2002–2005: Successes as a junior and first experiences in future tournaments
Eduardo Schwank started playing tennis at the age of four. Since 2002 he has competed in international junior tournaments, especially on the South American continent. In 2003 and 2004 he reached a total of eight finals, of which he was able to win six. Although he was unable to achieve any major success in the Junior Grand Slams, he made it to second place in the junior world rankings. At the same time, Schwank has also played future tournaments in the men's area since 2002, also almost all in South America.
2006–2007: First title in future and challenger tournaments
In 2006 and 2007 he was able to win a total of 9 future titles, which brought him into the top 300 in the world rankings . He also played Challenger tournaments from 2006 and celebrated his first title in Medellín in October 2007 . At the Pan American Games in 2007 Schwank won the bronze medal in singles and the gold medal in doubles together with Horacio Zeballos . He also took part in qualifications for Grand Slam tournaments for the first time in 2007 , but was unable to qualify for the main draw in Wimbledon and the US Open .
2008–2009: Entry into the Top 100 and Grand Slam debut
In the spring of 2008 Schwank won three Challenger tournaments in a row in Cremona , Rome and Bordeaux , making him the first time into the top 100 of the world rankings. An incident occurred in Bordeaux when a fire broke out in the hotel in which he was staying. He was uninjured, but lost his laptop, passport, all clothing and the prize money check from the previous tournament in Rome. Since the fire broke out in his room, he was subsequently accused of being responsible for the fire. At the following French Open Eduardo Schwank was able to qualify for the first time for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. There he defeated the former world number one Carlos Moyá in five sets in the first round . After another victory over Marcel Granollers , he was finally eliminated in the third round against Paul-Henri Mathieu . From now on he played regularly at ATP tournaments and reached the semi-finals in Stuttgart in July 2008 , where he had to admit defeat to his compatriot Juan Martín del Potro , who won his first title there.
He was able to stay in the Top 100 for over a year and in February 2009 he achieved his best ranking to date with 50th place. In mid-2009, however, he fell out of the top 100 after nine first round defeats in a row and now had to play Challenger tournaments again. By the end of the year he had reached three finals, of which he won two in Santiago de Chile and Lima .
2010: First ATP title and Grand Slam semi-finals in doubles
In January 2010 he managed to return to the top 100 with a win in Bucaramanga . In March 2010 he played for Argentina in the Davis Cup for the first time . Despite losing his match to Robin Söderling , Argentina beat Sweden 3-2 . At the ATP tournament in Barcelona he made it to the quarter-finals, but lost again to Söderling. In May 2010 he was part of the Argentine team that won the World Team Cup in Düsseldorf . To this victory he contributed a single victory against Germany and France. A week later he played a Grand Slam match at the French Open for the first time in eleven months, but had to give up in the first round against the Slovenian Blaž Kavčič due to an injury. Also in Wimbledon he was eliminated in the first round against Jewgeni Koroljow in singles ; in doubles, however, he came to the semi-finals at the side of his compatriot Juan Ignacio Chela . In July 2010 Schwank won his first ATP title together with Carlos Berlocq in Stuttgart . At the US Open in September 2010 he reached the second round in singles after defeating Robby Ginepri . It went even better in doubles: together with Horacio Zeballos , he reached a Grand Slam semi-final for the second time this year. In the Davis Cup semifinals a week later against France, however, the two lost both their doubles and their singles, so that Argentina lost 5-0. At the end of October, Schwank reached an ATP final for the second time in Montpellier together with Marc López , but they lost in a close match.
2011: Grand Slam finals in doubles and mixed
In the singles, Eduardo Schwank was only able to win a match again in January 2011, in the first round of the Australian Open against his compatriot Leonardo Mayer . Against his next opponent, the 32nd placed Guillermo García-López , he was then defeated in three sets. Since he fell out of the top 100 in the world rankings shortly afterwards, Schwank played mainly Challenger tournaments in the further course of the year. He was able to reach three finals in the singles in Rome , Cali and São José do Rio Preto , but he lost all of them. It was more successful in doubles: At the French Open , Eduardo Schwank reached a Grand Slam final alongside Juan Sebastián Cabal for the first time, defeating the top seeded Bryan brothers, among others . In the final, however, they had to admit defeat Max Mirny and Daniel Nestor in three sets . At the US Open , Schwank was in another Grand Slam final, in mixed at Gisela Dulko's side . After a close match, however, they went off again as losers against Melanie Oudin and Jack Sock . After two Challenger titles in doubles, Eduardo Schwank was at the end of the year with the Argentine team in the Davis Cup final against Spain. Together with David Nalbandian Schwank won the doubles, but Spain won the final 3-1 due to the individual victories.
Argentina
Medellin
Chris Guccione
Cremona
Bjorn Phau
Eric Prodon
Igor Kunitsyn
Santiago de Chile
Lima
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Marc López
Max Mirny Daniel Nestor
US Open
