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Horacio Zeballos
Zeballos in 2015
Country (sports)
Argentina
Residence
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Born
(1985-04-27) 27 April 1985 (age 39) Mar del Plata, Argentina
Height
1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro
2003
Plays
Left-handed (one-handed backhand)
Coach
Alejandro Lombardo
Prize money
$7,821,684
Singles
Career record
91–133 (40.6% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles
1
Highest ranking
No. 39 (4 March 2013)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open
1R (2010, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018)
French Open
4R (2017)
Wimbledon
2R (2018)
US Open
2R (2009, 2016)
Doubles
Career record
337–206 (62.1% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles
21
Highest ranking
No. 1 (6 May 2024)
Current ranking
No. 1 (6 May 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open
SF (2022, 2023)
French Open
SF (2013, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Wimbledon
F (2021, 2023)
US Open
F (2019)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals
F (2023)
Olympic Games
1R (2021)
Medal record
Men's tennis
Representing Argentina
Pan American Games
2007 Rio de Janeiro
Men's doubles
Last updated on: 22 April 2024.
Horacio Zeballos Jr. (Rioplatense Spanish:[oˈɾasjoseˈβaʃos];[1] born 27 April 1985) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 1 on 6 May 2024, becoming the first Argentinian man to achieve the feat.[2] He also has a career-high singles ranking of No. 39 achieved on 4 March 2013. In doubles, he has won 21 ATP titles and reached the men's doubles finals at the 2019 US Open and at Wimbledon in 2021 and 2023 alongside Marcel Granollers. In singles, he owns one title and reached the fourth round at the French Open, doing so in 2017.
Zeballos won his first ATP title at the 2013 VTR Open in Chile on 10 February. In the final, he beat Rafael Nadal, becoming one of only four players (with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray) to beat Nadal in a clay-court final.[3]
He has also reached the final in St. Petersburg in 2009, Russia, losing to Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky.
Zeballos won the 2009 ATP Newcomer of the Year award.
He reached his first doubles final at the Chile Open in Santiago in 2010, with partner Potito Starace. They lost to top seeds Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach.
He won his first doubles title at the Argentina Open with Sebastián Prieto.
^"The pronunciation by Horacio Zeballos himself". ATP World Tour. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^"Granollers and Zeballos, on top of the world as doubles No. 1s". 6 May 2024.
^"Tennis: Nadal denied title in comeback tournament", Global Post, 10 February 2013.
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