Biography
Spanish tennis player Fernando Verdasko was the semi-finalist of the Australian Open Championship and three times won the Davis Cup in the national team of the country. But compared to Raphael Nadal, an eminent talented compatriot, the successes of the elderly athlete are few and modest.Childhood and youth
The biography of Fernando Verdasco Carmonic began in the picturesque capital of Spain, there the child grew and brought up in an unrelated family. Parents celebrated the appearance of the Son on November 15, 1983 and, looking at him, they immediately thought that he would benefit the country.
Father and Mother Jose and Olga were famous Madrid restaurateurs, generous by nature and unable to refuse to children in anything. Fernando in the company of younger sisters from an early age showed activity - loved to run around the nursery and play with a miniature ball.
The head of the family in his youth engaged in tennis and sometimes participated in non-professional tournaments, so there was a small soil court in the backyard of the house. Young Verdasko at 4 years old first took a racket into his hands, and immediately it became clear that the child likes this noble sport.
Parents who have followed the health of the Son before entering elementary school made a number of medical tests with the help of local doctors. Fernando has discovered a deficit and hyperactivity syndrome, so you needed correction methods taken from scientific papers.
Performing certain exercises, Verdasko coped with the disease, but was forced to quit an educational institution aged 11 years. The father took over the role of a mentor, and the boy received an academic education, reading books from the home library and combing the Internet.
Sports training was engaged in a specially hired highly paid coach, and when it was time, the chapter of the family had to sponsor the first youth tournament. In 2001, Fernando unexpectedly embarked in professionals, spending just a couple of dozens of games at the youth level.
Personal life
Spaniard with an increase in 188 cm and weighing 87 kg does not like when they are discussing his stormy personal life behind his back. In an interview, Fernando does not talk about novels, and each article on this topic is regarded as a natural disaster.Journalists are not considered an athlete's opinion and often write about his relationship. Thus, fans receive news about each of love victories. Judging by the number of women who were near Verdasko, he was not in vain gave joking nicknames Lovelace and the heart.
The first girlfriends of the guy were Priscilla de Gastin and Daphne Fernandez, actresses, models and dancers, known in bohemian circles. After a number of joint photos in "Instagram" and vacations on the sea coast, romantic feelings were cooled, and the relationship was crashing.
Verdasko switched to the world of tennis and twisted the novel with Nuna Ivanovich, whose sports career because of love, according to experts, went to the decline. But the Spaniard accompanied the girl in tournaments when he allowed the game schedule, and it still won a number of awards thanks to support.
A dark-haired Serbian has repeatedly met with her parents and sisters Fernando, but, contrary to expectations, did not become a legitimate wife for the native of Madrid. In its place in 2009, Polka Carolyn Wozniak, who also won the honor to get acquainted with a rich family.
In 2010, after parting with athletes, the Spaniard again turned to the show business and added a couple of actresses into the collection. And then the media learned about the wedding with Anya Boyer, daughter politics, and this news was perceived by society as a huge surprise.
After the ceremony on the Caribbean, the couple settled in the capital of Qatar and with the birth of the first child became a full-fledged family. And in "Instagram" and other tennis player social networks, in addition to Selfie from the gym, photography began to appear with daughter and beloved wife.
Tennis
At the beginning of the professional career Verdasko performed in the ITF Futures series, and in 2002 he made his debut at ATP competitions. He qualified to a big helmet tournaments and got into the top 100 world rankings, although it did not show outstanding results due to an inexpressive game.
The first serious success of the Spaniard was to enter the Final Competitions in Mexico, where the compatriot Carlos Moya beat him with points. A month later, Fernando became the winner of the Open Championship of Valencia thanks to powerful supplies and sharp speeds.
In continuation of the 2004 season, the tennis player was tolerably at Roland Garros, and then played at the ATP 500 and 250 quarterfinals. The main prize, conquered at the Stockholm tournament in Duet with Feliciano Lopez, became for the native of Madrid the highest possible awards.
Verdasko looked unconvincing in the hard part of the competition, but each time was transformed, barely dropped the chance to move to the ground. Exit to the decisive stage of the championships of Rome, Kitzbühel and New Havena and the 4th round of the America's championship, he accepted as a fee for invested labor.
In the late 2000s, Fernando was distinguished by the stability of the results and looked good in Stuttgart, Bangkok and on a number of other ATP tournaments. He won the "Challenger" in El Espinar and won the Davis Cup as part of the Spanish national team.
Experts celebrated a successful performance at the Australian Open Championship, where "fell" French Jo-Wilfried Tsong and Antern Andy Murray. Then there was a semifinal match with the Spaniard Raphael Nadal, due to tensions and duration of the audience remembered.
At the "Masters" in the principality of Monaco Verdasko coped with Novak Djokovich, who was the second racket of the world in 2010. And in Barcelona, the Spaniard took the title, overcoming the resistance of Robin Söderling - Swedes, accustomed to victories and stubborn labor.
Purchased in the top ten professional ranking, Fernando trained diligently, but failures pursued tennis players in most men's competitions. He sank to the 24th place due to a number of inspired lesions, which caused the psychological state and other objective reasons.
Only in 2012, the Spaniard became a steam discharge champion in tournaments who had a high category and a solid prize fund. And then there was an injury that prevented Verdasko to perform in the ground competitions and whining the rainbow victory horizon indefinitely.
The desired form appeared in the middle of 2010, and the tennis player won the sixth title at the ATP 250 tournament. Soon after that, Fernando surpassed at the open championship of Australia, Fernando surpassed the housing of Simon in three stress sets in a row.
In 2017, the Spaniard often defeated athletes from Top-10, Alexander Zverev and Dominic Tim were not resist. At Roland Garros, Verdasko reached the semi-final in the paired discharge, but the duet with the Sad Sadd of winter did not become the best among men.
Two years later, at the Masters in Rome, the native of Madrid began good, but after the victory over Karen Khachanov, Nadal, the future champion stopped him. In the summer at ATP competitions in Kitzbühel, Spaniard lost Lorenzo Sonya and remembered the defeat from Mattias Bahinger, who was very sad.
Minor success smiled at Fernando in London on Wimbledon. Overcoming Kyle Edmund and Thomas Fabbiano, he almost fell into the final tournament. The Spaniard had a good chance, because Daniel Medvedev was out of the struggle, and Bourns Chorich refused to participate, having struck the sports world by desertion.
At the open championship of America Verdasko, unlike Nicolos Basilashvili, Chon Hyun and Pablo Andujhar, did not even pass in the third round. Coaches and fans considered that after the recent victory over John Millman, a young man struck some disease.
Fernando Verdasko now
Now, according to sports analysts, Verdasko must improve positions in the ranking, because it has quite successfully started 2020. At the tournament in Qatar, he beat Pablo Andujhar and Philip Krayinovich, but in the quarterfinals did not cope with the root Mute, not finding the right approach to the Frenchman.To realize what happened, Fernando ignored the competition in Adelaide, and his duel with Jan-Lennard Strofoff was canceled according to the rules. It helped to competently prepare for the Open Championship of Australia and beat Russian Yevgeny Donskoy, which was physically and morally strong.
True, Alexander Zverev's loss knocked out of the native of Madrid from the King, and Carlos Taberner "was" separated "in Cordove with him in two sets. Coaches persuaded an athlete not to take to heart failure and calmly build plans.
Achievements
- 2004 - Winner of the Valencia Open Championship
- 2008 - Winner of the Open Croatian Championship
- 2009 - Winner of the Connecticut Open Championship
- 2010 - Winner of the ATP San Jose tournament
- 2010 - the winner of the tournament on the prize of the Count Godo
- 2014 - US Championship winner on ground courts
- 2016 - Winner of the Open Bucharest Championship