Gilbert Schaller (born 17 March 1969), is a former professional tennis player from Austria.
Schaller achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 17 in 1995. At the 1995 French Open, Schaller upset world No. 2 Pete Sampras in the first round in a five set match.
Schaller won one singles title (in Casablanca) and reached the quarterfinals of the 1996 Hamburg Masters and the 1995 Monte Carlo Masters. He participated in seven Davis Cup ties for Austria from 1993 to 1997, posting a 3–6 record in singles. Schaller resided in Graz when a tour player. From 2007 to 2011, he was Captain of the Austrian Davis Cup-Team and sports director of the ÖTV. Schaller currently works as the sports director in the McCartney Group in Vienna, and as an ATP coach with (Florin Mergea and Marin Draganja).
ATP career finals
Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (0–0)ATP World Series (1–3)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (1–3)Indoors (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Casablanca, MoroccoWorld SeriesClay Albert Costa6–4, 6–2Loss1–1Bucharest, RomaniaWorld SeriesClay Thomas Muster3–6, 4–6Loss1–2Valencia, SpainWorld SeriesClay Sjeng Schalken4–6, 2–6Loss1–3Casablanca, MoroccoWorld SeriesClay Tomás Carbonell5–7, 6–1, 2–6
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 14 (8–6) LegendATP Challenger (8–5)ITF Futures (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (8–5)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0-1Salzburg, AustriaChallengerClay Jordi Arrese6–7, 6–7Win1-1Belo Horizonte, BrazilChallengerClay João Cunha-Silva6–4, 6–7, 6–0Win2-1Lins, BrazilChallengerClay Mauricio Hadad6–3, 6–3Win3-1Casablanca, MoroccoChallengerClay Federico Sanchez6–4, 6–1Win4-1Liège, BelgiumChallengerClay Christian Ruud1–6, 7–6, 6–1Loss4-2Venice, ItalyChallengerClay Tomás Carbonell4–6, 6–0, 1–6Win5-2Prague, Czech RepublicChallengerClay Massimo Valeri6–4, 7–6Win6-2Curitiba, BrazilChallengerClay Christian Miniussi6–4, 6–0Loss6-3Naples, United StatesChallengerClay Karsten Braasch6–1, 4–6, 6–7Win7-3Braunschweig, GermanyChallengerClay Javier Sánchez6–4, 3–6, 6–3Win8-3Oporta, PortugalChallengerClay Marcelo Filippini6–2, 7–5Loss8-4Graz, AustriaChallengerClay Francisco Clavet3–6, 6–2, 4–6Loss8-5Salinas, EcuadorChallengerHard Oliver Gross1–6, 6–3, 2–6Loss8-6Hungary F2, BudapestFuturesClay Olivier Malcor3–6, 0–6
Doubles: 3 (1–2) LegendATP Challenger (0–2)ITF Futures (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–2)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Venice, ItalyChallengerClay Oliver Fernandez Horacio de la Peña Juan Gisbert-Schultze1–6, 3–6Loss0–2Curitiba, BrazilChallengerClay Francisco Montana João Cunha-Silva Jack Waite6–4, 3–6, 0–6Win1–2Italy F9, San Benedetto del TrontoFuturesClay Oliver Marach Giancarlo Petrazzuolo Potito Starace5–3, 5–3, 4–0
Performance timeline
Singles Tournament1992199319941995199619971998SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenA1RA1R1R3R1R0 / 52–5French Open2R1R1R2R2R1RA0 / 63–6WimbledonA1RAAAAA0 / 10–1US OpenAA1R1R1R1RA0 / 40–4Win–loss1–10–30–21–31–32–30–10 / 165–16ATP Tour Masters 1000Indian WellsAA1RQ31RQ2A0 / 20–2Monte CarloAA2RQF1RAA0 / 34–3HamburgAA1R3RQFAA0 / 35–3RomeAA1R1R1RAA0 / 30–3Win–loss0–00–01–45–33–40–00–00 / 119–11
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