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 c ...
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 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, Waske beat
George Bastl, before lucky loser Bastl later beat
Pete Sampras 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
Roger Federer (; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 310 weeks, including a record 237 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-e ...
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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