Albert Montañés Roca (, ; born 26 November 1980) is a Spanish former professional
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. He first entered the top 100 in 2001, achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 22 in 2010, and has won six singles titles and two doubles titles.
Montañés is one of very few players to win a title after saving match points in two different matches. He did it during his title run in
Estoril 2009 in his quarterfinals and the final. He holds the record for most first-round exits at
Grand Slam events; 35 reached at
Wimbledon in 2016, beating
Kenneth Carlsen's long standing record of 30 first-round exits.
Montañés' career ended at the
2017 Barcelona Open, where he lost to countryman
Feliciano López
Feliciano López Díaz-Guerra (; born 20 September 1981) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles ATP rankings, ranking of world No. 12 in March 2015 and doubles ranking of world No. 9 in November 2016. ...
in the second round.
ATP career finals
Singles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runner-ups)
Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups)
Performance timelines
Singles
1 Held as
Hamburg Masters (outdoor clay) until 2008,
Madrid Masters (outdoor clay) 2009–present.
2 Held as
Stuttgart Masters (indoor hard) until 2001,
Madrid Masters (indoor hard) from 2002 to 2008, and
Shanghai Masters (outdoor hard) 2009–present.
Doubles
Top 10 Wins per season
Wins over Top 10s per season
References
External links
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1980 births
Living people
People from Montsià
Sportspeople from the Province of Tarragona
Spanish male tennis players
Tennis players from Barcelona
21st-century Spanish sportsmen