Michał Przysiężny

Michał Przysiężny

Country	Poland
Residence	Wrocław, Poland
Born	February 16, 1984 (1984-02-16) (age 27) Głogów, Poland
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$533,290
Singles
Career record	14–30
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 76 (November 15, 2010)
Current ranking	No. 184 (August 08, 2011)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1R (2011)
French Open	1R (2010)
Wimbledon	2R (2010)
US Open	1st (2007, 2010)
Doubles
Career record	4–11
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 171 (March 5, 2007)
Last updated on: November 17, 2010.

Michał Przysiężny (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmixaw pʂɨˈɕɛ̃ʐnɨ]) (born 16 February 1984 in Głogów) is a Polish tennis player. He has a career high-ranking of 76 (achieved on November 15, 2010). His current coach is Aleksander Charpantidis.

Career

He started his career in the KKT Wrocław. In 2002 Przysiężny reached to semifinals of Boys' doubles in French Open (he partnered up with Attila Balázs from Hungary and they lost to Markus Bayer and Philipp Petzschner). In the same year he won his first Futures tournament (in Montego Bay, Jamaica, he defeated Jean-Julien Rojer in the final). Essentially, he has reached ten finals of these tournaments; in seven of these he won.

He qualified for his first Grand Slam tournament (2007 US Open) by beating his compatriot Łukasz Kubot. He then lost 1–6, 6–4, 1–6, 6–7(4) to Michael Berrer in the first round.

Przysiężny made a return from a knee injury qualifying as a Lucky Loser to ATP Tour tournament, 2008 Swedish Open (however he lost to Jonas Björkman in the first round) and winning two matches of 2008 Davis Cup (against Vladimir Voltchkov and Pavel Katliarov) in the 1st Round Play-offs.

At the end of 2009 his career gained momentum. He won three Futures tournaments in order (Germany F19, Belarus F1, Belarus F2) and he has risen 235 places to No. 427 in the South African Airways 2009 ATP Rankings. At the week November 23, he reached to the final of IPP Open, when he defeated Stéphane Bohli (4–6, 6–4, 6–1). He finished this year on No. 183 in the ranking. Three months later, he won another ATP Challenger Tour tournament – in Kazan (where he eliminated Andrey Kuznetsov, Evgeny Kirillov, Goran Tošić, Tobias Kamke and Julian Reister in the final). At the week March 29, he won in matches against Caio Zampieri, Laurynas Grigelis, Charles-Antoine Brézac, Teymuraz Gabashvili and defeated Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo in the final of Saint–Brieuc Challenger. Two weeks later he lost to Santiago González in the final in León Challenger. After this event he was in the first hundred of the ATP ranking.

Also in 2010 after breaking into the top 100 for the first time in his career he got direct entry into a grand slam tournament for the first time in his career and played in the first round at the French open where he lost in the first round 6-1,6-0,6-4 to eventual quarter finalist Mikhail youzhny. He then played Wimbledon main draw for the first time where he was drawn against the 17th seed Ivan Ljubičić he scored the biggest win of his career beating the Croatian 7-5,7-6(3),6-3, he then lost in the second round again to eventual quarter finalist Yen-Hsun Lu 6-4,7-6(9),6-3. In the last grand slam of the year he played in the US open main draw coming up against the 21st Seed Albert Montanes he lost in 5 sets 7-5,6-1,5-7,6-7(5),0-6. Michal served for the match at 6-5 in the 4th set and had 2 match points.

Singles Finals

Legend (Singles)

Challengers (7)

Futures (10)

Wins (12)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	December 9, 2002	Jamaica F21	Hard	Jean-Julien Rojer	7–6(7), 6–4
2.	December 8, 2003	Iran F3	Clay	Johannes Ager	6–0, 6–4
3.	May 31, 2004	Poland F2	Clay	Sadik Kadir	6–3, 6–3
4.	October 4, 2004	Georgia F1	Clay	Kirill Ivanov	7–5, 6–3
5.	January 22, 2007	Wrexham, UK	Clay	Richard Bloomfield	6–2, 6–3
6.	October 5, 2009	Germany F19	Hard	Henri Kontinen	3–6, 6–2, 7–5
7.	October 12, 2009	Belarus F1	Carpet	Siarhei Betau	6–2, 6–3
8.	October 19, 2009	Belarus F2	Hard	Nikolai Fidirko	6–3, 6–2
9.	November 23, 2009	Helsinki, Finland	Carpet	Stéphane Bohli	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
10.	February 1, 2010	Kazan, Russia	Hard	Julian Reister	7–6(5), 6–4
11.	March 29, 2010	St. Brieuc, France	Clay	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	4–6, 6–2, 6–3
12.	November 8, 2010	Ortisei, Italy	Hard	Lukáš Lacko	6–3, 7–5

Runner-up (5)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	November 25, 2002	Aruba F1	Clay	Jean-Julien Rojer	2–6, 2–6
2.	August 18, 2003	Poland F1	Clay	Kim Tiilikainen	6–4, 1–6, 3–6
3.	October 30, 2006	Iran F5	Clay	Adam Vejmělka	6–1, 2–6, 2–6
4.	April 12, 2010	León, Mexico	Clay	Santiago González	3–6, 6–1, 7–5
5.	November 29, 2010	Helsinki, Finland	Hard	Richard Berankis	6–1, 2–0 RET

External links

• Michał Przysiężny at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Michał Przysiężny at the International Tennis Federation

Persondata
Name	Przysiężny, Michał
Alternative names
Short description	Polish tennis player
Date of birth	February 16, 1984
Place of birth	Głogów, Poland
Date of death
Place of death