Albert Montañés

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Albert Montañés Tennis player
Albert Montañés
Montañés 2015 at Wimbledon
Nation: SpainSpain Spain
Birthday: November 26, 1980
Size: 175 cm
Weight: 70 kg
1st professional season: 1999
Resignation: 2017
Playing hand: Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer: Pere Icart
Prize money: $ 5,866,340
singles
Career record: 255: 287
Career title: 6th
Highest ranking: 22 (August 2, 2010)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 3R (2010)
French Open AF (2011)
Wimbledon 3R (2009, 2010)
US Open AF (2010)
Double
Career record: 60: 121
Career title: 2
Highest ranking: 73 (July 23, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (2010)
French Open 2R (2008)
Wimbledon 1R (2004, 2007-2011)
US Open 2R (2009)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Albert Montañés Roca (born November 26, 1980 in Sant Carles de la Ràpita ) is a former Spanish tennis player .

Career

Montañés began playing tennis at the age of six. In 1999 he turned professional.

In 2001 he beat Michael Chang and Karol Kučera at the ATP tournament in Estoril before losing to Juan Carlos Ferrero . In the same year he reached the third round of the French Open , which he was able to repeat in 2002. In the same year he was able to defeat the former number 1 in the world, Gustavo Kuerten , at the ATP tournament in Rome . In 2001 he was in the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time .

In 2004 Montañés reached the second round of Wimbledon , in which he was defeated by Alexander Popp . In 2005 he moved into the second round of the US Open . In 2006 and 2007 he again reached the third round of the French Open. On August 2, 2010, Montañés was 22nd in the tennis world rankings, his best placement. During his career, he won six singles titles and another two doubles. In his second career title in 2009 in Estoril , he was able to fend off match points in the quarter-finals and the final, a feat that only a few players before him managed to do. He also holds the inglorious record for most first round defeats in Grand Slam tournaments . Between 2001 and 2016 he went 35 times as a loser in 53 tournaments after the first round.

Montañés played in 2007 in the German Bundesliga for TK Kurhaus Aachen , after which he also played for Rochusclub Düsseldorf.

After Montañés had to admit defeat to his compatriot Feliciano López 2: 6, 2: 6 in the second round of the Barcelona Open , he ended his professional career after 18 years.

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP International Series Gold
ATP World Tour 500
ATP International Series
ATP World Tour 250 (8)
ATP Challenger Tour (8)
Title after covering
Hard Court (1)
Sand (7)
Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. July 20, 2008 NetherlandsNetherlands Amersfoort sand BelgiumBelgium Steve Darcis 1: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3
2. May 10, 2009 PortugalPortugal Estoril (1) sand United StatesUnited States James Blake 5: 7, 7: 6 6 , 6: 0
3. September 27, 2009 RomaniaRomania Bucharest sand ArgentinaArgentina Juan Mónaco 7: 6 2 , 7: 6 6
4th May 9, 2010 PortugalPortugalEstoril (2) sand PortugalPortugal Frederico Gil 6: 2, 6: 7 4 , 7: 5
5. July 18, 2010 GermanyGermany Stuttgart sand FranceFrance Gaël Monfils 6: 2, 1: 2 up.
6th May 25, 2013 FranceFrance Nice sand FranceFrance Gaël Monfils 6: 0, 7: 6 3
ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. August 13, 2000 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague sand ItalyItaly Filippo Volandri 6: 1, 6: 1
2. September 2, 2001 GermanyGermany Freudenstadt sand RomaniaRomania Victor Hănescu 6: 0, 6: 3
3. June 12, 2005 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lugano sand BrazilBrazil Flávio Saretta 7: 5, 6: 7 4 , 7: 6 5
4th August 13, 2006 San MarinoSan Marino San Marino sand ArgentinaArgentina Sergio Roitman 7: 6 5 , 6: 7 5 , 6: 3
5. April 13, 2008 ItalyItaly Monza sand SpainSpain Alberto Martín 3: 6, 7: 6 1 , 6: 3
6th September 9, 2012 ItalyItaly Genoa sand SpainSpain Tommy Robredo 6: 4, 6: 1
7th November 18, 2012 SpainSpain Marbella sand SpainSpain Daniel Muñoz de La Nava 3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
8th. 17th August 2014 FranceFrance Cordenons sand ItalyItaly Potito Starace 6: 2, 6: 4

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. September 16, 2001 RomaniaRomania Bucharest sand MoroccoMorocco Younes El Aynaoui 6: 7 5 , 6: 7 2
2. April 19, 2004 SpainSpain Valencia sand SpainSpain Fernando Verdasco 6: 7 5 , 3: 6
3. February 28, 2005 MexicoMexico Acapulco sand SpainSpain Rafael Nadal 0: 6, 7: 6 2 , 1: 6
4th April 29, 2007 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca sand FranceFrance Paul-Henri Mathieu 1: 6, 1: 6
5. August 6, 2011 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel sand NetherlandsNetherlands Robin Haase 4: 6, 6: 4, 1: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. April 29, 2008 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca sand SpainSpain Santiago Ventura United StatesUnited States James Cerretani Todd Perry
AustraliaAustralia  		6: 1, 6: 2
2. January 8, 2010 QatarQatar Doha Hard court SpainSpain Guillermo García-López Czech RepublicCzech Republic František Čermák Michal Mertiňák
SlovakiaSlovakia  		6: 4, 7; 5

Final participation

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. January 29, 2007 ChileChile Viña del Mar sand SpainSpain Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo ChileChile Paul Capdeville Óscar Hernández
SpainSpain  		6: 4, 4: 6, [6:10]
2. February 12, 2007 BrazilBrazil Costa do Sauípe (1) sand SpainSpain Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		2: 6, 6: 7 4
3. February 18, 2007 ArgentinaArgentina Buenos Aires sand SpainSpain Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo ArgentinaArgentina Sebastián Prieto Martín García
ArgentinaArgentina  		4: 6, 2: 6
4th February 11, 2008 BrazilBrazilCosta do Sauípe (2) sand SpainSpain Santiago Ventura BrazilBrazil Marcelo Melo André Sá
BrazilBrazil  		6: 4, 2: 6, [7:10]

Web links

Commons : Albert Montañés  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Björn Walter: Montanes announces resignation. In: spox.com. April 24, 2017. Retrieved May 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Montañés, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montañés Roca, Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Sant Carles de la Ràpita , Spain