- Jamie Baker (tennis)
Infobox Tennis player
playername= Jamie Baker
country= flagicon|GBRUnited Kingdom
flagicon|SCOScotland
datebirth= birth date and age|1986|08|05
placebirth=Glasgow ,Scotland
residence=Glasgow ,Scotland ,UK
height= height|m=1.80
weight=
turnedpro= 2004
plays= Right-handed
careerprizemoney= $151,058 (USD)
singlesrecord= 2–9
singlestitles= 0
highestsinglesranking= 211 (November 26 ,2007 )
AustralianOpenresult= 1R (2008)
FrenchOpenresult= -
Wimbledonresult= 1R (2006, 2007, 2008)
USOpenresult= -
doublesrecord= 0–1
doublestitles= 0
highestdoublesranking= 411 (February 11 ,2008 )
updated=April 27 ,2008 Jamie Baker (born
August 5 1986 inGlasgow ) is an Scottish professionalmale tennis player . In November 2007 he was invited to practice withPete Sampras at his home. He trains atNottingham Tennis Centre and inFlorida .Career
Junior
Jamie started playing tennis at the age of four. He had a fairly successful junior career, peaking as high as 6 in the junior ITF rankings. He reached the quarter-finals of junior Wimbledon in 2004, and in the same year won the 18 and under national championships. He won a grade 1 junior event in
Venezuela , before turning professional at the age of 18.2005-07
In 2005 Jamie began playing on the futures and challengers tours. His most successful challenger result was a quarter-final at the Burnie Challenger in February 2006. He made his ATP Tour debut by virtue of wild cards at the 2006 Artois Championship and played at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, before making his debut for the
Great Britain Davis Cup team in September 2006 in the crucial relegation play-off against theUkraine . Great Britain won the tie 3–2, although Jamie lost his match, the fifth rubber, 6–3 7–6 against Sergei Bubka.In 2007 Baker continued in Challenger tournaments, reaching the final in Waikoloa and making semi finals at places like Lexington and Knowville. He also achieved his first ATP Tour victory, against
Alexander Peya , at the 2007 Artois Championships. He made a second Davis Cup appearance in the World Group Play-off againstCroatia onNo. 1 Court , Wimbledon in September 2007. This time he lost his rubber 6–4 6–4 againstMarin Cilic . Britain won the tie 4–1 and qualified for the 2008 World Group. He finished the season ranked as Britain's number 3 player.2008
Jamie Baker made a positive start to 2008 by qualifying for the Australian Open doing it in confident style. He disposed of 9th seed (Q) Yuri Shukin 6–2 6–0 and then battling past
Alexander Peya 6–4 7–6 (4) to reach the final round where he defeatedDaniel Kollerer 6–46–4. Though he was defeated in the first round byIvo Karlovic , his result of 6–4 6–4 6–7 6–4 was described as highly creditable [cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7186565.stm| title=Baker ambitions ended by Karlovic | publisher=BBC Sport| date=2008-01-14| accessdate=2008-01-14] Baker later played in his first 'live' Davis Cup rubber in the World Group match against Argentina. Though he lost the opener toDavid Nalbandian (#9), he gained his first Davis Cup win by beatingAgustin Calleri (#41) in the final tie of the match. Following the Davis Cup, Jamie won 2 consecutive titles in $15,000 Futures Tournaments in Brownsville, TX and Harlingen, TX.Baker contracted
Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) in April 2008, and had to spend three days in intensive care. Fellow ScotJamie Murray noted that he was lucky to be alive. Baker had been likely to miss Wimbledon as a result, [cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7364248.stm| title=Baker recovering after illness | publisher=BBC Sport| date=2008-04-24| accessdate=2008-04-24] but has been granted a wildcard for the tournament. He lost in the first round 4-6 2-6 3-6 to the ItalianStefano Galvani . [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7472478.stm BBC SPORT | Tennis | Baker tumbles out in first round ] ]ingles Grand Slam performance timeline
"To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the
2008 French Open .""Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics."
A = did not participate in the tournament.
SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
Trivia
*His favourite band is
Coldplay *He takes interest in
Golf External links
*ATP|id=BA53
*ITF male profile|number=100015617
*DavisCupplayerlink|id=100015617
* [http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?players=ie+Baker&weeks=12 Baker Recent Match Results]
* [http://steveghelper.com/RankingHistory.php?player=J+Baker Baker World Ranking History]
* [http://www.freewebs.com/jamiebakeronline/ Official site of Jamie Baker]
* [http://www.lta.org.uk/Performance/TopPlayerProfiles/TopPlayersMen/BakerJamie.htm LTA Profile]Notes
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