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BENJAMIN BECKER (GER)<br />
Birthdate: June 16, 1981 Turned Pro: 2005<br />
Birthplace: Merzig, Germany<br />
Height: 5’10” (1.78m)<br />
Residence: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA<br />
Weight: 158 (71kg)<br />
Career Win-Loss: 84-110<br />
Plays: Right-handed<br />
Career Prize Money: $1,896,401<br />
Two-handed backhand<br />
Career Singles Titles/Finalist: 1/1<br />
Career Win-Loss vs. Top 10: 5-17<br />
Highest Singles South African Airways <strong>ATP</strong> Ranking: 38 (March 5, 2007)<br />
Highest <strong>ATP</strong> Doubles Ranking: 58 (July 5, 2010)<br />
YEAR-END SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS <strong>ATP</strong> RANKING HISTORY (WIN-LOSS)<br />
2010: 53 (29-31) 2007: 87 (21-32) 2004: T949 (0-0) 2001: N/R<br />
2009: 40 (14-19) 2006: 58 (9-8) 2003: N/R 2000: T814 (0-0)<br />
2008: 130 (11-20) 2005: 477 (0-0) 2002: N/R<br />
2010 HIGHLIGHTS<br />
Prize money: $553,431. Matches won-lost: <strong>ATP</strong>: 29-31 (singles), 15-17 (doubles) Challenger: 2-2 (singles),<br />
0-2 (doubles). Singles Semifinalist: Halle, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Bangkok. Quarterfinalist: Delray Beach,<br />
St. Petersburg. Doubles Finalist: San Jose(w/Mayer). Semifinalist: Zagreb(w/Schuettler),<br />
Delray Beach(w/Mayer), ‘s-Hertogenbosch(w/Lipsky).<br />
2010 IN REVIEW<br />
The No. 3 German finished with his second best year-end ranking just outside Top 50…Won a personal-high 29<br />
matches…Reached three SFs, first two on grass back-to-back weeks in Halle (d. No. 5 Davydenko, l. to eventual<br />
champ Hewitt) and ‘s-Hertogenbosch (l. to Tipsarevic), and later in Bangkok (d. No. 8 Verdasco, l. to Nieminen)…<br />
Also a QF in Delray Beach (l. to Nieminen) and St. Petersburg (l. to Marchenko)…Advanced to personal-best 4th<br />
RD in Miami* beating No. 13 Ljubicic, No. 22 Robredo (l. to No. 8 Roddick)…Earned a career-high $553,431.<br />
CAREER IN REVIEW<br />
The German finished in Top 50 for first time at a year-end best No. 40 in ‘09, highlighted by his first title in ‘s-<br />
Hertogenbosch as a qualifier (d. Sluiter)…In ’07, reached his first <strong>ATP</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Tour</strong> final in Bangkok (l. to<br />
Tursunov) and advanced to SF in Delray Beach and San Jose…Broke Top 50 on Feb. 5…In ’06, qualified at US<br />
Open and advanced to Grand-Slam best 4th RD by defeating Volandri, Grosjean and Agassi in his last match…<br />
Closed that season by making biggest jump of any player in Top 100 from previous year, climbing 419 ranking<br />
positions…Won <strong>ATP</strong> Newcomer of the Year…Has an 0-4 Davis Cup singles record in two ties.<br />
CAREER TITLES (1): 2009 – ‘s-Hertogenbosch(G). FINALIST (1): 2007 – Bangkok(IH).<br />
CAREER DOUBLES FINALIST (2).<br />
GRAND SLAM HISTORY (Career 5-set record: 0-5)<br />
CAREER 10 09 08 07 06<br />
AUS. OPEN 1-3 2ND — 1ST 1ST —<br />
ROLAND GARROS 0-3 1ST — 1ST 1ST —<br />
WIMBLEDON 4-5 2ND 2ND 2ND 1ST 2ND<br />
US OPEN 4-4 2ND 1ST — 1ST 4TH<br />
<strong>ATP</strong> WORLD TOUR MASTERS 1000 HISTORY* (Career W-L: 11-21)<br />
CAREER 10 09 08 07<br />
INDIAN WELLS 0-3 1ST — 1ST 1ST<br />
MIAMI 5-4 4TH 2ND 2ND 1ST<br />
MONTE-CARLO 2-2 2ND — — 2ND<br />
ROME 0-2 1ST — — 1ST<br />
MADRID 1-1 2ND — — —<br />
CINCINNATI 1-4 1ST 2ND 1ST 1ST<br />
SHANGHAI 0-2 1ST 1ST — —<br />
PARIS 2-2 2ND 2ND — —<br />
PERSONAL<br />
Began playing at age seven…Nicknamed Benni…Father, Jorg, works in a tax office; mother, Ulrike, works at a<br />
retail store; one younger sister, Kathrin…No relation to former No. 1 and six-time Grand Slam title winner Boris<br />
Becker…Played four years from 2001-05 at Baylor University in Texas and earned All-America honors last three<br />
years…Captured NCAA singles title (d. Michael Kogan of Tulane) and helped Baylor to its first team title in 2004<br />
(d. UCLA)…Majored in Finance and International Business and is one semester short of earning his degree…<br />
Favorite surface is hard courts and considers his serve and forehand as most important parts of his game…<br />
Football and basketball fan and favorite football team is 1. FC Köln and follows NBA Dallas Mavericks because<br />
of countryman Dirk Nowitzki…Idolized Becker and Andre Agassi growing up…Voted Sportsman of the Year in<br />
November, 2006, in his home province Saarland in Germany by 38 percent of the viewers of German local television<br />
channel SR…Coached by Jan Stoces (since May 2010).
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