Stanislas Wawrinka has secured his place in the second round of the French Open after a nail biting victory over unheralded Flavio Cipolla. The Italian new comer looked strong, but was unable to hold back the strength and quality of Wawrinka play as the twenty seven year old Swiss number two fired to a two set lead winning 6-3, 6-3. However the Young Italian fought back in the third set securing a 4-6 and went on to secure his second set of the game with a 3-6 victory in the fourth set. Unfortunately for Cipolla, the world number twenty Wawrinka came back strong to finish the game with a fifth set victory finishing 6-2.
Wawrinka best performance at the French open was a fourth round exit in 2010 and in last year’s competition is hoping to eclipse these efforts by reaching the business end of this year’s competition. However after a slip up in his first round, which in truth should have been a bread and butter victory for the Swiss, this is looking doubtful. 2012 has been a solid if uninspiring year for Wawrinka, who at twenty seven would be looking to hit the peak of his game, but with so many quality players in men’s tennis at the moment, the chances of Wawrinka gaining any ground in grand slam tournaments look few and far between. The Swiss number tow would really need to play well above himself to have any chance of offering any real possibility of challenging the big players.
Outside of open tennis Wawrinka will be more concerned about adding to his gold medal achieved in Beijing earned with fellow countryman and current world number 3 Roger Federer, by achieving a second doubles victory at this year’s London Olympics.
Stanislas Wawrinka has a German background while he himself is a Swiss tennis player. Wawrinka, unlike others prefers playing on a clay surface and has a kind of advantage when he plays with his backhand as he considers backhand strokes to be his power.
Wawrinka has been ranked world number 9 as of the year 2009 and he has done his country – Switzerland proud by winning the gold medal for his country in the 2008 Summer Olympics. During this event he had Roger Federer as his partner and they together achieved this goal by defeating Swedish Team Simon Aspelin.
Come 2011 and Wawrinka started his session in a very impressive manner indeed. Wawrinka defeated world number 6 – Berdych to win the Chennai Open crown. Going further Wawrinka defeated Xavier Malisse in the final in three sets. Coming to the Australian Open, Wawrinka reached the quarter finals of the tournament after defeating Andy Roddick. Wawrinka was finally defeated by Ronald Young in the second round of the 2011 U.S Open.
A different kind of strange news popped up in the year 2011 in the month of September when he mentioned that he will be no longer under the assistance of his coach – Lundgron. He had taken a decision that he would play the rest of the season without any assistance or without any coach. Coming to the 2011 Swiss Indoors Basel Wawrinka made it to the semi finals defeating Florian Mayer but finally succumbed to Roger Federer giving Federer the title. Wawrinka also played bif matches like the Davis Cup in the year 2009 where the result was tyed with Italy but the interesting part being that he had defeated Andreas Sippi in the first match itself.
Looking for his very first title of the season, world number seven tennis player Spain’s Fernando Verdasco will go one on one against world number twenty-nine Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka in a semi final match of the 2012 Abierto Mexicano Telcel that is one of the eleven ATP World Tour 500 events. Abierto Mexicano Telcel finished the 4 tournament “Golden Swing” through Latin America.
Fernando Verdaso, the former world number seven is looking for his 6th career win on ATP World Tour. Fernando grabbed two titles in the year 2010 and accordingly accomplished his career’s highest ranking of world number seven, but his progress was stopped by inconsistency and injuries. Fernando has an average 7 – 4 win – loss record for this season till now and he needs some good wins in his file got get his form back. Seeded 8th in this event, Verdasco topped his two-time champion and his compatriot Nicolas Almagro with a 6 – 4, 7 – 6 (5) win on Thursday and went into the semi-final of this ATP World Tour 500 championship.
Meanwhile, world number twenty-nine Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka is following his 4th ATP World Tour title. The Swiss master has a nice 7 – 4 win – loss record on tour this year. Stanislas Wawrinka got his career’s highest world ranking of world number nine in the year 2008 after showing some coherent results on tour. The Swiss ace has the ability to take a hop but he requirements to win a some titles to make his presence felt on ATP World Tour.
In head-to-head, both players are equally positioned at 1 – 1 against each other. Their last encounter was in Gstaad in 2005, where Wawrinka beat the the Spaniard in 3 gruelling sets. On Friday, we can anticipate same sort of fight.
Wawrinka will be left to reflect on his performance at the Australian Open this year with mixed feelings. He progressed into the third round of the tournament, beating Benoit Paire in the first round and completing a four set victory over Marcus Baghdatis before falling against the in-form Spaniard Nicolas Almagro. The Swiss competitor was seeded number 21 and in the end couldn’t quite improve on the predictions by making the last 16.
The number 10 seed proved too strong for Stanislas, and took the match in straight sets, although Wawrinka only relinquished the first set after a tie break in which he should have done better than to collect a measly two points. The match ended 7-6 (7-2), 6-2, 6-4, and Wawrinka will look back on the match and perhaps point to the huge 49 unforced errors as the main reason for defeat, but credit must be given to Almagro who kept it tight and played some superb tennis in the second and third sets.
The Spaniard had to deal with the pressure of a terrible head-to-head record against the Swiss number 2, but this hardly seemed to register in his mind on the day, and he will go into future clashes with confidence high. Before the third round encounter the record was 5-1 in Wawrinka’s favour, and the two players also competed together as juniors, so they knew each other’s game well enough not to face any surprises.
Despite his average performance in Melbourne this year, Wawrinka’s career is slowly improving, and during the past 2 years he has reached an impressive 5 quarterfinals of major competitions along the way, as well as securing titles at Chennai and Casablanca at smaller events. He has also taken some big scalps, defeating the world number 6 Berdych last year in Chennai, and of course Andy Murray at the 2010 US Open. At 26 years of age he still lacks the breakthrough into the top ten, but still has plenty of time and the necessary talent to do so.
The 17th ranked tennis player in the world Stanislas Wawrinka has stated that his fellow Swiss Roger Federer is by far the greatest ever player to have graced the tennis court and it would be very difficult for anyone to overtake the records of the classy Swiss Master. Although Wawrinka did have some decent results in the 2011 season, it was not good enough for him back home as the results were compared to the achievements of his compatriot, who according to Wawrinka, is miles ahead of everyone at the moment.
Wawrinka said that no matter where he went, his result were compared with what FedEx has achieved and that is very discomforting for the 26 year old, and has compared his situation with that of David Ferrer. According to Wawrinka, no matter what Ferrer does on court, he will still be overshadowed by the muscleman from Majorca and the same thing can be said about him as well and that is why, Stanislas Wawrinka says that he will never be given his due.
However, Wawrinka says that he has immense respect for his countryman, who has been his opponent on the court as well as his team mate in the Davis Cup and he believes that there is no model professional other than R-Fed. He said that he had the best season of his career by far in 2011 but he still had to be overshadowed by the legendary Swiss Master.
However, the best thing is that Stanislas Wawrinka does not hold any grudges against his fellow countryman and believes that he was just born in the wrong era. Wawrinka is currently gearing up for the Australian Open and a win here would take him to the top 10 of the world rankings for the first time in his career.
Stanislas Wawrinka is a Swiss tennis player. As his father is a German, he also holds German citizenship. He was born on March 28, 1985. He is 6 foot tall and lives in Saint Barthelemy in Switzerland. Wawrinka is currently at World No. 16 spot. He is best known for his powerful backhand play. He is considered as best performing on clay surfaced tennis courts. However, he has also given good results on hard surfaced courts too.
He is also a gold medalist at Olympics and runner up at ATP Masters in 2008. He is attracted to tennis from his childhood. He started taking part in international junior level events at the age of 14. He won the French Open Junior Championship 2003. At 15 he stopped going to school regularly as to give full time to the game. He was being coached by Dimitri Zavialoff, since he was 8 years old to July 2010.
Stanislas Wawrinka turned out to be a professional tennis player in 2002 at the age of 17. He has produced good results in both singles and doubles events. The best year for Stanislas Wawrinka was 2008. As teamed up with the Swiss legendry player, Roger Federer, he got a Gold Medal in 2008 Beijing Olympics in men’s doubles category defeating Simon Aspelin and Thomas Johansson of Sweden in the finals. They also defeated the American twin brothers Mike Bryan and Bob Bryan in the same tournament. He also entered the finals of Masters Series tournament in Rome. But, he lost against Novak Djokovic of Serbia, the currently World No. 1 tennis player. But, he has defeated Novak Djokovic Croatian Open in 2006.
He also entered the fourth round of Us Open and was defeated by Andy Murray. Latterly, his partner, Roger Federer revenged by defeating Murray in the finals. He was given the 2008 Swiss Team of the Year Award with Roger Federer.
In 2007, he reached third round of the Australian Open Tournament and was defeated by Rafael Nadal. He has never defeated Rafael Nadal. He also lost to Nadal in the finals of Mercedes Cup same year. Wawrinka is a one time winner and one time runner up of Chennai Open. He is a four time runner up in doubles tournaments. Wawrinka is considered a best in single handed backhand play. He usually falters in main events due to his weakness in mental strength. The fact is that he has only won 3 out of 9 tournament finals. He often alloys with Roger Federer for double events.
Stanislas Wawrinka is married to Ilham Vuilloud. They got married in December 2009. His wife was pregnant at the time of marriage and gave birth to Wawrinka’s daughter named Alexia in February 2010. After living for one year with his wife, Stanislas Wawrinka separated with her on accounts to give more epoch to tennis. Wawrinka is a good friend of the British No. 1 Player, Andy Murray. Stanislas Wawrinka is amused with music and movies too.
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