Alejandro Falla

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Alejandro Falla Tennis player
Alejandro Falla
Alejandro Falla 2015 at Wimbledon
Nation: ColombiaColombia Colombia
Birthday: November 14, 1983
Size: 185 cm
Weight: 77 kg
1st professional season: 2000
Resignation: 2018
Playing hand: Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer: José de Armas
Prize money: $ 3,101,331
singles
Career record: 114: 169
Highest ranking: 48 (July 16, 2012)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 3R (2010, 2012)
French Open AF (2011)
Wimbledon 3R (2012)
US Open 2R (2006, 2011)
Double
Career record: 17:41
Highest ranking: 130 (August 3, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (2010, 2012, 2013)
French Open 2R (2014)
Wimbledon 1R (2010, 2014)
US Open 1R (2010, 2014)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Alejandro Falla (born November 14, 1983 in Cali ) is a former Colombian tennis player .

Career

In the first years of his tennis career, Falla played various future tournaments and was also used for the Colombian Davis Cup team . On January 13, 2003, the left-hander won his first junior tournament in San Salvador . In the same year two more senior future victories followed at tournaments in his home country. On March 8, 2004 Falla won his first tournament as part of the Challenger Tour in Bogotá . Three weeks later he was victorious again at the tournament in Salinas when he defeated Gilles Müller from Luxembourg . In April 2006, his third and, until 2009, last Challenger title followed, again in Bogotá.

As part of the ATP Tour, Falla played for the first time at the French Open , where he won in the first round against the Dane Kristian Pless , but lost in four sets to David Nalbandian from Argentina in the round of 64 . At the Masters tournament in Miami in 2007 Alejandro Falla made it into the last 32 players after he had beaten Donald Young , Chris Guccione , Sergio Roitman and Tommy Haas , but was eliminated by Radek Štěpánek . In Lyon 2007, the Colombian reached a semi-final at an ATP tournament for the first time. Here he was defeated by the French Marc Gicquel in three sets and thus made it into the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time . In 2009 Falla won the tournaments in Pereira , Cali and Rennes on the Challenger Tour . With Alejandro González he also secured the title in doubles in Bogotá . In 2008 he had already won the doubles tournaments in Cali , Bogotá and Medellín at Challenger level with Juan Sebastián Cabal .

On June 21, 2010, Falla almost created a surprise at Wimbledon . In the first round Falla led against the six-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer with 2-0 sets and even served to win the match in the fourth set, but ultimately lost 7: 5, 6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 7 (1 : 7) and 0: 6. The following year he was with Xavier Malisse in San José for the first time in a final on the World Tour. The two were defeated by Scott Lipsky and Rajeev Ram with 8:10 in the match tie-break. In September 2011 he won again the individual competition of the Challenger tournament in Cali . In the 2012 season he won titles in Barranquilla and for the third time in Bogotá . On July 16, 2012, with rank 48, he also achieved his best career value in the individual ranking of the world rankings. At the Olympic Games in London in July , Falla was eliminated in singles after losing to Roger Federer in the first round. In 2013 he finally reached his first individual finals on the World Tour. In Bogotá he won four unseeded games and met in the game for the tournament victory on Ivo Karlović , to whom he had to admit defeat in two sets. At the start of the 2014 season , he immediately secured his Challenger titles ten and eleven in singles in Nouméa and Bucaramanga . Falla reached his second individual final on the World Tour in Halle in the middle of the year . However, he was defeated twice in the tie-break against Roger Federer. Alejandro Falla's last title wins came in the 2016 season on the Challenger Tour. With Eduardo Struvay he won the tournaments in Barranquilla and Medellín .

Falla announced his resignation in 2018. In the Davis Cup he played a total of 27 matches in the course of his career from 2001 to 2017, in which he won 22 of his 32 singles and 9 of his 16 doubles games.

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP Masters Series
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP International Series Gold
ATP World Tour 500 Series
ATP International Series
ATP World Tour 250 Series
ATP Challenger Tour (17)

singles

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. March 14, 2004 ColombiaColombia Bogota (1) sand ChileChile Adrian García 4: 6, 6: 1, 6: 2
2. April 4, 2004 EcuadorEcuador Salinas Hard court LuxembourgLuxembourg Gilles Muller 6: 7 5 , 6: 2, 6: 2
3. April 30, 2006 ColombiaColombiaBogota (2) sand BrazilBrazil André Sá 6: 4, 6: 2
4th May 3, 2009 ColombiaColombia Pereira sand ArgentinaArgentina Horacio Zeballos 6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2
5. September 20, 2009 ColombiaColombia Cali (1) sand ArgentinaArgentina Horacio Zeballos 6: 3, 6: 4
6th October 18, 2009 FranceFrance Rennes carpet FranceFrance Thierry Ascione 6: 3, 6: 2
7th September 25, 2011 ColombiaColombiaCali (2) sand ArgentinaArgentina Eduardo Schwank 6: 4, 6: 3
8th. April 1, 2012 ColombiaColombia Barranquilla sand ArgentinaArgentina Horacio Zeballos 6: 4, 6: 1
9. July 15, 2012 ColombiaColombiaBogota (3) sand ColombiaColombia Santiago Giraldo 7: 5, 6: 3
10. 4th January 2014 FranceFrance Nouméa Hard court CanadaCanada Steven Diez 6: 2, 6: 2
11. January 26, 2014 ColombiaColombia Bucaramanga sand ItalyItaly Paolo Lorenzi 7: 5, 6: 1

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. July 21, 2013 ColombiaColombia Bogotá Hard court CroatiaCroatia Ivo Karlović 3: 6, 6: 7 4
2. 15th June 2014 GermanyGermany Hall race SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer 6: 7 2 , 6: 7 3

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. September 21, 2008 ColombiaColombia Cali sand ColombiaColombia Juan Sebastian Cabal ArgentinaArgentina Brian Dabul Horacio Zeballos
ArgentinaArgentina  		7: 6 6 , 6: 3
2. September 28, 2008 ColombiaColombia Bogota (1) sand ColombiaColombia Juan Sebastian Cabal ArgentinaArgentina Alejandro Fabbri Horacio Zeballos
ArgentinaArgentina		 3: 6, 7: 6 7 , [10: 8]
3. November 16, 2008 ColombiaColombia Medellin (1) sand ColombiaColombia Juan Sebastian Cabal ArgentinaArgentina Juan-Pablo Amado Víctor Estrella
Dominican RepublicDominican Republic  		3: 4 task
4th September 27, 2009 ColombiaColombiaBogota (2) sand ColombiaColombia Alejandro González ArgentinaArgentina Diego Álvarez Sebastián Decoud
ArgentinaArgentina  		5: 7, 6: 4, [10: 8]
5. September 10, 2016 ColombiaColombia Barranquilla sand ColombiaColombia Eduardo Struvay EcuadorEcuador Gonzalo Escobar Roberto Quiroz
EcuadorEcuador  		6: 4, 7: 5
6th October 1, 2016 ColombiaColombiaMedellin (2) sand ColombiaColombia Eduardo Struvay BrazilBrazil André Ghem Juan Lizariturry
SpainSpain  		6: 3, 6: 2

Final participation

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. February 13, 2011 United StatesUnited States San Jose Hard court (hall) BelgiumBelgium Xavier Malisse United StatesUnited States Scott Lipsky Rajeev Ram
United StatesUnited States  		4: 6, 6: 4, [8:10]

Web links

Commons : Alejandro Falla  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Federer-Schreck Alejandro Falla says goodbye. In: spox.com. January 31, 2018, accessed February 12, 2018 .
  2. ^ Former Illinois Wins ATP World Tour Doubles Title. In: fightingillini.com. University of Illinois , February 14, 2011, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The comeback of the year? Karlovic's triumph in Bogota. In: tennisnet.com. July 22, 2013, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Federer wins in Halle. In: dw.com. Deutsche Welle , June 15, 2014, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Falla, Alejandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Cali , Colombia