{"id":132092,"date":"2025-08-09T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132092\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:00:09","slug":"john-isner-names-the-atp-player-who-never-reached-the-top-20-who-he-absolutely-hated-playing-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/132092\/","title":{"rendered":"John Isner names the ATP player who never reached the top 20 who he absolutely hated playing against"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Isner was able to go toe-to-toe against some of the all-time greats during his career on the ATP Tour. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Isner<\/a> played and defeated each member of the \u2018big three\u2019, earning victories over Roger Federer<\/a>, Rafael Nadal<\/a>, and Novak Djokovic<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The American also faced off against Grand Slam champions such as Andy Murray<\/a> and Stan Wawrinka, as well as some of the new generation, having had three meetings with current world number one Jannik Sinner<\/a>. <\/p>\n

There was one ATP<\/a> star, however, Isner faced several times on the tour, whose name he just hated seeing in a tournament draw. <\/p>\n

\"JohnPhoto by Vaughn Ridley\/Getty ImagesJohn Isner and Sam Querrey name the players they hated facing<\/p>\n

When asked on the \u2018Nothing Major Podcast\u2019 who he hated playing against, he answered: \u201cI am going to say two, [Jeremy] Chardy and Gilles Muller. I didn\u2019t necessarily dislike playing Chardy; he just always beat me.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Muller was always a nightmare because, of course, we were going to play tight matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if I had to choose one I mean because of my record it has got to be Chardy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former US player Sam Querrey<\/a> responded: \u201cFor me, it was [Adrian] Mannarino early. I was 0-4 against him. But then I flipped the switch, but he was my guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Isner\u2019s head-to-head record against Gilles Muller<\/p>\n

Though Isner didn\u2019t like playing Gilles Muller, he managed to finish his career with a winning record of 4-2 against him. <\/p>\n

He won their first two bouts in 2010 and 2011, which both came in Atlanta, before beating him again in Memphis the next year. <\/p>\nMatchWinner<\/tr>\n\n2010 Atlanta Round of 16<\/td>\nIsner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2011 Atlanta Semifinal<\/td>\nIsner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2012 Memphis Round of 32<\/td>\nIsner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2015 Australian Open Round of 32<\/td>\nMuller<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2016 Queen\u2019s Round of 16<\/td>\nMuller<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2017 Atlanta Semifinal<\/td>\nIsner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

John Isner\u2019s head-to-head record against Gilles Muller<\/p>\n

In their first and only clash at a Grand Slam, Muller came out on top, defeating Isner at the 2015 Australian Open in straight sets to advance to the fourth round. <\/p>\n

The Luxembourger followed it up with a win at Queen\u2019s in 2016, before the two faced off for a final time in 2017. <\/p>\n

Isner emerged victorious in their last clash, overcoming Muller in the semifinal in Atlanta. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Isner was able to go toe-to-toe against some of the all-time greats during his career on the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,52769,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-132092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-john-isner","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114999644941455577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}