Wawrinka, Stan

Father Wolfram is German, mother Isabelle is Swiss; Among the relatives of the Swiss there are also Poles and Czechs, the surname Wavrinka is of Polish origin. Stan has dual Swiss-German citizenship. Stanislas has an older brother and two younger sisters.

Lives in the small village of Saint Barthélemy near Lausanne . On December 15, 2009, he married Swiss TV presenter and former model Ilham Vuyu , who on February 12, 2010 gave birth to Stanislas daughter. In 2015, the couple broke up ^[2] .

Wawrinka is a fan of the Lausanne hockey club.

Wawrinka was the standard bearer of the Swiss national team at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . In 2008, the Federer / Wavrinka (FedRinka) pair, who won the Olympic gold in doubles, was named Switzerland's best sports team.

Since the spring of 2014, a short version of his name is indicated on the competition application form instead of the full one - Stan ( Eng. Stan ) ^[3] .

Carier start

Wawrinka began playing tennis at the age of six. At the age of 15, he stopped attending school regularly to concentrate more on tennis. However, he continued his studies in distance learning courses. Wavrinka began playing at international junior tournaments at age 14. He began his professional career in 2002. He became the winner of the French Open in singles among juniors in 2003 (in the finals he defeated Brian Baker in 3 sets).

In July 2003, having received a special invitation from the organizers of the tournament in Gstaad , he made his debut in the competitions of the ATP tour . His first match at this level was played against Jean-René Lisnard and lost 6-2, 1-6, 5-7. A week later, at the tournament in Amersfoort in the first round, he beat Hugo Armando 6-4, 6-4 and reached the second round. He achieved the same result at the tournament in Umag .

In August 2003, he manages to win two tournaments from the ATP Challenger series in San Benedetto del Tronto and Geneva .

In 2004 he will make his debut for Switzerland in the Davis Cup . Two victories at ATP Challenger tournaments in Barcelona and Geneva also fall this year. A year later, at the ATP tournament in Barcelona, he first reached the quarter-finals, beating Garcia , Srichapan and Acasuso . This allowed him to enter the first hundred. In May 2005, the debut at the Masters series tournament . In Rome, in the first round he defeated Berdych 6-1, 6-4, and in the second he lost to Verdasco 6-7 (8), 2-6.

At the end of May 2005, he made his debut in major competitions at the Grand Slam series tournament - the French Open. Beating Nicholas Massa and James Blake , he was able to reach the third round, where he lost to Mariano Puerta . He also made his debut at the Wimbledon tournament , where he lost in the first round. In July, in Gstaad, he managed to reach his first ATP tournament final. In the decisive match, he lost to Gaston Gaudio 4-6, 4-6. At the US Open, he managed to reach the third round, beating Mariano Puerta in the second 10th player in the world. He finished that season in 54th place.

2006-07

It starts in the 2006 season with the semi-finals in Auckland . At the debut open championship of Australia reached the second round. In April, I was able to reach the semifinals at the tournament in Barcelona. At the French Open, he drops out of the fight in the first round, and at the Wimbledon tournament he reached the third round. At the tournament he liked in Umag in July 2006, Wavrinka was able to get his first title at ATP tournaments. To do this, in turn, he beat Alberto Martina , Marina Cilic , Juan Martín del Potro and Filippo Volandri . In the final, with a score of 6-6 (1), his rival Novak Djokovic refused to continue the match, and the title went to Stanislas.

At the US Open, defeating Juan Ignacio Celu and Robin Söderling , he entered the third round, where he lost to Tommy Robredo . In October, he reached the quarter-finals in Vienna , as well as the semi-finals in Basel (at the same time, he won the third at the time in the world David Nalbandyan in 1/4 of the tournament). He completes the 2006 season at 30th place in the ranking.

At the Australian Open 2007, Stanislas made it to the third round, where he lost to Rafael Nadal (2-6 2-6 2-6). After that, he was forced to miss more than three months due to an injury and returned to the tour only in May. At the French Open, he drops out in the second round, and at Wimbledon - in the first. In July, Wavrinka managed to reach the finals at a clay tournament in Stuttgart . In the decisive match, he lost to Rafael Nadal 4-6, 5-7. In August, he reached the quarterfinals in New Haven . At the US Open, he manages to enter the fourth round. At that time, this was his best achievement in Grand Slam tournaments. In October, at a tournament in Vienna, Wavrinka reached the final, where he lost to Djokovic 4-6, 0-6. He finished the year 36th.

2008

The season begins with a tournament in Doha , where he managed to reach the finals. In the fight for the title, he lost to Andy Murray 4-6, 6-4, 2-6. At the Australian Championships this time, he lost in the second round. In March, at the Masters Series tournament in Indian Wells he managed to reach the quarterfinals. In April, he reached the semifinal of the tournament in Barcelona. In early May in Rome, he first managed to reach the final of the Masters series tournament. To do this, he alternately outplayed Marat Safin , Andy Murray, Juan Carlos Ferrero , James Blake and Andy Roddick . In the decisive match of the tournament, Wavrinka is inferior to Novak Djokovic 6-4, 3-6, 3-6. This performance allowed him to rise in the ranking by 14 positions and for the first time take a place in the top ten (No. 10). At the open championship of France he reached the third round. A little better he performed at Wimbledon, reaching the fourth round. At the tournament in Gstaad, his result is a semifinal.

In August, Wawrinka took part in the Summer Olympics. At the Olympic tennis tournament in Beijing in singles, he lost to Jürgen Meltzer in the second round. Despite the failure of Stanislas in singles, in the doubles he was waiting for success. Together with his eminent partner Roger Federer, he was able to get the Olympic gold medal. In the final, the Swiss couple outplayed the Swedish pair Simon Aspelin and Thomas Johansson 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-3. By the way, until this moment, the newly-minted Olympic champion did not win a single ATP tournament in doubles.

After the Olympics at the US Open, he was able to reach the fourth round, where he lost to Andy Murray. At the end of the season he did not overcome the first rounds at various tournaments and ended the season in 13th place.

2009-10

At the Australian Open 2009, he reached the third round. In March, at the Masters in Indian Wells and Miami, he reached the fourth round. In April, at Masters in Monte Carlo, he managed to reach the semifinals. At the same time, in the match of the third round, for the first time in his career, he managed to beat his compatriot Roger Federer 6-4, 7-5. At the French Open, he dropped out in the third round. Before the Wimbledon tournament he managed to win the Challenger level tournament in Lugano . At Wimbledon itself, he reached the fourth round, where he lost to Andy Murray. At the US Open, flew out in the first round. In October, he reached the quarter finals in Tokyo , and in November in Basel.

The start of the 2010 season fell on the tournament in Chennai , where he reached the final (lost to Cilic). At the Australian Championship he finished his performance in the third round. In April, defeating Victor Hanescu 6-2, 6-3 in the tournament final in Casablanca , he won his second career ATP title in singles. At Masters in Rome, he was able to beat tennis players such as Jürgen Meltzer, Tomas Berdych, Robin Söderling, and reach the quarterfinals, where he lost to Rafael Nadal. At the tournament in Belgrade, he reached the semifinals.

At the French Open, he managed to reach the fourth round, losing to Federer. Like a year ago, before Wimbledon he won the Challenger in Lugano. At the Wimbledon tournament itself, he lost to Denis Istomin in the first round. At the 2010 US Open, he first made it to the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam series. To do this, in the third round he managed to beat No. 4 in the world ranking of Andy Murray 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-3. In the fight for reaching the semifinals, he lost to Russian Mikhail Youzhny 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-3, 3-6, 3-6. In October, he reached the quarter finals in Stockholm .

2011-12

The beginning of the 2011 season is developing successfully for Wawrinka. At the first tournament for himself in the year in Chennai, where he reached the final a year ago, he was able to win the title. To do this, he defeated Xavier Malissa 7-5 4-6 6-1 in the final, and before that in the semi-final No. 6 in the world, Tomas Berdych 6-4, 6-1. He showed good tennis at the Australian Open, where he reached the quarterfinals. Among those he defeated were No. 12 Gael Monfils (7-6 (4) 6-2 6-3) and No. 8 Andy Roddick (6-3 6-4 6-4). Federer blocked him the way further (1-6 3-6 3-6). In February, he was waiting for the semi-finals in Buenos Aires and the quarter-finals in Acapulco .

In March, he reached the quarterfinals at Masters in Indian Wells, defeating Davydenko , Cilic and Berdykh and losing to Federer. Once again Federer Wavrinka lost in the fourth round of the French Open. At the Wimbledon tournament, he dropped out in the second round. In July, reached the quarterfinals in Gstaad, and in August - in Montreal . At the US Open in the second round, he lost to Donald Young 6-7 (7) 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-7 (1). At the end of the season, he reached the semifinals in Basel, finishing the year in 17th place.

At the beginning of the 2012 season, he could not defend last year's title at the tournament in Chennai, losing in the quarter finals of Guo Soed . At the Australian Open he dropped out in the third round. In February, at tournaments in Buenos Aires and Acapulco managed to reach the stage of the semi-finals. At Masters in Indian Wells, he lost in the third round. In April, at the dirt Masters in Monte Carlo, he reached the quarter-finals, and at the tournament in Estoril , he reached the semifinals. In May, at the Masters in Madrid and Rome, he completes his performances in the third round. At the French Open, his result was the fourth round (beat Chipolla , Andujara and Simon , lost to Tsonga ).

At the Wimbledon tournament, in a bitter struggle, in the first round he lost to Jürgen Meltzer (6-3 6-7 (2) 6-2 4-6 6-8). In July, he took part in a tournament in Gstaad, where he lost in the first round. In late July, Wawrinka took part in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . This Olympics was the second in his career. In singles Stanislas already in the first round lost to future Olympic champion Andy Murray 3-6, 3-6. In the men's doubles, together with Federer, he is eliminated in the second round.

The post-Olympic segment of the year brought the semi-finals to Masters in Cincinnati , where Wawrinka outplayed David Ferrer , but lost to Roger Federer. Following Stanislas reached the fourth round at the US Open , where he was forced to play in the match against Novak Djokovic because of local health problems. In autumn, the Swiss played without much success, losing at each tournament to their first opponent from Top10.

2013-14

In the 2013 season, Wawrinka once again reached the peak of its capabilities: in January, he won his first doubles title in more than four years, winning with Benoit Per in a small tournament in Chennai . Then the Swiss played a good Australian Open , where although he again lost to Novak Djokovic , he only conceded defeat at the sixth hour of the game after the twenty-second game of the fifth game. Following Stan played several tournaments on the ground, having achieved a single finals in competitions in Buenos Aires , losing the title to David Ferrer . The March North American Masters tournaments were held without much success, one of the reasons for which were back pain, ^[4] which did not allow even the California tournament to be properly played.

A few weeks of rest allowed to solve all problems, and during the dirt season Wawrinka gradually returned to his best form: in Monte Carlo he managed to beat Andy Murray , then the Swiss won his first single title in more than two years - in Oeiras , where in he managed to win the final for the Argentinean failure at David Ferrer . Further, Wawrinka made his way to his first final in five years of the Masters series tournament: in Madrid he outplayed Jo-Wilfried Tsong and Tomas Berdykh , but lost to Rafael Nadal . The Spaniard ended the path of Stanislas and at the main start of this segment of the season - at Roland Garros , where their paths crossed in the quarterfinals.

Having shockly spent the unpaved segment of the season, the Swiss could not properly approach Wimbledon, and if he could reach the final at the warm-up tournament in the Netherlands, he lost at the start of the British Grand Slam tournament. The next summer segment of the season was extremely unsuccessful, but Wawrinka returned to his best form to the US Open and reached the semi-finals of this tournament, noting victories over Andy Murray and Tomas Berdykh and losing to Novak Djokovic in another protracted match. Autumn passed without much success, but previous achievements were enough to qualify for the final tournament , where, having won against Berdych and Ferrer, the Swiss reached the semifinals.

The start of the 2014 season brought Stanislas to a whole new level: by winning a dozen matches in a row in January, he was the first to become the strongest in the Grand Slam tournament, breaking the resistance of Djokovic, Berdych and Nadal on Australian courts (moreover, the Spaniard Wavrinka won the match for the first time in thirteen meetings in protest), and for the first time rise in the Top-3 ATP ranking . In the future, all, however, his results stabilized again at the level of the player at the end of the top ten, and only in April the Swiss could once again show their potential by winning the Masters in Monte Carlo , where compatriot Roger Federer was replayed in the final. The success on the courts of the Monte Carlo Country Club became unique against the backdrop of a not-so-successful dirt season - in the three remaining major tournaments - in Madrid , Rome and Paris, Wawrinka won only one match in total. The rest of the season was more successful: Stanislas achieved two quarter finals at the Grand Slam tournaments, selected for the Final tournament , where he was able to overcome the group stage. Wavrinka’s success also included the semifinals of the Indian Wells doubles competition that year, where he defeated two seeded couples with Roger Federer , as well as the Davis Cup win, on the way to which Federer and Wavrinka consecutively beat the national teams of Serbia , Kazakhstan , Italy and France .

2015

The start of the next year, 2015, also began with a successful series: Stanislas won secondary tournaments in Chennai and Rotterdam , and reached the semi-finals at the Australian Open , losing to Novak Djokovic in five sets. The rest of the hard season and the beginning of the soil series were not very successful, but by May Wavrinka again began to reach the peak of form: first having reached the semi-finals in Rome , simultaneously beating Rafael Nadal , and then winning Roland Garros , where he won in the final in four games over Novak Djokovic . For Djokovic, this defeat, in the end, was the only one at the Grand Slam tournaments in 2015: Novak won the remaining three tournaments of the series.

2016

The year began by winning the tournament in Chennai . At the Australian Open, he reached the fourth round, where he lost to Raonic . Then Wawrinka won two tournaments: in Dubai and in Geneva. At Roland Garros he reached the semifinals, where he lost to Andy Murray. At the Wimbledon tournament, he lost to Juan Martin del Potro in the second round. In September, Wawrinka won his third victory in Grand Slam tournaments, defeating Novak Djokovic in the US Open final with a score of 6-7 (1-7) 6-4 7-5 6-3. Since January 2014, Wavrinka has won 11 ATP tournaments in a row in a row, in which he participated, including three titles at Grand Slam tournaments. The series ended on September 25, 2016, when he lost in the St. Petersburg final . Petersburg Open to Alexander Zverev .

2017

At the beginning of the year at the Australian Open, he reached the semifinals, where in a stubborn five-set match he lost to Roger Federer.

In March, at a tournament in Indian Wells, he reached the finals, where he again met with Roger Federer, and again luck was on the side of Federer.

2019

At the Australian Open, Stan was unlucky with the draw, and he met in the first round with the seventh racket of the world Milos Raonic and lost to him in four sets. At the next tournament in Rotterdam ( Netherlands ) he reached the final, in which he was considered a favorite, but the Frenchman Gael Monfils opposed this, having beaten the Swiss in a three-set match.

In May 2019, Wawrinka participated in the Mutua Madrid Open , where he reached the quarterfinals, but lost to the “King of the Ground” Spaniard Rafael Nadal without a fight in two sets with a score of 6-1, 6-2. In New York , Stan reached the quarter finals, defeating the first seeded Novak Djokovic on the way, but then lost in four sets to Russian Daniil Medvedev . At the ATP 250 tournament in Antwerp , the Swiss again reached the final, but lost to the eminent Briton Andy Murray in three sets. Although winning the first set 6: 3 entered with a break in the second and third set, respectively.

According to the official ATP website for the last week of the year ^[5] .

По состоянию на 27 мая 2019 года

In order to prevent confusion and doubling of the score, the information in this table is adjusted only at the end of the tournament or at the end of the participation of this player.