Sam Querrey

Full name is Sam Austin Querrey...Began playing tennis at age four when introduced by his mother, Chris, is a housewife...Father, Mike, is a mortgage banker and was drafted by Detroit Tigers but chose to play college baseball instead...Has one younger sister Ellen, who is an outstanding volleyball player at Thousand Oaks High School...Had a full scholarship offer to play at Univ. of Southern California before deciding to turn pro in June 2006...Hobbies include playing basketball, table tennis and golf...As a junior, reached QF at US Open juniors in 2004 and Roland Garros juniors in 2005...Also won back-to-back junior hard court titles at USTA Spring Championships and Easter Bowl in April 2005...A Los Angeles Clippers (NBA) fan...Favorite surface is hard courts and considers serve and forehand his strength...Practice partner for US Davis Cup team in 2005-07 before making debut in 2008...Hit two home runs in batting practice on Mar. 29, 2008 at Dolphins Stadium in Miami...Coached by David Nainkin and Alex Reichel.

2008 -- The American finished in Top 50 for first time highlighted by his first ATP title and Grand Slam-best 4th RD at US Open...Also made his Davis Cup debut in SF vs. Spain...In January, advanced to 3rd RD at Australian Open (l. to Djokovic) for second straight year and followed with SF in Delray Beach (l. to Nishikori)...In March, broke through to win first ATP title in Las Vegas (d. Anderson)...On clay, advanced to QF at AMS Monte Carlo (l. to Djokovic)...Did not win back-to-back matches again until July at Indianapolis where he reached SF (l. to Simon)...Then at US Open, turned in a 4th RD showing (d. No. 14 Karlovic, l. to Nadal)...Made Davis Cup debut vs. Spain and lost to Nadal in four sets and Lopez in dead rubber...Finished with a 2-4 mark...Ranked No. 8 in aces (523, 10.1 avg.) and went 1-8 vs. Top 10 opponents with lone win coming over No. 9 Gasquet at AMS Monte Carlo en route to QF...Compiled marks of 23-16 on hard, 4-6 on clay and 1-3 on grass...Earned a career-high $546,835.

2007 --In first full season on ATP circuit finished in Top 75...Won 19 ATP level matches, advanced to his first ATP SF in Indianapolis and a QF in three other tournaments while breaking into Top 50...Also finished No. 7 in aces (509) and hit a record 10 consecutive aces in a match...Reached 3rd RD at Australian Open (l. to Robredo), QF in Memphis (d. Karlovic, l. to eventual champ Haas) and Las Vegas (l. to Korolev)...Beat No. 10 Blake for first Top 10 victory before losing to eventual champion Tursunov...In win over Blake, fired a career-high 34 aces, including a record 10 in a row...Following week at Vancouver Challenger, reached final (l. to Niemeyer)...Returned to ATP action at AMS Cincinnati and defeated Gicquel, No. 10 Youzhny and Monaco before losing to Blake in three sets in QF...Afterwards, climbed from No. 65 to 47....In doubles, reached QF at US Open (w/Kendrick).

2006 -- Jumped more than 600 ranking positions from previous season to become fourth-youngest player in year-end Top 150...Compiled a 25-8 record in Challenger play and won three titles...Made ATP debut in San Jose (l. to Spadea)...Earned first ATP win at AMS Indian Wells over Reynolds before falling to eventual finalist Blake in three sets...Early in summer, claimed Challenger titles in Yuba City (d. Warburg) and Winnetka (d. Stoppini)...Reached 2nd RD at three straight ATP events in July, at Newport, Indianapolis and Los Angles...Took opening set off Nadal at AMS Cincinnati in a tie-break in 1st RD loss...In US Open debut, defeated Kohlschreiber before falling to Gaudio...Followed by winning title at Lubbock Challenger (d. Okun)... Closed season with SF at Seoul and QF at Busan Challengers

2005 -- Reached first Futures final in Honolulu (l. to Odesnik)...Also reached QF in Waikoloa (l. to Evans)....Made US Open debut in doubles (w/Young) and lost in 1st RD...

2004 -- Played Laguna Niguel Futures event and lost 1st RD...

2003 -- Reached 2nd RD in Ojai Futures...

2002 -- One week before 15th birthday, played in Ojai, California Futures event (l. to Hippensteel)...

2010

Went 0-3 in singles play in January, falling in 1st RDs at Brisbane, Sydney and Australian Open...In February, reached San Jose SFs (l. to top seed Roddick 26 76(5) 76(4)...With his compatriot Fish, the duo clinched their first ATP World Tour title beating Becker-L. Mayer 76(3) 75 in 86-minute San Jose final...Pair beat No. 3 Brunstrom-Rojer and No. 2 Butorac-Ram en route to final and did not drop all week...It was Querrey's first doubles final..."It's a great week, semis in singles and winning the first doubles title is exciting"...The pair had not advanced beyond the quarter-finals in their four previous main draw appearances together...

Went even better the following week, winning both singles and doubles titles at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis…Defeated Davis Cup teammate Isner 67(3) 76(5) 63 in the singles final to clinch his third ATP World Tour title…The American duo then combined to win the doubles title with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Hutchins-Kerr…He became the second player this season (also Llodra in Marseille) to win both singles and doubles titles at the same ATP World Tour tournament…"It's tough playing your good buddy like that. If anyone else won a tournament I'd want it to be him. You're not going to get the same reaction out of me for winning this than if I was playing someone else"...Jumped nine places to a career-high No. 22 on 22 February... 

In March, represented United States in two singles rubbers versus Serbia at Belgrade in Davis Cup 1st RD...At Indian Wells, as No. 17 seed, fell to No. 15 seed Isner 76(3) 64 in 3rd RD...