"Argentine players Guillermo Coria and David Nalbandian were unavailable due to injury. An out-of-form Gaudio was called up along with Agustín Calleri, Mariano Zabaleta, and Lucas Arnold. Although Gaudio had a 4–0 singles record from the first round and quarterfinals coming into the semifinals, Spain won 3–2, with Gaudio Gaudio losing both of his singles matches. In the first rubber against Juan Carlos Ferrero, he lost 14 games in a row in a 4–6, 0–6, 0–6 defeat. In the fifth and deciding rubber against Carlos Moyà, he lost, 1–6, 4–6, 2–6, and was roundly criticised back in Argentina for these"
"Hugo Gaston Hugo Gaston (; born 26 September 2000) is a French tennis player. In December 2017, Gaston won the Orange Bowl International Tennis Championship. In 2018, Gaston won the Boys' Doubles at the Australian Open with compatriot Clément Tabur. The same year, he was named flag bearer for France at the Youth Summer Olympics in Buenos Aires. There, Gaston captured his first singles major title as well as two bronze medals, with Clément Tabur in the boys' doubles and with Clara Burel in the mixted doubles. He achieved a career-high ranking of No.2 the next week. Gaston also qualified"
"Gastão Elias Gastão José Ministro Elias (; born 24 November 1990) is a Portuguese professional tennis player, who competes on the ATP World Tour. He became the fifth Portuguese tennis player to break into the top 100 of the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings. In October 2016, he reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 57 to become the second-highest-ranked Portuguese player, after João Sousa (No. 28). Gastão Elias was born on 24 November 1990 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. At age four, he started playing tennis with his father. In 2001, he participated in the national under-12"
"for the ITF Junior Masters, where he reached the semifinals, losing to Tseng Chun-hsin. Hugo Gaston Hugo Gaston (; born 26 September 2000) is a French tennis player. In December 2017, Gaston won the Orange Bowl International Tennis Championship. In 2018, Gaston won the Boys' Doubles at the Australian Open with compatriot Clément Tabur. The same year, he was named flag bearer for France at the Youth Summer Olympics in Buenos Aires. There, Gaston captured his first singles major title as well as two bronze medals, with Clément Tabur in the boys' doubles and with Clara Burel in the mixted"
"team in 2007 and has played 30 matches in 16 ties. His singles record is 6–8 and his doubles record is 7–9 (13–17 overall). Gastão Elias Gastão José Ministro Elias (; born 24 November 1990) is a Portuguese professional tennis player, who competes on the ATP World Tour. He became the fifth Portuguese tennis player to break into the top 100 of the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings. In October 2016, he reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 57 to become the second-highest-ranked Portuguese player, after João Sousa (No. 28). Gastão Elias was born on 24 November"
"he won his first match on the world tour since the 2007 French Open by defeating Diego Junqueira of Argentina, 6–4, 3–6, 6–4, before losing his second-round match to Tommy Robredo, 6–7, 1–6. Gaudio won a tournament after almost four years at the Tunis Challenger. He beat Portuguese Frederico Gil, 6–2, 1–6, 6–3, in the final. Gaudio was awarded a wild card into the 2009 French Open, where he was beaten by Czech Radek Štěpánek in the first round, 3–6, 4–6, 1–6. In October, Gaudio made the final of the Buenos Aires Challenger, losing to training partner Horacio Zeballos. Gaudio"
"fifth seed Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov, 6–4, 6–1, and toughed out a three-set slugfest against future French Open winner and 12th seed Juan Carlos Ferrero, 6–0, 3–6, 6–3. Although he did not manage to win his first title in 2001, Gaudio had some success, making a final, a semifinal and four quarterfinals (one of them at the prestigious Miami Masters). In addition to this, he helped Argentina return to the World Group with a perfect 5–0 record in his singles matches, which were all played in Argentina on clay courts. The year was not great though; Gaudio lost a lot of"
"enough to retrieve directed or drop shots. ""Current till 2017 US Open. ""This table is current through Australian Open 2016. In 2014, Giraldo had a relationship with Romanian tennis player Sorana Cîrstea, which ended in the summer of 2017. Santiago Giraldo Santiago Giraldo Salazar (, born 27 November 1987) is a Colombian professional tennis player. He plays on the ATP tour and represents Colombia in the Davis Cup competition. His best tournament result is reaching the final in the 2014 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. He is the highest-ranked tennis player in Colombia’s history, with a career-high singles ranking of 28th"
"despite having beaten his opponent soundly in the Gstaad quarterfinals and in the Braunschweig finals earlier in the year (both on clay) and leading Squillari 2 sets to 1 in Stuttgart. Gaudio also represented Argentina in his first Olympic Games, losing to Vladimir Voltchkov of Belarus, 6–7, 6–4, 1–6, in the first round. He finished the year ranked No. 34. Gaudio started his 2001 in poor fashion, losing his first four matches of the season to Vladimir Voltchkov, former French Open finalist Andrei Medvedev, three-time French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten, and, in his Davis Cup debut, Mexican Bruno Echagaray. Gaudio"
"Santiago González (tennis) Santiago González Torre (; born 24 February 1983) is a Mexican professional tennis player. He is 6'3"" (1.91 m). He turned professional in 2001. His highest ATP singles ranking in singles is World No. 155, achieved in May 2006, and World No. 23 in doubles, reached in June 2013. González represents Mexico at the Davis Cup competition; currently his record is 22–16. In 2017, he reached the French Open final in doubles along with his partner Donald Young. Additionally, he has reached the finals of three other Grand Slam tournaments in the Mixed category: the 2013 French"
"talent scout. Gustavo Giussani Gustavo Giussani (born 6 March 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. Nicknamed ""Pancho"", Salta born Giussani was based in Cordoba. In 1988 he won Challenger titles in Geneva and Bogota. His best performance on the international circuit came in the doubles at the 1989 Athens Open. He partnered with countryman Gerardo Mirad to finish runners-up, to Claudio Panatta and Tomáš Šmíd. In singles that year he made the quarter-finals at a Grand Prix event in Saint Vincent and had a win over Guillermo Vilas in a Cairo Challenger tournament. He now works as"
"Gustavo Giussani Gustavo Giussani (born 6 March 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. Nicknamed ""Pancho"", Salta born Giussani was based in Cordoba. In 1988 he won Challenger titles in Geneva and Bogota. His best performance on the international circuit came in the doubles at the 1989 Athens Open. He partnered with countryman Gerardo Mirad to finish runners-up, to Claudio Panatta and Tomáš Šmíd. In singles that year he made the quarter-finals at a Grand Prix event in Saint Vincent and had a win over Guillermo Vilas in a Cairo Challenger tournament. He now works as a tennis"
"Santiago Giraldo Santiago Giraldo Salazar (, born 27 November 1987) is a Colombian professional tennis player. He plays on the ATP tour and represents Colombia in the Davis Cup competition. His best tournament result is reaching the final in the 2014 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. He is the highest-ranked tennis player in Colombia’s history, with a career-high singles ranking of 28th in the world, and 77th in doubles. Throughout his career he has beaten several ex-number-one players such as Lleyton Hewitt, Juan Carlos Ferrero, and Andy Murray as well as some top-ten players such as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Kei Nishikori, Marin"
"the 2017 Paris Masters. Santiago González (tennis) Santiago González Torre (; born 24 February 1983) is a Mexican professional tennis player. He is 6'3"" (1.91 m). He turned professional in 2001. His highest ATP singles ranking in singles is World No. 155, achieved in May 2006, and World No. 23 in doubles, reached in June 2013. González represents Mexico at the Davis Cup competition; currently his record is 22–16. In 2017, he reached the French Open final in doubles along with his partner Donald Young. Additionally, he has reached the finals of three other Grand Slam tournaments in the Mixed"
"record was 0–0 (0–1 overall). Tiago Godinho Tiago Godinho (born 13 August 1984) is a Portuguese former professional tennis player who competed in the ITF Men's Circuit. He achieved his highest singles ranking of 750 in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in July 2003. Though he never entered a singles event in the ATP Challenger Tour, Godinho did play in the doubles event at the 2004 Estoril Open and was selected for one Davis Cup tie in 2002. Godinho played 1 match in 1 tie for the Portugal Davis Cup team in 2002. His singles record"
"2004 French Open The 2004 French Open was the 108th edition of the tournament. Gastón Gaudio became the first men's Open Era Grand Slam title winner to save match points (2) in the final; the last time that had happened was 70 years earlier. Gaudio also became the first Argentine man since Guillermo Vilas to win a grand slam, in 1979. Fellow Argentine Guillermo Coria, widely regarded as the favourite and best clay court player in the world coming into the tournament, was seeded 3rd for the event, whereas Gaudio was unseeded (ranked 44th) and with only two titles to"
"fifth-lowest-ranked player to win a Grand Slam, and the first man in the open era to win a Grand Slam having saved match points in the final. Gaudio reached the top 10 in the ATP Entry rankings for the first time. Gaudio had achieved his childhood dream by winning at Roland Garros. He stated that his father, Norberto, who overcame a life-threatening illness, as the biggest inspiration for him. Gaudio would not reach another Grand Slam quarterfinal for the remainder of his career. Gaudio did not play Wimbledon and returned to the tour in July. He made 3 finals in"
"Christian Garín Christian Ignacio Garín Medone (; born 30 May 1996) is a Chilean professional tennis player. He achieved his highest ATP singles ranking of 89 in October 2018. He was the winner of the 2013 Junior French Open, beating Alexander Zverev in the final. He is the youngest Chilean player to win a high-level ATP match, defeating Dušan Lajović at just 16 years and 8 months old, in the first round of the 2013 VTR Open. Notable wins include players as Nicolas Mahut, Nicolás Almagro, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Florian Mayer, Borna Coric, Alexander Zverev and Dušan Lajović, among others. In"
"Tiago Godinho Tiago Godinho (born 13 August 1984) is a Portuguese former professional tennis player who competed in the ITF Men's Circuit. He achieved his highest singles ranking of 750 in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in July 2003. Though he never entered a singles event in the ATP Challenger Tour, Godinho did play in the doubles event at the 2004 Estoril Open and was selected for one Davis Cup tie in 2002. Godinho played 1 match in 1 tie for the Portugal Davis Cup team in 2002. His singles record was 0–1 and his doubles"
"performances. ""When I returned to Buenos Aires after playing Davis Cup in Moscow and Málaga, you had the impression it was my fault and that hurt me,"" he said. He finished the year ranked No. 34. 2004 started slowly for Gaudio, but he eventually reached the final in Barcelona, losing to Tommy Robredo in five sets, then posted two victories in the World Team Cup over Martin Verkerk and Lleyton Hewitt. Gaudio came into the French Open ranked 44th and was unseeded for the tournament. In the first round, he upset top-10 player and compatriot Guillermo Cañas over two days"
"to 0 by September 22, 2008. In January, Gaudio reached the quarterfinals of Iquique Challenger, where he retired without completing a single game. It was Gaudio's first match played after a few days short of an entire year. In February 2009, Gaudio received a wild card into the main draw for the Buenos Aires tournament, an ATP World Tour 250 event in his home country. Gaudio lost to Daniel Gimeno Traver of Spain in the first round, 2–6, 6–4, 2–6. Gaudio received another wild card into the main draw in the Barcelona tournament, an ATP World Tour 500 event, where"
"6–3, 6–2 Kateřina Böhmová / Michaëlla Krajicek defeated Irina Kotkina / Yaroslava Shvedova, 6–3, 6–2 2004 French Open The 2004 French Open was the 108th edition of the tournament. Gastón Gaudio became the first men's Open Era Grand Slam title winner to save match points (2) in the final; the last time that had happened was 70 years earlier. Gaudio also became the first Argentine man since Guillermo Vilas to win a grand slam, in 1979. Fellow Argentine Guillermo Coria, widely regarded as the favourite and best clay court player in the world coming into the tournament, was seeded 3rd"
"to secure a semifinal place for Argentina. Gaudio also won the first tournament of his career in Barcelona without dropping a set. Gaudio defeated world No. 1 and US Open champion Lleyton Hewitt in the semifinals, and then dismissed Spaniard and French Open winner of the same year Albert Costa, 6–4, 6–0, 6–2, in the final. Gaudio followed up his maiden title with another in Mallorca a week later. Gaudio made the fourth round of the French Open, losing to Juan Carlos Ferrero, 7–6, 1–6, 7–6, 2–6, 4–6, while leading 4–1 in the final set. After Roland Garros, Gaudio made"
"Diego Cristin Diego Nicolás Cristin (born 5 April 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. A right-handed player, Cristin comes from the Núñez neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. Cristin was known for his fast serve, once registering 214 km/h while still a teenager, surpassing the fastest serve of any other Argentine player at that time. In 2003 he had the distinction of being the first player to beat future US Open winner Juan Martín del Potro in a professional match, which he did at a local satellite tournament. He was unable to break into the ATP Tour, featuring only"
"Ernesto Escobedo Ernesto ""Neto"" Escobedo ( ; , born July 4, 1996) is an American tennis player who has won two ATP Challenger titles. He is part of the current class of NextGen players that includes many fellow Americans such as Frances Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz who are considered the best young prospects to become the next generation of tennis stars. Escobedo began playing tennis at the age of 4. His father briefly played professional tennis, and his aunt Xóchitl Escobedo was a Top 300 player who competed in the 1988 Olympics. He is of Mexican descent. Escobedo reached his"
"Gustavo Kuerten Gustavo Kuerten (; born 10 September 1976), nicknamed Guga, is a retired World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open singles title three times (1997, 2000, and 2001), and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000. Kuerten suffered many problems with injuries which resulted in his non-attendances at many tournaments between 2002 and 2005. After a few failed attempted comebacks, he retired from top-level tennis in May 2008. During his career he won 20 singles and 8 doubles titles. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2016,"
"Máximo González Máximo González Mereira (; born July 20, 1983 in Tandil) is a professional tennis player from Argentina. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 58, achieved in July 2009. González reached the semifinals of Umag in 2008 and Kitzbühel in 2014. In singles play, González won two Futures events in the second half of 2004. He won four more Futures events in 2005 before finally finding success on the Challenger circuit with two consecutive semi-final appearances and a quarterfinal, improving his ranking to No. 206 in November 2005. His success waned in early 2007, and by the end"
"to Irakli Labadze (a qualifier) and lost his 2006 US Open third-round match to Marc Gicquel. Gaudio started 2007 poorly and lost eight consecutive matches stretching back to 2006, before recording a victory over Luis Horna, who retired from the match with a strained hamstring. Gaudio followed up with a conventional win against Juan Pablo Guzmán, before losing to former world No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero in the quarterfinals of Acapulco. At the French Open, he won his first-round match against Marc Gicquel (he lost to him the previous year) in five sets. He was to face former world No."
"a win–loss record of 0–1. Guadalupe Pérez Rojas Guadalupe Pérez Rojas (; born 19 August 1994 in San Pedro de Jujuy) is an Argentine tennis player. Pérez Rojas has won 11 doubles titles on the ITF tour during her career. On 18 May 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 410. On 6 March 2017, she peaked at world number 170 in the doubles rankings. Partnering Sofía Luini, Pérez Rojas won her first $50,000 ITF tournament at the CIT Paraguay Open, defeating Anastasia Pivovarova and Patricia Maria Țig in the 2014 final. Playing for Argentina at the"
"Fame in 2012. In June 2016 he became their global ambassador, representing the organisation, especially in South America. In 2005, ""Tennis Magazine"" put him in 37th place in its list of ""The 40 Greatest Players of the ""Tennis"" Era"". On 5 August 2016, he relayed the Olympic Torch into Maracanã Stadium during the Opening Ceremoines for 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, relaying off to Hortencia Marcari. Gustavo Kuerten Gustavo Kuerten (; born 10 September 1976), nicknamed Guga, is a retired World No. 1 tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open singles title three times (1997, 2000,"
"his name, both of which he had won over two years before. After winning the first two sets convincingly, Coria began suffering from leg cramps. Gaudio won the next two sets; however, Coria came back and was up two breaks of serve in the final set. Coria had two match points at 6–5 before Gaudio prevailed 0–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1, 8–6. Gaudio also became the first man to win a Grand Slam tournament final after being bagelled in the first set. The tournament was noted for the excellent performance of the Argentine players – in addition to the two finalists,"
"doubles title. In the first week in September in Romania, he won his 4th Challenger in five weeks. In seven weeks, he went 27–3 in singles matches, including wins over 14 top-200 players, to improve his ranking to a #125 on September 10, 2007. Máximo González Máximo González Mereira (; born July 20, 1983 in Tandil) is a professional tennis player from Argentina. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 58, achieved in July 2009. González reached the semifinals of Umag in 2008 and Kitzbühel in 2014. In singles play, González won two Futures events in the second half of"
"as high as Challenger level. As a doubles player he made the world's top 200 and won a Challenger tournament in Santiago in 2009, partnering Eduardo Schwank. Diego Cristin Diego Nicolás Cristin (born 5 April 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. A right-handed player, Cristin comes from the Núñez neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. Cristin was known for his fast serve, once registering 214 km/h while still a teenager, surpassing the fastest serve of any other Argentine player at that time. In 2003 he had the distinction of being the first player to beat future US Open winner"