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KalleOnAir · 01-14-2005, 08:32 PM

Hello,
i just want to know
who is this guy?
is it true that he beat Pavel and Gambil some weeks ago?
thx

athie · 01-14-2005, 09:26 PM

Bjorn is ranked somewhere in the late 200’s (almost 300) if I recall.

I know he's a regular on The Challenger circuit and plays for TK Grün-Weiss Mannheim in Bundesliga.

Seems to be doing well in the AUS Open qualifying:
Phau d. Juan Pablo Brzezicki 6-1 : 7(7)-6(5)
Phau d. Ivo Klec 6-2 : 7(7)-6(4)

Other than that I don’t know a great deal about him, Martijn and Neely will possibly know more.

athie · 01-14-2005, 09:35 PM

Yes to your original question. (sorry!!!)
He beat Pavel 6-2 : 6-1 at The Tokyo Outdoor in October last season and then d. Gambill 7-6(1) : 2-6 : 6-2 making it thro to the QF’s of the tournie.

JMG · 01-15-2005, 06:27 AM

I observe his career intensively the last few months. I think in May 2004, he was around no.240 and because of the good results in challengers, he improved a lot and is now no.123. Last week he started the season with a final in Noumea. His career highest ranking is 113 from 2002 and I'm sure he will improve it soon. Maybe with a 2nd round in Melbourne.

JMG · 01-15-2005, 07:20 AM

Phau faces Albert Costa in Round 1. He was 2nd lucky loser.
He'll play Heilbronn and Wroclaw after AusOpen.

Years ago, he was part of Boris Becker's Mercedes Junior Team. I think he did well in the junior events, but I'm mnot so sure about it. He was not seen as such a big talent as Daniel Elsner was. Now he's 25 years old. I don't know much about his game, I have only seen a bit of his match against Hewitt years ago. Maybe his serve is a little problem. He is not very tall and has more a kind of "percentage serve". Today, he made only 5? % of the points when his 1st serve came in.

athie · 01-15-2005, 12:19 PM

JMG thanks for that info, you are a gem!

I saw he was playing The Heilbronn Challenger so I'll keep an eye on him

KalleOnAir · 01-15-2005, 10:06 PM

Yes, thanx athie and JMG for this informations

athie · 01-15-2005, 10:09 PM

No probs.... even tho JMG owns me when it comes to info

KalleOnAir · 01-15-2005, 10:11 PM

Albert Costa, very hard to play
i hope he will have a good day

JMG · 01-17-2005, 04:13 AM

Phau def Costa 6-3 7-6(4) 6-3

Obviously a great game from Phau. He broke Costa 8 times. Maybe he can surprise Ancic in the next round.

User ID 4783 · 01-17-2005, 12:53 PM

wow, very well done

silverwhite · 02-13-2005, 04:39 PM

What's his ethnicity? He doesn't look very German to me.

JMG · 02-13-2005, 05:00 PM

born in darmstadt, germany; his mother is of germany, his father is from indonesia

SuperFurryAnimal · 02-13-2005, 06:36 PM

I watched him play in the qualies in Rotterdam today... too bad he lost against Olivier Rochus... But he didn't play bad, IMO.
What was funny: when he lost his serve he shouted something like 'Wursten'!

I was laughing my ass off!!

Neely · 02-13-2005, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by SuperFurryAnimal

I watched him play in the qualies in Rotterdam today... too bad he lost against Olivier Rochus... But he didn't play bad, IMO.
What was funny: when he lost his serve he shouted something like 'Wursten'!

I was laughing my ass off!!

unbelievable

it only speaks for the strength of the main field of this Rotterdam tournament if somebody like Rochus, ranked around 40, has to qualify