Alexander Waske (born 31 March 1975) is a retired
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cov ...
player from Germany.
Waske was ranked as high as world No. 16 in doubles, winning four titles. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 89 in June 2006.
In 2010, Waske and his former Davis Cup companion
Rainer Schüttler
Rainer Schüttler (; born 25 April 1976) is a German former professional tennis player. Schüttler was the runner-up at the 2003 Australian Open and a semifinalist at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. He won an Olympic silver medal in doubles ...
founded the
Schüttler Waske Tennis-University, a tennis academy for professional players.
Waske twice beat players in the final qualifying rounds of tournaments who later got into the main draw as lucky losers and caused big historical upsets. In the
2002 Wimbledon final qualifying round at
Roehampton
Roehampton is an area in southwest London, in the Putney SW15 postal district, and takes up a far western strip running north to south of the London Borough of Wandsworth. It contains a number of large council house estates and is home to the U ...
, Waske beat
George Bastl, before lucky loser Bastl later beat
Pete Sampras
Petros "Pete" Sampras ( el, Πέτρος Σάμπρας; born August 12, 1971) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. His professional career began in 1988 and ended at the 2002 US Open, which he won, defeating longtime rival Andre ...
in the second round of the
2002 Wimbledon tournament, in one of the greatest upsets in tennis history. In the final qualifying round for Indian Wells in 2007, Waske beat
Guillermo Cañas, before lucky loser Cañas later beat
Roger Federer in the second round of the
2007 Indian Wells tournament, ending Federer's 41–match unbeaten run.
ATP career finals
Doubles: 8 (4–4)
Grand Slam performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
Wins over top 10 players
References
External links
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Official website of Alexander Waske
1975 births
German male tennis players
Living people
Tennis players from Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt athletes
San Diego State Aztecs men's tennis players
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