2011 ATP World Tour Media Guide

TOMMY HAAS (GER)
Birthdate: April 3, 1978 Turned Pro: 1996
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
Height: 6’2” (1.88m)
Residence: Bradenton, Florida, USA
Weight: 195 (88kg)
Career Win-Loss: 462-255
Plays: Right-handed
Career Prize Money: $9,979,980
One-handed backhand
Career Singles Titles/Finalist: 12/9
Career Win-Loss vs. Top 10: 40-68
Highest Singles South African Airways ATP Ranking: 2 (May 13, 2002)
Highest ATP Doubles Ranking: 127 (February 18, 2002)
YEAR-END SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS ATP RANKING HISTORY (WIN-LOSS)
2010: 375 (3-4) 2007: 12 (39-17) 2004: 17 (37-22) 2000: 23 (36-22) 1997: 41 (22-17) 1994:T1192 (0-0)
2009: 18 (31-17) 2006: 11 (49-21) 2002: 11 (45-21) 1999:11 (47-26) 1996: 196 (4-3) 1993:T1072 (0-0)
2008: 84 (18-14) 2005: 46 (33-24) 2001: 8 (57-21) 1998: 34 (41-26) 1995: T1198(0-0)
2010 HIGHLIGHTS
Prize money: $69,899. Matches won-lost: ATP: 3-4 (singles), 1-0 (doubles) .
2010 IN REVIEW
The German played in four tournaments in first two months before undergoing season-ending right hip surgery
on Feb. 21 in Vail, Colorado…One month later on Mar. 23, underwent right elbow surgery in New
York…Opened season with 3rd RD at Australian Open (d. Greul, Tipsarevic, l. to No. 10 Tsonga)…Reached 2nd
RD in San Jose and lost in 1st RD in Memphis and Delray Beach before being sidelined.
CAREER IN REVIEW
The Bradenton, Florida resident has finished in Top 20 seven times, including a year-end best No. 8 in ‘01 with a
personal-best four titles…Has a 12-9 record in finals…Ranked a career-high No. 2 on May 13, ‘02…Has four SFs
in Grand Slam play (‘99, ’02 ’07 Australian Open, ’09 Wimbledon) and three US Open QFs (‘04, ’06-07)…His
biggest title came at former ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Stuttgart* in ’01 (d. Mirnyi)…In ‘96, youngest
player in Top 50 at 19…Won first title in Memphis in ’99 (d. Courier)…Missed ’03 after right rotator cuff surgery
in New York on Dec. 20, ‘02…Also had arthroscopic surgery on same shoulder on July 18, ’03… Returned in ’04
with clay title in Houston (d. No. 2 Roddick) and climbed from No. 349 to No. 145 afterwards…Saw limited play
in ‘08 due to a shoulder injury, slipping to No. 84, and returned to action in ‘09 with his first grass title in Halle
and followed with SF at Wimbledon…Compiled a 22-8 Davis Cup record (19-7 in singles) in 16 ties from ‘98-
08…Earned silver medal in singles in ‘00 Sydney Olympics and he lists that achievement among his
best…Named ‘04 ATP Comeback Player of Year after climbing to No. 17 from being unranked previous
year…Earned a career-high $1,544,640 in ’01 and won a personal-best 57 matches that year.
CAREER TITLES (12): 2009 – Halle(G); 2007 – Memphis(IH); 2006 – Delray Beach(H), Memphis(IH), Los
Angeles(H); 2004 – Houston(CL), Los Angeles(H); 2001 – Adelaide(H), Long Island(H), Vienna(IH), Stuttgart*(IH);
1999 – Memphis(IH). FINALIST (9): 2002 – Rome*(CL); 2000 – Munich(CL), Sydney Olympics(H), Vienna(IH);
1999 – Auckland(H), Stuttgart (CL), Grand Slam Cup-Munich(IH); 1998 – Lyon(IC); 1997 – Lyon(IC).
CAREER DOUBLES TITLES (1).
GRAND SLAM HISTORY (Career 5-set record: 20-17)
CAREER 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 02 01 00 99 98 97 96
AUS. OPEN 25-10 3RD 3RD — SF 4TH 2ND — SF 2ND 2ND SF 1ST — —
ROLAND GARROS 15-9 — 4TH — — 3RD 3RD 1ST 4TH 2ND 3RD 3RD 1ST — —
WIMBLEDON 20-10+ — SF 3RD 4TH 3RD 1ST 2ND — 1ST 3RD 3RD 3RD 2ND —
US OPEN 30-13 — 3RD 2ND QF QF 3RD QF 4TH 4TH 2ND 4TH 2ND 3RD 1ST
+ w/o in 2007 not included
ATP WORLD TOUR MASTERS 1000 HISTORY*
CAREER W-L: 115-86
BEST RESULT: WON (Stuttgart ‘01); RUP (Rome ‘02)
PERSONAL
Full name is Thomas Mario Haas…Began playing at age four with his father, Peter, who is Austrian and a former
European champion in judo and ex-schoolmate of Hollywood star and former Governor of California Arnold
Schwarzenegger, who came to watch a match in Los Angeles in 2001…Following 2004 Los Angeles win, Haas
went to the Governor’s house for celebratory dinner…Mother, Brigitte, and two sisters, Sabine and Karin…
Moved to Bradenton, Fla. to attend Nick Bollettieri Academy at age 11 and has been there full-time since he
was 13…Was No. 11 junior in world ranking in singles in 1995…Reached Orange Bowl 18s final (l. to Zabaleta)
in ‘95…Enjoys golf, waterskiing and driving fast cars…Favorite football team is Bayern Munich and Hamburger
SV…Admires achievements of countryman Boris Becker…Broke his right ankle in December 1995 (surgery on
Jan. 10, ‘96) and his left ankle in December 1996, which also required surgery…Finished high school in
Bradenton, Fla. in May 1996…Flew with Blue Angels squadron over stadium court in Indian Wells in
1998…Father opened a tennis academy in Kitzbühel in 1999…Received American citizenship on Jan. 27, 2010
in Tampa and has dual citizenship…Fiancé Sara Foster (actress), daughter Valentina (born Nov. 14, 2010).
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