Eduardo Masso (born 11 January 1964) is a former

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

professional from

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. Born in

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

, the left-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 56 in July 1991. Masso's greatest result in singles was reaching the final of Hilversum in 1990 as a qualifier, beating celebrated claycourters Juan Aguilera,

Sergi Bruguera Sergi Bruguera i Torner (; born 16 January 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. He won consecutive men's singles titles at the French Open in 1993 and 1994, a silver medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in men's singles and reache ...

and Emilio Sanchez en route. He lost this final being a qualifier and losing against a lucky loser:

Francisco Clavet Francisco Javier Clavet González de Castejón (; born 24 October 1968), known as Pato Clavet (), is a former professional tennis player from Spain. He won eight singles titles, reached the semifinals of the 1992 Indian Wells Masters and the 1 ...

Masso became a naturalised citizen of Belgium after marrying Sabrina Merckx, the daughter of

Eddy Merckx Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (, ; born 17 June 1945), better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional road and track bicycle racer who is among the most successful riders in the history of competitive cycling. His victorie ...

and taking up residence in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

They are the parents of

Luca Masso Luca Masso (born 17 July 1994) is an Argentine field hockey player. He was part of the Argentine team that won gold in men's field hockey at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He also holds Belgian nationality. Masso was born in Brusse ...

, who was part of the Argentinian hockey team that took the gold medal in the 2016 Olympics in the finals against Belgium.

Career finals

Singles (1 runner-up)

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* * * 1964 births Living people Belgian male tennis players Belgian people of Argentine descent Naturalised citizens of Belgium Sportspeople from Brussels People from Córdoba Province, Argentina 20th-century Belgian people {{Belgium-tennis-bio-stub