Stanislas Wawrinka - one of the best Swiss tennis players

Stanislas Wawrinka is a professional tennis player from Switzerland. Stan for his career was able to win three wins in the Grand Slam tournaments.

Carier start

Stanislas Wawrinka started playing tennis at the age of six. At the age of fifteen he stopped paying attention to his studies and concentrated on this sport. His first official tournament he spent fourteen years. Swiss debut fell on the international Challenger among juniors.

In 2003, Wawrinka won the junior French Open. This happened a year after his professional career began. In the middle of the summer of the same year, he made his debut at an adult level. His first game was a duel against Jean-René Lisnar, who ended in defeat.

First trophies

In 2004, Stanislas Wawrinka played his debut in the Davis Cup, after which the Swiss won wins at the tournaments in Barcelona and at home in Geneva. In the first hundred ranking professional tennis players Stan came in 2005 after falling into the quarter finals ATR in Barcelona.

The first victory in the finals of ATP tournaments happened in 2006 in Umag, where on the way to the final game Stanislas defeated Martić, Cilic, Del Potro and Volandri. In the decisive match, Swiss rival Novak Djokovic became Serb . In the first set, the score was 6-6, and Nowak did not qualify for a tie-break due to injury.

Grand slam

The 2013 season for Wawrinka is still one of the best. At the beginning of the year, he was able to win the tournament in Chennai in a pair. At the Australian Open, Stan lost to Djokovic. After that, Wawrinka took part in several ATP competitions, where he once reached the final.

In Oeiras, Stanislas won the first trophy in singles in the last two years. At the APR in Madrid, the Swiss lost to Rafael Nadal in the decisive match. It was Rafa who became the stumbling block for Stanislas and the French Open.

At Wimbledon, Stan could not show the proper level of the game and finished it at an early stage. To the last tournament of the Grand Slam Stanislas approached in good form and stopped a step away from the final match.

In January 2014, Stan won the first Grand Slam. At that tournament, he broke the resistance of Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. By the way, victory over Nadal was the first for Wawrinka for thirteen meetings between these athletes.

A year later, Stanislas won a second victory in the Grand Slam tournaments. They became the French Open. After the disastrous matches on the hard, which passed after the Australian Championship, Wawrinka prepared for the main start of the ground competitions and defeated Novak Djokovic in the final. For the Serb this was the only defeat in major tournaments in 2015.

The third and at the moment the last victoria in the Grand Slam tournaments happened in the autumn of 2016, when Stanislas won the American Open. In the final again was defeated Novak Djokovic, who at that time occupied the first line in the ranking of the best tennis players in the world. Having lost the first game on a tie-break, Stanislas won in the next three.

This year, Wawrinka could not yet win any major tournament of the Grand Slam. In addition, Roland Garros Stan, although he reached the final match, but during the whole tournament he was only his shadow.

Positions in the rating

At the moment, Stanislas Wawrinka in the ranking of professional tennis players takes the third place. From the second position, which occupies the Spaniard Nadal, he lags about 1000 points, and from the leader of the British rating Andy Murray - more than 3000 points.

The last three seasons Stanislas finished the year in fourth position. His best place was the third position, which he held for several weeks in January 2014.