Gastón Gaudio
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Gastón Norberto Gaudio is a former tennis player from Argentina
. His career-high ATP
ranking was World No. 5 in 2005. His most significant title win came in the 2004 French Open.
Gaudio was one of the most unpredictable players in the modern game, as was capable of shotmaking especially with his single-handed backhand and dropshots.
He learnt the game at the Temperley Lawn Tennis Club and his first coach was Roberto Carruthers. In addition to tennis Gaudio played football and rugby as a child and chose tennis to help out his parents financially when their business ran into economic problems.
juniors behind Mariano Zabaleta
. He turned professional in 1996 and in 1998 he won two ATP
Challenger events in Santa Cruz, Bolivia over Luis Adrián Morejón and finished year by winning in Santiago
defeating Karim Alami
.
and Espinho
defeating Jacobo Díaz
and Markus Hipfl respectively. Gaudio's first notable performance was when he reached the third round at the French Open as a qualifer, so he won 5 matches in total at the event, including coming back from two sets down to love in the second round against Bernd Karbacher
to win 6–7, 4–6, 6–3, 6–1, 6–4, then losing to world number 6 Àlex Corretja
in the next round .
2000 saw Gaudio establish himself on the main tour and win his only challenger of the year in Braunschweig
over countryman Franco Squillari
6–4, 6–7, 6–4. In addition to his Challenger title, Gaudio made the semi finals in Auckland
, Santiago
and in his most impressive performance of the season, the Monte Carlo Masters where he defeated Marat Safin
, Félix Mantilla
, Julien Boutter
and Juan Carlos Ferrero
without dropping a set, before losing to Slovakia's Dominik Hrbatý
in a tough 3-set match; 4–6, 7–5, 6–2. Gaudio also made the final of Stuttgart
again playing against fellow Argentine Franco Squillari
. Gaudio lost the final 6–2, 3–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2 despite having beaten his opponent soundly in the Gstaad quarterfinals and in the Braunschweig
finals earlier in the year (both on clay) and leading Squillari 2 sets-1 in Stuttgart. Gaudio also represented Argentina in his first Olympic Games
, losing to Vladimir Voltchkov
of Belarus, 7–6, 4–6, 6–1 in the first round.
, future French Open finalist Andrei Medvedev
, 3-time French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten
, and, in his Davis Cup
debut, Mexican Bruno Echagaray
. Gaudio soon went back to his winning ways however, reaching the final of Viña del Mar
, losing to bitter rival and countryman Guillermo Coria
4–6, 7–5, 6–2. Gaudio would avenge that defeat to Coria in a hard fought victory in the quarter finals of Buenos Aires
, which involved both players making rude gestures and insulting each other regularly. After this victory Gaudio lost in the semi finals to José Acasuso
6–3, 7–6. In the American Hardcourt Swing after the 2001 Australian Open
he made the quarter finals of the Miami Masters
losing to 19th seed Jan-Michael Gambill
3–6, 7–5 6–4. Along the way Gaudio dismantled 5th seed Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov
6–4, 6–1, a 3-time slam winner, and toughed out out a 3-set slugfest against future French Open winner and 12th seed Juan Carlos Ferrero
6–0, 3–6, 6–3. Although he did not manage to win his first title in 2001, Gaudio had some success, making a final, a semi and 4 quarter finals (1 0f them being the prestigious Miami Masters
). In addition to this he helped Argentina
return to the World Group
after a perfect 5–0 record in his singles matches which were all played in Argentina
on clay courts. The year was not great though; Gaudio lost a lot of early round matches and an astounding 12 first round matches, never making it past the first round of a slam. Because of his inability to win these early round matches Gaudio's ranking slipped from #34 at the beginning of the year to #48 at the end of 2001.
and the quarters of Indian Wells and the round of 16 at Miami. Continuing on from his successful Davis Cup
debut, In 2002 Gaudio defeated Ivo Karlović
in the fifth match to secure a semi final place for Argentina
. Gaudio also won the first tournament of his career in Barcelona
without dropping a set. Gaudio defeated world #1 and US Open champion Lleyton Hewitt
in the semi finals and then dismissed Spaniard Albert Costa
6–4, 6–0, 6–2 in the final, who later that year won his only Grand Slam
at the French Open. Gaudio followed up his maiden title with another in Barcelona
by winning Majorca the next week where he defeated world #2 Gustavo Kuerten
in the semi finals before defeating the Finn Jarkko Nieminen
in the final 6–2, 6–3.
Gaudio made the fourth round of the French Open losing to Juan Carlos Ferrero
6–7, 6–1, 6–7, 6–2, 6–4, while leading 4–1 in the final set and this inability to close out matches when in a winning position has been a constant fixture in his career. After Roland Garros Gaudio made the final in Gstaad
and the semi finals in Kitzbühel
losing on both occasions to Àlex Corretja
. In the Davis Cup
semi final against Russia Gaudio was leading 5–1 in the 5th set against Yevgeny Kafelnikov
and had a match point which was overruled by umpire Jorge Dias in Kafelnikov's favour who then went on to take the set 8–6 and the match.
in the Hamburg Masters
, where they were part of an all-Argentine
semi final line up the others being David Nalbandian
and Agustín Calleri
. Gaudio and Coria played in one semi final and after Coria won the first set and then Gaudio won the second set. Coria took an injury timeout for cramps and then after the timeout, Coria, after breaking serve at the change of ends beats his left breast while staring at his opponent, which Gaudio took as an insult. Coria preceded to win the last 6–0 and was moving around the court without problems and there was allegedly a confrontation after the match in the locker room.
The other was the Davis Cup
semi final against Spain in Málaga
, where the two top players David Nalbandian
and Guillermo Coria
where unavailable due to injury. An out of form Gaudio was called up along with Agustín Calleri
, Mariano Zabaleta
and Lucas Arnold. Spain won 3–2, but Gaudio lost both of his matches easily to Juan Carlos Ferrero
losing 14 games in a row in a 6–4 6–0 6–0 defeat and in the fifth match against Carlos Moyà
6–1, 6–4, 6–2 and was roundly criticised back in Argentina for these performances. "When I returned to Buenos Aires after playing Davis Cup in Moscow and Málaga, you had the impression it was my fault and that hurt me", he said.
losing to Tommy Robredo
in 5 sets, then posted two victories in the World Team Cup
over Martin Verkerk
and Lleyton Hewitt
.
Gaudio came into the French Open ranked 44th and was unseeded for the tournament. In the first round he upset top-ten player and compatriot Guillermo Cañas
over 2 days in 5 sets, then he won another 5 set match against Jiří Novák
. Gaudio drop just one set en route to the final, as he defeated Thomas Enqvist
, Igor Andreev
, Lleyton Hewitt
and David Nalbandian
to set up an all-Argentine final with world no. 3 and pre-tournament favourite Guillermo Coria
.
In the final, Gaudio defeated Coria 0–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1, 8–6. Gaudio became the first Argentine to win a Grand Slam
since Guillermo Vilas
in 1979, and the first man ever to win a Grand Slam after losing the first 6–0. He became the fifth lowest ranked player to win a Grand Slam, and the first man in the open era to win a Grand Slam having saved match points in the final. Gaudio reached the top 10 in the ATP Entry rankings for the first time. Gaudio had achieved his childhood dream by winning at Roland Garros and likened the match to a movie and did not know what was going on. Gaudio did not play Wimbledon
and returned to tour in Båstad
losing in the final to friend Mariano Zabaleta
. He also made finals in Stuttgart
and Kitzbühel
and made his first appearance at the Tennis Masters Cup
where he had a 0–3 record.
where Gaudio said "Let's be truthful, this isn't a team, because there's someone who makes decisions choosing the best for himself. I can understand that a player gets tired and decides to rest before Paris. I also did so on Tuesday against the Czechs but not in the most important match of all. Coria and I were the best team and if we were a real team this wouldn't have happened."
He lost in fourth round of Roland Garros to David Ferrer
after leading 4–0 in the 5th set and losing 6 consecutive games, when leading in the 5th set Gaudio said to Ferrer's coach at one point."Don't worry; I'm not going to win today". Gaudio also qualified again for the Tennis Masters Cup
where he made the semi finals defeating Mariano Puerta
and Fernando González
and lost to Nikolay Davydenko
in the round robin, before losing to Roger Federer
6–0, 6–0 in the semifinals.
and the Monte Carlo
Masters and he finished the year ranked at 34. Ranked in the top ten, Gaudio started 2006 off well at the French Open, where he lost in the fourth round in four sets to Russia's Nikolay Davydenko
. Gaudio lost at Wimbledon match to Irakli Labadze
(a qualifier), and lost his 2006 US Open 3rd round match to Marc Gicquel
.
who retired from the match with a strained hamstring
, but Gaudio followed up with a conventional win against Juan Pablo Guzmán
before losing to Juan Carlos Ferrero
in the quarter finals of Acapulco
. At the French Open in 2007, he won his first round match against Marc Gicquel
(he lost to him the previous year) in five sets. He was to face Lleyton Hewitt
, seeded 14, and won the first two sets 6–4, 6–3. However, Hewitt won the next three sets and thus the match 4–6, 3–6, 6–2, 6–4, 6–2. As a result, Gaudio's rank dropped to 99. In late 2007, Gaudio's ATP ranking had fallen to 180 in the world. During the second part of the year, he started to play clay court challenger events in Europe to attempt to rebuild his career, but he suffered an ankle injury while playing in the Napoli challenger.
In February 2009, Gaudio received a wild card into the main draw for the Buenos Aires tournament, an ATP World Tour 250 event in his home country. Gaudio lost to Daniel Gimeno Traver
of Spain in the first round 6–2, 4–6, 6–2.
Gaudio received another wild card into the main draw in the Barcelona tournament, an ATP World Tour 500 event, where he won his first match on the world tour since the 2007 French Open
by defeating Diego Junqueira
of Argentina
6–4, 3–6, 6–4, before losing his second round match to Tommy Robredo
7–6, 6–1.
Gaudio won a tournament after almost four years at the Tunis
Challenger. He beat Portuguese Frederico Gil
6–2, 1–6, 6–3 in the final. Gaudio was awarded a wild card into the first round of the 2009 French Open, where he was beaten by Czech Radek Štěpánek
in the first round 6–3, 6–4, 6–1. Playing his first tournament since the US Open qualifying. In October Gaudio made the final of the Buenos Aires
challenger losing to training partner Horacio Zeballos 6–2, 3–6, 6–3.
After finish the 2008 season without a ranking. Gaudio finished the 2009 season ranked at #167
Challenger, defeating countryman Martín Vassallo Argüello
7–5, 6–0.
In an unlikely turn of events, Gaudio returned to the French Open to play in the qualifying where he was a Grand Slam winner
just 6 years before. He posted an impressive victory over American Lester Cook in the first round but was taken out by
Thiago Alves in straight sets in his next match.
Gaudio announced his retirement from tennis on August 30, 2011.
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!Legend
|-bgcolor=#e5d1cb
|Grand Slam (1)
|-bgcolor=#ffc
|Tennis Masters Cup (0)
|-bgcolor=#dfe2e9
|ATP Masters Series (0)
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|ATP International Series Gold (2)
|-
|ATP International Series (5)
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!width=50|No.
!width=125|Date
!width=250|Tournament
!width=75|Surface
!width=200|Opponent in the final
!width=200|Score in the final
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|1.
|22 April 2002
|
Barcelona
|Clay
| Albert Costa
|6–4, 6–0, 6–2
|-
|2.
|29 April 2002
| Majorca
|Clay
|
Jarkko Nieminen
|6–2, 6–3
|-bgcolor=#e5d1cb
|3.
|24 May 2004
|
French Open, Paris
|Clay
|
Guillermo Coria
|0–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1, 8–6
|-
|4.
|31 January 2005
|
Viña del Mar
|Clay
| Fernando González
|6–3, 6–4
|-
|5.
|7 February 2005
| Buenos Aires
|Clay
| Mariano Puerta
|6–4, 6–4
|-
|6.
|1 May 2005
|
Estoril
|Clay
| Tommy Robredo
|6–1, 2–6, 6–1
|-
|7.
|4 July 2005
|
Gstaad
|Clay
| Stanislas Wawrinka
|6–4, 6–4
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|8.
|31 July 2005
|
Kitzbühel
|Clay
| Fernando Verdasco
|2–6, 6–2, 6–4, 6–4
|}
Runner-ups (7)
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!width=50|No.
!width=125|Date
!width=250|Tournament
!width=75|Surface
!width=200|Opponent in the final
!width=200|Score in the final
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|1.
|July 2000
|
Stuttgart
|Clay
| Franco Squillari
|6–2, 3–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
|-
|2.
|12 February 2001
| Viña del Mar
|Clay
| Guillermo Coria
|4–6, 6–2, 7–5
|-
|3.
|15 July 2002
| Gstaad
|Clay
| Àlex Corretja
|6–3, 7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–3)
|-
|4.
|5 July 2004
|
Båstad
|Clay
| Mariano Zabaleta
|6–1, 4–6, 7–6
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|5.
|12 July 2004
| Stuttgart
|Clay
| Guillermo Cañas
|5–7, 6–2, 6–0, 1–6, 6–3
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|6.
|25 July 2004
| Kitzbühel
|Clay
| Nicolás Massú
|7–6(7–3), 6–4
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|7.
|24 July 2005
| Stuttgart
|Clay
| Rafael Nadal
|6–3, 6–3, 6–4
|}
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!No.
!Date
!Tournament
!Surface
!Partnering
!Opponent in the final
!Score in the final
|-
|1.
|February 16, 2004
| Viña del Mar
|Clay
| Juan Ignacio Chela
|
Nicolás Lapentti
Martín Rodríguez
|7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–3)
|-
|2.
|April 19, 2004
| Estoril
|Clay
| Juan Ignacio Chela
|
František Čermák
Leoš Friedl
|6–2, 6–1
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|3.
|July 24, 2006
| Stuttgart
|Clay
|
Max Mirnyi
| Yves Allegro
Robert Lindstedt
|7–5, 6–7(4–7), [12-10]
|}
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|Challengers (7)
|-bgcolor=#cffcff
|Futures (1)
|}
{|class=wikitable style=font-size:97%
!No.
!Date
!Tournament
!Surface
!Opponent in the final
!Score in the final
|-bgcolor=#cffcff
|1.
|13 July 1998
| Elche
|Clay
| Diego Hipperdinger
|6–3, 6–4
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|2.
|31 August 1998
|
Santa Cruz
|Clay
| Luis Morejon
|6–2, 6–3
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|3.
|7 December 1998
| Santiago
|Clay
|
Karim Alami
|6–2, 3–6, 6–4
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|4.
|12 April 1999
| Nice
|Clay
| Jacobo Díaz
|6–2, 6–3
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|5.
|26 April 1999
| Espinho
|Clay
| Markus Hipfl
|6–4, 6–1
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|6.
|19 June 2000
| Braunschweig
|Clay
| Franco Squillari
|6–4, 6–7(2–7), 6–4
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|7.
|27 April 2009
|
Tunis
|Clay
| Frederico Gil
|6–2, 1–6, 6–3
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|8.
|2 May 2010
|
San Remo
|Clay
| Martín Vassallo Argüello
|7–5, 6–0
|}
!Tournament!!1995!!1996!!1997!!1998!!1999!!2000!!2001!!2002!!2003!!2004!!2005!!2006!!2007!!2008!!2009!!2010!!W–L
|-
|colspan=18 align=left|Grand Slam Tournaments
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Australian Open
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|8–8
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|French Open
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|4R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=lime|W
|bgcolor=#afeeee|4R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|4R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|Q2
|bgcolor=#efefef|22–9
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Wimbledon
|A
|A
|Q1
|Q1
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|2–6
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|US Open
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|A
|A
|Q1
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|5–8
|-
!style=text-align:left|Win–Loss
!0–0
!0–0
!0–0
!0–0
!2–3
!1–4
!0–4
!8–4
!3–4
!9–2
!5–3
!8–4
!1–2
!0–0
!0–1
!0–0
!37–31
|-
|colspan=18 align=left|Year-End Championship
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|ATP World Tour Finals
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|RR
|bgcolor=yellow|SF
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
!2–5
|-
|colspan=18 align=left|Olympic Games
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Summer Olympics
|color:#ccc|NH
|bgcolor=white|A
|colspan=3 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|colspan=3 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
|bgcolor=white|A
|colspan=3 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
|bgcolor=white|A
|colspan=2 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
!0–1
|-
|colspan=18 align=left|ATP World Tour 1000
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Indian Wells Masters
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#ffebcd|QF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|A
|A
|A
|Q1
|bgcolor=#efefef|6–6
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Miami Masters
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#ffebcd|QF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|4R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|4R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|Q1
|Q1
|bgcolor=#efefef|10–8
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Monte Carlo Masters
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=yellow|SF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|Q2
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#ffebcd|QF
|bgcolor=yellow|SF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|16–7
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Rome Masters
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|7–9
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Madrid Masters
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|Q1
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|1–4
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Canada Masters
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#ffebcd|QF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|5–7
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Cincinnati Masters
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|4–6
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Shanghai Masters
|colspan=7 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
|color:#ccc|NMS
|colspan=2 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
|colspan=4 style=color:#ccc|Not ATP Masters Series
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|0–0
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Paris Masters
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#ffebcd|QF
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|4–5
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Hamburg Masters
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|A
|bgcolor=yellow|SF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|colspan=2 style=text-align:center; color:#ccc|NM1
|bgcolor=#efefef|9–7
|-
|colspan=18 align=left|Career statistics
|-bgcolor=#efefef
|align=left|Finals
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|1
|1
|3
|0
|4
|6
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|colspan=2|15
|-
!style=text-align:left|Titles
!0
!0
!0
!0
!0
!0
!0
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!0
!1
!5
!0
!0
!0
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!0
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|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Year End Ranking
|813
|323
|639
|138
|73
|34
|48
|21
|34
|bgcolor=#eee8aa|10
|bgcolor=#eee8aa|10
|34
|182
|–
|167
|326
!
|}
Argentina
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. His career-high ATP
Association of Tennis Professionals
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ranking was World No. 5 in 2005. His most significant title win came in the 2004 French Open.
Gaudio was one of the most unpredictable players in the modern game, as was capable of shotmaking especially with his single-handed backhand and dropshots.
He learnt the game at the Temperley Lawn Tennis Club and his first coach was Roberto Carruthers. In addition to tennis Gaudio played football and rugby as a child and chose tennis to help out his parents financially when their business ran into economic problems.
Tennis career
Gaudio started playing tennis at the age of 6 and was ranked one hundred forty-five in the ArgentineArgentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
juniors behind Mariano Zabaleta
Mariano Zabaleta
Mariano Zabaleta is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. He turned professional in 1996. He had an unusual but effective service motion and fighting spirit...
. He turned professional in 1996 and in 1998 he won two ATP
Association of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...
Challenger events in Santa Cruz, Bolivia over Luis Adrián Morejón and finished year by winning in Santiago
Santiago, Chile
Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...
defeating Karim Alami
Karim Alami
Karim Alami is a tennis player from Morocco, who turned professional in 1990. He represented his native country as a qualifier at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he was defeated in the first round by Switzerland's eventual winner Marc Rosset. The right-hander won two career titles in...
.
1999-2000
Gaudio won two consecutive Challengers in NiceNice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
and Espinho
Espinho, Portugal
Espinho is a city in Espinho Municipality in Portugal. It is a reputed beach resort and a zone of legal gambling with a casino - Casino Solverde. Its fair - Feira de Espinho, having been first organised in 1894, is well known in Portugal...
defeating Jacobo Díaz
Jacobo Díaz
----Jacobo Díaz Ruiz is a former professional male tennis player from Spain who retired in 2004. He had a promising juniors career, highlighted by the victory at Roland Garros in 1994. The right-handed player's career-high ATP Entry ranking is #68 .- External links :...
and Markus Hipfl respectively. Gaudio's first notable performance was when he reached the third round at the French Open as a qualifer, so he won 5 matches in total at the event, including coming back from two sets down to love in the second round against Bernd Karbacher
Bernd Karbacher
Bernd Karbacher is a professional German tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is 22nd, which he reached on 17 April 1995. His career high in doubles was at 163 set at 6 June 1994.-External links:...
to win 6–7, 4–6, 6–3, 6–1, 6–4, then losing to world number 6 Àlex Corretja
Àlex Corretja
Àlex Corretja i Verdegay is a former professional tennis player from Spain. During his career, he finished runner-up twice at the French Open . He won the ATP Tour World Championships in 1998 and reached his career-high singles ranking of world no. 2 in 1999...
in the next round .
2000 saw Gaudio establish himself on the main tour and win his only challenger of the year in Braunschweig
Braunschweig
Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....
over countryman Franco Squillari
Franco Squillari
Franco Squillari is a former professional male tennis player from Argentina.In his career he has won 3 ATP Tour singles titles and he has reached the semi-finals at the 2000 French Open. He stopped his career in 2005...
6–4, 6–7, 6–4. In addition to his Challenger title, Gaudio made the semi finals in Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
, Santiago
Santiago, Chile
Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...
and in his most impressive performance of the season, the Monte Carlo Masters where he defeated Marat Safin
Marat Safin
Marat Mikhailovich Safin is a retired Russian tennis player of Tatar descent. Safin won two grand slams and reached the world number 1 ranking during his career. He was also famous for his emotional outbursts and sometimes fiery temper on court. Safin also holds the record for most broken...
, Félix Mantilla
Félix Mantilla Botella
Félix Mantilla Botella is a former Spanish professional tennis player, born in Barcelona. In common with many of his fellow countrymen, Mantilla's best surface is clay. While not as successful away from the clay, Mantilla also produced good hardcourt results...
, Julien Boutter
Julien Boutter
Julien Boutter is a former professional male tennis player from France.-Career:At the 2002 Australian Open, Boutter defeated number 2 seed and former World number 1 Gustavo Kuerten, despite being down two sets, 3–6, 4–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–3.In his career he has won 1 singles title and reached the final...
and Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat is a professional tennis player, and a former world no. 1 player, from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September of that year, he became the 21st player to hold the world no. 1 ranking. He was also the runner-up at the 2002...
without dropping a set, before losing to Slovakia's Dominik Hrbatý
Dominik Hrbatý
Dominik Hrbatý is a retired professional tennis player from Slovakia.-Personal life:Hrbatý was born on 4 January 1978 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. His father was an architecture engineer and his younger brother is an umpire...
in a tough 3-set match; 4–6, 7–5, 6–2. Gaudio also made the final of Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
again playing against fellow Argentine Franco Squillari
Franco Squillari
Franco Squillari is a former professional male tennis player from Argentina.In his career he has won 3 ATP Tour singles titles and he has reached the semi-finals at the 2000 French Open. He stopped his career in 2005...
. Gaudio lost the final 6–2, 3–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2 despite having beaten his opponent soundly in the Gstaad quarterfinals and in the Braunschweig
Braunschweig
Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....
finals earlier in the year (both on clay) and leading Squillari 2 sets-1 in Stuttgart. Gaudio also represented Argentina in his first Olympic Games
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
, losing to Vladimir Voltchkov
Vladimir Voltchkov
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voltchkov is a Belarusian tennis player. Voltchkov reached the semi-final at the 2000 Wimbledon, where, as a qualifer, he lost to Pete Sampras in straight sets...
of Belarus, 7–6, 4–6, 6–1 in the first round.
2001
Gaudio started his 2001 in poor fashion losing his first 4 matches of the season to Vladimir VoltchkovVladimir Voltchkov
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voltchkov is a Belarusian tennis player. Voltchkov reached the semi-final at the 2000 Wimbledon, where, as a qualifer, he lost to Pete Sampras in straight sets...
, future French Open finalist Andrei Medvedev
Andrei Medvedev
Andriy Medvedev , is a former professional tennis player from Ukraine. Medvedev made a splash on the international tennis scene when, as a 17-year-old, he won titles in Genoa and Stuttgart...
, 3-time French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000...
, and, in his Davis Cup
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
debut, Mexican Bruno Echagaray
Bruno Echagaray
Bruno Echagaray is a Mexican tennis player. He weighs 85 kg, and is 1.82 m tall. He was the most known Mexican tennis player in 2006. He has reached as high as 165 in the world for singles, and 314 for doubles. Most of his wins have been on carpet, mostly because of his speed...
. Gaudio soon went back to his winning ways however, reaching the final of Viña del Mar
Viña del Mar
Viña del Mar , is a city and commune on central Chile's Pacific coast. Its long stretches of white sandy beaches are a major attraction for national and international tourists. The city is Chile's main tourist attraction. Known as "La Ciudad Jardín" , Viña del Mar is a Chilean Municipality located...
, losing to bitter rival and countryman Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria , nicknames include El Mago , is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina who was runner-up in the 2004 French Open...
4–6, 7–5, 6–2. Gaudio would avenge that defeat to Coria in a hard fought victory in the quarter finals of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, which involved both players making rude gestures and insulting each other regularly. After this victory Gaudio lost in the semi finals to José Acasuso
José Acasuso
José Javier "Chucho" Acasuso is a professional male tennis player from Argentina. Like many of his fellow countrymen, he favours clay. He is known for his strong serve and his hard groundstrokes off both sides...
6–3, 7–6. In the American Hardcourt Swing after the 2001 Australian Open
2001 Australian Open
The 2001 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts from 15 to 28 January.-Men's Singles: Andre Agassi def. Arnaud Clément, 6–4, 6–2, 6–2...
he made the quarter finals of the Miami Masters
Miami Masters
The Miami Masters is an annual tennis tournament for men and women held in Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida. It is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the men's tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the women's tour and is played on hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park...
losing to 19th seed Jan-Michael Gambill
Jan-Michael Gambill
Jan-Michael Charles Gambill is an American tennis player who made his professional debut in 1996. His highest singles ranking to date is World No. 14, which he first reached on June 18, 2001...
3–6, 7–5 6–4. Along the way Gaudio dismantled 5th seed Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Russia. He won two Grand Slam singles titles , four Grand Slam doubles titles, and the men's singles gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games. He also helped Russia win the Davis Cup in 2002...
6–4, 6–1, a 3-time slam winner, and toughed out out a 3-set slugfest against future French Open winner and 12th seed Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat is a professional tennis player, and a former world no. 1 player, from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September of that year, he became the 21st player to hold the world no. 1 ranking. He was also the runner-up at the 2002...
6–0, 3–6, 6–3. Although he did not manage to win his first title in 2001, Gaudio had some success, making a final, a semi and 4 quarter finals (1 0f them being the prestigious Miami Masters
Miami Masters
The Miami Masters is an annual tennis tournament for men and women held in Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida. It is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the men's tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the women's tour and is played on hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park...
). In addition to this he helped Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
return to the World Group
Davis Cup structure
The Davis Cup tennis competition is structured around a number of groups, with promotion and relegation between them.At the top is the World Group, which competes in a knockout competition. Below that it becomes regional, with an American Zone, Euro/African Zone and Asia/Oceania Zone. Each of these...
after a perfect 5–0 record in his singles matches which were all played in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
on clay courts. The year was not great though; Gaudio lost a lot of early round matches and an astounding 12 first round matches, never making it past the first round of a slam. Because of his inability to win these early round matches Gaudio's ranking slipped from #34 at the beginning of the year to #48 at the end of 2001.
2002
Gaudio had a decent start to his 2002 campaign making the 3rd round of the Australian OpenAustralian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
and the quarters of Indian Wells and the round of 16 at Miami. Continuing on from his successful Davis Cup
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
debut, In 2002 Gaudio defeated Ivo Karlović
Ivo Karlovic
Ivo Karlović is a Croatian tennis player. He has won four ATP singles titles: three in 2007 and one in 2008. Karlović is the tallest player ever on the ATP Tour at 208 cm . He is a serve-and-volleyer, Karlovic holds the fastest serve recorded in professional tennis, measured at 251 km/h ...
in the fifth match to secure a semi final place for Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. Gaudio also won the first tournament of his career in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
without dropping a set. Gaudio defeated world #1 and US Open champion Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no. 1.In 2000, Hewitt had won ATP titles on all three major surfaces and reached one final on carpet. By 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked no. 1 at the age of 20...
in the semi finals and then dismissed Spaniard Albert Costa
Albert Costa
Albert Costa i Casals is a former professional tennis player from Spain. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the French Open in 2002.-Tennis career:...
6–4, 6–0, 6–2 in the final, who later that year won his only Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
at the French Open. Gaudio followed up his maiden title with another in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
by winning Majorca the next week where he defeated world #2 Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000...
in the semi finals before defeating the Finn Jarkko Nieminen
Jarkko Nieminen
Jarkko Kalervo Nieminen is a professional tennis player from Finland.His highest ranking is 13th, which was achieved on July 10, 2006. He has won one ATP singles title and two doubles titles in his career so far. His best performances in Grand Slam tournaments have been reaching the quarter-finals...
in the final 6–2, 6–3.
Gaudio made the fourth round of the French Open losing to Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat is a professional tennis player, and a former world no. 1 player, from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September of that year, he became the 21st player to hold the world no. 1 ranking. He was also the runner-up at the 2002...
6–7, 6–1, 6–7, 6–2, 6–4, while leading 4–1 in the final set and this inability to close out matches when in a winning position has been a constant fixture in his career. After Roland Garros Gaudio made the final in Gstaad
Gstaad
Gstaad is a village in the German-speaking section of the Canton of Berne in southwestern Switzerland. Part of the municipality of Saanen, Gstaad is known as one of the most exclusive ski resorts in the world....
and the semi finals in Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel
-Demographic evolution:-Personalities:*Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre , entomologist and botanist*Alfons Walde , expressionist painter and architect*Peter Aufschnaiter , mountaineer and geographer...
losing on both occasions to Àlex Corretja
Àlex Corretja
Àlex Corretja i Verdegay is a former professional tennis player from Spain. During his career, he finished runner-up twice at the French Open . He won the ATP Tour World Championships in 1998 and reached his career-high singles ranking of world no. 2 in 1999...
. In the Davis Cup
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
semi final against Russia Gaudio was leading 5–1 in the 5th set against Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Russia. He won two Grand Slam singles titles , four Grand Slam doubles titles, and the men's singles gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games. He also helped Russia win the Davis Cup in 2002...
and had a match point which was overruled by umpire Jorge Dias in Kafelnikov's favour who then went on to take the set 8–6 and the match.
2003
There were no titles for Gaudio in 2003, but he was involved in two controversies, the first of them involved Guillermo CoriaGuillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria , nicknames include El Mago , is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina who was runner-up in the 2004 French Open...
in the Hamburg Masters
Hamburg Masters
The German Open Hamburg, established in 1892, is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players held in Hamburg, Germany and part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour. Originally a Grand Prix Tennis Tour event between 1978 and 1989 it was part of the Grand Prix Championship...
, where they were part of an all-Argentine
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
semi final line up the others being David Nalbandian
David Nalbandian
David Pablo Nalbandian is an Argentine professional tennis player and former world no. 3. He was runner-up at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships and the winner of the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005.-Biography:...
and Agustín Calleri
Agustín Calleri
Agustín Calleri Shaal is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. His nickname is Gordo which means Fat in Spanish. He is known as a hard-hitter and he prefers playing on clay....
. Gaudio and Coria played in one semi final and after Coria won the first set and then Gaudio won the second set. Coria took an injury timeout for cramps and then after the timeout, Coria, after breaking serve at the change of ends beats his left breast while staring at his opponent, which Gaudio took as an insult. Coria preceded to win the last 6–0 and was moving around the court without problems and there was allegedly a confrontation after the match in the locker room.
The other was the Davis Cup
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
semi final against Spain in Málaga
Málaga
Málaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe...
, where the two top players David Nalbandian
David Nalbandian
David Pablo Nalbandian is an Argentine professional tennis player and former world no. 3. He was runner-up at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships and the winner of the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005.-Biography:...
and Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria , nicknames include El Mago , is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina who was runner-up in the 2004 French Open...
where unavailable due to injury. An out of form Gaudio was called up along with Agustín Calleri
Agustín Calleri
Agustín Calleri Shaal is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. His nickname is Gordo which means Fat in Spanish. He is known as a hard-hitter and he prefers playing on clay....
, Mariano Zabaleta
Mariano Zabaleta
Mariano Zabaleta is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. He turned professional in 1996. He had an unusual but effective service motion and fighting spirit...
and Lucas Arnold. Spain won 3–2, but Gaudio lost both of his matches easily to Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat is a professional tennis player, and a former world no. 1 player, from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September of that year, he became the 21st player to hold the world no. 1 ranking. He was also the runner-up at the 2002...
losing 14 games in a row in a 6–4 6–0 6–0 defeat and in the fifth match against Carlos Moyà
Carlos Moyá
Carlos Moya Llompart is a retired former world no. 1 tennis player from Spain. He was the French Open singles champion in 1998 and was the singles runner-up at the 1997 Australian Open. In 2004, he helped his country win the Davis Cup. He currently resides in Switzerland...
6–1, 6–4, 6–2 and was roundly criticised back in Argentina for these performances. "When I returned to Buenos Aires after playing Davis Cup in Moscow and Málaga, you had the impression it was my fault and that hurt me", he said.
2004
2004 started slowly for Gaudio, but he eventually reached the final in BarcelonaBarcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
losing to Tommy Robredo
Tommy Robredo
Tommy Robredo Garcés is a Spanish professional tennis player. On 8 May 2006, he broke into the world's top ten for the first time. His highest singles ranking to date is No...
in 5 sets, then posted two victories in the World Team Cup
World Team Cup
The World Team Cup is the international team championship of the Association of Tennis Professionals . The tournament has been contested annually since 1978 and is generally considered to be second most prestigious men's team competition in tennis after the Davis Cup.Every year, the eight nations...
over Martin Verkerk
Martin Verkerk
Martin Willem Verkerk is a retired Dutch tennis player. As a relatively unknown player, he had a brilliant run at the French Open in 2003, reaching the final before losing to Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero...
and Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no. 1.In 2000, Hewitt had won ATP titles on all three major surfaces and reached one final on carpet. By 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked no. 1 at the age of 20...
.
Gaudio came into the French Open ranked 44th and was unseeded for the tournament. In the first round he upset top-ten player and compatriot Guillermo Cañas
Guillermo Cañas
Guillermo Ignacio Cañas , often referred to as Willy Cañas, is a retired Argentine professional tennis player. He was born in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, and named after Argentine tennis star Guillermo Vilas. His highest singles ranking was 8th . After retirement Cañas took on coaching, he...
over 2 days in 5 sets, then he won another 5 set match against Jiří Novák
Jirí Novák
Jiří Novák is a former Czech tennis player, who was born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia but resides nowadays in Monte Carlo, Monaco.-Career:Novák turned professional in 1993 and won 7 singles and 18 doubles titles during his career, winning $7,614,063 in prize money. For six years, he was the...
. Gaudio drop just one set en route to the final, as he defeated Thomas Enqvist
Thomas Enqvist
Thomas Karl Johan Enqvist is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.He was quickly touted as the only Swede who could follow in the footsteps of Stefan Edberg and Björn Borg, and was ranked as high as No. 4 on the ATP Rankings.Enqvist was a force on the Swedish Davis Cup team...
, Igor Andreev
Igor Andreev
Igor Valerievich Andreev is a Russian professional tennis player, born in Moscow.-2003:Andreev made his ATP debut in September 2003 at Bucharest, Romania as a qualifier and defeated top seed Nikolay Davydenko 7–5, 6–7, 6–0 in the first round, before losing in the next round to José Acasuso.At the...
, Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no. 1.In 2000, Hewitt had won ATP titles on all three major surfaces and reached one final on carpet. By 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked no. 1 at the age of 20...
and David Nalbandian
David Nalbandian
David Pablo Nalbandian is an Argentine professional tennis player and former world no. 3. He was runner-up at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships and the winner of the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005.-Biography:...
to set up an all-Argentine final with world no. 3 and pre-tournament favourite Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria , nicknames include El Mago , is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina who was runner-up in the 2004 French Open...
.
In the final, Gaudio defeated Coria 0–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1, 8–6. Gaudio became the first Argentine to win a Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
since Guillermo Vilas
Guillermo Vilas
Guillermo Apolinario Vilas is a retired and former World No. 2 professional tennis player from Argentina. He was the second Latin-American to win a Grand Slam tournament.-Career:...
in 1979, and the first man ever to win a Grand Slam after losing the first 6–0. He became the fifth lowest ranked player to win a Grand Slam, and the first man in the open era to win a Grand Slam having saved match points in the final. Gaudio reached the top 10 in the ATP Entry rankings for the first time. Gaudio had achieved his childhood dream by winning at Roland Garros and likened the match to a movie and did not know what was going on. Gaudio did not play Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
and returned to tour in Båstad
Båstad
Båstad is a locality and the seat of Båstad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 4,793 inhabitants in 2005.-Geography:The town of Båstad is located in a sheltered bay with the Hallandian ridge stretching behind it...
losing in the final to friend Mariano Zabaleta
Mariano Zabaleta
Mariano Zabaleta is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. He turned professional in 1996. He had an unusual but effective service motion and fighting spirit...
. He also made finals in Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
and Kitzbühel
Kitzbühel
-Demographic evolution:-Personalities:*Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre , entomologist and botanist*Alfons Walde , expressionist painter and architect*Peter Aufschnaiter , mountaineer and geographer...
and made his first appearance at the Tennis Masters Cup
Tennis Masters Cup
The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals is a tennis tournament played at the end of each year, involving the top eight players in the men's tennis world rankings....
where he had a 0–3 record.
2005
Gaudio consolidated his top 10 ranking in 2005, by winning 5 tournaments and his 42–8 on clay only second to Nadal. Gaudio and Coria were at the centre of another dispute at the World Team CupWorld Team Cup
The World Team Cup is the international team championship of the Association of Tennis Professionals . The tournament has been contested annually since 1978 and is generally considered to be second most prestigious men's team competition in tennis after the Davis Cup.Every year, the eight nations...
where Gaudio said "Let's be truthful, this isn't a team, because there's someone who makes decisions choosing the best for himself. I can understand that a player gets tired and decides to rest before Paris. I also did so on Tuesday against the Czechs but not in the most important match of all. Coria and I were the best team and if we were a real team this wouldn't have happened."
He lost in fourth round of Roland Garros to David Ferrer
David Ferrer
David Ferrer Ern is a Spanish professional tennis player who lives in Valencia, Spain who is currently no. 5 in the ATP Rankings and the second-highest ranked Spaniard behind world no. 2 Rafael Nadal. He turned professional in 2000...
after leading 4–0 in the 5th set and losing 6 consecutive games, when leading in the 5th set Gaudio said to Ferrer's coach at one point."Don't worry; I'm not going to win today". Gaudio also qualified again for the Tennis Masters Cup
Tennis Masters Cup
The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals is a tennis tournament played at the end of each year, involving the top eight players in the men's tennis world rankings....
where he made the semi finals defeating Mariano Puerta
Mariano Puerta
Mariano Ruben Puerta is a former Argentine professional male tennis player best known for making the final of the French Open in 2005, where he lost to Rafael Nadal in four sets.-Career:...
and Fernando González
Fernando González
----Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi is a professional tennis player from Chile. He is known for having one of the hardest forehands on the circuit. In Spanish he is called El Bombardero de La Reina and Mano de Piedra...
and lost to Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko is a Ukrainian-Russian tennis player. Davydenko's best result in a Grand Slam tournament has been reaching the semifinals, which he has done on four occasions: twice each at the French Open and the U.S. Open. His biggest achievement to date was winning the 2009 ATP...
in the round robin, before losing to Roger Federer
Roger Federer
Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player who held the ATP no. 1 position for a record 237 consecutive weeks, and 285 weeks overall. As of 28 November 2011, he is ranked World No. 3 by the Association of Tennis Professionals . Federer has won a men's record 16 Grand Slam singles titles...
6–0, 6–0 in the semifinals.
2006
Gaudio was not able to keep up his level of play to the standards he set from mid 2004 to 2005. His best performances for 2006 have included semi finals in AcapulcoAcapulco
Acapulco is a city, municipality and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, southwest from Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semi-circular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico’s history...
and the Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo is an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco....
Masters and he finished the year ranked at 34. Ranked in the top ten, Gaudio started 2006 off well at the French Open, where he lost in the fourth round in four sets to Russia's Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Davydenko
Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko is a Ukrainian-Russian tennis player. Davydenko's best result in a Grand Slam tournament has been reaching the semifinals, which he has done on four occasions: twice each at the French Open and the U.S. Open. His biggest achievement to date was winning the 2009 ATP...
. Gaudio lost at Wimbledon match to Irakli Labadze
Irakli Labadze
Irakli Labadze |Georgia]]) is a professional tennis player. His career high singles ranking was "World No. 42" which he attained in July, 2004.Labadze turned pro in 1998, and has recently passed the $1 205 296 career prize money mark...
(a qualifier), and lost his 2006 US Open 3rd round match to Marc Gicquel
Marc Gicquel
Marc Gicquel is a professional male tennis player from France. He turned pro in 1999.-Tennis career:...
.
2007
Gaudio started 2007 poorly and lost 8 consecutive matches stretching back to 2006 before recording a victory over Luis HornaLuis Horna
Luis Horna Biscari is a former tour professional tennis player from Peru, who turned professional in 1998. Horna plays right-handed, he has a strong serve for a relatively short player and the forehand is his best stroke. He uses a single-handed backhand and his favourite surface is clay...
who retired from the match with a strained hamstring
Hamstring
In human anatomy, the hamstring refers to any one of the three posterior thigh muscles, or to the tendons that make up the borders of the space behind the knee. In modern anatomical contexts, however, they usually refer to the posterior thigh muscles, or the tendons of the semitendinosus, the...
, but Gaudio followed up with a conventional win against Juan Pablo Guzmán
Juan Pablo Guzmán
Juan Pablo Guzmán is a now inactive professional tennis player from Argentina.In 2007, Guzmán won the ATP doubles title in Amersfoort with Juan-Pablo Brzezicki where the Argentine duo defeated Robin Haase and Rogier Wassen in straight sets in the final...
before losing to Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat is a professional tennis player, and a former world no. 1 player, from Spain. He captured the men's singles title at the 2003 French Open, and in September of that year, he became the 21st player to hold the world no. 1 ranking. He was also the runner-up at the 2002...
in the quarter finals of Acapulco
Acapulco
Acapulco is a city, municipality and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, southwest from Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semi-circular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico’s history...
. At the French Open in 2007, he won his first round match against Marc Gicquel
Marc Gicquel
Marc Gicquel is a professional male tennis player from France. He turned pro in 1999.-Tennis career:...
(he lost to him the previous year) in five sets. He was to face Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no. 1.In 2000, Hewitt had won ATP titles on all three major surfaces and reached one final on carpet. By 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked no. 1 at the age of 20...
, seeded 14, and won the first two sets 6–4, 6–3. However, Hewitt won the next three sets and thus the match 4–6, 3–6, 6–2, 6–4, 6–2. As a result, Gaudio's rank dropped to 99. In late 2007, Gaudio's ATP ranking had fallen to 180 in the world. During the second part of the year, he started to play clay court challenger events in Europe to attempt to rebuild his career, but he suffered an ankle injury while playing in the Napoli challenger.
2008-09
Gaudio came back in January 2008 at a Challenger Series event in Miami, Florida. He lost in the opening round 6–0, 6–3 to Kei Nishikori of Japan. Later in the month Gaudio continued his comeback attempt at the Movistar Open in Viña del Mar, Chile. Granted a wild card into the main draw of the tournament, Gaudio lost to Santiago Ventura 6–0, 6–3 in the first round.In February 2009, Gaudio received a wild card into the main draw for the Buenos Aires tournament, an ATP World Tour 250 event in his home country. Gaudio lost to Daniel Gimeno Traver
Daniel Gimeno Traver
Daniel Gimeno-Traver is a professional Spanish tennis player who turned professional in 2004, when he was eighteen years old....
of Spain in the first round 6–2, 4–6, 6–2.
Gaudio received another wild card into the main draw in the Barcelona tournament, an ATP World Tour 500 event, where he won his first match on the world tour since the 2007 French Open
2007 French Open
The 2007 French Open was held in Paris, France from 27 May through to 10 June 2007. Followed two weeks later, as usual, by Wimbledon in London, United Kingdom. Rafael Nadal became the first man to win the tournament 3 times consecutively since Björn Borg, 1978–81; and maintained his unbeaten run...
by defeating Diego Junqueira
Diego Junqueira
Diego Junqueira is a professional tennis player who plays left-handed from Argentina...
of Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
6–4, 3–6, 6–4, before losing his second round match to Tommy Robredo
Tommy Robredo
Tommy Robredo Garcés is a Spanish professional tennis player. On 8 May 2006, he broke into the world's top ten for the first time. His highest singles ranking to date is No...
7–6, 6–1.
Gaudio won a tournament after almost four years at the Tunis
Tunis
Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....
Challenger. He beat Portuguese Frederico Gil
Frederico Gil
Frederico Gil is a Portuguese professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Tour. In April 2011, he achieved a career-high singles world ranking no. 62, the highest ranking a Portuguese player has ever held until September when Rui Machado placed 61st in the rankings...
6–2, 1–6, 6–3 in the final. Gaudio was awarded a wild card into the first round of the 2009 French Open, where he was beaten by Czech Radek Štěpánek
Radek Štepánek
Radek Štěpánek is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic.-Career:Štěpánek turned professional in 1997. He started on tour as a doubles specialist, winning 12 ATP titles. Since 2002, Štěpánek has focused on being a better singles player while still playing top-level doubles...
in the first round 6–3, 6–4, 6–1. Playing his first tournament since the US Open qualifying. In October Gaudio made the final of the Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
challenger losing to training partner Horacio Zeballos 6–2, 3–6, 6–3.
After finish the 2008 season without a ranking. Gaudio finished the 2009 season ranked at #167
2010
In an interview on the Argentine program Vertigo, Gaudio revealed that he had received psychiatric treatment for clinical depression during his time away from tennis After a poor start in 2010, Gaudio won the San RemoSanremo
Sanremo or San Remo is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. Founded in Roman times, the city is best known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera. It hosts numerous cultural events, such as the Sanremo Music Festival...
Challenger, defeating countryman Martín Vassallo Argüello
Martín Vassallo Argüello
Martin Miguel Vassallo Argüello is a professional male tennis player from Argentina. His career-high ATP entry ranking is #47 .He turned pro in 1999...
7–5, 6–0.
In an unlikely turn of events, Gaudio returned to the French Open to play in the qualifying where he was a Grand Slam winner
just 6 years before. He posted an impressive victory over American Lester Cook in the first round but was taken out by
Thiago Alves in straight sets in his next match.
Gaudio announced his retirement from tennis on August 30, 2011.
Singles: 1 (1-0)
| Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Opponent in the final | Score in the final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 2004 | French Open | Clay | Guillermo Coria Guillermo Coria Guillermo Sebastián Coria , nicknames include El Mago , is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina who was runner-up in the 2004 French Open... |
0–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1, 8–6 |
Singles: 15 (8–7)
Wins (8){|width=60%
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{|class=wikitable style=font-size:97%
!Legend
|-bgcolor=#e5d1cb
|Grand Slam (1)
|-bgcolor=#ffc
|Tennis Masters Cup (0)
|-bgcolor=#dfe2e9
|ATP Masters Series (0)
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|ATP International Series Gold (2)
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|ATP International Series (5)
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{|class="sortable wikitable" style=font-size:97%
!width=50|No.
!width=125|Date
!width=250|Tournament
!width=75|Surface
!width=200|Opponent in the final
!width=200|Score in the final
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|1.
|22 April 2002
|
BarcelonaTorneo Godó
The Barcelona Open also known as Torneo Godó, Trofeo Conde de Godó, Open Banco Sabadell, is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players. The event has been held annually in Barcelona, Spain since 1953, and is played on clay courts. Originally an event of the Grand Prix tennis circuit...
|Clay
|
Albert CostaAlbert Costa
Albert Costa i Casals is a former professional tennis player from Spain. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at the French Open in 2002.-Tennis career:...
|6–4, 6–0, 6–2
|-
|2.
|29 April 2002
|
MajorcaOpen de Tenis Comunidad Valenciana
The Valencia Open 500, formerly known as Open de Tenis Comunidad Valenciana, is a professional tennis tournament played in Valencia, Spain. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour. The tournament was first played in Valencia in 1995 before moving to Marbella, Spain for...
|Clay
|
Jarkko NieminenJarkko Nieminen
Jarkko Kalervo Nieminen is a professional tennis player from Finland.His highest ranking is 13th, which was achieved on July 10, 2006. He has won one ATP singles title and two doubles titles in his career so far. His best performances in Grand Slam tournaments have been reaching the quarter-finals...
|6–2, 6–3
|-bgcolor=#e5d1cb
|3.
|24 May 2004
|
French Open, Paris|Clay
|
Guillermo CoriaGuillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria , nicknames include El Mago , is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina who was runner-up in the 2004 French Open...
|0–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1, 8–6
|-
|4.
|31 January 2005
|
Viña del MarMovistar Open
The Movistar Open is an ATP International Series men's tennis tournament held in February 2010 in Las Condes commune, and it's played on clay. It was previously played in Viña del Mar.-History:In 1992, Brazil suspended its three ATP tournaments...
|Clay
|
Fernando GonzálezFernando González
----Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi is a professional tennis player from Chile. He is known for having one of the hardest forehands on the circuit. In Spanish he is called El Bombardero de La Reina and Mano de Piedra...
|6–3, 6–4
|-
|5.
|7 February 2005
|
Buenos AiresATP Buenos Aires
The ATP Buenos Aires is an annual tennis event for male tennis players held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The tournament is an ATP World Tour 250 series event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour and it is played on outdoor clay courts at the 5,500 capacity Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club,...
|Clay
|
Mariano PuertaMariano Puerta
Mariano Ruben Puerta is a former Argentine professional male tennis player best known for making the final of the French Open in 2005, where he lost to Rafael Nadal in four sets.-Career:...
|6–4, 6–4
|-
|6.
|1 May 2005
|
EstorilEstoril Open
The Estoril Open is an ATP and WTA clay court tournament held in Jamor, Oeiras, Portugal . The men's tournament was created in 1990 and since its inception, every champion except 2004 champion Juan Ignacio Chela and 2009–2010 champion Albert Montañés has been in the Top 10 of the ATP rankings,...
|Clay
|
Tommy RobredoTommy Robredo
Tommy Robredo Garcés is a Spanish professional tennis player. On 8 May 2006, he broke into the world's top ten for the first time. His highest singles ranking to date is No...
|6–1, 2–6, 6–1
|-
|7.
|4 July 2005
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GstaadAllianz Suisse Open Gstaad
The Swiss Open is a tennis tournament held in Gstaad, Switzerland. Held since 1915, the tournament is played on outdoor clay courts...
|Clay
|
Stanislas WawrinkaStanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka is a Swiss professional tennis player. He also holds German citizenship as his father is German. His career ranking high is no. 9, achieved on 9 June 2008. He considers clay his best surface and his backhand his best shot...
|6–4, 6–4
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|8.
|31 July 2005
|
Kitzbühel|Clay
|
Fernando VerdascoFernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona is a professional tennis player. He is currently ranked no. 22 in the world. Verdasco started playing tennis at four years of age and had a full-time coach when he was eight...
|2–6, 6–2, 6–4, 6–4
|}
Runner-ups (7)
{|class="sortable wikitable" style=font-size:97%
!width=50|No.
!width=125|Date
!width=250|Tournament
!width=75|Surface
!width=200|Opponent in the final
!width=200|Score in the final
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|1.
|July 2000
|
Stuttgart|Clay
|
Franco SquillariFranco Squillari
Franco Squillari is a former professional male tennis player from Argentina.In his career he has won 3 ATP Tour singles titles and he has reached the semi-finals at the 2000 French Open. He stopped his career in 2005...
|6–2, 3–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
|-
|2.
|12 February 2001
|
Viña del MarMovistar Open
The Movistar Open is an ATP International Series men's tennis tournament held in February 2010 in Las Condes commune, and it's played on clay. It was previously played in Viña del Mar.-History:In 1992, Brazil suspended its three ATP tournaments...
|Clay
|
Guillermo CoriaGuillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria , nicknames include El Mago , is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina who was runner-up in the 2004 French Open...
|4–6, 6–2, 7–5
|-
|3.
|15 July 2002
|
GstaadAllianz Suisse Open Gstaad
The Swiss Open is a tennis tournament held in Gstaad, Switzerland. Held since 1915, the tournament is played on outdoor clay courts...
|Clay
|
Àlex CorretjaÀlex Corretja
Àlex Corretja i Verdegay is a former professional tennis player from Spain. During his career, he finished runner-up twice at the French Open . He won the ATP Tour World Championships in 1998 and reached his career-high singles ranking of world no. 2 in 1999...
|6–3, 7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–3)
|-
|4.
|5 July 2004
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Båstad|Clay
|
Mariano ZabaletaMariano Zabaleta
Mariano Zabaleta is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. He turned professional in 1996. He had an unusual but effective service motion and fighting spirit...
|6–1, 4–6, 7–6
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|5.
|12 July 2004
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Stuttgart|Clay
|
Guillermo CañasGuillermo Cañas
Guillermo Ignacio Cañas , often referred to as Willy Cañas, is a retired Argentine professional tennis player. He was born in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, and named after Argentine tennis star Guillermo Vilas. His highest singles ranking was 8th . After retirement Cañas took on coaching, he...
|5–7, 6–2, 6–0, 1–6, 6–3
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|6.
|25 July 2004
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Kitzbühel|Clay
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Nicolás MassúNicolás Massú
Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried , nicknamed Vampiro , is a Chilean tennis player, a former world number nine in singles, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist...
|7–6(7–3), 6–4
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|7.
|24 July 2005
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Stuttgart|Clay
|
Rafael NadalRafael Nadal
Rafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. , he is ranked No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals...
|6–3, 6–3, 6–4
|}
Doubles: 3 (3-0)
Wins (3){|class="sortable wikitable" style=font-size:97%
!No.
!Date
!Tournament
!Surface
!Partnering
!Opponent in the final
!Score in the final
|-
|1.
|February 16, 2004
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Viña del MarMovistar Open
The Movistar Open is an ATP International Series men's tennis tournament held in February 2010 in Las Condes commune, and it's played on clay. It was previously played in Viña del Mar.-History:In 1992, Brazil suspended its three ATP tournaments...
|Clay
|
Juan Ignacio ChelaJuan Ignacio Chela
Juan Ignacio Chela is a professional male tennis player from Argentina. Like most Argentine players he is comfortable on Clay courts and owns all six of his career titles on the surface...
|
Nicolás LapenttiNicolás Lapentti
----Nicolás Alexander Lapentti Gómez is a former professional tennis player from Ecuador who is ranked 214th...
Martín RodríguezMartín Rodríguez (tennis)
Martín Rodríguez is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.Rodríguez turned professional in 1991. He reached his career-high singles ranking when he became World Number 71 on June 14, 1999...
|7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–3)
|-
|2.
|April 19, 2004
|
EstorilEstoril Open
The Estoril Open is an ATP and WTA clay court tournament held in Jamor, Oeiras, Portugal . The men's tournament was created in 1990 and since its inception, every champion except 2004 champion Juan Ignacio Chela and 2009–2010 champion Albert Montañés has been in the Top 10 of the ATP rankings,...
|Clay
|
Juan Ignacio Chela|
František ČermákFrantišek Cermák
----František Čermák is a Czech professional tennis player. Čermák turned pro in 1998. He has won 26 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, and has been a finalist 19 times. He reached his career high doubles ranking of World No. 14 on February 1, 2010...
Leoš FriedlLeoš Friedl
Leoš Friedl is a Czech professional tennis player best known for his doubles play with František Čermák. He is coached by Lubomir Gerla. In his career, he has won 15 top-level doubles titles and $1,027,625 in prize money...
|6–2, 6–1
|-bgcolor=#d0f0c0
|3.
|July 24, 2006
|
StuttgartMercedes Cup
The Mercedes Cup is an ATP World Tour 250 series tennis tournament on the ATP Tour. Held since 1916 in Stuttgart, Germany, the Mercedes Cup is played on clay courts...
|Clay
|
Max MirnyiMax Mirnyi
Max Mirnyi is a professional tennis player from Belarus.Today Mirnyi is a doubles specialist, but he also enjoyed a good singles career, finishing in the top 50 in the world for seven straight years, as well as representing Belarus in Davis Cup competition since April 1994, where he holds a...
|
Yves AllegroYves Allegro
Yves Allegro is a professional male tennis player from Switzerland. He is a doubles specialist and is well known as Roger Federer's doubles partner and good friend.-Doubles: 9 :-External links:...
Robert LindstedtRobert Lindstedt
Robert Lindstedt is a Swedish professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1998, and is a doubles specialist...
|7–5, 6–7(4–7), [12-10]
|}
Challengers and futures (8)
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|Challengers (7)
|-bgcolor=#cffcff
|Futures (1)
|}
{|class=wikitable style=font-size:97%
!No.
!Date
!Tournament
!Surface
!Opponent in the final
!Score in the final
|-bgcolor=#cffcff
|1.
|13 July 1998
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Elche|Clay
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Diego Hipperdinger|6–3, 6–4
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|2.
|31 August 1998
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Santa CruzSanta Cruz de la Sierra
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the capital of the Santa Cruz department in eastern Bolivia and the largest city in the country...
|Clay
|
Luis MorejonLuis Morejon
Luis Adrián Morejón is a former tennis player from Ecuador who turned professional in 1991. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the second round by Italy's Renzo Furlan...
|6–2, 6–3
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|3.
|7 December 1998
|
SantiagoSantiago, Chile
Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...
|Clay
|
Karim AlamiKarim Alami
Karim Alami is a tennis player from Morocco, who turned professional in 1990. He represented his native country as a qualifier at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he was defeated in the first round by Switzerland's eventual winner Marc Rosset. The right-hander won two career titles in...
|6–2, 3–6, 6–4
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|4.
|12 April 1999
|
NiceNice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
|Clay
|
Jacobo DíazJacobo Díaz
----Jacobo Díaz Ruiz is a former professional male tennis player from Spain who retired in 2004. He had a promising juniors career, highlighted by the victory at Roland Garros in 1994. The right-handed player's career-high ATP Entry ranking is #68 .- External links :...
|6–2, 6–3
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|5.
|26 April 1999
|
EspinhoEspinho, Portugal
Espinho is a city in Espinho Municipality in Portugal. It is a reputed beach resort and a zone of legal gambling with a casino - Casino Solverde. Its fair - Feira de Espinho, having been first organised in 1894, is well known in Portugal...
|Clay
|
Markus Hipfl|6–4, 6–1
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|6.
|19 June 2000
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BraunschweigBraunschweig
Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....
|Clay
|
Franco SquillariFranco Squillari
Franco Squillari is a former professional male tennis player from Argentina.In his career he has won 3 ATP Tour singles titles and he has reached the semi-finals at the 2000 French Open. He stopped his career in 2005...
|6–4, 6–7(2–7), 6–4
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|7.
|27 April 2009
|
TunisTunis
Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....
|Clay
|
Frederico GilFrederico Gil
Frederico Gil is a Portuguese professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Tour. In April 2011, he achieved a career-high singles world ranking no. 62, the highest ranking a Portuguese player has ever held until September when Rui Machado placed 61st in the rankings...
|6–2, 1–6, 6–3
|-bgcolor=moccasin
|8.
|2 May 2010
|
San RemoSanremo
Sanremo or San Remo is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. Founded in Roman times, the city is best known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera. It hosts numerous cultural events, such as the Sanremo Music Festival...
|Clay
|
Martín Vassallo ArgüelloMartín Vassallo Argüello
Martin Miguel Vassallo Argüello is a professional male tennis player from Argentina. His career-high ATP entry ranking is #47 .He turned pro in 1999...
|7–5, 6–0
|}
Singles
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|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Australian Open
Australian Open
The Australian Open is the only Grand Slam tennis tournament held in the southern hemisphere. The tournament was held for the first time in 1905 and was last contested on grass in 1987. Since 1972 the Australian Open has been held in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1988, the tournament became a hard court...
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|8–8
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|French Open
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|4R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=lime|W
|bgcolor=#afeeee|4R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|4R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|Q2
|bgcolor=#efefef|22–9
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Wimbledon
|A
|A
|Q1
|Q1
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|2–6
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|US Open
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|A
|A
|Q1
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|5–8
|-
!style=text-align:left|Win–Loss
!0–0
!0–0
!0–0
!0–0
!2–3
!1–4
!0–4
!8–4
!3–4
!9–2
!5–3
!8–4
!1–2
!0–0
!0–1
!0–0
!37–31
|-
|colspan=18 align=left|Year-End Championship
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|ATP World Tour Finals
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|RR
|bgcolor=yellow|SF
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
!2–5
|-
|colspan=18 align=left|Olympic Games
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Summer Olympics
Tennis at the Summer Olympics
Tennis was part of the Summer Olympic Games program from the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics, but was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics...
|color:#ccc|NH
|bgcolor=white|A
|colspan=3 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|colspan=3 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
|bgcolor=white|A
|colspan=3 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
|bgcolor=white|A
|colspan=2 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
!0–1
|-
|colspan=18 align=left|ATP World Tour 1000
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Indian Wells Masters
Indian Wells Masters
The Indian Wells Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California....
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#ffebcd|QF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|A
|A
|A
|Q1
|bgcolor=#efefef|6–6
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Miami Masters
Miami Masters
The Miami Masters is an annual tennis tournament for men and women held in Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida. It is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the men's tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the women's tour and is played on hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park...
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#ffebcd|QF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|4R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|4R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|Q1
|Q1
|bgcolor=#efefef|10–8
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Monte Carlo Masters
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=yellow|SF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|Q2
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#ffebcd|QF
|bgcolor=yellow|SF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|16–7
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Rome Masters
Rome Masters
The Italian Open is an annual tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. It is the most prestigious red clay tennis tournament in the world after the French Open, with the men's competition being an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour, and the women's...
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|7–9
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Madrid Masters
Madrid Masters
There are two sporting events named the Madrid Masters:*Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open — a men's and women's tennis tournament*Madrid Masters...
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|Q1
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|1–4
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Canada Masters
Canada Masters
The Canada Masters , currently sponsored as the Rogers Cup, is an annual tennis tournament held in Canada. The men's competition is a Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour. The women's competition is a Premier 5 tournament on the Women's Tennis Association tour...
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#ffebcd|QF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|5–7
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Cincinnati Masters
Cincinnati Masters
The Cincinnati Open is an annual outdoor hardcourts tennis event held in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Ohio, USA. The event started on September 18, 1899 and is the oldest tennis tournament in the United States played in its original city., Between...
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|4–6
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Shanghai Masters
Shanghai Masters (tennis)
The Shanghai Masters is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 of the Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour. It is held annually in October at the Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena in Shanghai, People's...
|colspan=7 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
|color:#ccc|NMS
|colspan=2 style=color:#ccc|Not Held
|colspan=4 style=color:#ccc|Not ATP Masters Series
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|0–0
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Paris Masters
Paris Masters
The Paris Masters is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players held in Paris, France. It is played indoors at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy. The event is part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 on the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour...
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#ffebcd|QF
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#efefef|4–5
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Hamburg Masters
Hamburg Masters
The German Open Hamburg, established in 1892, is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players held in Hamburg, Germany and part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour. Originally a Grand Prix Tennis Tour event between 1978 and 1989 it was part of the Grand Prix Championship...
|A
|A
|A
|A
|A
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|A
|bgcolor=yellow|SF
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|3R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|2R
|bgcolor=#afeeee|1R
|A
|colspan=2 style=text-align:center; color:#ccc|NM1
|bgcolor=#efefef|9–7
|-
|colspan=18 align=left|Career statistics
|-bgcolor=#efefef
|align=left|Finals
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|1
|1
|3
|0
|4
|6
|0
|0
|0
|0
|0
|colspan=2|15
|-
!style=text-align:left|Titles
!0
!0
!0
!0
!0
!0
!0
!2
!0
!1
!5
!0
!0
!0
!0
!0
!colspan=2|8
|-
|bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=left|Year End Ranking
|813
|323
|639
|138
|73
|34
|48
|21
|34
|bgcolor=#eee8aa|10
|bgcolor=#eee8aa|10
|34
|182
|–
|167
|326
!
|}