Wimbledon: All you need to know about Nadal-conqueror Dustin Brown

Dustin Brown became an overnight cult hero as he stunned 10th seed Rafael Nadal in in the second round at Wimbledon. The 102-ranked brown beat Nadal 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to hand the Spaniard his fourth successive Wimbledon defeat by a player ranked 100 or worse.

Here’s all you need to know about the charismatic Dustin Brown:

1. Dustin Brown was born in Celle, West Germany on December 8, 1984 to a Jamaican father and German mother. He started off playing soccer, judo and handball but switched to playing tennis at the age of eight.

2. When he was 12, his parents emigrated to Montego Bay in Jamaica in 1996 and that’s where be began his pro career. But they moved back to Europe in 2004. Brown was once eligible to represent Britain through his parental grandmother, before he opted for Germany.

3. Brown can talk three languages fluently - German, English and Jamaican.

4. In 2004, Brown’s parents gifted him a camper van and he used it to travel to tournaments in Europe to save money.

5. Brown’s started making it big in 2009 where he made it to the finals of several Challenger evens. The following year, he broke into top 100 for the first time, helping him earn enough money to pay his parents’ loan. Later, he reached a career high ranking of 78 in 2014.

6. According to The Telegraph , Brown hasn’t cut his hair for 19 years and has a tongue piercing too.

7. Brown is nicknamed ‘Dreddy’ because of his dreadlocked hair.

8. After his win over Nadal, Brown patted on a large tattoo on his torso. There were confusions whether it was Bob Marley but later it became clear that it was the face of his father.

“I have the portrait of my dad at home in my bedroom, also. I don’t get to see him that often. Normally in the off-season,” Brown told Wimbledon.com .

“It’s been a very long road for me and my whole family. That’s one of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time and I had the opportunity to do that with a great tattoo artist in Cologne in Germany last year,” he added.

9. According to Mirror , Marat Safin is Brown’s idol.

10. This is not the first time that Brown has beaten Nadal. Last year, Brown had outclassed the Spaniard 6-4, 6-1 at a Wimbledon warmup event in Halle. He has a career 2-0 record against Nadal now.