Who is Samir Banerjee?
- Samir Banerjee is of Bengali origin and currently resides in New Jersey, USA
- He had done his pre-European season training with India No 1 Prajnesh Gunneswaran
- In his overall career, he has an 81% win rate that includes 62 victories and 15 losses
Indian-American Samir Banerjee continued his march in the Wimbledon boys’ singles section after registering a three-set win – 7-6, 4-6, 6-2 – over Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg, on Saturday. He will now face Victor Lilov in the final on Sunday. With this, these two competitors have billed an all-American boys’ final at Wimbledon since 2014.
According to media reports, Banerjee is of Bengali origin and currently resides in New Jersey, USA. He started his ITF junior career late but boasts of a record of 10 final appearances in 16 events so far. He started playing at the age of 6.
Banerjee had done his pre-European season training with India No 1 Prajnesh Gunneswaran and World Military Games medalist Sriram Balaji at the Waske Academy in Germany this year.
According to media reports, he comes from Basking Ridge in New Jersey, USA and learned about the sport in the States. Competing at the French Open last month, he was ousted in the first round. However, in Wimbledon, he is slowly making a name for himself.
Till now in Wimbledon, he has only dropped three sets in the last five matches.
In his first-round match, Banerjee beat 12th seed Maks Kasnikowski of Poland by 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.
In the second round, Banerjee defeated Slovakia’s Peter Benjamin Privara, whom he defeated 6-1, 5-6, 6-1.
He then defeated 5th seed Brazilian Pedro Boscardin Dias 6-2, 6-1. In the quarters, he raked up a 6-1, 6-1 win over Croatia’s Mili Poljicak.
In his overall career, he has an 81% win rate that includes 62 victories and 15 losses.
On Grass, he has an 83% win record that includes five victories and one defeat. On clay, with 36 wins and five losses, he has an 88% win percentage, and on the hardcourt, he has a 70% win rate with 21 wins and 9 losses
In the 2021 season, till now, with 19 victories and 8 losses he has a 70% win rate. On Grass, he has an 83% win record with five wins and one defeat. On clay, with five wins and 3 losses, he has a 62% win rate, and on the hardcourt, he has a 69% win rate with 9 wins and 4 losses.
Leander Paes, in 1990, had won the Wimbledon boys singles title. He was 17-years-old then.
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