Stanislas Wawrinka

Stanislas Stan Wawrinka born 28 March 1985 is a Swiss professional tennis player He reached a careerhigh Association of Tennis Professionals ATP singles ranking of world No 3 for the first time on 27 January 2014 His career highlights include three Grand Slam titles at the 2014 Australian Open 2015 French Open and 2016 US Open where he defeated the world No 1 player in the final on all three occasions Other achievements include reaching the final of the 2017 French Open winning an ATP Tour Masters 1000 title at the 2014 MonteCarlo Masters and reaching three other Masters finals at 2008 Rome 2013 Madrid and 2017 Indian Wells Representing Switzerland Wawrinka won gold in doubles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with teammate Roger Federer and was also pivotal in the Swiss teams victory at the 2014 Davis Cup Wawrinka considers clay his best and favorite surface and his serve and backhand his best shots John McEnroe once said that Wawrinka has one of the most powerful backhands ever and in 2009 said he possessed the best onehanded backhand in the game He has been described by The Economist as Tenniss great latecomer owing to finding success late in his career Prior to the 2014 French Open he requested and was granted a formal change in his name from Stanislas Wawrinka to Stan Wawrinka stating that he plans to use the abbreviated name in tournament draws and press conferences Wawrinka was born in Switzerland to a German father and Swiss mother He holds dual SwissGerman citizenship His father Wolfram Wawrinka a farmer and social worker is German of Czech ancestry Wawrinkas paternal greatgrandfather originated from Silesia the border region between Poland and the former Czechoslovakia and the surname originates with the Polish language It is related to Wawrzyniec the Polish version of Laurence or Laurentius Wawrinkas mother Isabelle an educator is Swiss His mother works as a biodynamic farmer helping disabled people and with her husband took over the running of her inlaws farm The property known as Ferme du Château is near Lausanne and attached to the castle of SaintBarthélemy The farm assists people with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities and people with depression or drug and alcohol problems Here Wawrinka grew up with his elder brother Jonathan and his two younger sisters Djanaée and Naélla who are students and tennis players Wawrinka attended the Rudolf Steiner School in Crissier Wawrinka started playing tennis at the age of eight and played once a week until he was eleven when he started to practice three times a week Wawrinka stopped attending regular schooling at age 15 to focus fulltime on tennis However he continued his schooling by distance education with the French organization CNED which offered him greater flexibility Wawrinka turned professional in 2002 at the age of 17 He was coached from age eight until June 2010 by Dimitri Zavialoff Source Article Stan Wawrinka from Wikipedia in english licensed under CCBYSA 30