Nicolas Kiefer

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Olympic medalist
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Nicolas Kiefer
Medal record
Men's tennis
Silver 2004 Athens Doubles
Nicolas Kiefer
Country: Germany
Height: 1,82 m
Weight: 80 kg
Plays: right
Turned Pro: 1995
Singles Record: 305 - 222
Highest Rank: 4 (10.01.2000)
Singles Titles: 6
Doubles Titles: 3
Career Prize Money: $6,003,041
Grand Slam
Titles: 0
Australian Open SF (2006)
French Open 4r (2005)
Wimbledon QF (1997)
U.S. Open QF (2000)

Nicolas Kiefer (born July 5, 1977 in Holzminden), is a tennis player from Germany. His mother Nicole is French. He is currently the second-highest ranked German player (48th), behind Tommy Haas. He won a silver medal in tennis men's doubles with partner Rainer Schüttler at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Kiefer was taken notice of as an outstanding junior. He won junior Australian open, US open and a finalist and semi-finalist at Wimbledon and the French open finishing number 2 junior behind Zabaleta when he was 18.

On January 10, 2000 he reached his second quarterfinal at the Australian Open and afterwards was ranked World No. 4, his highest position to date.

Nicolas has been known to have a few tennis superstitions. He's sometimes seen tapping his racquet on the corners of the court after a point, although the reasons behind this are not clear.

Kiefer became infamous for an incident on January 25, 2006, during the quarter finals of the Australian Open. While facing Sébastien Grosjean late in the fifth set of a marathon match, Kiefer threw his racquet mid-point. Grosjean lost the point, hitting the ball into the net. Grosjean protested that the racquet distracted his shot. The umpire Carlos Bernades said he did not believe the act was intentional and noted Grosjean had already hit the ball before the flying racquet could have had any affect on his shot. Grosjean eventually lost the fifth and final set to Kiefer. Kiefer went through to the semi-finals where he was defeated by the 2004 champion Roger Federer.

Kiefer injured his wrist while playing at the 2006 French Open, and has yet to return to action.

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[edit] Singles

[edit] Titles (6)

  1. Toulouse (1997)
  2. Halle (1999)
  3. Tashkent (1999)
  4. Tokyo (1999)
  5. Dubai (2000)
  6. Hong Kong (2000)

[edit] Runner-up (11)

  1. Singapore (1997)
  2. Dubai (1999)
  3. Wien (1999)
  4. Moscow (2001)
  5. Halle (2002)
  6. Halle (2003)
  7. Memphis (2004)
  8. Scottsdale (2004)
  9. Indianapolis (2004)
  10. Los Angeles (2004)
  11. Moscow (2005)
  12. St. Petersburg (2005)

[edit] External link

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