Tommy Haas - Australian Open Men's Tennis Players German Tommy Haas is currently ranked no.57 in the world - a huge drop from being in the top ten just over a year ago. Although he has the talent to become one of the world's top tennis players, he will have to learn to control his emotions on court and to strengthen his body. The young Haas stared his budding career using a wooden plank to hit balls against the wall! His talent was quickly recognised by tennis Guru, Nick Bollettieri, and he was invited to train at the Florida based tennis academy. He had a good start to his professional career - he reached the semifinals of the 1999 Australian Open, and lifted a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. His career was on the up-and-up, and in 2002 he reached his highest ranking – world no.2. He had an awesome record against the top men's contenders including:
- 3-0 against Andy Roddick, who boasts the fastest serve in men's tennis
- 5-5 against arguably the best tennis player in world tennis, Pete Sampras
- 2-1 against current world no.1, Roger Federer
- 2-1 against Russian hero, Marat Safin
- 2-0 against the hard hitting American, Jim Courier
His career came to a grinding halt when his parents were involved in a terrible motorcar accident, his father fell into a coma thereafter. Haas was forced to depart the tennis circuit to take care of his ailing family. He was also plagued with injury and did not return to tennis until 2004. He spent the next couple of months trying to regain his best form and all the hard work paid off in 2006 when he reached the quarterfinals of the US Open. He put up a great fight against
Nikolay Davydenko, and was up two sets when he was suddenly crippled by severe cramps in the legs. He lost mobility and subsequently the match. Haas has had a reasonable 2007, he fought his way to his third semifinal of the Australian Open, losing to Chilean, Fernando Gonzalez and had a fantastic time of it at Wimbledon. He was seeded no.13 for the grass court tournament and advanced to the 4th round with ease. However, injury again took centre stage, and he had to withdraw from the tournament a day before he took on Swiss giant and world no.1, Roger Federer. At the last Grand Slam of 2007, the US Open, Haas beat Sebastian Grosjean &
James Blake to reach the quarters, but his old nemesis, Davydenko put pay to his
Grand Slam title dream. Injury woes set in again for the 2008 season, Haas pulled out of the Australian Open and French Open 2008. Surprisingly, he reached the third round at Wimbledon, defeated the young Andy Murray in straight sets, but passed up the chance at a quarterfinal match against Roger Federer due to even more injury complaints. Tommy Haas, Australian Open men's tennis player, has great ability, but whether he can overcome injury to consistently claim the top prizes in men's tennis is debatable. Do you know which of this year's Australian Open men's tennis players are heading for the finals? If so, then you make be successful at
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