Albert Portas

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Albert Portas Tennis player
Albert Portas
Portas 2006 at the US Open
Nation: SpainSpain Spain
Birthday: 15th November 1973
Size: 188 cm
Weight: 78 kg
1st professional season: 1994
Resignation: 2007
Playing hand: Right
Trainer: Marcos Aurelio Gorriz
Prize money: $ 2,972,441
singles
Career record: 142: 198
Career title: 1
Highest ranking: 19 (October 1, 2001)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 2R (2000, 2002)
French Open 3R (1997, 2000, 2002)
Wimbledon 3R (2000)
US Open 3R (2001)
Double
Career record: 73: 109
Career title: 1
Highest ranking: 56 (April 14, 2003)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open VF (2003)
French Open 2R (2001, 2002, 2006)
Wimbledon 1R (2000, 2001, 2003, 2006)
US Open 1R (1999-2003)
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open -
French Open -
Wimbledon 1R (2001)
US Open -
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Albert Portas (born November 15, 1973 in Barcelona ) is a former Spanish tennis player .

Career

He turned pro in 1994 and won his first doubles title in 2000 at the Umag tournament , where he would achieve further good results in his career.

In 2001 the clay court specialist won the individual title of the German Open in Hamburg . In the final, he defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero in five sets and thus achieved an improvement to 19th place, his best world ranking position .

In his later career he also took part in various Challenger tournaments and played in the German Bundesliga .

After his playing career, he was Daniela Hantuchová's coach from November 2008 to February 2009 .

successes

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup /
Grand Slam Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series

singles

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. May 14, 2001 GermanyGermany Hamburg sand SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero 4: 6, 6: 2, 0: 6, 7: 6 5 , 7: 5

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. April 20, 1997 SpainSpain Barcelona sand SpainSpain Albert Costa 5: 7, 4: 6, 4: 6
2. August 16, 1999 San MarinoSan Marino San Marino sand SpainSpain Galo Blanco 6: 4, 4: 6, 4: 6
3. July 30, 2001 PolandPoland Sopot sand SpainSpain Tommy Robredo 6: 1, 6: 7, 5: 7

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. July 17, 2000 CroatiaCroatia Umag sand SpainSpain Álex López Morón CroatiaCroatia Ivan Ljubičić Lovro Zovko
CroatiaCroatia 		6: 1, 7: 6

Final participation

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. November 4, 1996 ChileChile Santiago de Chile sand RomaniaRomania Dinu Pescariu BrazilBrazil Gustavo Kuerten Fernando Meligeni
BrazilBrazil 		4: 6, 2: 6
2. July 15, 2002 CroatiaCroatia Umag sand SpainSpain Fernando Vicente Czech RepublicCzech Republic František Čermák Julian Knowle
AustriaAustria 		4: 6, 4: 6
3. July 24, 2006 CroatiaCroatia Umag sand SpainSpain Guillermo García-López Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jaroslav Levinský David Škoch
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 		4: 6, 4: 6

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Portas, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 15th November 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain