Ricardo Rodríguez-Pace (born 28 April 1993) is a

Venezuelan Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

professional

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player. He achieved a career high

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of World No. 282 on June 9, 2014. Born in

Caracas, Venezuela Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

, Rodríguez started playing tennis at the age of seven and achieved more success on singles. He entered the pro circuit in 2008 and has won ten

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in singles and nine in doubles. Rodríguez is also a member of the

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where he holds the record of most singles victories in the history of Venezuela (22-9) in 17 appearances.http://www.daviscup.com/en/teams/team/profile.aspx?id=VEN Rodriguez made his first appearance in Davis Cup in February 2012, in the tie played in Caracas against Puerto Rico, for the first round of America's group II. Rodriguez won 6 singles in a row, breaking the previous record of most singles wins without losing held by Isaias Pimentel (3-0). In the 2013 campaign, Rodriguez went undefeated to take Venezuela into America's group I, winning 4 singles in 3 ties (Guatemala, Peru, El Salvador). Rodriguez continued playing Davis Cup helping Venezuela to reach 3 consecutive America's group II finals, after the relegation of the 2014 Davis Cup campaign. In February 2018, Rodriguez breaks the record of most singles victories in the history of Venezuela's Davis Cup, by beating the player number 1 of Guatemala Christofer Diaz with scores of (4-6, 6–3, 6-0) and clinching the last point to win the tie. Later that year he added one more victory to consolidate his Davis Cup performance against Uruguay. As a singles player, Rodriguez has combined his participations between the Challenger Tour and the Futures Tour. At Challenger Level, he twice reached the Round of 16; in Milan (2013, d.

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) and Portoroz (2014, d.

Steven Diez Steven Diez ( es, Díez, ; born March 17, 1991) is a Canadian and former Spanish professional tennis player. Raised primarily in and competing for Spain early in his career, he has since gone on to represent the country of his birth, Canada, in ...

). Combined, he has a positive record of 317-196 (W-L), with a total of 10 titles in three different continents, making him the best ranked player of Venezuela in the past 6 years. Mainly focused in singles, as a doubles player Rodriguez won 6 doubles titles with four different partners, reaching his highest doubles ranking in October 2016 of 670 in the world. As a junior, Rodriguez got his highest ranking of Number 10 in the world (January 2010) where he competed in two Grand Slams (Roland Garros and US Open), one Grade A (Copa Gerdau, Brazil) reaching to semifinals, and became the first Venezuelan in the history to play a Youth Olympic Games (Singapore 2010) where amongst with his partner from Paraguay Diego Galeano, lost the match for the bronze medal.

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* * * Living people 1993 births Venezuelan male tennis players Tennis players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Tennis players at the 2015 Pan American Games Competitors at the 2010 South American Games South American Games gold medalists for Venezuela South American Games medalists in tennis Pan American Games competitors for Venezuela 21st-century Venezuelan people {{Venezuela-tennis-bio-stub