Daniel Brands

Daniel Brands

Brands at the 2019 French Open
Full name	Daniel Fabian Brands
Country (sports)	Germany
Residence	Deggendorf, Germany
Born	(1987-07-17) 17 July 1987 (age 37) Deggendorf, Germany
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Turned pro	2005
Retired	2019
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$2,181,301
Singles
Career record	60–93
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 51 (19 August 2013)
Current ranking	No. 467 (14 October 2019)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2013, 2016)
French Open	1R (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)
Wimbledon	4R (2010)
US Open	2R (2012)
Doubles
Career record	9–25
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 154 (19 May 2008)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2014)
French Open	1R (2013)
Wimbledon	2R (2013)
US Open	2R (2013)

Daniel Brands (born 17 July 1987) is a German retired professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 51, achieved in August 2013.

Brands began 2008 ranked No. 220. After a few unimpressive tournaments to start the year, he beat no. 132 Aisam Qureshi and no. 193 Simon Stadler en route to a semifinal Challenger finish in Germany in February. In March, he made the quarters of a Challenger in Japan before losing to no. 124 Yen-Hsun Lu, then reached the quarters of a Challenger in Sarajevo, beating no. 169 Matthias Bachinger.

In May, Brands reached the quarterfinals at two more Challengers, beating no. 66 Michael Berrer and no. 114 Brian Dabul, while also winning the doubles title in one and reaching the doubles final in the other. Then, with his ranking at a career-high of no. 210, he beat no. 123 Nicolás Massú, no. 151 Pablo Andújar (who beat him a week earlier), and no. 198 Alex Bogomolov to qualify into the main draw of the 2008 French Open.

Brands made it to the semifinals of the 2009 BMW Open, before losing to Mikhail Youzhny. He lost in the first round of the 2009 French Open to Robert Kendrick.

Brands again bowed out in the first round of the [2010 French Open], but he put up a great performance only to fall short against the eighth seed Frenchman and world no. 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Brands made his Wimbledon debut at the 2010 tournament, defeating Igor Andreev in the first round. He continued his run in the second round by upsetting world no. 5 and seventh seed Nikolay Davydenko, who was returning from injury. Brands then saved four match points at two sets to love down against Victor Hănescu, to win while leading the fifth set when Hanescu retired due to injury, and a controversial issue with the crowd. In the fourth round, Brands lost to eventual finalist Tomáš Berdych.

At the 2010 US Open tournament Brands was defeated by countryman Benjamin Becker in the first round in straight sets. He then accepted a Wildcard for an ATP Challenger Tour event in Braşov, Romania where he bowed out in the first round. The Open de Moselle in Metz was his next tournament. He fell to Tommy Robredo in the first round.

He reached his first quarterfinal of the season at the Thailand Open in Bangkok defeating Illya Marchenko and Thiemo de Bakker, where he saved a matchpoint. He was again knocked out by Benjamin Becker.

Brands lost to Marin Čilić in the Croatia Open.^[1]

Brands entered the Australian Open beating 27th seed Martin Klizan before losing to an in-form Bernard Tomic. In the French Open he drew Rafael Nadal in the first round. He shocked Rafa, winning the opening set 6–4 with a punishing serve and huge flat groundstrokes, reminiscent of both Söderling and Rosol, who upset Rafa in the French Open and Wimbledon, respectively. Brands went ahead in the second set tie breaker 3–0, but his level slightly dropped and Nadal's rose. After pulling Nadal off the court with a second serve at 3–2, Brands missed a backhand into the open court that provided the break that Nadal needed to climb back in and win the tiebreaker, 7–4. Brands let down slightly in the next game and was broken for the first time in the match. Nadal upped his game and won the next two sets 6–4 and 6–3. Nadal was quoted by the New York Times as saying, "I don’t know what he's ranked, but he can’t be ranked 60th playing like that. I can’t believe it".^[2]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Mar 2007	Wolfsburg, Germany	Carpet (i)	Robin Haase	2–6, 6–3, 1–6
Loss	0–2	Jun 2007	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Clay	Simon Greul	4–6, 2–6
Win	1–2	Aug 2008	Timişoara, Romania	Clay	Daniel Muñoz de la Nava	6–4, 7–6(7–0)
Win	2–2	Nov 2009	Eckental, Germany	Carpet (i)	Dustin Brown	6–4, 6–4
Win	3–2	Apr 2010	Monza, Italy	Clay	Pablo Andújar	6–7(4–7), 6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–3	May 2010	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	José Acasuso	3–6, 4–6
Loss	3–4	Jan 2011	Heilbronn, Germany	Hard (i)	Bastian Knittel	6–7(4–7), 6–7(5–7)
Win	4–4	Jul 2011	Oberstaufen, Germany	Clay	Andreas Beck	6–4, 7–6(7–3)
Win	5–4	Nov 2011	Helsinki, Finland	Hard	Matthias Bachinger	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–5)
Win	6–4	Nov 2012	Eckental, Germany (2)	Carpet (i)	Ernests Gulbis	7–6(7–0), 6–3
Loss	6–5	Sep 2015	Como, Italy	Clay	Andrey Kuznetsov	4–6, 3–6
Win	7–5	Jul 2018	Recanati, Italy	Hard	Adrián Menéndez Maceiras	7–5, 6–3
Loss	7–6	Jul 2018	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Sebastian Ofner	6–7(5–7), 3–6

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	May 2007	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Hard	John Paul Fruttero	Lukáš Rosol Martin Slanar	7–6(7–1), 7–5
Win	2–0	Jun 2007	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Adam Feeney	Kamil Čapkovič Ivan Dodig	6–2, 6–4
Win	3–0	May 2008	Dresden, Germany	Clay	Jun Woong-sun	Ilija Bozoljac Dušan Vemić	2–6, 7–6(7–4), [10–6]
Loss	3–1	May 2008	San Remo, Italy	Clay	Matthias Bachinger	Harel Levy Jim Thomas	4–6, 4–6
Loss	3–2	Oct 2015	Sacramento, United States	Carpet	Dustin Brown	Blaž Kavčič Grega Žemlja	1–6, 6–3, [3–10]

Brands' match record against players who have been ranked world No. 10 or higher is as follows. Only ATP Tour main draw results are considered. Players who have been No. 1 are in boldface.

* As of 4 April 2022^[update].

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	DB Rank
2009
1.	Gilles Simon	7	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	2R	3–6, 6–4, 6–3	120
2010
2.	Nikolay Davydenko	5	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Grass	2R	1–6, 7–6(7–5), 7–6(10–8), 6–1	98
2013
3.	Janko Tipsarević	10	Munich, Germany	Clay	QF	6–3, 4–6, 6–4	69
4.	Roger Federer	5	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	2R	6–3, 6–4	55
2014
5.	David Ferrer	3	Doha, Qatar	Hard	2R	6–4, 7–5	54

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