Daniel Gimeno Traver (;
born 7 August 1985) is a professional Spanish
tennis
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player who turned pro in 2004, when he was eighteen years old. He reached the final of
Casablanca in 2015 and has won 12
Challenger Tour events, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 48 in March 2013.
Personal life
Daniel Gimeno Traver was born 7 August 1985 in
Valencia, Spain. He is the son of Javier, a chemist, and Marisol, a nurse, and is the second of four brothers, Carlos, Miguel and Víctor being his siblings.
Tennis career
Gimeno Traver started playing tennis at the age of 2. He prefers to play on clay and is currently coached by Israel Sevilla.
Juniors
As a junior, he won the European Championships in 2003 beating
Marcos Baghdatis
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in Switzerland. Gimeno Traver won a further 5 junior titles, compiling a singles win–loss record of 51–10 and reaching as high as No. 4 in the junior world rankings in May 2003. He also beat
Novak Djokovic
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on the way to a quarter-final place at
Roland Garros, losing to
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
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.
Junior Slam results:
Australian Open: -
French Open: QF (
2003)
Wimbledon: 1R (
2003)
US Open: 3R (
2003)
Pro tour
Gimeno Traver reached ATP World Tour semifinals at
Stuttgart and
Gstaad in 2010,
St. Petersburg in 2012 and
Oeiras in 2014. His best Grand Slam performance was at the
2010 US Open, when he beat
Jarkko Nieminen
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and
Jérémy Chardy
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to reach the third round.
At the
2015 Grand Prix Hassan II
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Singles ma ...
, Gimeno Traver defeated seeded players
Mikhail Kukushkin
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and
Jiří Veselý
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He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 35 on 27 April 2015. He is currently the No. 2 Czech tennis player in singles, as he lost his previous ...
to reach his first ATP 250 final, where he lost to
Martin Kližan
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.
ATP career finals
Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Challenger career finals
Singles (14–11)
Runners-up
Doubles (3–6)
Runners-up
Performance timelines
''Current till
2018 Wimbledon Championships
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.
Singles
Doubles
Wins over top 10 players
*He has a 3–20 (.130) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.
References
External links
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Gimeno Traver recent match results
Gimeno Traver World ranking history
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1985 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Valencia
Spanish male tennis players
Tennis players from the Valencian Community