Nicolas Kiefer
Nicolas Kiefer was born in Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany on July 5th, 1977 and is the Tennis Player. At the age of 46, Nicolas Kiefer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Nicolas Kiefer (German pronunciation: [kif]; born 5 July 1977) is a former German professional tennis player. He reached the semifinals of the 2006 Australian Open and received a silver medal in men's doubles with partner Rainer Schüttler at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Kiefer's career-best singles ranking ranked no. 1 in the world No. In January 2000, the four children were born.
Tennis career
Kiefer was chosen as an outstanding junior. He won the Junior Australian Open, the US Open, and was a finalist and semifinalist at Wimbledon, as the No. 1 in the French Open. Mariano Zabaleta was the second junior in the world when he was 18 in 1995. He reached his second quarterfinals at the Australian Open on January 10, 2000, and then became the world No. 1 in the world No. 102. He currently sits fourth in his highest ranking.
Kiefer has been known to have some tennis superstitions. After a point, he was often seen tapping his racquet on the front of the courthouse, and while serving, he longed for the ball with which he had just won a point to use it for the next one.
Kiefer was infamous for an incident on January 25th, 2006, during the Australian Open quarterfinals. Kiefer threw his racquet midpoint as he met Sébastien Grosjean in the fifth set of a marathon match. Grosjean lost the point by tossing the ball into the ground. Grosjean protested that the racquet distracted his shot. Carlos Bernardes said he did not think the act was deliberate, and that Grosjean had already hit the ball before the flying racquet could have had any effect on his shot. Grosjean eventually lost the fifth and final set to Kiefer. Kiefer qualified to the semi-finals, where he was defeated by 2004 champion Roger Federer.
Kiefer suffered his wrist while playing in the 2006 French Open on June 5, 2007, his fourth position on ATP lists after falling to the 404th position on ATP. He said he was "tired of waiting and excited to start traveling again and see his name on scoreboards" and that he was "tired of seeing his name on scoreboards." Kiefer was a participant in the 2007 Gerry Weber Open, losing in the first round to eventual champion Tomá Berdych. He advanced to the third round of Wimbledon after defeating No.30 seed Filippo Santoro and Fabrice Santoro, both in straight sets, before losing in 4 sets (most of which were tiebreakers) to Novak Djokovic. He did lose in round 1 at Newport, however, but in round 1 he did not win. In just his fourth tournament since returning from injury, he reached the semifinals in Los Angeles; he had to miss against Radek tpánek, another player returning from injury due to an ankle injury sustained during his quarter-final victory. He also had a stellar showing at the 2007 Madrid Masters, where he defeated number five seed Fernando González in the quarterfinals before falling 6–4 in the semifinals to world number one Roger Federer.
His 2008 season did not get off to a promising start: he lost in the first round of the Australian Open to former world No.1 Juan Carlos Ferrero, third round of the 2008 Monte Carlo Masters to Ferrero, second round of 2008 Rome Masters to Philipp Kohlschreiber, first round of 2008. With victories over world No.10 Stanislas Wawrinka and world No.4 Nikolay Davydenko, he reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 Hamburg Masters, his first notable result was defeating Andreas Seppi in three sets. In the third round of the 2008 Wimbledon Championships to Nadal, he will miss out. At age 31, and ranked No. 1 in the 2008 Canada Masters, he was on the top of the rankings, earning his first appearance. After 73 previous attempts, 37, who finished as a semifinalist at the 1999 and 2004 Masters (lost to Federer). Simon defeated Mardy Fish, 15th seed Mikhail Youzhny, seventh seed James Blake, and Gilles Simon; the victory over Simon was especially significant because Simon had defeated world No. 2; he was also defeated world No. 1. In the second round, Roger Federer will face him in the second round. In straight sets, he lost in straight sets to Nadal in the final. He fell back to the top 20 at No. 20 due to his run. 19.
With 19-year-old Sabine Lisicki, he represented Germany in the 2009 Hopman Cup. He lost in the first match against Australia's Lleyton Hewitt, who had been suspended for six months due to a back injury. Kiefer lost in his second singles match, this time to USA's James Blake. Despite this, Kiefer took both of the doubles matches against Sabine Lisicki in both Australia and the United States. In the first set, Kiefer twisted his ankle against Slovakia's Dominik Hrbath, when Kiefer was up 3–1 and serving. He was unable to participate in the 2009 Australian Open due to his injury.
He re-appeared in the 2009 Davis Cup match against Austria, where he defeated Julian Knowle and Alexander Peya in four sets. Kiefer played in singles against Jürgen Melzer in a straight sets that gave Germany the victory over Austria. Kiefer won in straight sets at Indian Wells in the second round but then fell in the third round to Andy Roddick.
Kiefer defeated Fabrice Santoro in the second round of the 2009 Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. Kiefer was disqualified by the world No. 2 in the third round. Roger Federer is the most popular player in the United States. Kiefer lost in his first match against qualifier Andreas Beck at the 2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. Kiefer lost in straight sets to Juan Mónaco in Rome during the 2009 Internazionali BNL d'Italia championships. In the 2009 BMW Open Kiefer was down against Ernests Gulbis 2–6, 0–2, but eventually won in three sets. "Clay and I, we will never be the best of friends," Kiefer said after the game. Kiefer was plagued by back pains, which culminated in him losing to Jérémy Chardy in the first round.
He lost to Tommy Robredo at the 2009 Mutua Madrileno Open. Kiefer appeared in the 2009 ARAG World Team Cup, in which he competed in doubles with Mischa Zverev. They won all of their matches, and Germany advanced to the final, but Serbia lost to Serbia. Despite Germany's loss, Kiefer took the doubles title against Viktor Troicki and the world No. 1 in the final. 1 Nenad Zimonji.
Kiefer also appeared at the 2009 French Open in four sets over qualifier Ilija Bozoljac. However, Kiefer was disqualified in the second round against world No. 1 in the United States. In five sets, David Ferrer defeated 14 others. Despite this loss, Kiefer expressed surprise that he had defeated one of the best tennis players of the world on clay because clay is Kiefer's least favorite surface. Kiefer's participation in his favorite tournament, the 2009 Gerry Weber Open, had now concluded, and the grass season had started with him. He defeated Viktor Troicki in the first round but he withdrew a muscular strain in his abdomen, causing him to withdraw from singles and doubles, where Mischa Zverev had advanced to semifinals.
Kiefer came to the Wimbledon as the 33rd seed, but he was unable to recover fully from his abdomen injury. This was reflected in Kiefer's match against Fabrice Santoro, in which Kiefer defeated him in straight sets. Kiefer also represented Germany in the 2009 Davis Cup quarterfinals against Spain, where he later competed for Germany against Spain. In the doubles match against Spain's Fernando Verdasco and Feliciano López, he did so. The match between Kiefer and Zverev ended in a draw. He defeated Michal Llodra in straight sets in the first round of the U.S Open, but in the second round he lost to world No. 2. Rafael Nadal, a Colombian artist, was born in the Dominical Nadal.