Germán Puentes Alcañiz (born 18 December 1972) is a 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 from Spain.
Career
Puentes was the runner-up in the 1989 Spanish Junior Championships.
The Spaniard appeared in the main singles draw of five
Grand Slams during his career but only once made the second round, at the
2001 Wimbledon Championships, with a win over
Mariano Puerta. He also won just one Grand Slam doubles match, which was against South Africans
Jeff Coetzee and
Marcos Ondruska in the
2001 Australian Open, partnering
Juan Balcells.
His best singles showing on 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 ...
came at
Prague
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in 1999 when he reached the semi-finals and he was also a quarter-finalist in the
Swedish Open that year and again in the
2001 Grand Prix Hassan II.
As a doubles player he teamed up with countryman
Eduardo Nicolás
Eduardo Nicolás Espin (born 22 September 1972) is a former professional tennis
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to make the semi-final stage of the 1999 Swedish Open. That effort was matched in the 2001
Mexican Open with
Albert Portas. The pair also had a win that year over the fifth seeds in the
2001 Hamburg Masters,
Wayne Ferreira
Wayne Richard Ferreira (born 15 September 1971) is a South African tennis coach and a former professional player. Ferreira won 15 ATP singles titles and 11 doubles titles. His career-high rankings were world No. 6 in singles (in May 1995) and ...
and
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov ( rus, Евгений Александрович Кафельников, , jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ˈkafʲɪlʲnʲɪkəf, a=Ru-Yevgeny-Kafelnikov.ogg; born 18 February 1974) is a Russian former professional tennis p ...
, although it was due to a first set retirement.
ATP World Tour Profile
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Challenger titles
Singles: (4)
Doubles: (10)
References
External links
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1972 births
Living people
Spanish male tennis players
Spanish tennis coaches
Tennis players from Barcelona