 April 2007)
Current ranking	148 (28 November 2011)
Last updated on: 28 November 2011.

Björn Phau (born 4 October 1979) is a German tennis player and the son of a German mother and an Indonesian father. He reached a singles ranking of 59 in the world on 19 June 2006. He defeated Andre Agassi 7–5, 7–5 at the 2006 Dubai Tennis Championships. In an interview, Agassi cited Phau as one of the quickest tennis players he has ever faced. His main strengths are his movement, foot speed and fitness. He is sponsored by Nike and Wilson.

At the 2007 SAP Open, Phau showed incredible sportsmanship while playing in the first round against Konstantinos Economidis. A ball that Phau hit to Economondis was out, but not called by the line judge. Economidis returned it, and Phau having seen that his ball was out, let the return go by, giving the point to Economidis. Phau went on to win the match and advance to the second round.

In April 2009 at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston, Texas at River Oaks Country Club, Phau was defeated by American Wayne Odesnik 4–6, 3–6 in the semi-finals. In August 2009, he lost to Andy Roddick in the 1st round of the US Open. In October 2009 he reached the quarterfinal in St.Petersburg, Russia.

In September 2010 he defeated Albert Ramos-Vinolas and Adrian Ungur for a quarterfinal berth at the BCR Romania Open. He lost to Juan Ignacio Chela.

Singles titles

Legend (Singles)

Grand Slam (0)

ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0)

ATP World Tour 500 (0)

ATP World Tour 250 (0)

ATP Challenger Tour (6)

ITF Futures (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	2 August 1999	Decatur, United States	Hard	Tom Chicoine	6–0, 6–3
2.	13 August 2001	Bronx, United States	Hard	Andy Ram	6–2, 6–4
3.	31 October 2005	Busan, South Korea	Hard	Simon Greul	6–1, 6–2
4.	16 May 2010	Biella, Italy	Clay	Simone Bolelli	6–4, 6–2
5.	30 May 2010	Alessandria, Italy	Clay	Carlos Berlocq	7–6(6), 2–6, 6–2
6.	26 June 2011	Marburg, Germany	Hard	Jan Hájek	6–4, 2–6, 6–3
7.	29 January 2012	Heilbronn, Germany	Hard	Ruben Bemelmans	6-7(4), 6-3, 6-4

Doubles finals (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the Final	Score in the Final
1.	May 1, 2006	Munich, Germany	Clay	Alexander Peya	Andrei Pavel Alexander Waske	4–6, 2–6
2.	02011-07-31July 31, 2011	Dortmund	Clay	Dominik Meffert	Teymuraz Gabashvili Andrey Kuznetsov	6–4, 6–3

Grand Slam history

Tournament	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2001	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	1R	A	2R	2R	1R	Q1	1R	Q2	1R	1R
French Open	A	1R	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	Q3	A	Q1	1R
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	1R	Q2	Q1
US Open	A	A	2R	A	A	A	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R

External links

• Björn Phau at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Björn Phau at the International Tennis Federation
• Official website (German)