Clemens Trimmel

Austrian tennis player

Clemens Trimmel
Singles
Full name	Clemens Trimmel
Country (sports)	Austria
Born	(1978-06-08) 8 June 1978 (age 45) Vienna, Austria
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	1997
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$97,932
Career record	1–8
Career titles	0 1 Challenger, 5 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 147 (23 April 2001)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (1996, 2001, 2002)
French Open	Q3 (2001)
Doubles
Career record	1–6
Career titles	0 0 Challenger, 1 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 419 (16 July 2001)
Last updated on: 21 November 2022.

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

Biography

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 11 (6–5)

Legend
ATP Challenger (1–4)
ITF Futures (5–1)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (6–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 1997	Skopje, Macedonia	Challenger	Clay	Dušan Vemić	3–6, 7–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Aug 1998	Nettingsdorf, Austria	Challenger	Clay	Markus Hipfl	2–6, 0–6
Loss	0–3	Aug 1999	Morocco F2, Casablanca	Futures	Clay	Pedro Rico Garcia	4–6, 6–4, 6–7
Win	1–3	Nov 1999	Cyprus F1, Nicosia	Futures	Clay	Óscar Burrieza López	6–3, 6–4
Win	2–3	May 2000	Austria F1, Salzburg	Futures	Clay	Charles-Edouard Maria	6–2, 6–4
Win	3–3	May 2000	Austria F2, Telfs	Futures	Clay	Thomas Schiessling	6–4, 6–4
Win	4–3	May 2000	Germany F4, Neckarau	Futures	Clay	Nikolay Davydenko	2–6, 6–1, 6–4
Win	5–3	Jun 2000	France F11, Noisy-le-Grand	Futures	Clay	Albert Montañés	6–1, 7–6^(7–5)
Win	6–3	Jul 2000	Oberstaufen, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Radomír Vašek	6–4, 6–1
Loss	6–4	Mar 2001	Cherbourg, France	Challenger	Hard	Orlin Stanoytchev	4–6, 6–3, 5–7
Loss	6–5	Mar 2001	Magdeburg, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Axel Pretzsch	4–6, 4–6

Doubles: 3 (1–2)

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

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

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2000	France F4, Deauville	Futures	Clay	Jérôme Haehnel	Juan Gisbert-Schultze Marcos Roy-Girardi	6–4, 4–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Feb 2000	Croatia F2, Zagreb	Futures	Hard	Ivo Karlović	Tapio Nurminen Janne Ojala	6–4, 6–4
Loss	1–2	Jul 2001	Oberstaufen, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Thomas Strengberger	Karol Beck Branislav Sekáč	6–2, 1–6, 0–6

References

^ "Tennis Raiffeisen Grand Prix In St. Polten, Austria". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 20 May 1997. p. 53. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
^ "Tennis French Open Qualifying". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 25 May 2001. p. 54. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
^ "Kroatien gewinnt gegen Österreich 4:1". Der Standard (in German). 9 April 2001. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
^ "Daviscup: Bresnik stapelt tief". Der Standard (in German). 14 February 2002. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
^ "Trimmel named Austrian Davis Cup captain". USA Today. 28 October 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
^ "Jurgen Waber to return as Austria Fed Cup captain after year away, replaces Clemens Trimmel". Times Colonist. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2017.