- Began playing at age eight
- Surname Wawrinka is of Polish decent but Wawrinka is only Polish by ancestry
- Nicknamed Stan
- Father, Wolfram is German, and mother, Isabelle is Swiss, both work in an organic farm, helping handicapped people
- Grandparents are Czech
- Has one older brother Jonathan, who teaches tennis, and two younger sisters Djanaee and Naella, are students and they play tennis
- Stopped attending school at age 15 in order to focus on tennis full-time
- “It was the natural line for me, the right path, to follow with my tennis,” he says about it
- Started playing international junior events at age 14 and then began satellite circuit following year
- Town of St. Barthelemy is 10 minutes outside of Lausanne
- Hobbies include movies and music
- Captured 2003 Roland Garros junior title (d. Baker)
- Considers clay best surface and his best shot backhand
- Married Ilham on 12 December 2009
- Daughter, Alexia, born 12 February at 9:45 a.m
- Was coached by Dimitri Zavialoff since age eight, before the pair split after Wimbledon in June 2010
- Was then coached by Peter Lundgren from August 2010-September 2011. Now coachless.
Biographical information from ATP. Unless noted otherwise all data as of year-end 2011.
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