# Gilbert Schaller

Gilbert Schaller (born 17 March 1969), is a former professional tennis player from Austria.
Schaller achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 17 in 1995. At the 1995 French Open, Schaller upset world No. 2 Pete Sampras in the first round in a five set match.
Schaller won one singles title (in Casablanca) and reached the quarterfinals of the 1996 Hamburg Masters and the 1995 Monte Carlo Masters. He participated in seven Davis Cup ties for Austria from 1993 to 1997, posting a 3–6 record in singles. Schaller resided in Graz when a tour player. From 2007 to 2011, he was Captain of the Austrian Davis Cup-Team and sports director of the ÖTV. Schaller currently works as the sports director in the McCartney Group in Vienna, and as an ATP coach with (Florin Mergea and Marin Draganja).

## ATP career finals
### Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)

* Legend
* Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
* ATP Masters Series (0–0)
* ATP Championship Series (0–0)
* ATP World Series (1–3)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (1–3)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
* Finals by setting
* Outdoors (1–3)
* Indoors (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Mar 1995 | Casablanca, Morocco | World Series | Clay | Albert Costa | 6–4, 6–2 |
| Loss | 1–1 | Sep 1995 | Bucharest, Romania | World Series | Clay | Thomas Muster | 3–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Oct 1995 | Valencia, Spain | World Series | Clay | Sjeng Schalken | 4–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 1–3 | Mar 1996 | Casablanca, Morocco | World Series | Clay | Tomás Carbonell | 5–7, 6–1, 2–6 |

## ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
### Singles: 14 (8–6)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (8–5)
* ITF Futures (0–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–1)
* Clay (8–5)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0-1 | Jun 1992 | Salzburg, Austria | Challenger | Clay | Jordi Arrese | 6–7, 6–7 |
| Win | 1-1 | Jul 1992 | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Challenger | Clay | João Cunha-Silva | 6–4, 6–7, 6–0 |
| Win | 2-1 | Aug 1992 | Lins, Brazil | Challenger | Clay | Mauricio Hadad | 6–3, 6–3 |
| Win | 3-1 | Sep 1992 | Casablanca, Morocco | Challenger | Clay | Federico Sanchez | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Win | 4-1 | Aug 1993 | Liège, Belgium | Challenger | Clay | Christian Ruud | 1–6, 7–6, 6–1 |
| Loss | 4-2 | Sep 1993 | Venice, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Tomás Carbonell | 4–6, 6–0, 1–6 |
| Win | 5-2 | Sep 1993 | Prague, Czech Republic | Challenger | Clay | Massimo Valeri | 6–4, 7–6 |
| Win | 6-2 | Oct 1993 | Curitiba, Brazil | Challenger | Clay | Christian Miniussi | 6–4, 6–0 |
| Loss | 6-3 | Dec 1993 | Naples, United States | Challenger | Clay | Karsten Braasch | 6–1, 4–6, 6–7 |
| Win | 7-3 | Jun 1994 | Braunschweig, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Javier Sánchez | 6–4, 3–6, 6–3 |
| Win | 8-3 | Jul 1994 | Oporta, Portugal | Challenger | Clay | Marcelo Filippini | 6–2, 7–5 |
| Loss | 8-4 | Aug 1994 | Graz, Austria | Challenger | Clay | Francisco Clavet | 3–6, 6–2, 4–6 |
| Loss | 8-5 | Mar 1997 | Salinas, Ecuador | Challenger | Hard | Oliver Gross | 1–6, 6–3, 2–6 |
| Loss | 8-6 | Jun 1999 | Hungary F2, Budapest | Futures | Clay | Olivier Malcor | 3–6, 0–6 |

### Doubles: 3 (1–2)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (0–2)
* ITF Futures (1–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (1–2)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Sep 1993 | Venice, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Oliver Fernandez | Horacio de la Peña Juan Gisbert-Schultze | 1–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Oct 1993 | Curitiba, Brazil | Challenger | Clay | Francisco Montana | João Cunha-Silva Jack Waite | 6–4, 3–6, 0–6 |
| Win | 1–2 | Aug 2000 | Italy F9, San Benedetto del Tronto | Futures | Clay | Oliver Marach | Giancarlo Petrazzuolo Potito Starace | 5–3, 5–3, 4–0 |

## Performance timeline

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |

### Singles

| Tournament | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | SR | W–L | Win % |
| Grand Slam tournaments |||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | 1R | A | 1R | 1R | 3R | 1R | 0 / 5 | 2–5 | 29% |
| French Open | 2R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 2R | 1R | A | 0 / 6 | 3–6 | 33% |
| Wimbledon | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| US Open | A | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | 0 / 4 | 0–4 | 0% |
| Win–loss | 1–1 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 0 / 16 | 5–16 | 24% |
| ATP Tour Masters 1000 |||||||||||
| Indian Wells | A | A | 1R | Q3 | 1R | Q2 | A | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Monte Carlo | A | A | 2R | QF | 1R | A | A | 0 / 3 | 4–3 | 57% |
| Hamburg | A | A | 1R | 3R | QF | A | A | 0 / 3 | 5–3 | 63% |
| Rome | A | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | A | 0 / 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 5–3 | 3–4 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 11 | 9–11 | 45% |