Background
Laaksonen"s father, Sandro della Piana, is a former Swiss tennis player, and his mother Finnish. His parents separated very early in his life, although he did keep contact with his father.
Laaksonen"s father, Sandro della Piana, is a former Swiss tennis player, and his mother Finnish. His parents separated very early in his life, although he did keep contact with his father.
His highest ranking is northern He is coached by Sven Swinnen. When Laaksonen started playing tennis, he represented Finland.
Since January 2011, he has represented Switzerland.
He started playing tennis at the age of 3. Juvenile years he lived in Hyvinkää and was coached by Pasi Virtanen.
In 2009, he moved to Switzerland to train at the national tennis center in Bienne. controversy Laaksonen was initially called to play with Stanislas Wawrinka, Marco Chiudinelli and Michael Lammer. However, during the Thursday training before the match, Laaksonen displayed very bad behaviour during practice which led to his exclusion from the team
Wawrinka commented as follows: "There are very few promising young players.
Unfortunately, among them, there are some who believe that everything is allowed and everything is granted for free. If Henri is not here today, it is because there are certain things we cannot accept. I also dislike his behaviour.
Someone in his age, with his ranking and who has been supported by Swiss Tennis for many years and thinks he can not fully commit to a practice session and even complains about the coach, cannot be part of the team".
He went on saying that he "never wants to be on a tennis court with him again". Laaksonen was then fined and received a formal warning from the Swiss Tennis Federation.
The amount of the fine was not publicly disclosed. He was then left out from the first round tie of the World Group against Serbia in February 2014, but surprisingly called back for the second round tie in Geneva against Kazakhstan in April 2014.
However, Laaksonen did not play in any of the rubbers.
lieutenant remains unclear why he was called back in the team after the September 2013 controversy and despite Wawrinka"s clear objection to lieutenant Foreign the semifinal against Italy in September 2014, Laaksonen was completely left out of the team and not even called as a sparring partner. He was replaced by Marco Chiudinelli, coming back to the team after good results on the Challenger Tour.
Foreign the Final against France, Chiudinelli and Lammer were nominated.
Yann Marti was put on standby by the Swiss captain, due to a possible withdrawal of Federer suffering from a back injury. Laaksonen was not considered for this game.
In 2015, Laaksonen was called to play the first round against Belgium in Liège. Laaksonen never publicly apologized for his bad behaviour in Neuchâtel.
Quotations:
"There are very few promising young players. Unfortunately, among them, there are some who believe that everything is allowed and everything is granted for free. If Henri is not here today, it is because there are certain things we cannot accept.
I also dislike his behaviour.
Someone in his age, with his ranking and who has been supported by Swiss Tennis for many years and thinks he can not fully commit to a practice session and even complains about the coach, cannot be part of the team".