Tommy Haas - Biography

Last Editor: jonwinterland				Tommy Haas Biography -   Name : Tommy Haas Birth Name : Thomas Mario Haas Date of Birth : April 3, 1978 Place of Birth : Hamburg, Germany Occupation : Sportsman (Tennis) Height : 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in) Weight : 88 kg (194 lb) Turned Pro : 1996 Plays : Right-handed; one-handed backhand Career Prize Money : $8,650,088 Nationality : German

Tommy Haas Trivia -

Career Statistics Masters Series Finals Singles Wins (1) : Year: 2001 Tournament: Stuttgart Opponent in Final: Max Mirnyi (Belarus) Score in Final: 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 Runner-ups (1) : Year: 2002 Tournament: Rome Opponent in Final: Andre Agassi (USA) Score in Final: 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 All Finals Singles Wins (11) : Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (1) ATP Tour (10) (Respectively: Serial no. // Date // Tournament // Surface // Opponent country // Opponent in the final // Score) 1. 15 February 1999 // Memphis, U.S. // Hard // United States // Jim Courier // 6-4 6-1 2. 1 January 2001 // Adelaide, Australia // Hard // Chile // Nicolás Massú // 6-3, 6-1 3. 20 August 2001 // Long Island, USA // Hard // United States // Pete Sampras // 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 4. 8 October 2001 // Vienna, Austria // Hard (i) // Argentina // Guillermo Cañas // 6-2, 7-6, 6-4 5. 15 October 2001 // Stuttgart, Germany // Hard (i) // Belarus // Max Mirnyi // 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 6. 12 April 2004 // Houston, USA // Clay // United States // Andy Roddick // 6-3, 6-4 7. 12 July 2004 // Los Angeles, USA // Hard // Germany // Nicolas Kiefer // 7-6, 6-4 8. 5 February 2006 // Delray Beach, USA // Hard // Belgium // Xavier Malisse // 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 9. 25 February 2006 // Memphis, USA // Hard (i) // Sweden // Robin Söderling // 6-3, 6-2 10. 24 July 2006 // Los Angeles, USA // Hard // Russia // Dmitry Tursunov // 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 11. 25 February 2007 // Memphis, USA // Hard (i) // United States // Andy Roddick // 6-2, 6-3 Finalist (9) * 1997: o Lyon (lost to Fabrice Santoro) * 1998: o Lyon (lost to Àlex Corretja) * 1999: o Auckland (lost to Sjeng Schalken) o Stuttgart (lost to Magnus Norman) o Munich-Grand Slam Cup (lost to Greg Rusedski) * 2000: o Munich (lost to Franco Squillari) o Sydney Olympics (lost to Yevgeny Kafelnikov) o Vienna (lost to Tim Henman) * 2002: o AMS Rome (lost to Andre Agassi) Performance Timeline Tournament 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 Career Australian Open SF 4R 2R - - SF 2R 2R SF 1R - - 0 French Open - 3R 3R 1R - 4R 2R 3R 3R 1R - - 0 Wimbledon 4R 3R 1R 2R - - 1R 3R 3R 3R 2R - 0 US Open QF QF 3R QF - 4R 4R 2R 4R 2R 3R 1R 0

Tommy Haas Detailed Biography -

Thomas Mario Haas was born on April 3, 1978, and is a German tennis player. Tommy Haas was born to Brigitte and Peter Haas. He has two sisters: older, Sabine, and younger, Karin. Haas graduated from Bradenton High School in May 1996. Tommy Haas is 6 ft 1+1⁄2 in (187 cm) tall and plays right-handed. He is currently ranked #13 in the world. He reached a career-high ranking of World No. 2 in May 2002. Born in Hamburg, Tommy Haas started playing his own version of tennis when he was two-years-old, by using a wooden plank to hit balls against the wall or into his father's hands. When his father noticed his talents, he started bringing Haas to his job, which happened to be that of a tennis coach. At five-years-old Tommy Haas won his first youth tournament, in Hamburg. At eight-years-old he would win his second, in Munich. Between eleven and thirteen, Haas would twice win the Austrian Championship, the German Championship, and the European Championship. Tommy Haas's talents were noted by world renowned tennis guru Nick Bollettieri of the Bollettieri Academy in Florida. Nick was so impressed by the young German's talent that he offered Haas to stay and train at his academy for free. At 13, speaking little English, Haas moved to Florida to begin training at the academy. In 1996, Tommy Haas became a professional tennis player. He gained attention as an upcoming tennis star when he won his first ATP title in 1999 and managed to make it to the semifinals of the Australian Open and was a finalist in the Grand Slam Cup. The following year he won a silver medal in the Sydney Olympics. In 2001, Tommy Haas began to make even greater strides in his tennis career by winning four ATP titles, including his first ATP Master's title. Haas was quickly rising to the top of the tennis ranks when his career would be suddenly halted at #2 in the world, after a tragic and severe accident that nearly claimed the lives of Tommy Haas's parents, leaving his father in a coma. Haas would spend much of the 2002 year taking care of his family instead of playing tennis. At the end of the lay-off from tennis because of his parent's accident, he seriously injured his shoulder, requiring a major operation. He would be plagued by further injuries and related complications afterwards, and would not return to professional tennis fully until 2004. Before his parents' accident and various injuries and related complications, he had an impressive record against notable former, current, and future #1 ranked players: 3-0 against Andy Roddick, 5-5 against Pete Sampras, 2-1 against Roger Federer, 2-1 against Marat Safin, and 2-0 against Jim Courier. Tommy Haas would win two more ATP titles in his return year of 2004, while trying to gain back his form. In 2006, Tommy Haas won three ATP Tournaments and would put in an impressive performance at the U.S. Open, making it to the quarterfinals where he was knocked out by Nikolay Davydenko, despite having been up two sets. Haas began having severe cramps in his legs in the third set, and from then on his limited mobility on the court perhaps cost him the remaining three sets and a match in the semifinals. During the match he was visibly disturbed, repeatedly hitting his legs with his racquet, frustrated at the cramps. At the end of the year he had to win the Paris Masters to qualify for ATP Championship. He lost after a semifinal run to Dominik Hrbatý with health problems and did not play again for the rest of the year. In 2007, Tommy Haas, with his trademark long hair now cut short, had battled his way to his third Australian Open semifinal, which included intense matches against David Nalbandian and a five-set quarterfinal rematch against Nikolay Davydenko. He lost the semifinal against first time Grand Slam semifinalist Fernando Gonzalez from Chile in straight sets. Despite this loss Tommy Haas is returning into the Top10 of the world rankings for the first time since 2002. On February 25, in the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships at Memphis Haas stopped Roddick's quest in the final, winning 6-3 6-2. This was the first time Tommy Haas had won a title without facing a single break point in any of his matches, as well as the first time he has won titles in consecutive seasons. It is also only the 2nd time a player has won 3 titles at Memphis, the last time being Jimmy Connors, who won in 1979, 1983, and 1984. Tommy Haas has not lost a final since losing to Agassi in Rome 2002. Most recently Haas reached the quarterfinals of the Pacific Life Open, a Masters tournament held in Indian Wells, California, where he lost to Scotland's Andy Murray in a match tiebreaker. He is currently placed at #6 in the 2007 ATP Champion's Race. Tommy Haas, the #13 seed (10th-ranked), not known for being much of a grass courter, has advanced to the 4th round of Wimbledon for the first time in 2007, defeating Zack Fleishman, Tomas Zib, and #21 seed Dmitry Tursunov. Unfortunately, the run came to an end after he suffered a torn abdominal muscle and he had to withdraw a day before playing Roger Federer. In the 2007, US Open Tommy Haas equaled his best result in New York by reaching the quarterfinals with thrilling 5 set wins over Sebastian Grosjean and James Blake. His run ended, however, with a 3 set loss to Nikolay Davydenko. Tommy Haas is seen as an intense and emotional player, sometimes having outbursts on the court by muttering at himself or at his coaches, or even off the court. He is currently dating actress Sara Foster, whom he met through Kate Hudson. On September 23, 2007 of the Davis Cup semi-final series, Tommy Haas was forced out of his match against Mikhail Youzhny with a suspected stomach virus. Alexander Waske, a fellow German tennis player, said a Russian who manages numerous athletes, told him that it was poisoning, not a virus. The International Tennis Federation is currently investigating the case.