Rainer Schüttler Explained

Rainer Schüttler should not be confused with Rainer Schütterle.

Rainer Schüttler (pronounced as /de/; born 25 April 1976) is a German former professional tennis player. Schüttler was the runner-up at the 2003 Australian Open and a semifinalist at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. He won an Olympic silver medal in doubles at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 5 in April 2004.

Early life

He began playing tennis at the age of nine. He resides in Switzerland.

Career

2003–2009

In 2003, Schüttler became the first German since Boris Becker in 1989 to advance to the fourth round at all Grand Slam tournaments. He became the first German to reach a Grand Slam final, at the Australian Open, since Michael Stich was the runner-up at Roland Garros in 1996. En route to the final, which he lost in straight sets to Andre Agassi, he defeated Andy Roddick who would end the season as world No 1.

In 2004, Schüttler reached his first career ATP Masters Series final in Monte Carlo by beating Gustavo Kuerten in the first round, Lleyton Hewitt in the third round, Tim Henman in the quarterfinal and Carlos Moyá in the semifinal. In the final, he lost to Guillermo Coria. That week, he would reach a career-high ranking of No. 5. Schüttler won a silver medal for Germany in men's doubles with partner Nicolas Kiefer at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. 2004 was the sixth straight year in which he finished in the ATP top 50.

Schüttler reached his first career semifinal at Wimbledon by beating Santiago Ventura, James Blake, Guillermo García López, Janko Tipsarević, and Arnaud Clément 6–3, 5–7, 7–6, 6–7, 8–6. His match with Clément was over five hours, completed in two days to reach the semifinals, in which Schuettler saved a match point at 6–5 down in the fifth set. He was defeated by eventual champion Rafael Nadal 1–6, 6–7, 4–6. His achievement was a big surprise, since he entered the tournament ranked 94th and with a streak of 13 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments without making it past the second round.

His 2009 season Schüttler started off at the Chennai Open, beating Prakash Amritraj 6–2, 4–6, 6–1. In the second round, he beat Simon Greul 6–4, 6–2, and in the quarterfinals Björn Phau, 6–2, 7–5. Unfortunately Schuettler had to withdraw from his semifinal match against Somdev Devvarman because of a wrist injury. He also withdrew from the tournament in Sydney. At the Australian Open, he was seeded 30th but lost in the first round to Israeli Dudi Sela 1–6, 6–2, 6–4, 6–4. He also participated in the doubles with Lu Yen-hsun, but they were defeated by Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach. In the first round in Rotterdam, he lost to Mario Ančić. He played the Open 13 in Marseille, defeating Laurent Recouderc in the first round 6–1, 6–4.

He competed at the ARAG World Team Cup in Germany, helping his country reach the final, where they lost to Serbia.

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2010–2011

He reached the second round of the Australian Open defeating Sam Querrey in four sets. However he lost to Feliciano López in four sets, too. At the French Open, he again suffered a first-round exit, this time against Guillermo García López in straight sets. He reached the semifinal of the Aegon Championships at the Queens Club in London but lost to Sam Querrey in three sets 7–6, 5–7, 3–6. Despite his good form he was defeated by Denis Istomin in the second round of Wimbledon in five sets. At the quarterfinal of the Countrywide Classic in Los Angeles, Schüttler could not manage to close out the match against Querrey despite serving for it at 5–4 and 6–5 in the deciding set.He was knocked out in the first round of the US Open losing to Benoît Paire.At the Thailand Open in Bangkok, Schüttler beat Ricardo Mello in round one for a second round berth against Ernests Gulbis. He lost 6–7, 7–6, 4–6 in a close match.

In 2010, Schüttler and his former Davis Cup companion Alexander Waske founded the Schüttler Waske Tennis-University, a tennis academy for professional tennis players.

Schüttler started the tour at the Qatar Open where he confronted Teymuraz Gabashvili in the singles, but lost 3–5, 6–7. He also played doubles with Guillermo García López confronting Marco Chiudinelli and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, to whom they lost 1–6, 2–6. At the Australian Open, he played ninth seed Fernando Verdasco in the first round, but lost 1–6, 3–6, 2–6. He then played several Challenger series tournaments. At Wimbledon, he defeated Thomaz Bellucci in the first round, but lost to Feliciano López in the second 6–7, 7–6, 2–6, 2–6.

Schüttler officially retired in October 2012.

Significant finals

Olympic final

Doubles: 1 (silver medal)

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Masters Series finals

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

ATP Tour finals

Singles: 12 (4 titles, 8 runner-ups)

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–1) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP Masters Series (0–1) ATP Championship Series (1–0) ATP International Series (3–6)

Finals by surface Hard (3–6) Clay (0–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (1–0)

Finals by setting Outdoors (3–7) Indoors (1–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0		Doha, Qatar	World Series	Hard	Tim Henman	6–4, 5–7, 6–1
Loss	1–1		Chennai, India	World Series	Hard	Byron Black	4–6, 6–1, 3–6
Loss	1–2		Doha, Qatar	International Series	Hard	Fabrice Santoro	6–3, 5–7, 0–3 ret.
Win	2–2		Shanghai, China	International Series	Hard	Michel Kratochvil	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2–3		Hong Kong, Hong Kong	International Series	Hard	Marcelo Ríos	6–7(3–7), 2–6
Loss	2–4		St. Petersburg, Russia	International Series	Hard (i)	Marat Safin	6–3, 3–6, 3–6
Loss	2–5		Munich, Germany	International Series	Clay	Younes El Aynaoui	4–6, 4–6
Loss	2–6		Melbourne, Australia	Grand Slam	Hard	Andre Agassi	2–6, 2–6, 1–6
Loss	2–7		Costa do Sauipe, Brazil	International Series	Hard	Sjeng Schalken	2–6, 4–6
Win	3–7		Tokyo, Japan	Championship Series	Hard	Sébastien Grosjean	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Win	4–7		Lyon, France	International Series	Carpet (i)	Arnaud Clément	7–5, 6–3
Loss	4–8		Monte Carlo, Monaco	Masters Series	Clay	Guillermo Coria	2–6, 1–6, 3–6

Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP Masters Series (0–0) ATP Championship Series (1–0) ATP International Series (3–4)

Finals by surface Hard (1–2) Clay (3–1) Grass (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Finals by setting Outdoors (4–3) Indoors (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0		Stuttgart, Germany	Championship Series	Clay	Guillermo Cañas	Michael Hill Jeff Tarango	4–6, 7–6(7–1), 6–4
Loss	1–1		St. Petersburg, Russia	International Series	Hard (i)	Michael Kohlmann	Julian Knowle Nenad Zimonjić	6–7(1–7), 3–6
Win	2–1		Chennai, India	International Series	Hard	Lu Yen-hsun	Mahesh Bhupathi Jonas Björkman	7–5, 4–6, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	2–2		Gstaad, Switzerland	International Series	Clay	Michael Kohlmann	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	6–7(6–8), 6–7(11–13)
Loss	2–3		Halle, Germany	International Series	Grass	Michael Kohlmann	Fabrice Santoro Nenad Zimonjić	0–6, 4–6
Loss	2–4		San Jose, United States	International Series	Hard	Chris Haggard	Eric Butorac Jamie Murray	5–7, 6–7(6–8)
Win	3–4		Houston, United States	International Series	Clay	Ernests Gulbis	Pablo Cuevas Marcel Granollers Pujol	7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win	4–4		Munich, Germany	International Series	Clay	Michael Berrer	Scott Lipsky David Martin	7–5, 3–6, [10–8]

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles (6–8)

Legend ATP Challenger (6–8) ITF Futures (0–0)

Finals by surface Hard (3–6) Carpet (3–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0-1		Lübeck, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Geoff Grant	3–6, 3–6
Win	1-1		Eckental, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Petr Luxa	6–4, 6–1
Loss	1-2		Bad Lippspringe, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Michael Kohlmann	6–4, 6–7, 5–7
Win	2-2		Portorož, Slovenia	Challenger	Hard	Peter Wessels	6–3, 6–2
Loss	2-3		Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Hard	Davide Sanguinetti	5–7, 1–6
Win	3-3		Aachen, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Johan Settergren	7–6(7–5), 1–6, 6–1
Loss	3-4		Graz, Austria	Challenger	Hard	Florian Mayer	4–6, 7–5, 2–6
Win	4-4		Aachen, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Evgeny Korolev	6–3, 7–5
Win	5-4		Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Challenger	Hard	Sergiy Stakhovsky	7–6(7–2), 6–2
Loss	5-5		Athens, Greece	Challenger	Hard	Lu Yen-hsun	6–3, 6–7(3–7), 4–6
Loss	5-6		Rhodes, Greece	Challenger	Hard	Dudi Sela	6–7(3–7), 3–6
Loss	5-7		Dallas, United States	Challenger	Hard	Alex Bogomolov Jr.	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Loss	5-8		Cremona, Italy	Challenger	Hard	Igor Kunitsyn	2–6, 6–7(2–7)
Win	6-8		Astana, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard	Teymuraz Gabashvili	7–6(8–6), 4–6, 6–4

Doubles (2–0)

Legend ATP Challenger (2–0) ITF Futures (0–0)

Finals by surface Hard (1–0) Carpet (1–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0		Eckental, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Lars Rehmann	Georg Blumauer Max Mirnyi	6–4, 1–6, 6–3
Win	2–0		Heilbronn, Germany	Challenger	Hard	Michael Kohlmann	Sander Groen Michaël Llodra	walkover

Performance timelines

Singles

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	Q3	Q1	Q2	1R	2R	4R	3R	bgcolor=thistle	F	1R	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	2R	1R	Q2	0 / 13	15–13
French Open	A	A	Q1	Q2	1R	1R	1R	2R	4R	1R	1R	1R	Q3	1R	1R	1R	1R	A	0 / 12	4–12
Wimbledon	A	Q1	Q1	1R	2R	3R	2R	3R	4R	3R	1R	1R	A	bgcolor=yellow	SF	2R	2R	2R	A	0 / 13	19–13
US Open	A	A	Q2	Q2	1R	3R	2R	1R	4R	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	A	A	0 / 12	7–12
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–4	5–4	5–4	5–4	15–4	2–4	2–4	0–4	0–2	6–4	1–4	2–4	1–3	0–0	0 / 50	45–50
Year-end championships
Tennis Masters Cup	did not qualify								SF	did not qualify									0 / 1	2–2
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	NH	A	not held	style=background:#afeeee	2R	not held	style=background:#afeeee	1R	not held	style=background:#afeeee	2R	not held	A	0 / 3	2–3
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	QF	bgcolor=yellow	SF	2R	2R	2R	1R	1R	2R	2R	2R	A	0 / 11	11–11
Miami	A	Q1	Q1	A	1R	1R	2R	2R	3R	2R	2R	Q1	Q1	1R	3R	1R	2R	A	0 / 11	5–11
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	2R	bgcolor=thistle	F	1R	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	0 / 7	6–7
Rome	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	1R	1R	QF	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 5	3–5
Hamburg	Q1	A	Q1	Q1	3R	2R	1R	2R	3R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 10	7–10
Madrid (Clay)	not held							held on hard							1R	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
Canada	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	1R	bgcolor=yellow	SF	1R	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A	A	0 / 5	5–5
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	3R	A	A	QF	bgcolor=yellow	SF	1R	A	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	A	0 / 4	9–4
Stuttgart	A	Q2	A	Q1	1R	1R	1R	not held											0 / 3	0–3
Madrid (Hard)	not held							1R	2R	2R	A	A	A	1R	held on clay				0 / 4	0–4
Shanghai	not held														1R	A	A	A	0 / 1	2–1
Paris	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	1R	QF	1R	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 5	2–5
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	4–6	1–4	1–6	7–9	21–9	5–9	2–5	2–2	0–2	0–5	4–6	1–2	2–2	0–0	0 / 67	50–67
Career statistics
Year-end ranking	446	332	117	109	47	45	43	33	6	42	88	97	99	33	85	84	132	855

Doubles

Tournament	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	2R	2R	0 / 10	4–10
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	1R	2R	1R	QF	A	A	A	2R	0 / 6	5–6
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	1R	QF	2R	A	A	1R	1R	1R	0 / 7	5–7
US Open	A	A	A	A	Q1	1R	2R	2R	1R	2R	2R	2R	A	A	A	0 / 7	5–7
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–4	1–2	2–4	4–4	2–4	5–3	1–2	0–2	1–2	2–3	0 / 30	19–30
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	not held	A	not held	style=background:silver	F-S	not held	style=background:#afeeee	1R	not held	0 / 2	4–2
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	QF	1R	A	A	A	1R	A	A	0 / 4	2–4
Miami	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	0 / 3	1–3
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	1R	Q1	A	2R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	1–2
Rome	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Hamburg	Q2	2R	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	2R	1R	2R	not held			0 / 11	7–11
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	2R	2R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 3	2–3
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 3	1–3
Stuttgart	A	A	2R	1R	A	not held										0 / 2	1–2
Madrid (Hard)	not held					A	A	2R	A	A	A	A	held on clay			0 / 1	1–1
Paris	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	0–2
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–3	0–1	1–4	3–7	5–6	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	0–0	0 / 31	16–31
Career statistics
Year-end ranking	428	276	424	199	135	144	73	72	53	74	69	99	151	243	323

Top 10 wins

Season	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	Total
Wins	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	3	7	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	19

	width=180	Player	Rank	width=160	Event	Surface	Rd	width=170	Score
1997
1.	Thomas Enqvist	7	Chennai, India	Hard	1R	6–6 ret.	229
1999
2.	Tim Henman	7	Doha, Qatar	Hard	bgcolor=lime	F	6–4, 5–7, 6–1	124
3.	Carlos Moyá	bgcolor=thistle	2	Chennai, India	Hard	QF	6–1, 3–0 ret.	71
2001
4.	Juan Carlos Ferrero	5	Hong Kong	Hard	QF	6–3, 7–6(8–6)	44
5.	Juan Carlos Ferrero	5	St. Petersburg, Russia	Hard (i)	1R	7–6(10–8), 6–4	46
2002
6.	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	4	Doha, Qatar	Hard	QF	7–5, 6–4	43
7.	Thomas Johansson	8	Munich, Germany	Clay	1R	7–5, 6–3	29
8.	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	5	Cincinnati, United States	Hard	1R	6–3, 6–2	26
2003
9.	Andy Roddick	10	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	bgcolor=yellow	SF	7–5, 2–6, 6–3, 6–3	36
10.	Andy Roddick	6	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	QF	6–3, 6–2	15
11.	Jiří Novák	9	Rome, Italy	Clay	3R	6–4, 7–6(7–2)	13
12.	Andre Agassi	bgcolor=lime	1	Montreal, Canada	Hard	QF	2–6, 6–2, 6–3	8
13.	Sébastien Grosjean	10	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	bgcolor=lime	F	7–6(7–5), 6–2	8
14.	Guillermo Coria	4		Hard	RR	6–3, 4–6, 6–2	6
15.	Andy Roddick	bgcolor=lime	1		Hard	RR	4–6, 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3)	6
2004
16.	Tim Henman	7	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	QF	6–3, 6–1	6
17.	Carlos Moyá	8	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	bgcolor=yellow	SF	7–6(7–5), 6–4	6
2008
18.	James Blake	8	Wimbledon, London	bgcolor=#cfc	Grass	2R	6–3, 6–7(8–10), 4–6, 6–4, 6–4	94
2009
19.	Gilles Simon	7	World Team Cup, Düsseldorf	Clay	RR	6–4, 6–4	29

Coaching career

After retirement, he began his coaching career and has coached Janko Tipsarević, Sergiy Stakhovsky and Vasek Pospisil. Since November 2018, he coached former world No. 1, Angelique Kerber. In July 2019, Kerber announced they had split on social media.^[1]

Personal life

In 2014 Rainer met Serbian Jovana Sesevic, whose sister Biljana is married to another former top 10 player, Janko Tipsarević.^[2] They married in 2015 and have two sons (Noah and Leon) and now mostly reside in Switzerland.

External links

• Official website
  • • • Schüttler world ranking history

Notes and References

1. Web site: Coaching Carousel: Wimbledon champ Kerber hires former ATP pro Rainer Schüttler. WTA Tennis. Courtney. Nguyen. 13 November 2018. 15 November 2018.
2. https://twitter.com/tennis_photos/status/630148115157393408?lang=en Twitter message