Quino Muñoz
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Joaquín "Quino" Muñoz Hernández (born 4 January 1975) 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.


Biography

A right-handed player from Madrid, Muñoz began competing on the professional circuit in 1994. The highest singles ranking that he achieved was 157 in the world. His best performance on the ATP Tour came at the 1998 Torneo Godó in Barcelona, where he registered wins over
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and
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, before he was eliminated in the round of 16 by the top seeded
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 ...
in three sets. He held a set point in the first set, which he lost to Kafelnikov in a tiebreak, then claimed the second set, but the Russian won the deciding set. While in his 30s he continued to make the occasional appearances in local tournaments and in 2016 was runner-up in doubles at the Segovia Challenger, at the age of 41. He announced his retirement from competitive tennis in 2018.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Munoz, Quino 1975 births Living people Spanish male tennis players Tennis players from Madrid