Florian Mayer

Began playing at age five...Nicknamed “Flo”...His father, Bernd, is a teacher, and his mother, Sabine, is a shop manager...Has one younger brother, Michael...Idolized Boris Becker and Pete Sampras as a child...Trained as a junior with the German Tennis Federation...Turned professional at age 17 after completing school...A soccer fan, his favorite team is Bayern Munich...Trains at Tennis Base in Oberhaching outside Munich...Has a 2-3 Davis Cup singles record in three ties...Named 2004 ATP Newcomer of Year...Coached by countryman Markus Wislsperger (since October 2007).

2001 -- Was 1-4 in Futures events...

2002 -- Was 16-10 in Futures and 1-4 in Challengers...Reached final at Spain #20 (l. to Nadal)...Was 3-3 in doubles at Futures events...

2003 -- Reached final at Portugal #4...Won first career Challenger title in first career final at St. Petersburg (d. Mertinak)...Won first career Futures title at Spain #27 (d. Navarro Pastor)...Went 18-8 in Futures and 13-8 in Challengers...

2004 -- Made one of biggest jumps of any player in Top 50, climbing over 200 ranking positions from previous year...Qualified for his first Grand Slam at Australian Open and lost in 2nd RD to Nalbandian...Reached first ATP SF in Estoril (l. to Chela)...Made his ATP Masters Series debut in Hamburg and reached 3rd RD (d. No. 15 Novak, Portas; l. to Youzhny)...In Wimbledon debut, advanced to QF with wins over Arthurs, No. 3 Coria, Ferreira and J. Johansson before losing to Grosjean... His best results rest of season were QF in Kitzbnhel and SF in Bucharest...Made Davis Cup debut in World Group playoff tie vs. Slovak Republic (0-2 in singles)...Won one Challenger title in two finals...

2005 -- Advanced to first career ATP final in Sopot (d. Nieminen, Coria in SF; l. to Monfils)...Also reached QF at Bucharest...Advanced to 4th RD at AMS event for first time in Miami (d. Kiefer, Gonzalez; l. to Dent)...Helped lead host Germany to its fourth ATP World Team Championship title...In doubles, reached first final in Munich (w/countryman Waske)... Earned a career-high $432,563...

2006 -- Achieved a career-high 26 match wins...Struggled in first five months of year with a 9-12 record before putting together a 17-9 mark in final five months of action...In July, finished as runner-up in Sopot for second straight year (l. to No. 6 Davydenko)...Also reached QF on grass in Halle (l. to Vliegen), and on clay in Stuttgart (l. to Ferrer) and Bucharest...In limited Challenger play, compiled a 19-2 record with three titles, at Furth (d. Popp), Tampere (d. Gulbis) and Graz (d. Schuettler)....Won both of his matches in Davis Cup playoff tie vs. Thailand, lifting Germany back into World Group in '07...

2007 -- Finished in Top 75 for fourth straight season highlighted by four QF appearances... Achieved best Australian Open finish by reaching 3rd RD (l. to Haas) and followed with back-to-back QF at Delray Beach and Rotterdam...Compiled a 12-4 record in Challenger play and, in May, reached first of three Challenger finals at Dresden (l. to Schukin)...In between clay court Challenger finals at Prostejov (l. to Roitman) and Braunschweig (l. to Hernandez), advanced to QF on grass at Halle...Posted 2nd RD win over No. 3 Davydenko before losing to Baghdatis...Also reached QF at Sopot.

2008 -- The German played until May before a finger injury sidelined him for rest of season...Compiled a 2-10 match record until being sidelined after his last tournament in Casablanca on May 19...His best result came in January in Auckland where he advanced to QF with wins over Querrey and Chela (l. to eventual champ Kohlschreiber)...Played in Davis Cup 1st RD tie against Korea and lost in five sets to Lee in second rubber...In May, reached QF at Dresden Challenger...Underwent surgery on second finger on his left hand in mid-June.

2009

The German compiled his best results in Challenger level play with a 43-16 match record and two titles in five finals…He also made one of biggest ranking jumps (282 positions) from previous year, climbing back into Top 75 for fifth time in six years…He opened season with runner-up at Noumea, New Caledonia (l. to Evans)…In March, he won Bangkok title (d. Udomchoke) and following month he was runner-up at Sofia (l. to I. Minar)…In May, he captured title in native country in Karlsruhe (d. D. Brown)…Two months later he was runner-up at Istanbul (l. to Marchenko)…Went 3-6 in ATP World Tour play, qualifying three straight weeks in Bangkok (l. to Chiudinelli), Beijing (l. to Blake) and Masters 1000 Shanghai (d. Petzschner, l. to Robredo).