Gilles Müller

Gilles Müller

Country	Luxembourg
Residence	Schifflange, Luxembourg
Born	May 9, 1983 (1983-05-09) Schifflange, Luxembourg
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	83 kg (180 lb; 13.1 st)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$$1,693,436
Singles
Career record	89–96
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 42 (October 3, 2011)
Current ranking	No. 55 (January 16, 2012)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3R (2009)
French Open	1R (2005, 2006, 2009)
Wimbledon	3R (2005, 2011)
US Open	QF (2008)
Doubles
Career record	19–35
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 147 (10 October 2005)
Last updated on: 25 January 2012.

Gilles Müller (born May 9, 1983) is a Luxembourgish professional tennis player. He was a US Open junior champion and is the most successful male tennis player in the history of his country. He was born, raised and currently resides in Schifflange.

Career

Junior tennis

In 2001, the year Müller turned pro, he reached the final of the boys' singles at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships, but was defeated by Swiss Roman Valent, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3. Later that year, Müller won the boys' singles final at the 2001 US Open by defeating Taiwanese Yeu-Tzuoo Wang, 7–6, 6–2. Müller finished the year 2001 as the world's no. 1 junior.

2004/05

Remarkable results against top players were Müller's victories over Andre Agassi in the semifinals of the 2004 Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, D.C., over Rafael Nadal in the second round of 2005 Wimbledon, and over Andy Roddick in the first round of the 2005 US Open.

2008

At the 2008 US Open Gilles Müller, then ranked 130, had to go through the qualification tournament. He reached the main draw, where he consecutively beat Laurent Recouderc, former no. 2 Tommy Haas, Nicolás Almagro, and fifth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko, advancing to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career. He had not been sure that he would even qualify, and so he had not even booked a hotel room for the tournament. He then lost to defending champion and eventual winner Roger Federer, 6–7, 4–6, 6–7.

2009

On January 19, 2009, Müller beat Spaniard Feliciano López, 6–3, 7–6, 4–6, 4–6, 16–14, in an epic four-hour, twenty-four minute match in the first round of the 2009 Australian Open. Müller beat local favorite Bernard Tomic, 3–6, 6–1, 6–4, 6–2 in the second round, eventually losing in the third to eighth seed Juan Martín del Potro.

2011

In September 2011, he advanced to the fourth round of the US Open, beating Frenchman Édouard Roger-Vasselin, Latvian Ernests Gulbis, and Russian Igor Kunitsyn in the first three rounds. He then lost to Rafael Nadal, whom he had already faced and lost to in the third round of Wimbledon the same year.

ATP Career Finals

Singles: 2 (0–2)

Legend (Singles) Grand Slam tournaments(0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–2)

Titles by Surface Hard (0–2) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	August 16, 2004	Washington, United States	Hard	Lleyton Hewitt	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	July 25, 2005	Los Angeles, United States	Hard	Andre Agassi	6–4, 7–5

Challengers and Futures (10)

Challengers (6)

Futures (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	April 9, 2001	Kuwait City, Kuwait	Hard	Hermes Gamonal	4–6, 7–6(7–3), 7–6(8–6)
2.	February 11, 2002	Glasgow, United Kingdom	Hard	Maximilian Abel	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3)
3.	April 22, 2002	Montego Bay, Jamaica	Hard	Julien Cassaigne	6–3, 7–6(7–4)
4.	August 26, 2002	Florianópolis, Brazil	Clay	Rodrigo Monte	3–6, 7–6(8–6), 6–1
5.	July 21, 2003	Valladolid, Spain	Hard	Iván Navarro	6–4, 6–3
6.	April 19, 2004	Napoli, Italy	Clay	Arnaud di Pasquale	7–6(9–7), 6–7(1–7), 6–1
7.	June 28, 2004	Córdoba, Spain	Hard	Nicolás Almagro	6–1, 6–2
8.	April 7, 2008	Humacao, Puerto Rico	Hard	Iván Miranda	7–5, 7–6(7–2)
9.	May 26, 2008	Izmir, Turkey	Hard	Kristian Pless	7–5, 6–3
10.	June 5, 2011	Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Matthias Bachinger	7–6(7–4), 6–2

Doubles titles

Wins (3)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (0)
Challengers (2)
Futures (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	August 6, 2001	Luxembourg City, Luxembourg	Clay	Mike Scheidweiler	Steve Adamson Raoul Snijders	6–4, 6–3
2.	June 21, 2004	Andorra la Vella, Andorra	Hard	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Santiago González Alejandro Hernández	6–3, 7–5
3.	September 12, 2010	Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France	Hard	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Andis Juška Deniss Pavlovs	6–0, 2–6, [13–11]

Runners-up (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1	February 11, 2002	Glasgow, United Kingdom	Hard	Mike Scheidweiler	Yves Allegro Arnaud Fontaine	6–3, 6–4
2	January 24, 2005	Heilbronn, Germany	Carpet	Gilles Elseneer	Sébastien de Chaunac Michal Mertiňák	6–2, 3–6, 6–3
3	June 27, 2005	Córdoba, Spain	Hard	Nicolas Mahut	Sergiy Stakhovsky Vladimir Voltchkov	7–5, 5–7, 6–1
4	February 19, 2007	Besançon, France	Hard	Grégory Carraz	Christopher Kas Alexander Peya	6–4, 6–4
5	July 30, 2007	Segovia, Spain	Hard	Michel Kratochvil	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	7–6(10–8), 6–3
6	April 28, 2008	Lanzarote, Spain	Hard	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Rik de Voest Łukasz Kubot	6–2, 7–6(7–2)

Singles Performance Timeline

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	1R	1R	2R	2R	LQ	3R	A	2R	1R	5–7	41.67
French Open	A	1R	1R	LQ	A	1R	A	Q2		0–3	00.00
Wimbledon	A	3R	1R	2R	LQ	1R	LQ	3R		5–5	50.00
US Open	A	2R	1R	LQ	QF	A	A	4R		8–4	66.67
Win–Loss	0–1	3–4	1–4	2–2	4–1	2–3	0–0	6–3	0–1	18–19	48.65
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells Masters	A	3R	1R	A	A	A	A	A		2–2	50.00
Miami Masters	1R	1R	1R	A	A	1R	A	A		0–4	00.00
Monte Carlo Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0–0
Rome Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0–0
Madrid Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0–0
Canada Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0–0
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0–0
Shanghai Masters	Not Masters Series					A	A	A		0–0
Paris Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R		0–1	00.00
Hamburg Masters	A	A	A	A	A	Not Masters Series				0–0
Win–Loss	0–1	2–2	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–7	28.57
Career Statistics
Titles–Finals	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
Year End Ranking	69	76	105	117	95	248	134	54		$1,614,696

References

• U.S. Open 2005
• Video interview (U.S. Open 2005)

External links

• Gilles Müller at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Muller Recent Match Results
• Muller World Ranking History
• Luxembourg Men Recent Match Results