André Ghem

André Ghem

André Ghem in 2016
Country (sports)	Brazil
Residence	Novo Hamburgo, Brazil
Born	(1982-05-29) 29 May 1982 Porto Alegre, Brazil
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$ 534,802
Singles
Career record	2–5 (ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 118 (27 July 2015)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2012, 2017)
French Open	Q3 (2014, 2015)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2014)
US Open	Q2 (2013)
Doubles
Career record	1–2 (ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 88 (25 June 2007)

André Swytka Ghem (born 29 May 1982), also known as German, is a former Brazilian professional tennis player. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking in July 2015, when he became the World No. 118.

Career

Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil and a right-handed tennis player, Ghem turned professional in 2003 and became the World No. 181 in August 2006. The highlights of his career include reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 118 and doubles ranking of No. 88 by the ATP.

The main and most memorable moment of his career came when he defeated Gustavo Kuerten at the ATP Costa do Sauípe in Bahia as an unknown player in 2006. The score was 3–6, 6–3, 6–4.

In 2011, he advanced through the qualifying rounds of the ATP 250 Brasil Open in São Paulo but was eliminated in the first round by Argentine player Carlos Berlocq.

His main singles title came at the Joinville Challenger in 2007. After that, he reached six more ATP Challenger Tour singles finals but lost all of them: in Smarkan (2008), Rio Quente (2013), Campinas and Prague (2014), and Shenzhen and Tampere (2015). In doubles, he won nine Challenger titles and finished runner-up on twelve occasions.

Nowadays, Ghem is a tennis commentator at the ESPN Brazil sports channels and the Disney+ Brazil streaming platform.

Titles (14)

Challengers and futures (5)

Challengers (1)

Futures (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	16 August 2004	Caldas Novas	Outdoor Hard	Júlio Silva	6–2, 7–5
2.	1 November 2004	Campinas	Clay	Francisco Costa	7–5, 6–3
3.	7 August 2006	Joinville	Clay	Bruno Echagaray	6–1, 6–4
4.	1 November 2010	Porto Alegre	Clay	André Miele	6–4, 6–1
5.	24 January 2011	João Pessoa	Clay	Tiago Lopes	6–4, 5–7, 7–6(1)

Doubles (9)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (9)

Titles by surface Hard (1) Grass (0) Clay (8) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	24 April 2006	Mexico City, Mexico	Hard	Pierre-Ludovic Duclos	Rik de Voest Glenn Weiner	6–4, 0–6, [10–3]
2.	7 August 2006	Joinville, Brazil	Clay	Alexandre Simoni	Marcelo Melo André Sá	6–4, 5–7, [10–8]
3.	9 October 2006	Medellín, Colombia	Clay	Marcelo Melo	Pablo Cuevas Horacio Zeballos	Walkover
4.	6 November 2006	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Flávio Saretta	Tomas Behrend Marcel Granollers	6–1, 6–4
5.	13 November 2006	Asunción, Paraguay	Clay	Tomas Behrend	Carlos Berlocq Martín Vassallo Argüello	3–6, 6–3, [10–3]
6.	14 May 2007	Zagreb, Croatia	Clay	Tomas Behrend	James Auckland Jamie Delgado	6–2, 6–1
7.	4 June 2007	Furth, Germany	Clay	Bruno Echagaray	Fabio Fognini Frederico Gil	7–6(1), 4–6, [13–11]
8.	22 July 2012	Bercuit, Belgium	Clay	Marco Trungelliti	Facundo Bagnis Pablo Galdón	6–1, 6–2
9.	24 January 2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Clay	Gastão Elias	Jonathan Eysseric Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela	6–4, 7–6(7–2)

Runners-up (7)

Singles (1)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (1)

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

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	4 August 2008	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Clay	Mikhail Elgin	7–6(7–4), 6–3

Doubles (6)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (6)

Finals by surface Hard (3) Grass (0) Clay (3) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	2 January 2006	São Paulo, Brazil	Hard	Lucas Engel	Thiago Alves Flávio Saretta	7–6(12–10), 6–3
2.	13 March 2006	Salinas, Ecuador	Hard	Alexandre Simoni	Thiago Alves Júlio Silva	3–6, 6–4, [10–4]
3.	14 July 2008	Oberstaufen, Germany	Clay	Boy Westerhof	Dušan Karol Jaroslav Pospíšil	6–7(2–7), 6–1, [10–6]
4.	21 July 2008	Penza, Russia	Hard	Boy Westerhof	Denis Istomin Evgeniy Kirillov	6–2, 3–6, [10–6]
5.	28 April 2012	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	João Pedro Sorgi	Paul Capdeville Marcel Felder	7–5, 6–3
6.	29 July 2012	Tampere, Finland	Clay	Niels Desein	Michael Linzer Gerald Melzer	1–6, 6–7(3–7)

External links

• André Ghem at the Association of Tennis Professionals