Mardy Fish

Father, Tom, is a teaching professional in Vero Beach; mother, Sally, is a housewife...Younger sister, Meredith (born Mar. 4, 1983), played at Flagler College in Florida...Moved from Minnesota to Vero Beach, Fla. at age four in 1985...Attended Vero Beach High School for first three years and his senior year at Boca Prep in Boca Raton... Lived with Andy Roddick’s family for one year in 1999...Played on same high school basketball and tennis teams with Roddick that year.

Has a 6-6 career Davis Cup record (4-5 in singles) in eight ties...Big fan of all Minnesota sports teams...During 2004 US Open, hit a 370-foot home run over right field wall during batting practice at Shea Stadium, home of New York Mets...In 2006, again took BP at Shea, but was kept inside the park...Named 2006 ATP Comeback Player of Year...Teams up with childhood friend and country music star Jake Owen to host Mardy's Tennis and Jake's Music Fest in Vero Beach every December...Wife, Stacey Gardner (married Sept. 28, 2008 in Beverly Hills)...Fitness trainer is Christian LoCascio.

2000 -- Advanced to first ATP QF in Newport...In doubles, won Urbana Challenger...

2001 -- Reached QF in Scottsdale and runner-up at Kerrville Challenger finalist (l. to A. Kim)...

2002 -- Reached QF in Newport before winning Challengers at Bronx and San Antonio...Won first ATP doubles title in Houston (w/Roddick)...

2003 -- Finished a year-end best No. 20 and claimed first ATP title in Stockholm (d. Soderling)...Also runner-up in Delray Beach (l. to Gambill), Nottingham (l. to Rusedski) and AMS Cincinnati, losing to Roddick in a third-set tie-break (held 2 M.P.)...Held serve 74 straight games during week and extended streak to 92 games before losing to Kucera in 2nd RD at US Open...

2004 -- Finalist in San Jose (l. to Roddick), Halle (l. to Federer) and Athens Olympics (l. to Massu in five sets)...Also helped U.S. to Davis Cup final (l. to Spain, 3-2) by going 3-2 in singles...Sidelined for seven weeks with hip tendinitis...In doubles, captured San Jose and Houston titles (w/Blake)...

2005 -- Suffered left wrist injury during practice in Rome on May 2...Underwent surgery on June 13...Returned to action in July, but after just three events had a second operation on Sept. 15...

2006 -- Dropped to as low as No. 341 on Feb. 20 before climbing up ATP Rankings to finish at No. 47...In April, won the clay title in Houston, ranked No. 212 as a wild card (d. Melzer)...Reached three other ATP QF...Won two Challenger titles in three finals...

2007 -- Finished in Top 50 bv winning 12 of his first 16 matches through February...Reached SF in Auckland, Grand Slam-best QF at Australian Open (d. No. 4 Ljubicic, Ferrer, l. to Roddick), San Jose and SF in Memphis (l. to Haas)...In August, runner-up in New Haven (d. Karlovic, l. to Blake)...Fired 534 aces (11.4 average) to finish No. 5 in Ricoh ATP MatchFacts.

2008 -- The No. 3 American (behind Roddick, Blake) finished in Top 25 for first time since 2003...Reached two ATP finals and QF or better in five other tournaments, including his first at US Open...In first three months, reached back-to-back QF in Delray Beach and San Jose and then advanced to final at AMS Indian Wells where he defeated three Top 10 opponents -- No. 4 Davydenko (3rd RD), No. 7 Nalbandian (QF) and No. 1 Federer (SF) before losing to No. 3 Djokovic in three sets...

On clay best result was QF in Houston...Did not reach another QF or better until August in Los Angeles where he advanced to SF (l. to del Potro)...Two weeks later, reached final in New Haven (l. to Cilic) for second straight year and then followed with QF at US Open (d. No. 9 Blake in 3rd RD, l. to Nadal)...Played two European events and was 2-2...

Played in Davis Cup SF vs. Spain (w/M. Bryan) and won five-set doubles match...Went 4-7 vs. Top 10 opponents and compiled records of 26-15 on hard, 4-5 on clay and 2-3 on grass...Ranked No. 7 in Ricoh ATP MatchFacts with 554 aces (10.1 average)...Earned a career-high $847,690.

2009

The American started 12-5 with final in San Jose (l. to Stepanek) and won title in Delray Beach (d. Korolev)…Reached QF in Estoril (l. to Davydenko), Queen’s (l. to Murray) and Los Angeles (w/o vs. L. Mayer)…Played Davis Cup QF vs. Croatia and lost to Cilic 8-6 in fifth set…Fractured rib in loss…Underwent left knee injury surgery Sept. 28…Played three tournaments in second half of year…In doubles, captured titles in Memphis (w/Knowles) and Indian Wells* (w/Roddick)…Reached career high No. 14 in doubles before ending at No. 19.