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) ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1996US OpenHard Markus Hipfl6–3, 6–2Win1997Australian OpenHard Wesley Whitehouse7–6, 6–2Win1997French OpenClay Luis Horna6–4, 6–4Loss1997WimbledonGrass Wesley Whitehouse3–6, 6–7
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnetOpponentsScoreLoss1996French OpenClay Jan-Ralph Brandt Olivier Mutis Sébastien Grosjean2–6, 3–6
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 19 (14–5) LegendATP Challenger (6–3)ITF Futures (8–2)Finals by surfaceHard (3–1)Clay (10–4)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Germany F3, RiemerlingFuturesClay Jérôme Haehnel6–0, 6–3Win2–0Germany F10, AlbstadtFuturesClay Carsten Arriens6–3, 6–2Win3–0Germany F11, TrierFuturesClay Igor Gaudi6–3, 6–7, 6–3Win4–0France F9, Clermont-FerrandFuturesCarpet Olivier Mutis6–3, 6–4Win5–0France F10, Saint-BrieucFuturesClay Tobias Clemens6–2, 6–1Win6–0Germany F1, BerlinFuturesHard Jan Vacek6–2, 7–5Loss6–1Furth, GermanyChallengerClay Irakli Labadze4–6, 4–6Win7–1Weiden, GermanyChallengerClay Filip Dewulf6–1, 7–6(7–5)Loss7–2Germany F6, OberweilerFuturesClay Kristof Vliegen1–6, 0–1 ret.Win8–2Australia F2, DevonportFuturesHard Todd Larkham4–6, 7–5, 6–4Win9–2Mönchengladbach, GermanyChallengerClay Irakli Labadze6–1, 2–6, 6–3Win10–2Brașov, RomaniaChallengerClay Răzvan Sabău6–2, 6–1Loss10–3Sofia, BulgariaChallengerClay Stéphane Robert1–6, 6–4, 6–7(4–7)Loss10–4Braunschweig, GermanyChallengerClay Tomáš Berdych6–4, 1–6, 4–6Win11–4Zell, GermanyChallengerClay Dieter Kindlmann6–3, 6–1Win12–4Brașov, RomaniaChallengerClay Daniel Gimeno Traver7–5, 6–2Win13–4Zagreb, CroatiaChallengerClay Victor Crivoi4–6, 6–1, 6–2Win14–4Sweden F2, LinköpingFuturesHard Mikael Ekman6–3, 6–1Loss14–5Germany F20, IsernhagenFuturesHard Andre Wiesler4–6, ret.
Doubles: 4 (1–3) LegendATP Challenger (0–1)ITF Futures (1–2)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (0–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–2)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Germany F10, OberhachingFuturesCarpet Tomas Zivnicek Petr Kovačka Pavel Kudrnáč4–6, 7–6, 6–7Loss0–2Weiden, GermanyChallengerClay Andy Fahlke Mark Nielsen Andrei Stoliarov5–7, 3–6Win1–2Germany F1B, BiberachFuturesHard Philipp Petzschner Alberto Brizzi Michael Ryderstedt6–4, 6–4Loss1–3Germany F1C, MunichFuturesCarpet Philipp Petzschner Michal Mertiňák Igor Zelenay6–4, 6–7(18–20), 6–7(5–7)
Performance timeline
Singles Tournament19961997199819992000200120022003200420052006SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAAAAA1RAAQ2AQ10 / 10–1French OpenAAAAA1RAA2RQ2A0 / 21–2WimbledonAAAAA1RAAAAA0 / 10–1US OpenAAAAAAAA1RAA0 / 10–1Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00–30–00–01–20–00–00 / 51–5ATP Tour Masters 1000Monte CarloAQ1AAAAAAAAA0 / 00–0RomeAAAAAQ1AAAAA0 / 00–0HamburgQ2Q1AAAQ1AAAAA0 / 00–0StuttgartA1RAAQ1ANot Held0 / 10–1Win–loss0–00–10–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–00 / 10–1
See also List of Grand Slam boys' singles champions
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