José Pereira (born 26 January 1991), also known as Zé Pereira, is a Brazilian professional

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player.

Biography

Early life

Born in

Santana do Ipanema Santana do Ipanema is a municipality in the western half of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. It was founded in 1875 on the banks of the Ipanema river. Its population was 47,819 (2020) and its area is 438 km².IBGE The Brazilian Institut ...

, Pereira moved to

Curitiba Curitiba () is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná in Brazil. The city's population was 1,948,626 , making it the eighth most populous city in Brazil and the largest in Brazil's South Region. The Curitiba Metropolitan area c ...

as a young child. His father, José Sr, was originally a sugarcane cutter but got work in Curitiba at a tennis academy and eventually the entire family got involved in tennis. Teliana Pereira, José's elder sister, competed on the WTA Tour and is the most successful of his tennis playing siblings,.

Tennis career

Pereira had a world ranking as high as four on the

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and was a two-time winner of the

Copa Gerdau The Porto Alegre Junior Championships (Portuguese: Campeonato Internacional Juvenil de Tênis de Porto Alegre), also known as the Copa Gerdau, is a prestigious junior tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Th ...

. In 2010 he won his first ITF Futures title. He attained his career high ranking of 232 in the world in 2015 and featured in the qualifying draw for the 2016 Australian Open. Injuries have hampered his progress in recent seasons and his ranking fell significantly, but in 2022 he secured his first singles title for five years and has re-entered the world's top 400.

ATP Challenger/ITF Tour finals

Singles: 31 (12–19)

Doubles: 33 (19–14)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pereira, Jose 1991 births Living people Brazilian male tennis players Sportspeople from Alagoas Sportspeople from Curitiba