Horacio Zeballos

Horacio Zeballos
Zeballos 2016 at the US Open
Nation:	Argentina
Birthday:	April 27, 1985
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	84 kg
1st professional season:	2003
Playing hand:	Left, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Alejandro Lombardo
Prize money:	$ 5,204,354
singles
Career record:	91: 133
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	39 (March 4, 2013)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	211: 135
Career title:	15th
Highest ranking:	3 (September 9, 2019)
Current placement:	4th
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: February 24, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Horacio Zeballos (born April 27, 1985 in Mar del Plata ) is an Argentine tennis player .

Career

Horacio Zeballos won his first title on the ATP Challenger Tour in 2008 in Recanati . The Argentine's big breakthrough came in 2009. He won five Challenger titles in eight finals and made it into the top 50 of the world rankings. At the US Open , he qualified for a Grand Slam tournament for the first time and was eliminated in round two against Tomáš Berdych . At the end of the year he was in the final of his fourth ATP tournament in St. Petersburg and awarded a match point in the tie-break of the third set against the qualifier Serhij Stachowskyj .

After four first-round defeats at the beginning of the 2010 season, he reached the quarter-finals in Buenos Aires after victories over Gastón Gaudio and Carlos Moyá . In Miami he was in the third round after victories over Andreas Seppi and Gilles Simon and at the clay court tournament in Houston he surprisingly defeated the top seeded Fernando González , number eleven in the world rankings, 6: 4, 6: 4 in the quarter-finals . Only in the semi-finals did he lose to the eventual winner Juan Ignacio Chela .

He has been playing for the Argentine Davis Cup team since 2010 .

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (2) ATP World Tour 500 (2) ATP World Tour 250 (12) ATP Challenger Tour (49)

Title after covering Hard Court (4) Sand (12) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 10, 2013	Viña del Mar	sand	Rafael Nadal	6: 7 2 , 7: 6 6 , 6: 4

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 22, 2008	Recanati	Hard court	Grega Žemlja	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	February 1, 2009	Bucaramanga	sand	Carlos Salamanca	7: 5, 6: 2
3.	March 22, 2009	Bogotá	sand	Santiago González	7: 6 7 , 6: 0
4th	July 25, 2009	manta	Hard court	Vincent Millot	3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3
5.	August 8, 2009	Campos do Jordão	Hard court	Thiago Alves	6: 7 4 , 6: 4, 6: 3
6th	4th October 2009	Buenos Aires	sand	Gastón Gaudio	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 3
7th	May 13, 2012	Prague	sand	Martin Kližan	1: 6, 6: 4, 7: 6 6
8th.	4th November 2012	Montevideo	sand	Julian Reister	6: 3, 6: 2
9.	November 11, 2012	Sao Leopoldo	sand	Paul Capdeville	3: 6, 7: 5, 7: 6 2
10.	January 6, 2013	São Paulo	Hard court	Rogério Dutra da Silva	7: 6 5 , 6: 2
11.	November 16, 2013	Lima	sand	Facundo Bagnis	6: 7 4 , 6: 3, 6: 3
12.	June 29, 2014	Marburg	sand	Thiemo de Bakker	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
13.	September 21, 2014	Quito	sand	Nicolás Jarry	6: 4, 7: 6 9
14th	June 18, 2016	Poprad Tatry	sand	Gerald Melzer	6: 3, 6: 4
15th	July 9, 2016	Båstad	sand	Roberto Carballés Baena	6: 3, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 1, 2009	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Serhiy Stachowskyj	6: 2, 6: 7 8 , 6: 7 7

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 21, 2010	Buenos Aires (1)	sand	Sebastian Prieto	Simon Greul Peter Luczak	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
2.	May 1, 2011	Munich	sand	Simone Bolelli	Andreas Beck Christopher Kas	7: 6 3 , 6: 4
3.	February 28, 2016	São Paulo	sand	Julio Peralta	Pablo Carreño Busta David Marrero	4: 6, 6: 1, [10: 5]
4th	July 24, 2016	Gstaad	sand	Julio Peralta	Mate Pavić Michael Venus	7: 6 2 , 6: 2
5.	7th August 2016	Atlanta	Hard court	Andrés Molteni	Johan Brunström Andreas Siljeström	7: 6 2 , 6: 4
6th	September 25, 2016	Metz	Hard court (i)	Julio Peralta	Mate Pavić Michael Venus	6: 3, 7: 6 4
7th	April 16, 2017	Houston	sand	Julio Peralta	Dustin Brown Frances Tiafoe	4: 6, 7: 5, [10: 6]
8th.	February 18, 2018	Buenos Aires (2)	sand	Andrés Molteni	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6: 3, 5: 7, [10: 3]
9.	July 22, 2018	Båstad	sand	Julio Peralta	Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini	6: 3, 6: 4
10.	29th July 2018	Hamburg	sand	Julio Peralta	Oliver Marach Mate Pavic	6: 1, 4: 6, [10: 6]
11.	17th February 2019	Buenos Aires (3)	sand	Máximo González	Diego Schwartzman Dominic Thiem	6: 1, 6: 1
12.	18th March 2019	Indian Wells	Hard court	Nikola Mektic	Marcelo Melo Łukasz Kubot	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 3]
13.	11th August 2019	Montreal	Hard court	Marcel Granollers	Robin Haase Wesley Koolhof	7: 5, 7: 5
14th	February 16, 2020	Buenos Aires (4)	sand	Marcel Granollers	Guillermo Durán Juan Ignacio Londero	6: 4, 5: 7, [18:16]
15th	February 23, 2020	Rio de Janeiro	sand	Marcel Granollers	Salvatore Caruso Federico Gaio	6: 4, 5: 7, [10: 7]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 26, 2006	Naples	sand	Pablo Cuevas	Goran Dragicevic Mirko Pehar	7: 6 5 , 6: 3
2.	April 1, 2007	Mexico city	sand	Marcelo Melo	Ramón Delgado André Sá	6: 4, 6: 2
3.	April 29, 2007	Florianópolis	sand	Pablo Cuevas	André Miele João Souza	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	July 8, 2007	Turin	sand	Pablo Cuevas	Pablo Andújar Flávio Saretta	6: 3, 6: 1
5.	August 12, 2007	Campos do Jordão	Hard court	Eduardo Schwank	John Paul Fruttero Izak van der Merwe	3: 6, 6: 3, [12:10]
6th	August 18, 2007	manta	Hard court	Eduardo Schwank	John Paul Fruttero Eric Nunez	6: 4, 6: 2
7th	October 7, 2007	Medellin	sand	Pablo Cuevas	Santiago González Bruno Soares	6: 4, 6: 4
8th.	March 15, 2009	Santiago de Chile (1)	sand	Sebastian Prieto	Rogério Dutra da Silva Flávio Saretta	7: 6 2 , 6: 2
9.	March 22, 2009	Bogotá	sand	Sebastian Prieto	Alexander Peya Fernando Vicente	4: 6, 6: 1, [11: 9]
10.	April 11, 2009	San Luis Potosi (1)	sand	Santiago González	Franco Ferreiro Júlio Silva	6: 2, 7: 6 5
11.	May 17, 2009	Bordeaux	sand	Pablo Cuevas	Xavier Pujo Stéphane Robert	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 4]
12.	July 19, 2009	Bogota (1)	sand	Sebastian Prieto	Marcos Daniel Ricardo Mello	6: 4, 7: 5
13.	September 20, 2009	Cali	sand	Sebastian Prieto	Ricardo Hocevar João Souza	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
14th	March 13, 2011	Santiago de Chile (2)	sand	Máximo González	Guillermo Rivera-Aránguiz Cristóbal Saavedra-Corvalán	6: 3, 6: 4
15th	September 11, 2011	Genoa (1)	sand	Dustin Brown	Jordan Kerr Travis Parrott	6: 2, 7: 5
16.	January 29, 2012	Bucaramanga (1)	sand	Ariel Behar	Miguel Ángel López Jaén Paolo Lorenzi	6: 4, 7: 6 5
17th	March 4, 2012	Salinas	sand	Martin Alund	Ariel Behar Carlos Salamanca	6: 3, 6: 3
18th	May 13, 2012	Prague	sand	Lukáš Rosol	Martin Kližan Igor Zelenay	7: 5, 2: 6, [12:10]
19th	October 14, 2012	San Juan	sand	Martin Alund	Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler	3: 6, 6: 2, [14:12]
20th	October 28, 2012	Buenos Aires (1)	sand	Martin Alund	Facundo Argüello Agustín Velotti	7: 6 6 , 6: 2
21st	May 11, 2014	Aix-en-Provence	sand	Diego Schwartzman	Andreas Beck Martin Fischer	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 5]
22nd	June 8, 2014	Mestre	sand	Pablo Cuevas	Daniele Bracciali Potito Starace	6: 4, 6: 1
23.	April 5, 2015	San Luis Potosi (2)	sand	Guillermo Duran	Sergio Galdós Guido Pella	7: 6 4 , 6: 4
24.	April 26, 2015	Savannah	sand	Guillermo Duran	Dennis Novikov Julio Peralta	6: 4, 6: 3
25th	June 7, 2015	Fuerth	sand	Guillermo Duran	Íñigo Cervantes Renzo Olivo	6: 1, 6: 3
26th	June 14, 2015	Moscow	sand	Renzo Olivo	Julio Peralta Matt Seeberger	7: 5, 6: 3
27.	13th September 2015	Genoa (2)	Hard court	Guillermo Duran	Andrea Arnaboldi Alessandro Giannessi	7: 5, 6: 4
28.	October 18, 2015	Corrientes	sand	Julio Peralta	Guillermo Durán Máximo González	6: 2, 6: 3
29	November 8, 2015	Bogota (2)	sand	Julio Peralta	Nicolás Barrientos Eduardo Struvay	6: 3, 6: 4
30th	15th November 2015	Buenos Aires (2)	sand	Julio Peralta	Guido Andreozzi Lucas Arnold Ker	6: 2, 7: 5
31.	January 31, 2016	Bucaramanga (2)	sand	Julio Peralta	Sergio Galdós Luis David Martínez	6: 2, 6: 2
32.	September 10, 2016	Genoa (3)	sand	Julio Peralta	Aljaksandr Bury Andrei Wassileuski	6: 4, 6: 3
33.	October 16, 2016	Buenos Aires (3)	sand	Julio Peralta	Sergio Galdós Fernando Romboli	7: 6 5 , 7: 6 1
34.	October 22, 2016	Santiago de Chile	sand	Julio Peralta	Sergio Galdós Máximo González	6: 3, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 7, 2010	Santiago de Chile	sand	Potito Starace	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	4: 6, 0: 6
2.	29th September 2013	Kuala Lumpur	Hard court	Pablo Cuevas	Eric Butorac Raven Klaasen	2: 6, 4: 6
3.	February 16, 2014	Buenos Aires	sand	Pablo Cuevas	Marcel Granollers Marc López	5: 7, 4: 6
4th	February 11, 2017	Quito	sand	Julio Peralta	James Cerretani Philipp Oswald	3: 6, 1: 2 problem
5.	August 25, 2017	Winston-Salem	Hard court	Julio Peralta	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	3: 6, 4: 6
6th	September 24, 2017	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Julio Peralta	Roman Jebavý Matwé Middelkoop	4: 6, 4: 6
7th	January 7, 2018	Brisbane	Hard court	Leonardo Mayer	Henri Kontinen John Peers	6: 3, 3: 6, [2:10]
8th.	February 10, 2019	Cordoba	sand	Máximo González	Roman Jebavý Andrés Molteni	4: 6, 6: 7 4
9.	June 28, 2019	Eastbourne	race	Máximo González	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6: 3, 6: 7 4 , [6:10]
10.	July 21, 2019	Båstad	sand	Federico Delbonis	Sander Gillé Joran Viegen	7: 6 5 , 5: 7, [5:10]
11.	September 6, 2019	US Open	Hard court	Marcel Granollers	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	4: 6, 5: 7

Web links

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• ATP profile of Horacio Zeballos (English)
• ITF profile of Horacio Zeballos (English)
• Davis Cup statistics Horacio Zeballos (English)