Clemens Trimmel

 ( 1978 Births ) 

Clemens Trimmel (born 8 June 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Austria.

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Biography

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Professional tour Trimmel, a right-handed player from Vienna, was a top-50 ranked junior. He turned professional in 1997 and made several main draw appearances at ATP Tour tournaments. Most notably he had a first-round win over world number 23 Jonas Björkman at St. Pölten in 1997. At the same tournament the following year he narrowly lost to Thomas Muster, 5–7 in the final set. Muster was also his doubles partner at ATP Tour tournaments in Stuttgart and Kitzbühel.

His only Challenger title came in 2000 at the Oberstaufen Cup, where he defeated Radomír Vašek in the final. He was unable to defend his title in 2001 but did have a win over David Ferrer.

At the 2001 French Open he made it to the final round of qualifying, beating James Blake en route.

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Davis Cup The first of his two Davis Cup appearances for Austria was an away tie to Croatia in 2001. He played in the reverse singles, a dead rubber that he lost to Mario Ančić in a final set tie-break. His second Davis Cup match came in 2002, when Austria hosted Israel in Tyrol. He partnered Alexander Peya in the doubles, which they lost in five sets to Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram.

In 2012 he was appointed Austria's Davis Cup captain and in his first year took the team to the World Group quarter-finals, for the first time since 1995. The Austrians were relegated in 2013 and after their 2014 campaign, in which they were unable to return to the World Group, Trimmel was replaced by Stefan Koubek. He also captained the Austria Fed Cup team in the 2014 season.

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ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

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Singles: 11 (6–5)

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ATP Challenger (1–4)

ITF Futures (5–1)

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Hard (0–1)

Clay (6–3)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–1)

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Loss	0–1		Skopje, Macedonia	Challenger	Clay	Dušan Vemić	3–6, 7–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2		Ansfelden, Austria	Challenger	Clay	Markus Hipfl	2–6, 0–6
Loss	0–3		Morocco F2, Casablanca	Futures	Clay	Pedro Rico Garcia	4–6, 6–4, 6–7
Win	1–3		Cyprus F1, Nicosia	Futures	Clay	Óscar Burrieza López	6–3, 6–4
Win	2–3		Austria F1, Salzburg	Futures	Clay	Charles-Edouard Maria	6–2, 6–4
Win	3–3		Austria F2, Telfs	Futures	Clay	Thomas Schiessling	6–4, 6–4
Win	4–3		Germany F4, Mannheim	Futures	Clay	Nikolay Davydenko	2–6, 6–1, 6–4
Win	5–3		France F11, Noisy-le-Grand	Futures	Clay	Albert Montañés	6–1, 7–6(7–5)
Win	6–3		Oberstaufen Cup, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Radomír Vašek	6–4, 6–1
Loss	6–4		Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Hard	Orlin Stanoytchev	4–6, 6–3, 5–7
Loss	6–5		Magdeburg, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Axel Pretzsch	4–6, 4–6

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Doubles: 3 (1–2)

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ATP Challenger (0–1)

ITF Futures (1–1)

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Hard (1–0)

Clay (0–2)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Loss	0–1		France F4, Deauville	Futures	Clay	Jérôme Haehnel	Juan Gisbert-Schultze Marcos Roy-Girardi	6–4, 4–6, 4–6
Win	1–1		Croatia F2, Zagreb	Futures	Hard	Ivo Karlović	Tapio Nurminen Janne Ojala	6–4, 6–4
Loss	1–2		Oberstaufen Cup, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Thomas Strengberger	Karol Beck Branislav Sekáč	6–2, 1–6, 0–6

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See also

• List of Austria Davis Cup team representatives

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External links

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