Alex Corretja

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Alex Corretja Tennis player
Alex Corretja
Nation: SpainSpain Spain
Birthday: April 11, 1974
Size: 180 cm
1st professional season: 1991
Resignation: 2006
Playing hand: Right, one-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 10,411,354
singles
Career record: 438: 281
Career title: 17th
Highest ranking: 2 (February 1, 1999)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 3R (1998)
French Open F (1998, 2001)
Wimbledon 2R (1994, 1996)
US Open VF (1996)
Double
Career record: 103: 115
Career title: 3
Highest ranking: 50 (June 9 1997)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open AF (1998)
French Open -
Wimbledon AF (1996)
US Open AF (1996)
Olympic games
Olympic medals:
bronze 2000 Sydney Double
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Àlex Corretja i Verdegay (born April 11, 1974 in Barcelona ) is a former Spanish tennis player . He reached the final of the French Open twice , in 1998 he became tennis world champion. With Spain he won the Davis Cup in 2000 .

Career

Àlex Corretja turned pro in 1991 after winning the prestigious Junior Orange Bowl tournament in the 1990 season . In 1994 he won his first professional title in Buenos Aires . In 1996 he reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time ; In a memorable game of the US Open he lost to the American Pete Sampras after 4 hours and 9 minutes .

1997 was a good season for Corretja, during which he won the Masters tournament in Rome. At the French Open in 1998 he reached the final, but there was clearly defeated by his compatriot Carlos Moyá in three sets. With Moyá, Corretja should deliver a few more competitive games in the following years, including in the final of the World Cup in the same year when he was able to turn a 2-0 set deficit and win the title. He is one of five winners of the ATP World Championship who have not won a Grand Slam tournament in their careers. Corretja ended the year in third place in the world rankings .

In 2000 he mainly celebrated team successes. He led the Spanish Davis Cup team to their first title and won the bronze medal in Olympic doubles alongside Albert Costa . In 2001 he reached the final of the French Open again, but lost again, this time to the Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten . In 2003 Corretja reached the Davis Cup final with Spain again, but the team was inferior to the Australian selection in the end.

In the last few years Corretja has gradually moved away from the top of the world. In the 2005 season he only appeared in smaller tournaments. In 2006 he ended his career due to an eye injury.

In 2011 and 2012 he was the captain of the Spanish Davis Cup team.

Corretja has been accompanying the Grand Slam tournaments as an interviewer for the pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport since 2015 .

successes

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series
Title after covering
Hard Court (5)
Lawn (0)
Sand (14)
Carpet (1)

singles

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. November 14, 1994 ArgentinaArgentina Buenos Aires sand ArgentinaArgentina Javier Frana 6: 3, 5: 7, 7: 6 5
2. April 14, 1997 PortugalPortugal Estoril sand SpainSpain Francisco Clavet 6: 3, 7: 5
3. May 19, 1997 ItalyItaly Rome sand ChileChile Marcelo Ríos 7: 5, 7: 5, 6: 3
4th July 21, 1997 GermanyGermany Stuttgart sand SlovakiaSlovakia Karol Kučera 6: 2, 7: 5
5. February 16, 1998 United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai Hard court SpainSpain Félix Mantilla 7: 6 0 , 6: 0
6th July 13, 1998 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Gstaad (1) sand GermanyGermany Boris Becker 7: 6 5 , 7: 5, 6: 3
7th August 24, 1998 United StatesUnited States Indianapolis sand United StatesUnited States Andre Agassi 2: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
8th. October 26, 1998 FranceFrance Lyon Carpet (i) GermanyGermany Tommy Haas 2: 6, 7: 6 6 , 6: 1
9. November 30, 1998 GermanyGermany Tennis Masters Cup Hard court SpainSpain Carlos Moyá 3: 6, 3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3, 7: 5
10. March 20, 2000 United StatesUnited States Indian Wells Hard court SwedenSweden Thomas Enqvist 6: 4, 6: 4, 6: 3
11. July 17, 2000 SwitzerlandSwitzerlandGstaad (2) sand ArgentinaArgentina Mariano Puerta 6: 1, 6: 3
12. July 30, 2000 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel sand SpainSpain Emilio Benfele Álvarez 6: 3, 6: 1, 3: 0 task
13. August 21, 2000 United StatesUnited States Washington Hard court United StatesUnited States Andre Agassi 6: 2, 6: 3
14th October 23, 2000 FranceFrance Toulouse Hard court SpainSpain Carlos Moyá 6: 3, 6: 2
15th July 22, 2001 NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam sand MoroccoMorocco Younes El Aynaoui 6: 3, 5: 7, 7: 6, 3: 6, 6: 4
16. July 15, 2002 SwitzerlandSwitzerlandGstaad (3) sand ArgentinaArgentina Gastón Gaudio 6: 3, 7: 6 3 , 7: 6 3
17th July 29, 2002 AustriaAustriaKitzbuhel (2) sand SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero 6: 4, 6: 1, 6: 3
Final participation
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. 2nd November 1992 BrazilBrazil Guarujá Hard court GermanyGermany Carsten Arriens 6: 7, 3: 6
2. 3rd October 1994 ItalyItaly Palermo sand SpainSpain Alberto Berasategui 6: 2, 6: 7, 4: 6
3. May 13, 1996 GermanyGermany Hamburg sand SpainSpain Roberto Carretero 6: 2, 4: 6, 4: 6, 4: 6
4th July 29, 1996 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel sand SpainSpain Alberto Berasategui 2: 6, 4: 6, 4: 6
5. October 7, 1996 SpainSpain Marbella sand GermanyGermany Marc-Kevin Goellner 6: 7, 6: 7
6th April 28, 1997 Monaco Monte Carlo sand ChileChile Marcelo Ríos 4: 6, 4: 6, 3: 6
7th May 5, 1997 GermanyGermany Munich sand AustraliaAustralia Mark Philippoussis 6: 7, 6: 1, 4: 6
8th. May 11, 1998 GermanyGermany Hamburg sand SpainSpain Albert Costa 2: 6, 0: 6, 0: 1 task
9. June 8, 1998 FranceFrance French Open sand SpainSpain Carlos Moyá 3: 6, 5: 7, 3: 6
10. January 18, 1999 AustraliaAustralia Sydney Hard court United StatesUnited States Todd Martin 3: 6, 6: 7
11. August 30, 1999 United StatesUnited States long Island Hard court SwedenSweden Magnus Norman 6: 7, 6: 4, 3: 6
12. September 20, 1999 SpainSpain Mallorca sand SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero 6: 2, 5: 7, 3: 6
13. June 11, 2001 FranceFrance French Open sand BrazilBrazil Gustavo Kuerten 7: 6, 5: 7, 2: 6, 0: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. October 1, 1995 ItalyItaly Palermo sand FranceFrance Fabrice Santoro NetherlandsNetherlands Hendrik Jan David's Piet Norval
South AfricaSouth Africa 		6: 7, 6: 4, 6: 3
2. April 14, 1997 GermanyGermany Munich sand ArgentinaArgentina Pablo Albano GermanyGermany Karsten Braasch Jens Knippschild
GermanyGermany 		3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 2
3. July 29, 2001 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel sand ArgentinaArgentina Luis Lobo SwedenSweden Simon Aspelin Andrew Kratzmann
AustraliaAustralia 		6: 1, 6: 4

Final participation

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. June 18, 1995 PortugalPortugal postage sand SpainSpain Jordi Arrese SpainSpain Tomás Carbonell Francisco Roig
SpainSpain 		3: 6, 6: 7
2. April 20, 1997 SpainSpain Barcelona sand ArgentinaArgentina Pablo Albano SpainSpain Alberto Berasategui Jordi Burillo
SpainSpain 		3: 6, 5: 7
3. July 22, 2001 NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam sand ArgentinaArgentina Luis Lobo NetherlandsNetherlands Paul Haarhuis Sjeng Schalken
NetherlandsNetherlands 		4: 6, 2: 6
4th July 28, 2002 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel sand ArgentinaArgentina Lucas Arnold Ker South AfricaSouth Africa Robbie Koenig Thomas Shimada
JapanJapan 		6: 7 3 , 4: 6

Personal

Àlex Corretja has been married to Marta Cors since 2001 and has two daughters with her.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Corretja, Àlex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corretja i Verdegay, Àlex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain