Daniel Elsner

Daniel Elsner (born 4 January 1979) is a former professional German tennis player.

Juniors

Elsner was an outstanding juniors player. He won 3 consecutive juniors grand slam singles titles: the 1996 Juniors U.S. Open, the 1997 Juniors Australian Open, and 1997 Juniors French Open; as well as making the finals of the subsequent 1997 Juniors Wimbledon. He is one of only 12 male players (as of May 2017) to win at least 3 junior grand slam singles titles, and one of only 4 to do so consecutively. He was a World No. 1 junior player in singles.

ATP Tour

Elsner turned professional in 1997 and won several futures tournaments, but had limited success on the ATP tour. His professional highlight was making the semi-finals of the Stuttgart Open in 2000, beating then ATP world No. 2 ranked Magnus Norman en route 46 76 64. He obtained a career high rank of 92 during that year. His best grand slam result was the 2nd round of the French Open in 2004. He last played on the ATP World Tour in October 2008.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1996	US Open	Hard	Template:Flagicon Markus Hipfl	6–3, 6–2
Win	1997	Australian Open	Hard	Template:Flagicon Wesley Whitehouse	7–6, 6–2
Win	1997	French Open	Clay	Template:Flagicon Luis Horna	6–4, 6–4
Loss	1997	Wimbledon	Grass	Template:Flagicon Wesley Whitehouse	3–6, 6–7

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partnet	Opponents	Score
Loss	1996	French Open	Clay	Template:Flagicon Jan-Ralph Brandt	Template:Flagicon Olivier Mutis Template:Flagicon Sébastien Grosjean	2–6, 3–6

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 19 (14–5)

Legend ATP Challenger (6–3) ITF Futures (8–2)

Finals by surface Hard (3–1) Clay (10–4) Grass (0–0) Carpet (1–0)

Result	W–L	Template:NsDateTemplate:Ns	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Template:Dts	Germany F3, Riemerling	Futures	Clay	Template:Flagicon Jérôme Haehnel	6–0, 6–3
Win	2–0	Template:Dts	Germany F10, Albstadt	Futures	Clay	Template:Flagicon Carsten Arriens	6–3, 6–2
Win	3–0	Template:Dts	Germany F11, Trier	Futures	Clay	Template:Flagicon Igor Gaudi	6–3, 6–7, 6–3
Win	4–0	Template:Dts	France F9, Clermont-Ferrand	Futures	Carpet	Template:Flagicon Olivier Mutis	6–3, 6–4
Win	5–0	Template:Dts	France F10, Saint-Brieuc	Futures	Clay	Template:Flagicon Tobias Clemens	6–2, 6–1
Win	6–0	Template:Dts	Germany F1, Berlin	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Jan Vacek	6–2, 7–5
Loss	6–1	Template:Dts	Furth, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Template:Flagicon Irakli Labadze	4–6, 4–6
Win	7–1	Template:Dts	Weiden, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Template:Flagicon Filip Dewulf	6–1, 7–6(7–5)
Loss	7–2	Template:Dts	Germany F6, Oberweiler	Futures	Clay	Template:Flagicon Kristof Vliegen	1–6, 0–1 ret.
Win	8–2	Template:Dts	Australia F2, Devonport	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Todd Larkham	4–6, 7–5, 6–4
Win	9–2	Template:Dts	Mönchengladbach, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Template:Flagicon Irakli Labadze	6–1, 2–6, 6–3
Win	10–2	Template:Dts	Brașov, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Template:Flagicon Răzvan Sabău	6–2, 6–1
Loss	10–3	Template:Dts	Sofia, Bulgaria	Challenger	Clay	Template:Flagicon Stéphane Robert	1–6, 6–4, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	10–4	Template:Dts	Braunschweig, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Template:Flagicon Tomáš Berdych	6–4, 1–6, 4–6
Win	11–4	Template:Dts	Zell, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Template:Flagicon Dieter Kindlmann	6–3, 6–1
Win	12–4	Template:Dts	Brașov, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Template:Flagicon Daniel Gimeno Traver	7–5, 6–2
Win	13–4	Template:Dts	Zagreb, Croatia	Challenger	Clay	Template:Flagicon Victor Crivoi	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
Win	14–4	Template:Dts	Sweden F2, Linköping	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Mikael Ekman	6–3, 6–1
Loss	14–5	Template:Dts	Germany F20, Isernhagen	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Andre Wiesler	4–6, ret.

Doubles: 4 (1–3)

Legend ATP Challenger (0–1) ITF Futures (1–2)

Finals by surface Hard (1–0) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–2)

Result	W–L	Template:NsDateTemplate:Ns	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Template:Dts	Germany F10, Oberhaching	Futures	Carpet	Template:Flagicon Tomas Zivnicek	Template:Flagicon Petr Kovačka Template:Flagicon Pavel Kudrnáč	4–6, 7–6, 6–7
Loss	0–2	Template:Dts	Weiden, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Template:Flagicon Andy Fahlke	Template:Flagicon Mark Nielsen Template:Flagicon Andrei Stoliarov	5–7, 3–6
Win	1–2	Template:Dts	Germany F1B, Biberach	Futures	Hard	Template:Flagicon Philipp Petzschner	Template:Flagicon Alberto Brizzi Template:Flagicon Michael Ryderstedt	6–4, 6–4
Loss	1–3	Template:Dts	Germany F1C, Munich	Futures	Carpet	Template:Flagicon Philipp Petzschner	Template:Flagicon Michal Mertiňák Template:Flagicon Igor Zelenay	6–4, 6–7(18–20), 6–7(5–7)

Performance timeline

Singles

Tournament	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	Q2	A	Q1	0 / 1	0–1	Template:Tennis win percentage
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	2R	Q2	A	0 / 2	1–2	Template:Tennis win percentage
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	Template:Tennis win percentage
US Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	Template:Tennis win percentage
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–0	0 / 5	1–5	Template:Tennis win percentage
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Monte Carlo	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	Template:Tennis win percentage
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	Template:Tennis win percentage
Hamburg	Q2	Q1	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	Template:Tennis win percentage
Stuttgart	A	1R	A	A	Q1	A	Not Held					0 / 1	0–1	Template:Tennis win percentage
Win–loss	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 1	0–1	Template:Tennis win percentage

See also

List of Grand Slam boys' singles champions

External links

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