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Clemens Trimmel

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Clemens Trimmel
Full nameClemens Trimmel
Country (sports) Austria
Born (1978-06-08) 8 June 1978 (age 46)
Vienna, Austria
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro1997
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$97,932
Singles
Career record1–8
Career titles0
1 Challenger, 5 Futures
Highest rankingNo. 147 (23 April 2001)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (1996, 2001, 2002)
French OpenQ3 (2001)
Doubles
Career record1–6
Career titles0
0 Challenger, 1 Futures
Highest rankingNo. 419 (16 July 2001)
Last updated on: 21 November 2022.

Clemens Trimmel (born 8 June 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Austria.

Biography

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Professional tour

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Trimmel, a right-handed player from Vienna, was a top-50 ranked junior. He turned professional in 1997 and made several main draw appearances at ATP Tour tournaments. Most notably he had a first-round win over world number 23 Jonas Björkman at St. Pölten in 1997.[1] At the same tournament the following year he narrowly lost to Thomas Muster, 5–7 in the final set. Muster was also his doubles partner at ATP Tour tournaments in Stuttgart and Kitzbühel.

His only Challenger title came in 2000 at the Oberstaufen Cup, where he defeated Radomír Vašek in the final. He was unable to defend his title in 2001 but did have a win over David Ferrer.

At the 2001 French Open he made it to the final round of qualifying, beating James Blake en route.[2]

Davis Cup

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The first of his two Davis Cup appearances for Austria was an away tie to Croatia in 2001. He played in the reverse singles, a dead rubber that he lost to Mario Ančić in a final set tie-break.[3] His second Davis Cup match came in 2002, when Austria hosted Israel in Tyrol. He partnered Alexander Peya in the doubles, which they lost in five sets to Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram.[4]

In 2012 he was appointed Austria's Davis Cup captain and in his first year took the team to the World Group quarter-finals, for the first time since 1995.[5] The Austrians were relegated in 2013 and after their 2014 campaign, in which they were unable to return to the World Group, Trimmel was replaced by Stefan Koubek. He also captained the Austria Fed Cup team in the 2014 season.[6]

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

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Singles: 11 (6–5)

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Legend
ATP Challenger (1–4)
ITF Futures (5–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (6–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 1997 Skopje, Macedonia Challenger Clay Serbia Dušan Vemić 3–6, 7–6, 3–6
Loss 0–2 Aug 1998 Nettingsdorf, Austria Challenger Clay Austria Markus Hipfl 2–6, 0–6
Loss 0–3 Aug 1999 Morocco F2, Casablanca Futures Clay Spain Pedro Rico Garcia 4–6, 6–4, 6–7
Win 1–3 Nov 1999 Cyprus F1, Nicosia Futures Clay Spain Óscar Burrieza López 6–3, 6–4
Win 2–3 May 2000 Austria F1, Salzburg Futures Clay France Charles-Edouard Maria 6–2, 6–4
Win 3–3 May 2000 Austria F2, Telfs Futures Clay Austria Thomas Schiessling 6–4, 6–4
Win 4–3 May 2000 Germany F4, Neckarau Futures Clay Russia Nikolay Davydenko 2–6, 6–1, 6–4
Win 5–3 Jun 2000 France F11, Noisy-le-Grand Futures Clay Spain Albert Montañés 6–1, 7–6(7–5)
Win 6–3 Jul 2000 Oberstaufen, Germany Challenger Clay Czech Republic Radomír Vašek 6–4, 6–1
Loss 6–4 Mar 2001 Cherbourg, France Challenger Hard Bulgaria Orlin Stanoytchev 4–6, 6–3, 5–7
Loss 6–5 Mar 2001 Magdeburg, Germany Challenger Carpet Germany Axel Pretzsch 4–6, 4–6

Doubles: 3 (1–2)

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Legend
ATP Challenger (0–1)
ITF Futures (1–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (0–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Feb 2000 France F4, Deauville Futures Clay France Jérôme Haehnel Spain Juan Gisbert-Schultze
Spain Marcos Roy-Girardi
6–4, 4–6, 4–6
Win 1–1 Feb 2000 Croatia F2, Zagreb Futures Hard Croatia Ivo Karlović Finland Tapio Nurminen
Finland Janne Ojala
6–4, 6–4
Loss 1–2 Jul 2001 Oberstaufen, Germany Challenger Clay Austria Thomas Strengberger Slovakia Karol Beck
Slovakia Branislav Sekáč
6–2, 1–6, 0–6

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Tennis Raiffeisen Grand Prix In St. Polten, Austria". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 20 May 1997. p. 53. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Tennis French Open Qualifying". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 25 May 2001. p. 54. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Kroatien gewinnt gegen Österreich 4:1". Der Standard (in German). 9 April 2001. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Daviscup: Bresnik stapelt tief". Der Standard (in German). 14 February 2002. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Trimmel named Austrian Davis Cup captain". USA Today. 28 October 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Jurgen Waber to return as Austria Fed Cup captain after year away, replaces Clemens Trimmel". Times Colonist. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
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