Oliver Fernandez (

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, 7 December 1972) is a former professional

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player from

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. He was captain of Mexico's Davis Cup side. Today he is a businessman.

Career

Fernandez had a good year on the juniors circuit in 1990, finishing the season as the number three junior in the world. He was runner-up to Andrei Medvedev in the

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and made the semi-finals of the boys' singles event at the 1990 Australian Open. The man who beat him in the semi-final,

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, had been his doubles partner when he made the 1989 US Open boys' doubles quarter-finals. Also in 1990, Fernandez represented the

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for the first time. He managed to defeat

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of Uruguay in Mexico's World Group player-off win and appeared in three further ties during his career, from which he had two wins, over Diego Pérez and then

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.Davis Cup profile
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born player was a semi-finalist at his home event, the Mexican Open, in 1993.ATP World Tour profile
/ref> Fernandez defeated

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, Agustín Moreno and

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, before falling to

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. He was also a doubles semi-finalist at the 1993 International Tennis Championships in

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, with Juan Garat as his partner.

Challenger titles

Singles: (1)

Doubles: (2)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez, Oliver 1972 births Living people Mexican male tennis players Sportspeople from Orizaba Pan American Games silver medalists in tennis Pan American Games silver medalists for Mexico Pan American Games tennis players for Mexico Tennis players at the 1991 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in tennis 20th-century Mexican people