David Ferrer

Born in Javia but moved to Gandia at age 13, then two years later to Barcelona to attend Catalan Tennis Federation...Spent nine months at Equelite, Juan Carlos Ferrero's Academy in Villena before moving back to Javea while practicing in Denia...Father, Jaime, is an accountant, and his mother, Pilar, is an elementary school teacher...Older brother, Javier, who is a tennis coach and former Spanish junior champion (under 13)...His other favorite sports are soccer and basketball and big fan of FC Barcelona...Enjoys reading and he keeps every book...Has a 5-2 career Davis Cup singles record in five ties... Coached by countryman Javier Piles.

2001 -- Captured his first Challenger title in Sopot ...

2002 -- Played consistently in ATP (10-6) and Challenger (35-13) tournaments, winning his first ATP title in Bucharest (d. Acasuso) while reaching his first ATP final in just his second ATP event in Umag (d. Nalbandian, Coria; l. to Moya)...Also won three Challenger titles... All 10 ATP match wins and 34 of 35 Challenger wins came on clay...

2003 -- Made debut at all four Grand Slam tournaments, as well as six ATP Masters Series events...At AMS Rome, upset defending champion Agassi in 1st RD (l. to Ljubicic in 2nd RD)...Reached final in Sopot (l. to Coria)...In doubles, reached first career final in Acapulco (w/Vicente)...

2004 -- Reached QF in Buenos Aires, Valencia and at AMS Hamburg (d. No. 6 Nalbandian, l. to Coria)...Advanced to SF in Stuttgart (l. to Gaudio)...Late in year, advanced to QF in Bucharest and SF in Palermo (l. to Berdych) and Lyon (d. Ferrero, l. to Malisse)...

2005 -- Advanced to SF at AMS Miami (d. Nalbandian, Ferrero, Hrbaty; l. to Nadal)...In his hometown Valencia, reached lone final of year (l. to Andreev in three sets)... Advanced to QF at AMS Monte Carlo (l. to Coria) and SF at AMS Rome (d. Gaudio, l. to Nadal)...Followed with personal-best QF at Roland Garros, rallying from an 0-4 fifth set deficit against defending champ Gaudio in 4th RD before losing to eventual champ Nadal...

Reached New Haven SF (l. to Lopez), then 3rd RD at US Open (l. to Hrbaty)...Closed season with QF at AMS Madrid (d. Puerta, l. to Ginepri) and AMS Paris (l. to Roddick)...Only lost once in 1st RD in nine AMS events while compiling a 20-9 mark...In doubles, won first two ATP titles in Vina del Mar and Acapulco (w/Ventura)...

2006 -- Finished in Top 15 for second year in a row while capturing his second career ATP title...Broke into Top 10 ATP Rankings for first time following a personal-best 4th RD effort at Australian Open (d. Ancic, l. to Santoro) on Jan. 30...Was in Top 10 for five weeks during year...Opened season with a QF showing in Auckland (l. to O. Rochus)...Then went 2-3 indoors, playing in 1st RD Davis Cup tie vs. Belarus, losing to Voltchkov in second rubber (won reverse dead rubber)...

In March, reached SF in Miami for second straight year (d. No. 4 Roddick, l. to Federer)...Followed with QF at AMS events in Monte Carlo (l. to Federer) and Hamburg (l. to eventual champion Robredo)...In Dnsseldorf, posted wins over two Top 10 players, No. 4 Ljubicic and No. 9 Gonzalez...Reached 3rd RD at Roland Garros and a career-best 4th RD at Wimbledon (d. Gonzalez in 3rd RD, l. to Hewitt)...Won second career ATP title in a five-hour Stuttgart final...Came back from two sets to one and a 1-5 deficit against Acasuso, saving 1 M.P. down 4-5 in the fourth set...

In August, reached QF at AMS Cincinnati (d. No. 10 Baghdatis, l. to Gonzalez) and followed with 3rd RD at New Haven (l. to Calleri) and US Open (l. to Youzhny)...Closed season with QF in Basel (l. to Federer)...Went 3-5 vs. Top 10 opponents...

2007--The No. 2 Spaniard (behind Nadal) compiled his best season by winning a career-high three ATP titles and advancing to his first SF at a Grand Slam tournament...Qualified for first Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai and reached final, winning four of five matches (l. to Federer)...Won a career-best 61 matches and also only lost four times in opening round in 25 tournaments during year...

Began season with his first ATP hard court title in Auckland (d. Robredo) and followed with 4th RD at Australian Open (l. to Fish)...Played in 1st RD Davis Cup tie vs. Switzerland and split his singles matches in 3-2 loss...In March, turned in QF at AMS Indian Wells (l. to Djokovic) and 4th RD at AMS Miami (l. to Roddick)...Played well on clay with QF at AMS Monte Carlo (l. to Federer), SF in Barcelona (l. to Nadal) and QF at AMS Hamburg (l. to Federer)...Then lost in 3rd RD at Roland Garros (l. to Verdasco)...After a 2nd RD exit at Wimbledon (l. to Mathieu), returned to clay and captured title in Bsstad (d. Almagro)...During summer hard court circuit, defeated Stepanek and No. 4 Roddick en route to QF at AMS Cincinnati (l. to Davydenko)...

Continued success at US Open where he beat Nalbandian (3rd RD), No. 2 Nadal (4th RD) and Chela (QF) before losing to Djokovic in SF... Afterwards, climbed from No. 15 to No. 8...In October, collected his first ATP title on Asian soil in Tokyo (d. Gasquet)...Closed indoor circuit with QF at AMS Paris (l. to Nalbandian)...He and Nadal were only players on ATP circuit to post at least 20 match wins on clay and hard courts...Went 9-7 vs. Top 10 opponents and compiled marks of 37-14 on hard, 22-7 on clay and 1-1 on grass... Surpassed $1 million in a season for first time in his career...One of ATP's best return of servers, leading three Ricoh ATP MatchFacts categories -- break points converted (48%), return games won (36%) and points won returning second serve (57%)...

2008 -- The No. 2 Spaniard (behind Nadal) captured two ATP titles in three finals and advanced to QF in two Grand Slam tournaments...Also helped his country to its first Davis Cup title in four years (d. Argentina 3-1)...Lost in opening rubber to Nalbandian, but won QF (d. Kohlschreiber) and SF (d. No. 8 Roddick) matches...Won over 40 matches for fourth straight year (44)...

Began first month with back-to-back QF efforts in Auckland (l. to Benneteau) and Australian Open (l. to eventual champ Djokovic)...In April, opened European clay court circuit by winning in his hometown of Valencia, defeating five countrymen en route, including Verdasco, Robredo and Almagro in last three rounds...Followed with QF at AMS Monte Carlo and runner-up in Barcelona (l. to Nadal both times)...At Roland Garros, reached QF for second time ('05) with five-set wins over Hewitt and Stepanek (l. to Monfils)...Then won his first ATP grass court title in 's-Hertogenbosch (d. Gicquel) and reached 3rd RD at Wimbledon (l. to Ancic)...

Returned to clay in Bsstad and advanced to SF (l. to Robredo)...Went 1-3 on hard courts before losing in 3rd RD at US Open to Japanese teenager Kei Nishikori in five sets...In past 12 Grand Slam tournaments from 2006-08 reached 3rd RD or better 11 times...In Davis Cup SF vs. U.S., rallied from a 1-2 set deficit in second rubber to beat No. 8 Roddick 8-6 in fifth set...In October, advanced to QF in Tokyo (l. to del Potro) and closed with back-to-back opening round losses at AMS Madrid (l. to Lopez) and AMS Paris (l. to Kohlschreiber)... Compiled marks of 21-7 on clay, 16-15 on hard and 7-1 on grass...Went 1-3 vs. Top 10 opponents and earned more than $1 million for second straight year.

2009

The No. 4 Spaniard advanced to the SFs or better in five of his first 16 tournaments...He opened with a SF in Auckland (l. to Querrey) before suffering third-round exit at Australian Open (l. to Cilic)…Then advanced to the SFs in Johannesburg (l. to Chardy) at the start of February and later that month reached his 13th career ATP World Tour final (7-6 record) in Dubai (l. to No. 3 Djokovic)...

In first-round Davis Cup tie vs. Serbia, helped his country to a 4-1 victory with wins over World No. 3 Novak Djokovic in opener and Viktor Troicki in dead rubber to close the tie…In mid-March, reached the fourth round (after a bye) at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells with wins over Todd Widom and Jeremy Chardy before losing to No. 7 Andy Roddick in three sets…He then reached the fourth round (after a bye) at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami with back-to-back three-set wins over John Isner and No. 17 seed Marin Cilic before losing to No. 7 ranked Juan Martin del Potro…

Reached the third round at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters before losing to countryman Fernando Verdasco… Followed by reaching his second ATP World Tour final of the season in Barcelona, falling to countryman and ATP World Tour No. 1 Rafael Nadal in a repeat of last year's title match…Then made a first-round exit in Rome to Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu in three sets and followed with a second-round loss in Estoril to countryman Oscar Hernandez and in Madrid to Argentine Juan Monaco…Reached the third round at Roland Garros, losing to eventual finalist Robin Soderling in four sets...

Lost in the quarter-finals of his bid to defend his grass-court title at ‘s-Hertogenbosch and followed with third-round showing at Wimbledon, where he lost in four sets to Radek Stepanek.

Returned to clay following Wimbledon and reached the semi-finals at Hamburg (l. to Davydenko) before losing in the second round at Umag (l. to Massu)…Was forced to retire with a knee injury just seven games into his second-round clash with countryman Rafael Nadal on hard courts at Montreal.