Brian Baker (tennis)

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Brian Baker
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Baker at the 2016 French Open.
Country (sports)Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Residence Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Born (1985-04-30) April 30, 1985 (age 38)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Turned pro2003
Retired2017
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money $1,184,653
Singles
Career record20–40 (33.3%)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 52 (October 29, 2012)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 2R (2013)
French Open 2R (2012)
Wimbledon 4R (2012)
US Open 2R (2005, 2012)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games 1R (2016)
Doubles
Career record35–33 (51.5%)
Career titles2
Highest rankingNo. 29 (May 22, 2017)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open 3R (2017)
French Open 3R (2016)
Wimbledon 1R (2016)
US Open 3R (2013, 2016)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games 2R (2016)
Last updated on: August 30, 2018.

Brian Richard Baker (born April 30, 1985) is an American retired professional tennis player from Nashville, Tennessee.

Contents

Junior career

As a junior player, Baker won the 2002 Orange Bowl. In 2003, he reached the boys' singles final of the French Open after beating Marcos Baghdatis in the quarterfinals and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semifinals. In the final, he lost to Stan Wawrinka. [1] Baker reached No. 2 in singles and No. 5 in doubles in the junior world rankings.

Pro career

Early career

Baker's biggest win of his fledgling career occurred in August 2005, when he scored an upset victory over ninth-seeded Gastón Gaudio in the 2005 US Open. [2] The victory was Baker's first Grand Slam win. [2] Baker originally played on the tour for only a short time, from 2002 through 2005, as well as participating in three autumn Challenger events in 2007. [3] He won one Challenger event in singles (and three in doubles) during this time and reached a career-best singles ranking of world No. 172 on November 15, 2004. He was coached by Ricardo Acuña.[ citation needed ]

In 2007, he was sidelined for nearly six years after five surgeries—three on his hip, one on his elbow, and one sports hernia—and did not play on the tour again until 2011. [4] [5]

Return to professional tennis

While coaching tennis at Belmont University, Baker began to feel his body gradually improving and decided to try again to make it as a professional tennis player in the summer of 2011. [6] [7] He subsequently entered an ITF Futures tournament in Pittsburgh in July 2011 as an unranked qualifier, qualified, and won the tournament, all without dropping a set. [8] In September, he entered the Canadian Futures 7 and reached the semifinals, again without dropping a set. He lost in a walkover to Jesse Levine. [9] Two months later, in November 2011, Baker entered the 2011 Knoxville Challenger, and qualified for the tournament after straight-set victories over Jordan Cox, Tim Smyczek and Michael McClune. He went on to win his next four matches, [10] before losing to Jesse Levine in the final. [8]

2012

Baker during his second round match at the 2012 French Open. Brian Baker.jpg
Baker during his second round match at the 2012 French Open.

Baker won three Futures and Challenger tournaments early in 2012 before returning to the ATP Tour: USA F3 and F8, and Sarasota.[ citation needed ]

After winning the Savannah Challenger, beating Augustin Gensse in the final in April 2012, he was awarded a wild card for the 2012 French Open. [4] In response to this, Baker's good friend Amer Delić noted an inconvenient truth about the situation by tweeting, "Brian Baker... Same guy that USTA refused to give a WC for qualies of the clay court Future last summer..." [11] The statement was in reference to the USA F17 tournament that Baker went on to win.[ citation needed ]

Shortly before the French Open, he qualified for the 2012 Open de Nice Côte d'Azur in May, beating Ilija Bozoljac, David Guez, and Alejandro González in the qualification rounds, all in straight sets. [8] Baker then faced Sergey Stakhovsky in the first round, losing the first set before recovering to win the match. A straight sets victory against Gaël Monfils meant that Baker progressed to the quarterfinals of the tournament. [12] Hard-fought wins over Mikhail Kukushkin and Nikolay Davydenko took Baker to his first ATP final on a 15-match winning streak going into the match. [13] He ultimately lost to Nicolás Almagro, the repeat champion, in the final. After his surprising performance, he reached his highest singles ranking at No. 141. [14]

Just two days after the final in Nice, Baker headed to Paris for the French Open. He beat Xavier Malisse in straight sets in the first round, before losing to Gilles Simon in the second round in five sets. Despite the defeat, Baker's appearance in the tournament was described as "one of the most remarkable comebacks of modern times." [14]

Two weeks after the French Open, Baker qualified for the 2012 Wimbledon Championships after beating Radu Albot, Denis Gremelmayr, and Maxime Teixeira in the qualification rounds. He secured a straight-set victory over Rui Machado in his first-round match before dismissing Jarkko Nieminen, also in straight sets, to progress to the third round. [15] [16] In his third-round match, he beat Frenchman Benoît Paire in four sets. [4] Baker bowed out of the competition in the fourth round, losing in straight sets to Philipp Kohlschreiber. [17] On his performance at Wimbledon, Baker stated - "It's been an unbelievable run. I don't know if I put an expectation like I need to get to this round or not. But I don't know if starting first round qualifiers I would have thought I would have got to the fourth round of Wimbledon". [17]

After starting the North American hard-court season with a string of four first-round losses to lower-ranked players, Baker pulled off another remarkable upset, gaining revenge by beating world No. 17 (and recent Wimbledon quarterfinalist) Philipp Kohlschreiber in the first round of the Cincinnati Masters. He subsequently lost to Australian Bernard Tomic in the second round. At the 2012 US Open, he matched his best US Open and Grand Slam performance from before his injuries, reaching the second round. He defeated Jan Hájek before falling to eighth seed Janko Tipsarević.

During the indoor hard-court season, Baker qualified (as the top qualifying seed) for the ATP 500 tournament Beijing, losing in the first round to Kevin Anderson. He then qualified for the Shanghai Masters, losing to 11th seed Richard Gasquet in the opening round. After these consecutive first-round losses, Baker pulled off a remarkable comeback by winning against Radek Štěpánek in Basel, after being a set and a double-break down. Baker lost in the second round to eventual champion Juan Martín del Potro.[ citation needed ]

He ended 2012 ranked world No. 61, after reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 52 in October.[ citation needed ]

2013

In the Heineken Open in Auckland, Baker upset fifth seed (and recent Paris Masters finalist) Jerzy Janowicz in the first round. He converted 2 out of 17 break points and finally won on his eighth match point. [18]

In the second round of the Australian Open, Baker led 20th seed Sam Querrey 7–6(2), 1–1 before a knee injury forced him to retire. This was later diagnosed as a torn meniscus, which put Baker off the tour for about four months. [19]

Baker made his return in Aptos. losing to Guido Pella. He then lost to Grigor Dimitrov in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters. At the U.S Open. he was defeated by Lleyton Hewitt in the first round.

He ended 2013 ranked world No. 359. [20]

2014

Baker withdrew from the 2014 Australian Open, citing a knee injury. [21]

2015–2017

He was granted a wild card into the main draw of the 2016 Australian Open after a nearly three-year injury layoff. [22]

In August 2016, he lost in the Round of 16 of the Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles partnering with Rajeev Ram. They faced off against the Austrian team of Oliver Marach and Alexander Peya.

In February 2017, he won his maiden ATP Tour title at the Memphis Open in doubles partnering Nikola Mektić. They faced off against compatriots Ryan Harrison and Steve Johnson in the final. He won his second doubles title in Budapest in April, again partnering with Mektić.

2018

Baker underwent his 14th major surgery on December 21, 2018 (back), delaying his comeback. [23]

Personal life

Baker was as an assistant coach for the Belmont University men's tennis program for four years. [24] He studied toward business and finance degrees at the university. [25]

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend
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 (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1 May 2012 Open de Nice Côte d'Azur, France250 SeriesClay Flag of Spain.svg Nicolás Almagro 3–6, 2–6

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

Legend
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 (2–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0 Feb 2017 Memphis Open, United States250 SeriesHard (i) Flag of Croatia.svg Nikola Mektić Flag of the United States.svg Ryan Harrison
Flag of the United States.svg Steve Johnson 		6–3, 6–4
Win2–0 Apr 2017 Hungarian Open, Hungary250 SeriesClay Flag of Croatia.svg Nikola Mektić Flag of Colombia.svg Juan Sebastián Cabal
Flag of Colombia.svg Robert Farah 		7–6(7–2), 6–4

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger (2–2)
ITF Futures (4–2)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Apr 2003Little Rock, United StatesFuturesHard Flag of Argentina.svg Ignacio Hirigoyen 6–3, 5–7, 3–6
Win1–1Jan 2004Tampa, United StatesFuturesHard Flag of the United States.svg Todd Widom 6–3, 6–4
Loss1–2May 2004Tampa, United StatesFuturesHard Flag of the United States.svg K. J. Hippensteel 6–1, 6–7(5–7), 2–6
Win1–0Aug 2004Denver, United StatesChallengerHard Flag of the United States.svg K. J. Hippensteel7–6(7–5), 6–4
Loss1–1May 2005 Tunica Resorts, United StatesChallengerClay Flag of the United States.svg James Blake 2–6, 3–6
Win2–2Jul 2011Pittsburgh, United StatesFuturesClay Flag of the United States.svg Bjorn Fratangelo 7–5, 6–3
Loss1–2 Nov 2011 Knoxville, United StatesChallengerHard Flag of the United States.svg Jesse Levine 2–6, 3–6
Win3–2Jan 2012Weston, United StatesFuturesClay Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jason Kubler 7–5, 6–3
Win4–2Mar 2012Costa Mesa, United StatesFuturesHard Flag of the United States.svg Greg Ouellette 6–1, 6–2
Win2–2 Apr 2012 Savannah, United StatesChallengerClay Flag of France.svg Augustin Gensse 6–4, 6–3

Doubles: 15 (11 titles, 4 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger (8–2)
ITF Futures (3–2)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–1Apr 2002Elkin, United StatesFuturesHard Flag of the United States.svg Rajeev Ram Flag of the United States.svg Huntley Montgomery
Flag of the United States.svg Tripp Phillips 		6–2, 4–6, 4–6
Loss0–2Nov 2002Hattiesburg, United StatesFuturesHard Flag of the United States.svg Rajeev Ram Flag of the United States.svg Huntley Montgomery
Flag of the United States.svg Tripp Phillips		3–6, 1–6
Win1–2May 2003Orange Park, United StatesFuturesClay Flag of the United States.svg Phillip Simmonds Flag of the United States.svg Brendan Evans
Flag of South Africa.svg Marcos Ondruska 		4–6, 7–5, 6–4
Win2–2Oct 2003Arlington, United StatesFuturesHard Flag of the United States.svg Bobby Reynolds Flag of the United States.svg Hamid Mirzadeh
Flag of the United States.svg Vahid Mirzadeh 		6–2, 6–2
Loss0–1Nov 2003 Champaign, United StatesChallengerHard (i) Flag of the United States.svg Rajeev Ram Flag of the United States.svg Travis Parrott
Flag of Brazil.svg Bruno Soares 		6–4, 4–6, 1–6
Win3–2Jan 2004Tampa, United StatesFuturesHard Flag of the United States.svg Rajeev Ram Flag of the United States.svg Huntley Montgomery
Flag of the United States.svg Tripp Phillips		6–3, 3–6, 6–2
Loss0–2Feb 2004Joplin, United StatesChallengerHard (i) Flag of the United States.svg Rajeev Ram Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Yen-Hsun Lu
Flag of Brazil.svg Bruno Soares		6–3, 1–6, 1–6
Win1–2Jul 2004 Granby, CanadaChallengerHard Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Frank Dancevic Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Harel Levy
Flag of Italy.svg Davide Sanguinetti 		6–2, 7–6(7–5)
Win2–2Aug 2004Denver, United StatesChallengerHard Flag of the United States.svg Rajeev Ram Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jamie Delgado
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jonathan Marray 		6–2, 6–2
Win3–2Nov 2004Champaign, United StatesChallengerHard (i) Flag of the United States.svg Rajeev Ram Flag of the United States.svg Justin Gimelstob
Flag of the United States.svg Graydon Oliver 		7–6(7–5), 7–6(9–7)
Win4–2 Apr 2016 Savannah, United StatesChallengerHard (i) Flag of the United States.svg Ryan Harrison Flag of India.svg Purav Raja
Flag of India.svg Divij Sharan 		5–7, 7–6(7–4), [10–8]
Win5–2 Oct 2016 Stockton, United StatesChallengerHard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Sam Groth Flag of Australia (converted).svg Matt Reid
Flag of Australia (converted).svg John-Patrick Smith 		6–2, 4–6, [10–2]
Win6–2 Oct 2016 Fairfield, United StatesChallengerHard Flag of the United States.svg Mackenzie McDonald Flag of the United States.svg Sekou Bangoura
Flag of the United States.svg Eric Quigley 		6–3, 6–4
Win7–2 Oct 2016 Las Vegas, United StatesChallengerHard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Matt Reid Flag of the United States.svg Bjorn Fratangelo
Flag of the United States.svg Denis Kudla 		6–1, 7–5
Win8–2 Nov 2016 Charlottesville, United StatesChallengerHard (i) Flag of Australia (converted).svg Sam Groth Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Brydan Klein
Flag of South Africa.svg Ruan Roelofse 		6–3, 6–3

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss 2003 French Open Clay Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Stan Wawrinka 5–7, 6–4, 3–6

Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)

ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss 2002 Wimbledon Hard Flag of the United States.svg Rajeev Ram Flag of Romania.svg Florin Mergea
Flag of Romania.svg Horia Tecău 		4–6, 6–4, 4–6
Loss 2002 US Open Hard Flag of Australia (converted).svg Chris Guccione Flag of the Netherlands.svg Michel Koning
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Bas van der Valk 		4–6, 4–6

Performance timelines

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#DNQANH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 SRW–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open AAAA Q1 AAAAAAA 2R AA 1R Q1 0 / 21–2
French Open AAAA Q1 AAAAAA 2R AAA 1R A0 / 21–2
Wimbledon AAAA Q1 AAAAAA 4R AAA 1R A0 / 23–2
US Open Q1 Q1 1R 1R 2R AAAAAA 2R 1R AA 1R A0 / 62–6
Win–loss0–00–00–10–11–10–00–00–00–00–00–05–31–20–00–00–40–00 / 127–12
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters AA Q1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAA0 / 00–0
Miami Open A Q1 Q1 1R AAAAAAAAAAA 1R A0 / 20–2
Cincinnati Masters AAAAAAAAAAA 2R 2R AA Q2 A0 / 22–2
Shanghai Masters Not HeldAAA 1R AAAAA0 / 10–1
Win–loss0–00–00–00–10–00–00–00–00–00–00–01–21–10–00–00–10–00 / 52–5
National representation
Summer Olympics Not HeldANot HeldANot HeldANot Held 1R NH0 / 10–1
Career statistics
Tournaments013530000001350010040
Titles / Finals0 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 10 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 1
Overall win–loss0–00–10–32–52–30–00–00–00–00–00–011–133–50–00–02–100–020–40
Year-end rankingN/A614422178205N/A842N/AN/AN/A45661359N/AN/A245112933%

Doubles

Tournament 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 SRW–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open AAAAAAAAAAAAAA 1R 3R A0 / 22–2
French Open AAAAAAAAAAAAAA 3R 1R A0 / 22–2
Wimbledon AAAAAAAAAAAAAA 1R AA0 / 10–1
US Open AA 2R 1R AAAAAA 2R 3R AA 3R 1R A0 / 66–6
Win–loss0–00–01–10–10–00–00–00–00–00–01–12–10–00–04–42–30–00 / 1110–11
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Miami Open 1R AAAAAAAAAAAAAA SF A0 / 22–2
Madrid Open AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 2R A0 / 11–1
Italian Open AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 2R A0 / 11–1
Cincinnati Masters AAAAAAAAAA 2R 1R AA 2R AA0 / 32–3
Win–loss0–10–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–01–10–10–00–01–14–30–00 / 76–7
National representation
Summer Olympics Not HeldANot HeldANot HeldANot Held 2R Not Held0 / 11–1
Career statistics
Tournaments102100000043001014035
Titles / Finals0 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 02 / 20 / 02 / 2
Overall win–loss0–10–01–20–10–00–00–00–00–00–03–42–30–00–08–1021–120–035–33
Year-end ranking776400120487N/A1552N/AN/AN/AN/A261346N/AN/A6943N/A51%

Wins over top-10 players

#PlayerRankEventSurfaceRdScoreBB Rank
2005
1. Flag of Argentina.svg Gastón Gaudio 9 US Open, New York, United StatesHard1R7–6(11–9), 6–2, 6–4195

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