Luiz Mattar (born August 18, 1963) is a former professional

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player from Brazil. He played on the professional tour from 1985–1995, during which time he won seven top-level singles titles and five tour doubles titles. Mattar's career-high rankings were World No. 29 in singles (in 1989) and World No. 55 in doubles (in 1991). His career prize money totalled $1,493,136. With seven ATP singles titles in tournaments of the Association of Professional Tennis Players, he is the second Brazilian tennis player, after

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, with more ATP titles in his career. He also led the Brazilian Davis Cup team to their best result in history back in 1992 defeating Germany and Italy and reaching the semi-final of the World Group in the 1992 Davis Cup. This feat has only been matched by Gustavo Kuerten who led the Brazilian team again to the semi-final in 2000. He started his professional career only at the age of 22, unlike most tennis players who started their careers at 18 or earlier, after dropping out in his last year of engineering at

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in São Paulo. He was trained by Paulo Cleto from the beginning to the end of his career. He even said that he couldn't see himself training with another coach. He is considered by several sports analysts, tennis critics and former tennis players as one of the ten greatest Brazilian tennis players of the Open Era. Mattar is the son of textile businessman Fuad Mattar and is of Lebanese descent. After retiring from tennis he became an entrepreneur and is the founder of

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, one of Brazil's largest information technology service providers.

Career finals

Singles (7 wins, 4 losses)

Doubles (5 wins, 6 losses)

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* * * Brazilian male tennis players Olympic tennis players of Brazil Tennis players from São Paulo Brazilian people of Lebanese descent Tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics 1963 births Living people Sportspeople of Lebanese descent {{Brazil-tennis-bio-stub