Marcelo Filippini ( Spanish Marcelo Filippini ; b. August 4, 1967 , Montevideo ) - Uruguayan professional tennis player and tennis coach, winner of 8 Grand Prix and ATP tournaments in singles and doubles.
| Marcelo Filippini | |
|---|---|
| Player gender | |
| Date of Birth | August 4, 1967 (52 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Montevideo , Uruguay |
| Citizenship |  Uruguay |
| Place of residence | Montevideo , Uruguay |
| Growth | 178 cm |
| Weight | 66 kg |
| Carier start | 1987 |
| Working hand | right |
| Prize, $ | 2,034,890 |
| Singles | |
| V / p matches | 244-250 |
| Titles | five |
| Highest position | 30 ( August 6, 1990 ) |
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |
| Australia | 2nd circle (1993) |
| France | 1/4 finals (1999) |
| Wimbledon | 1st circle |
| USA | 2nd circle (1997, 1998) |
| Doubles | |
| V / p matches | 67–75 |
| Titles | 3 |
| Highest position | 44 ( July 31, 1989 ) |
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |
| France | 1st circle |
Content
Sports career
Marcelo Filippini, the son of a tennis coach, began playing tennis himself at the age of five. In 1985, he held his first games with the Uruguayan national team in the Davis Cup , twice losing to rivals from Colombia.
Filippini won his first victories in the Davis Cup in 1987 , winning both of his meetings with Colombian tennis players. Since June of the same year, he began to regularly participate in professional tournaments, already in August winning his first single-player Challenger in São Paulo , and in November repeating this result there already paired with another Uruguayan Daniel Montes de Oka . In June 1988 , having won his second Challenger in France's Clermont-Ferrand , he became one of the hundred strongest tennis players in the world, and a month later he won his first Grand Prix tournament - the Swedish Open , eliminating the 23rd from the fight racket of the world, the host of the competition Joakim Nyustrem . In the fall, he made his way to the finals of the Grand Prix tournaments twice, once in singles and doubles, moreover, he won in pairs and ended the year in 53rd place in the ATP ranking in singles and on the nearest approaches to the hundred strongest in doubles.
In the future, Filippini's career took shape without any ups and downs. About once a year, he reached the finals of the Grand Prix tournaments (later the ATP Tour) in singles, adding a finale in pairs every two years to this. In ten years of performances from 1988 to 1997, he won five such tournaments (including two in 1997 ) in singles and three in doubles. He combined performances in the Grand Prix and APR tournaments with the game in the Challengers, where he won a number of titles on clay courts in Sao Paulo, Salou (Spain), Bucharest , Tunisia and Barcelona . Until 1998 , with interruptions in the Komes 1991 - beginning of 1992 and from the end of 1995 until the fall of 1996, he remained among the hundred best tennis players in the world in singles (the highest position was the thirtieth in the second half of 1990 ), and in pairs with intermittently entered the Top-100 from October 1988 to January 1990. Although even in the best years of his career, he almost had no victories over the top ten, he still managed to defeat Ivan Lendl, the seventh world racket in the first round of the Italian Open 1993 and the third world racket to Thomas Muster at the 1995 Dutch Open .
In 1994 , bringing the Uruguayan team seven points in nine games with rivals from Cuba, the Bahamas and Argentina , Filippini reached her to the Davis Cup World League playoffs, but lost two out of three there, and in the end the Uruguayans lost to the Austrians and never entered the world league. He achieved his highest success in Grand Slam tournaments already at the end of his career, in 1999 , when, taking 140th place in the ranking, he defeated four opponents from the first hundred of the rating at the French Open , including the 13th racket of the world by Greg Rousseski , and reached the quarter finals. Having completed his performances in individual tournaments in the summer of 2000 , he still continued to play for the national team, having played three matches in the II American group of the Davis Cup in 2001 and brought her two points in three doubles. He remains the champion of the Uruguayan national team in the number of matches (33) and victories won - both in singles (31, along with Diego Perez ), and in total (42) [1] . Another Filippini record was set in 1996 in the first round of the tournament in Morocco : in one of the games of his match with Spaniard Alberto Berasategui, the score was “exactly” restored 28 times.
From 1998 to 2000, Filippini was vice president of the APR Players Council. After the end of his playing career, he worked as a coach; among his wards were Argentinean tennis players Mariano Sabaleta (under his leadership who reached the quarter finals of the US Open [2] and rose in ranking from 107 to 30 places) and Juan Martin del Potro . He also led the Uruguayan national team in the Davis Cup.
Grand Prix and APR Tournament Finals (15)
Singles (10)
Victories (5)
| No. | date | Tournament | Coating | Opponent in the final | Final Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one. | Jul 11, 1988 | Swedish Open, Bostad | Priming | Francesco Cancelotti | 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 |
| 2. | Aug 7, 1989 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | Priming | Horst Schkoff | 7-5, 7-6 |
| 3. | Jun 6, 1994 | Florence , Italy | Priming | Richard Fromberg | 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 |
| four. | Apr 28, 1997 | Atlanta, USA | Priming | Jason Stoltenberg | 7-6 2 , 6-4 |
| five. | May 19, 1997 | Sankt Pölten, Austria | Priming | Patrick rafter | 7-6 2 , 6-2 |
Lost (5)
| No. | date | Tournament | Coating | Opponent in the final | Final Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one. | Sep 19, 1988 | Bari, Italy | Priming | Thomas muster | 6-2, 1-6, 5-7 |
| 2. | November 5, 1990 | Itaparica, Brazil | Hard | Mats Wilander | 1-6, 2-6 |
| 3. | Apr 29, 1991 | Madrid , Spain | Priming | Jordi Arres | 2-6, 4-6 |
| four. | May 22, 1995 | Bologna , Italy | Priming | Marcelo Rios | 2-6, 4-6 |
| five. | Apr 15, 1996 | Paget , Bermuda | Priming | Malawi Washington | 7-6 6 , 4-6, 5-7 |
Doubles (5)
Victories (3)
| No. | date | Tournament | Coating | Partner | Opponents in the finals | Final Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one. | Sep 26, 1988 | Palermo, Italy | Priming | Carlos di Laura | Alberto Mansini Christian Miniussi | 6-2, 6-0 |
| 2. | June 8, 1992 | Florence , Italy | Priming | Louis Mattar | Royce Depp Brent Highgart | 6-4, 6-7, 6-4 |
| 3. | Oct 31, 1994 | Montevideo, Uruguay | Priming | Louis Mattar | Sergio Casal Emilio Sanchez | 7-6, 6-4 |
Lost (2)
| No. | date | Tournament | Coating | Partner | Opponents in the finals | Final Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one. | Apr 16, 1990 | Nice, France | Priming | Horst Schkoff | Alberto Mansini Yannick Noah | 4-6, 6-7 |
| 2. | Nov 5, 1992 | Athens, Greece | Priming | Mark Couvermans | Thomas Carbonel Francisco Roig | 3-6, 4-6 |
Notes
- ↑ Uruguayan national team statistics on the Davis Cup website
- ↑ Laura Price-Brown. Zabaleta Is Enjoying Unexpected Success . Newsday (September 4, 2001). Date of treatment November 4, 2012. Archived December 29, 2012.