Roberto Carretero Díaz (born 30 August 1975) is a Spanish former professional
tennis player
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. He won one singles title, the 1996
Hamburg
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AMS.
Tennis career
Carretero, a former junior French Open Champion, shocked the tennis world by winning the Masters Series title in Hamburg in 1996 as a virtually unknown player ranked only No. 143. En route to the title he defeated two top 100 players, two top 20 players (
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and
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Yevgeny Kafelnikov
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in the semi-finals, and
Àlex Corretja
Àlex Corretja i Verdegay (; born 11 April 1974) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. During his career, he was twice a major runner-up at the French Open (in 1998 and 2001), won the Tour Finals in 1998, reached a career-high single ...
in the final.
After winning the title, Carretero lost in the first round of Roland Garros and did not have any significant results other than winning a Challenger tournament held in
Sopot
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, Poland in 1999.
He retired from professional tennis after the 2001 season.
ATP career finals
Singles: 2(1 title)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 3 (2–1)
Performance timeline
Singles
Wins over top 10 players
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 1 (1 title)
References
External links
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1975 births
Living people
Tennis players from Madrid
Spanish male tennis players
French Open junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles
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