63 Facts About Jerzy Janowicz

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Jerzy Janowicz was coached by Gunter Bresnik and his strength and conditioning coach is Piotr Grabia.

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Jerzy Janowicz reached the boys' singles final at the 2007 US Open and 2008 French Open, losing in straight sets to Ricardas Berankis and Yang Tsung-hua, respectively.

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Jerzy Janowicz defeated world No 19, Philipp Kohlschreiber, in the first round, the No 14 Marin Cilic in the second and the No 3 and Olympic gold medalist and US Open champion Andy Murray in the third.

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Jerzy Janowicz defeated Murray in three sets, saving one match point en route.

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Jerzy Janowicz was the first qualifier to do this since Andrei Pavel in 2003 and the first player to reach the final on his ATP World Tour Masters 1000 debut since Harel Levy in 2000.

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Jerzy Janowicz began his season at the Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand, where he was seeded fifth; however, he lost his opening match against American Brian Baker.

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Jerzy Janowicz then competed for the first time in the main draw of the Australian Open, where he was the 24th seed, the first time he had been seeded at a Grand Slam tournament.

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Jerzy Janowicz won his first two matches against Simone Bolelli in straight sets, and Somdev Devvarman of India, against whom he had to recover from a two-set deficit to win in five.

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Jerzy Janowicz played the Indian Wells Masters, where he reached the third round and was eventually eliminated by Richard Gasquet.

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Jerzy Janowicz then played at the Miami Masters, where he was seeded 21st, but lost his first match in the second round to Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci.

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Jerzy Janowicz continued to play at the Madrid Masters, where he won his first-round match against Sam Querrey, but was eliminated in the second round by eventual semifinalist, Tomas Berdych.

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Jerzy Janowicz then played at the Italian Open, where he reached the quarterfinals with consecutive wins over two top-ten players, Richard Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

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Jerzy Janowicz did not reach quarterfinals in his next few tournaments, falling to Fernando Verdasco by retirement in Hamburg Open and Rafael Nadal in two tight sets at the Rogers Cup.

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Jerzy Janowicz's next result was a straight-set loss to James Blake in the Cincinnati Open first round.

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Jerzy Janowicz performed disappointingly in the US Open, falling to world No 247 Maximo Gonzalez in straight sets, suffering from a back injury.

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Jerzy Janowicz won his opening meeting with Santiago Giraldo, but did not defend points due to his loss to top seed Rafael Nadal.

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Jerzy Janowicz was to partner Agnieszka Radwanska in the Hopman Cup, the annual international mixed-team tournament in Perth, Western Australia, but was unable to do so due to a foot injury.

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Jerzy Janowicz was replaced in the draw by Davis Cup teammate Grzegorz Panfil.

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Jerzy Janowicz started his season at Sydney International, where he was seeded second, but lost his first match in the second round to Alexandr Dolgopolov.

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Jerzy Janowicz continued at the Open Sud de France, where he won his second-round match against Adrian Mannarino and quarterfinal match against Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

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Jerzy Janowicz then lost in the semifinals against Richard Gasquet in a tight match.

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At ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, Jerzy Janowicz beat the previous year's finalist Julien Benneteau in the first round and Tommy Haas in the second round.

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Jerzy Janowicz was defeated by Tomas Berdych in the quarterfinals.

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Jerzy Janowicz was due to play at Open 13 in Marseille, where he made it to the previous year's quarterfinals, but withdrew from the event to recover from a case of sinusitis.

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At Roland Garros, Jerzy Janowicz defeated Victor Estrella Burgos and Jarkko Nieminen, then lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the third round.

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Jerzy Janowicz began his US Open Series campaign at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, where he fell to Canadian wildcard Peter Polansky.

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Jerzy Janowicz won his first career match at the US Open, defeating Dusan Lajovic, then lost to 18th seed Kevin Anderson in four sets.

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Jerzy Janowicz next participated at the Moselle Open in France, where he defeated Adrian Mannarino and Jarkko Nieminen, then lost to Gael Monfils in the quarterfinals.

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Jerzy Janowicz continued at the China Open, where he was defeated by Andy Murray in the first round.

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Jerzy Janowicz ended the season at the Paris Masters, where he lost a three-set match against Sam Querrey.

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Jerzy Janowicz ended the season ranked No 43, finishing with a top-50 ranking for the third time in succession.

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Jerzy Janowicz started 2015 season by teaming up with Agnieszka Radwanska to win the Hopman Cup, Poland's first title in the event.

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At the Australian Open Jerzy Janowicz defeated Hiroki Moriya in his opening match, followed by a defeat of 17th-seeded Gael Monfils in the second round, coming back from two sets to one down to make the third round for the third year in a row.

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Jerzy Janowicz continued at Open Sud de France in Montpellier where he defeated Dustin Brown, Benoit Paire, Gilles Simon and Joao Sousa to make his third ATP final.

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At Indian Wells Masters, Jerzy Janowicz was defeated by Diego Schwartzman in the first round.

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Jerzy Janowicz started the grass season with the Stuttgart Open tournament, where he defeated Dustin Brown, then lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber in the second round.

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At Halle Open, Jerzy Janowicz defeated Pablo Cuevas and Alejandro Falla to make his third ATP 500 quarterfinal against Kei Nishikori.

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At the Swedish Open, Jerzy Janowicz defeated Andrea Arnaboldi, then lost to Steve Darcis in the second round.

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Jerzy Janowicz continued at the German Open Tennis Championships in Hamburg where he defeated Taro Daniel, then lost to Pablo Cuevas in three sets.

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Jerzy Janowicz began his season at the Australian Open where he faced John Isner in the first round.

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Jerzy Janowicz added that he hoped of not injuring his knee again during the match.

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Jerzy Janowicz came back to the ATP tour starting with the US Open.

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Jerzy Janowicz decided to primarily play in Challengers to gain match play and rebuild confidence in his game.

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Jerzy Janowicz then defeated No 2 seed Horacio Zeballos, Gianluca Mager, Carlos Berlocq and Nicolas Almagro to win his first tournament of the season.

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Jerzy Janowicz ended the season with the ATP Challenger tournament in Mons, Belgium, and year-end ranking of No 280.

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At the start of the season Jerzy Janowicz hired a new coach, former Austrian Davis Cup captain, Gunter Bresnik.

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At the first Grand Slam of the year Jerzy Janowicz faced seventh seed Marin Cilic in the first round.

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Jerzy Janowicz required just a single break of serve late in each set to take a commanding two-set lead, but ultimately Cilic rallied from two sets down to prevail in five sets.

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Jerzy Janowicz continued at Australian Open with his doubles partner Marcin Matkowski.

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Jerzy Janowicz, who entered the main draw with a wild card, eased past Frenchman Quentin Halys in two sets.

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Jerzy Janowicz then participated at the Jalisco Open Challenger Tour event in Guadalajara, Mexico where he lost to Denis Shapovalov in the semifinal.

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Jerzy Janowicz played his only clay-court World Tour tournament at the 2017 French Open, where he lost to Taro Daniel in the first round.

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Jerzy Janowicz began his grass-court season with a quarterfinal run at the Stuttgart Open.

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Jerzy Janowicz continued at Stockholm Open where he defeated Pierre-Hugues Herbert to face Grigor Dimitrov for the third time this season.

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Jerzy Janowicz defeated top seeded Ruben Bemelmans and Matthias Bachinger, then lost to Maximilian Marterer in the final.

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Jerzy Janowicz did not play since November 2017 due to knee injury.

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When he returns to playing on the tour Jerzy Janowicz will have a protected ranking of 123 in the world.

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Jerzy Janowicz accepted a wildcard into the Sopot Open but later withdrew.

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At the start of the season Jerzy Janowicz received a wild card to the 2020 Open de Rennes, returning to the tour for the first time since the Bratislava Open in November 2017.

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Jerzy Janowicz spent the offseason in Tenerife with his coach Gunter Bresnik, working hard on his game and preparing for his long-awaited return.

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In May Jerzy Janowicz received a wildcard to the 2022 Poznan Open Challenger tournament in Poland.

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Jerzy Janowicz defeated Daniel Evans but lost to world No 4 Andy Murray.

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Jerzy Janowicz has a double-handed backhand, and is known to hit hard and constantly mix up his game by hitting numerous drop shots, slices and spins.