Hans Podlipnik Castillo (; born 9 January 1988) is a

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an retired

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player of Slovenian descent. His best results are in doubles, winning one

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and reaching another final in this category, besides from winning 19 Challengers and 29 Futures. In singles, he won 23 Futures and reaching in 2015 the final in the Poprad-Tatry Challenger. Since 2015, Podlipnik focused his career on doubles, ranking No. 43 in February 2018. He finished the 2014 season as the Chilean top singles player, ranked No. 196. and again in 2015 as No. 167. He reached his best singles ranking in August 2015, at no. 157. In November 2019, after his participation with the

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at the

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, he announced his retirement.https://www.instagram.com/p/B5JFvU_AFWt/ Hans Podlipnik's Instagram post.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 36 (23–13)

Doubles: 74 (49–25)

References

Doubles performance timeline

External links

* * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Podlipnik, Hans Chilean male tennis players Chilean people of Slovenian descent Tennis players from Santiago 1988 births Living people Tennis players at the 2015 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Chile Olympic tennis players of Chile Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in tennis South American Games medalists in tennis South American Games silver medalists for Chile Competitors at the 2006 South American Games Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games