In 1999, he won the boy's singles event at Wimbledon. For many years he was known as one of the best players on the tour not to have progressed past the third round of a Grand Slam event. He ended this streak when he reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 2010. He has also had success in doubles, winning Wimbledon in 2010 with Philipp Petzschner.
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Contents
1 Career
1.1 Early Years
1.2 2004-2006
1.3 2007-2009
1.4 2010
1.5 2011
2 Equipment
3 Grand Slam Men's Doubles Finals (1 Win)
4 ATP Tour Titles
4.1 Singles: 10 (3–7)
4.2 Doubles
4.3 Doubles Finalist (13)
4.4 Performance timeline
4.4.1 Singles
4.5 Doubles
5 References
6 External links
Career
Early Years
In 1998 Melzer started playing in the Futures in his country where he won his first two matches but lost the next four.
In 1999, He started playing outside of Austria in the Futures and Challengers. He competed in his first main draw match in the 1999 CA-TennisTrophy in Vienna, Austria where he defeated Lars Burgsmüller 7-6, 2-6, 6-3 before losing to then world no. 11 Nicolas Kiefer 4-6, 0-6.
In 2000, Melzer continued playing in the Futures and Challengers but was only able to reach one Quarterfinals. He also made his Grand Slam debut at the 2000 Wimbledon but lost to Australian Mark Philippoussis 4-6, 6-7, 7-5, 4-6.
In 2001, He reach his first Futures final event at Poprad, Slovak losing to Juraj Hasko 6-7, 2-6. However, he was able to capture his first ever title at the Challenger in Monchengladbach, Germany over local hero Jens Knippschild 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. He was also able to take his first ever top 100 and top 20 win over Fabrice Santoro then world no. 18 with the score of 6-7(8), 6-4, 6-4 in 2001 CA-TennisTrophy but lost the next round to Michel Kratochvil 6-7(4), 6-7(5).
In 2002, He regularly competed in the challenger events reaching two finals but losing in both attempts to Alexander Popp 6-3, 3-6, 4-6 in Heilbronn, Germany and to Luis Horna 4-6, 2-6 in Furth, Germany. He was able to reach his first ATP Tour Quarterfinals in the 2002 Internationaler Raiffeisen Grand Prix defeating Sargis Sargsian 6-0, 6-2 and Andrea Gaudenzi 6-3, 7-5 before losing to eventual champion Nicolás Lapentti 2-6, 6-4, 3-6. However he did better in the 2002 Croatia Open by reaching the Semifinals defeating Vincent Spadea 2-6, 6-3, 4-2, Agustín Calleri 6-7(3), 7-5, 6-4 and Victor Hănescu 6-4, 6-4 before losing to eventual champion Carlos Moyá 6-7(1), 1-6. He also won his first ever Grand Slam match at the 2002 US Open over Jack Brasington 6-3, 7-5, 6-3 before losing to Nicolás Massú 4-6, 6-7(3), 6-4, 0-6. At the 2002 CA Tennis Trophy he earned one of the biggest wins of his career by defeating then world no. 2 Tommy Haas 6-4, 6-3 to reach the Quarterfinals before losing to Jiří Novák 4-6, 2-6.
The start of 2003 wasn't a good one for the Austrian as he lost 3 consecutive Tour level main draw matches including his Australian Open debut. He rebounded in April by reaching the semifinals losing to then world no. 2 Andre Agassi 4-6, 1-6. He also made his French Open debut but lost to David Ferrer 2-6, 2-6, 6-7(2). At the 2003 Wimbledon Melzer upset then world no. 15 Fernando González 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(6) to earn his first Wimbledon victory but lost to Jonas Björkman 4-6, 2-6, 6-2, 3-6 the following round. Melzer reached his first Atp tour final at the 2003 Miller Lite Hall of Fame Tennis Championships without defeating a player in the top 100 but lost to Robby Ginepri 4-6, 7-6(3), 1-6 in the final. In the 2003 US Open Melzer reached the 2nd round again but lost Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-1, 6-7, 2-6, 4-6. Before the end of the year Melzer earned another top 20 victory over Tommy Robredo in the 2003 CA Tennis Trophy.
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