Daniel Berta is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player. He won the Boys' Singles event at the 2009 French Open

2009 French Open

The 2009 French Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 108th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year...

. He was born in Helsingborg

Helsingborg

Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...

, and is coached by Julius Demburg.http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/players/player.asp?player=100093976

Junior

In the 2009 French Open, he entered the Boys' Singles as an unseeded player. He defeated 9 seed Facundo Argüello in the first round. He then won against Pablo Carreno-Busta and Federico Gaio to reach the quarter finals, where he defeated Richard Becker in straight sets. In the semi finals, he defeated Henri Laaksonen to reach his first ever junior Grand Slam final. He defeated French player and 11 seed Gianni Mina

Gianni Mina

Gianni Mina is a French professional tennis player. On the junior circuit, Mina reached a career-high combined ranking of No...

 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 for his first ever junior Grand Slam title.

In the junior 2009 Wimbledon Championships

2009 Wimbledon Championships - Boys' Singles

Grigor Dimitrov was the defending champion but did not participate in the junior tournament this year. Andrey Kuznetsov won in the final 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 against Jordan Cox.-Seeds:# Daniel Berta # Huang Liang-chi ...

, Berta lost in the third round to American Alexander Domijan 3-6, 3-6.

ATP

He was granted a wildcard into the 2009 Ordina Open

2009 Ordina Open - Men's Singles

David Ferrer was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Iván Navarro.-Seeds:# Fernando Verdasco # Tommy Robredo # David Ferrer # Rainer Schüttler ...

, which was his ATP

Association of Tennis Professionals

The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...

 tournament debut. He lost to Belgian qualifier Dick Norman

Dick Norman

Dick Norman is a professional tennis player. He has achieved a degree of folk popularity among tennis fans due to his height , his left-handed power game and, in the last few years, his age .Turning professional in 1991, Norman notched up only his 14th Grand Slam...

 in the first round, 3-6, 3-6. He also received a wildcard into the 2009 Swedish Open

2009 Swedish Open - Men's Singles

Tommy Robredo was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Juan Mónaco.Robin Söderling won in the final 6-3, 7-6, against Juan Mónaco.-Seeds:The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round....

, where he lost to Björn Phau

Bjorn Phau

Björn Phau is a German tennis player and the son of a German mother and an Indonesian father. He reached a singles ranking of 59 in the world on 19 June 2006. He defeated Andre Agassi 7–5, 7–5 at the 2006 Dubai Tennis Championships. In an interview, Agassi cited Phau as one of the quickest tennis...

 in the first round 3-6, 2-6.

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