Alberto Berasategui

Alberto Berasategui

Nation:

Spain

Birthday:

June 28, 1973

Size:

173 cm

Weight:

66 kg

1st professional season:

1991

Resignation:

2001

Playing hand:

Right

Trainer:

Francisco Roig

Prize money:

$ 4,676,187

singles

Career record:

278: 199

Career title:

14th

Highest ranking:

7 (November 14 1994)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	VF (1998)
French Open	F (1994)
Wimbledon	1R (2000)
US Open	2R (1993, 1996)

Double

Career record:

47:59

Career title:

1

Highest ranking:

55 (October 6 1997)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	1R (1998, 2000)
French Open	1R (1999)
Wimbledon	-
US Open	AF (1997)

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Alberto Berasategui (born June 28, 1973 in Bilbao ) is a former Spanish tennis player .

He started tennis at the age of seven and became European junior champion in 1991. In the same year he became a professional tennis player and won his first individual title two years later in São Paulo . In the early 1990s he was able to establish himself as a clay court player among the world's best.

1994 was his best year as a tennis player. He reached nine finals and was able to win seven of them. In the only Grand Slam final of his career, the final of the French Open , he faced compatriot Sergi Bruguera and lost in four sets. His highest ranking in the world rankings was 7th in November 1994.

In his career he was able to win fourteen single titles and one double title. He won his last title in Estoril in 1998 .

Berasategui's trademark was his unconventional forehand, which he played with the same grip as the backhand.

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personal data
SURNAME	Berasategui, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	spanish tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bilbao , Spain