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2006 Movistar Open – Singles ...
Gastón Gaudio was the defending champion, but lost in the second round this year. José Acasuso won the title, defeating Nicolás Massú 6–4, 6–3 in the final. This was the first ATP tournament in which future Grand Slam champion Juan Martín del Potro entered. Seeds # Gastón Gaudio ''(second round)'' # Fernando González ''(semifinals)'' # José Acasuso (champion) # Agustín Calleri ''(first round)'' # Nicolás Massú ''(final)'' # Albert Montañés ''(quarterfinals)'' # Carlos Berlocq ''(first round)'' # Boris Pašanski ''(quarterfinals)'' Draw Finals Top half Bottom half External links 2006 Movistar Open draw2006 Movistar Open qualifying draw {{DEFAULTSORT:Movistar Open - Singles, 2006 Singles Singles are people not in a committed relationship. Singles may also refer to: Film and television * ''Singles'' (miniseries), a 1984 Australian television series * ''Singles'' (1992 film), written and directed by Cameron Crowe * ''Singles'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Acasuso
José Javier "Chucho" Acasuso (; born 20 October 1982) is a tennis coach and a former professional player from Argentina. Like many of his fellow countrymen, he favoured clay. He was known for his strong serve and his hard groundstrokes off both sides. He won three ATP Tour singles titles. In doubles, Acasuso together with Sebastián Prieto, won four titles: in 2005 in Stuttgart and also in Bucharest, and in 2006 and 2008 in Viña Del Mar. He also won a doubles title partnering Flávio Saretta at the Croatia Open Umag in 2004. Early years Acasuso began playing tennis at the age of two, when his father took his brother and sister to his grandfather's tennis club. Reportedly, he got the nickname of "Chucho" from the fact that, when he was a child, he used to say his name was "José Acachucho." Acasuso played both basketball and tennis up until the age of 12, and then gave up basketball for tennis. Career Acasuso turned professional in 2000, playing futures and challeng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Marcaccio
Gustavo Marcaccio (born 3 May 1977) is an Argentine tennis coach and former professional player. Tennis career Marcaccio, a native of Buenos Aires, played collegiate tennis in the United States for Arizona State University in the late 1990s, via the University of Mobile. In 1999 he was runner-up to Ryan Wolters in the Pac-10 singles championship. While competing on the professional tour he had a career high singles ranking of 284. His best win came at the Prostějov Challenger in 2005, when he upset world number 20 Dominik Hrbatý in the first round. At ATP Tour level, Marcaccio had main draw wins over Luis Horna and Tomáš Zíb. Coach Marcaccio has had stints coaching his countrymen Guido Pella, Juan Mónaco and Máximo González. He was coach of Mónaco during his most successful season in 2012, when he won four ATP Tour titles, including the German Open, to break into the world's top 10. In 2020 he coached Russian player Svetlana Kuznetsova. He then worked at Rafael Nadal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrián García (tennis)
Adrián Alonso García Sobarzo (born May 25, 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Chile. Born in Concepción, Chile, García achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 103 in September 2004. His best achievement in singles was reaching the quarterfinals of the 2004 Sopot Open, where he lost to Félix Mantilla in straight sets. García also achieved three silver medals in the Pan American Games The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of th ... during his career: one at Santo Domingo 2003 and two at Rio de Janeiro 2007. Performance timeline Singles ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 23 (11–12) Doubles: 27 (13–14) Team competitions (3 runner-ups) ;Singles ;Doubles References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Garcia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessio Di Mauro
Alessio di Mauro (born 9 August 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. During his career, he reached the final of one ATP tournament, the 2007 ATP Buenos Aires. On 26 February 2007 the left-hander reached his career high ranking of world no. 68. Betting scandal On 10 November 2007, at a position of world no. 124, di Mauro was the first player to be sanctioned after being embroiled in a betting scandal. Di Mauro received a $60,000 (£29,000) fine and 9 months banning from the ATP Tour The ATP Tour (known as ATP World Tour between January 2009 and December 2018) is the sole worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) founded in 1990 that replaced the earlier dual Grand Prix ... for an offense that carried a maximum punishment of three years. Some officials called for a harsher punishment. However, di Mauro was not betting on the outcome of his own matches nor did he attempt to influence the outcomes of match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flávio Saretta
Flávio Saretta Filho (born June 28, 1980) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1998. Tennis career Saretta has won one ATP Tour doubles title, the 2004 Croatia Open Umag with José Acasuso, defeating Czech players Jaroslav Levinský and David Škoch in the final. In 2004 he competed in the Tennis Olympic Tournament in both the singles and doubles tournaments. He was eliminated by Andy Roddick in the singles tournament round of 64 and, playing together with André Sá, he reached the doubles tournament round of 16, where he was eliminated by Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett, from Zimbabwe. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on September 15, 2003, when he became the number 44 of the world, capping what would be the best season of his professional career. He had his best results in all 4 of the Grand Slam tournaments, reaching the Round of 16 at Roland Garros. His clay court prowess was also evident when he was successful in d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Gimeno Traver
Daniel Gimeno Traver (; born 7 August 1985) is a professional Spanish tennis player who turned pro in 2004, when he was eighteen years old. He reached the final of Casablanca in 2015 and has won 12 Challenger Tour events, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 48 in March 2013. Personal life Daniel Gimeno Traver was born 7 August 1985 in Valencia, Spain. He is the son of Javier, a chemist, and Marisol, a nurse, and is the second of four brothers, Carlos, Miguel and Víctor being his siblings. Tennis career Gimeno Traver started playing tennis at the age of 2. He prefers to play on clay and is currently coached by Israel Sevilla. Juniors As a junior, he won the European Championships in 2003 beating Marcos Baghdatis in Switzerland. Gimeno Traver won a further 5 junior titles, compiling a singles win–loss record of 51–10 and reaching as high as No. 4 in the junior world rankings in May 2003. He also beat Novak Djokovic on the way to a quarter-final pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomas Behrend
Tomas Ugo Behrend (born 12 December 1974) is a German former professional tennis player. His career high ATP singles ranking was World No. 74, which he attained in October 2005. His career high in doubles was World No. 43 in October 2007. Behrend retired in 2007 and said he regrets never having the opportunity to have played Andre Agassi before he retired. Behrend has opened up a tennis academy in his hometown of Alsdorf called ToBe. Early life and change of nationality Behrend is of German descent and was born in Porto Alegre and raised in Novo Hamburgo where his father Claudio who was a volleyball player owns and runs a graphic and printing company. He started playing tennis at the age of five and in addition to playing tennis as a youngster he swam and played football, handball and volleyball before focusing on tennis. Behrend has three brothers and is a fan of the Gremio and Borussia Dortmund football teams. In 1991 Behrend went to Germany at the age of 17 to play club ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Cuadrado
Carlos Cuadrado (born 1 June 1983) is a former Spanish professional tennis player. He won the French Open juniors singles in 2001. Career His best performance at a professional tournament was at Viña del Mar in 2006, when he progressed to the quarterfinals. After progressing through qualifying, he defeated Tomas Behrend and Daniel Gimeno-Traver before losing against Chilean Nicolás Massú 6–4, 6–7, 3–6. After defeating Dmitry Tursunov in the ATP 500 Barcelona he fell to Paul-Henri Mathieu. In a Challenger tournament in Tarragona, he retired against Albert Portas due to a hip injury. His career ended in the same year as he retired at the age of 22. On the ATP Challenger Circuit, he achieved moderate success, reaching four semi-finals, all on clay courts; Vigo (2005, l. Ivan Navarro), Geneva (2005, l. Werner Eschauer), Monza (2006, l. Flavio Cipolla) and Turin (2006, l. Marcel Granollers). Coaching After his retirement, Cuadrado coached Svetlana Kuznetsova Svet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Antonio Marín
Juan Antonio Marín Casero (born 2 March 1975) is a former professional male tennis player from Costa Rica, who represented the Central American nation at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He originally played on tour under the Spanish flag, as he was born to a father from Murcia and a mother from Asturias, and lived in Spain since the age of 14. However, in May 1998 he began representing Costa Rica. In October 1999, Marín reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 55. Previously that year he came close to beating the then-world No. 2 Pete Sampras at the 1999 French Open The 1999 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament was held from 24 May until 6 June. It was the 98th staging of the French Open, and the second Gra ..., with the American eventually winning 6–7, 6–4, 7–5, 6–7, 6–4. He never won a Grand Slam main draw match, despite appearing in 17. ATP c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Armando
Hugo Armando (born on May 27, 1978) is an American former professional tour tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player. ATP career finals Doubles (1 title) External links * * 1978 births Living people American male tennis players Sportspeople from Bradenton, Florida Tennis players from Miami {{US-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Daniel
Marcos Diniz Daniel (born July 4, 1978, in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul) is a retired professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1997. The right-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 56 in September 2009. He is coached by his brother, Márcio. Tennis career Marcos Daniel's brother owns an academy for developing young tennis players, called Daniel Tennis Center where Marcos Daniel used to work as a ball catcher. He started playing youth tournaments at age 5. When he was 12, representing this academy, he reached his first final but he did not succeed in winning the title. In August 2009, he reached the semi-finals of the ATP Gstaad tournament. He also reached the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leoš Friedl
Leoš Friedl (born 1 January 1977) is a retired Czech tennis player. Friedl's career-high ATP doubles ranking was No. 14, achieved on 8 August 2005. He often partnered in doubles with František Čermák. His career-high ATP singles ranking was No. 353, achieved on 13 November 2000. In his career, he won 16 ATP Tour doubles titles and the 2001 Wimbledon mixed-doubles title with Daniela Hantuchová, where they beat Mike Bryan Michael Carl Bryan (born April 29, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all time, Bryan was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's doubles for a record 506 weeks ... and Liezel Huber, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2. Friedl coached Karolína Plíšková from July to December 2022. Grand Slam finals Mixed doubles: 1 (1 title) ATP career finals Doubles: 32 (16 titles, 16 runner-ups) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals Singles: 1 (0–1) Doubles: 34 (16–18) P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |