Bernd Karbacher (born 3 April 1968) is a German retired professional tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is world No. 22, which he reached on 17 April 1995. His career-high doubles ranking was world No. 163, achieved on 6 June 1994.
During his career, he won two singles titles, Cologne in 1992 and the Swedish Open in Båstad in 1994.
He twice reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament. He did so in 1994 at the US Open after defeating Ivan Lendl and at the French Open in 1996 after a win against Goran Ivanišević. He also reached the semifinals of the 1993 Hamburg Masters and reached the finals of Indianapolis in 1995 after defeating Pete Sampras.
At the 1998 US Open, Karbacher, then ranked world No. 155, upset Australian Open champion and fourth seed Petr Korda in the first round in four sets.TENNIS - For Korda, It's Game, Match, Open, and Out - NYTimes.com
He retired from professional tennis in 2000. Since 2007, he has been the president of the German players organization "Tennis Germany".
ATP career finals
Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (0–1)ATP World Series (2–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (2–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (2–1)Indoors (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Cologne, GermanyWorld SeriesClay Marcos Ondruska7–6(7–4), 6–4Win2–0Båstad, SwedenWorld SeriesClay Horst Skoff6–4, 6–3Loss2–1Indianapolis, United StatesChampionship SeriesHard Thomas Enqvist4–6, 3–6
Doubles: 1 (1 title) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (0–0)ATP World Series (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (1–0)Indoors (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Schenectady, United StatesWorld SeriesHard Andrei Olhovskiy Byron Black Brett Steven2–6, 7–6, 6–1
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 2 (1–1) LegendATP Challenger (1–1)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (1–1)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Hong Kong, Hong KongChallengerHard Greg Rusedski6–2, 3–6, 6–1Loss1–1Brest, FranceChallengerHard Marcos Ondruska7–5, 3–6, 0–6
Doubles: 2 (1–1) LegendATP Challenger (1–1)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Cologne, GermanyChallengerClay Marc-Kevin Goellner Murphy Jensen Brian Devening6–4, 6–7, 6–1Loss1–1Agadir, MoroccoChallengerClay Tomas Nydahl Slava Doseděl Mark Koevermans7–6, 3–6, 6–7
Performance timeline
Singles Tournament1991199219931994199519961997199819992000SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAA2R1R1R1R3RA1R1R0 / 73–7French OpenA1R3R2R3RQFA1R2RA0 / 710–7WimbledonQ12R1R1R2RA1RA1RA0 / 62–6US OpenAA3RQF1R2RQ22R1RA0 / 68–6Win–loss0–01–25–45–43–45–32–21–21–40–10 / 2623–26ATP Masters SeriesIndian WellsA2R2R1R1R2RAAAA0 / 53–5MiamiA2R2R1R4R2RAQ2Q2Q10 / 55–5Monte CarloAA1R2R2R1RAAAA0 / 42–4HamburgAASF2R1R2RA1RQ1A0 / 56–5RomeAA2RAA2RAAQ1A0 / 22–2CanadaAAAAA1RAA1RA0 / 20–2CincinnatiAAAA3R3RAAQ2A0 / 24–2ParisAAA2R1RAAAAA0 / 21–2Win–loss0–02–27–53–55–66–70–00–10–10–00 / 2723–27
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