Roberto Azar (born 21 March 1966) is a former professional

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player from

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Career

Azar was runner-up at the

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in 1989. He also reached the semi-finals at the Bologna Outdoor tournament that season, beating world number 27 Ronald Agenor in the quarter-finals. He finished runner-up in the In 1990 he made quarter-finals in Casablanca and then put together the best performance of his career up to that date by reaching the round of 16 in the ATP German Open, one of the tours most prestigious events. He defeated 11th seed and world number 18

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in the second round. Another solid effort in

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saw him make the quarter-finals and he entered the

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as a qualifier, but had entered the top 100 for the first time. In what was his first ever

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, Azar defeated American

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and Czech

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, before losing to Jonas Svensson in the third round. He also made the semi-finals of the

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, later that year. He was a quarter-finalist at

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and a semi-finalist at

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in 1991. The following year he won his only other Grand Slam match, the

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against

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. In 1993 made the quarter-finals at

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Grand Prix career finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Challenger titles

Singles: (1)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Azar, Roberto 1966 births Living people Argentine male tennis players Tennis players from Buenos Aires South American Games gold medalists for Argentina South American Games silver medalists for Argentina South American Games medalists in tennis Competitors at the 1982 Southern Cross Games People from Lincoln Partido