Cristóbal Saavedra Corvalán

Cristóbal Saavedra Corvalán
Nation:	Chile
Birthday:	August 1, 1990
1st professional season:	2007
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 136,667
singles
Career record:	0: 2
Highest ranking:	284 (November 21, 2011)
Double
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	230 (October 24, 2011)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Cristóbal Saavedra Corvalán (born August 1, 1990 in Viña del Mar ) is a former Chilean tennis player .

Career

Cristóbal Saavedra Corvalán already played tennis on the ITF Junior Tour, where he achieved his best position in the junior ranking list in early 2008 with 20th place.

From 2007 he played his first tournaments on the third-class ITF Future Tour , on which he was exclusively in South America for the first few years. In 2008 and 2009 he won his first future title in doubles. His first win on the higher endowed ATP Challenger Tour was in Santiago de Chile against Sebastián Decoud . A month later in November 2009, the Chilean was able to win five matches in a row at the Challenger in Lima and reach the semi-finals - his best result of his career. In doubles, he was also in the final of the doubles with his compatriot Guillermo Rivera Aránguiz . He ended the year within the top 450 of the world rankings . In 2010 Saavedra Corvalán got a wildcard for the main draw in singles for his home tournament in Santiago , making his debut on the ATP Tour . To his compatriot Paul Capdeville he lost in three sets at the beginning. In the middle of the year he was appointed to the Chilean Davis Cup team for the only time so far . He lost his match against Ivo Minář from the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals of the world group. During the rest of the year he mainly played futures, of which he won the first two in singles. Nevertheless, he lost about 100 places in the world rankings compared to last year. In 2011 he won three titles, but still did not make the permanent jump to the Challenger Tour. In doubles he was in a Challenger final with Rivera Aránguiz in Santiago , where he lost again. In singles with 284th place and in doubles with 230th place, he was ranked highest in his career towards the end of 2011.

In the following years from 2012 to 2015, Saavedra Corvalán won one future title in singles per year, which meant he was between 300 and 450 places for most of the time and was only able to play Challengers very rarely. From 2015 he continued to lose ground and fell out of the top 600. In addition to his 9 futures in singles, he has consistently won tournaments in doubles, so that until 2016 he was mostly in the top 400 there. In addition to 30 titles in doubles, he reached a third time a Challenger final in Sibiu in 2012 on the side of Alexandru-Daniel Carpen, who was later banned from match-fixing. In 2017 Cristóbal Saavedra Corvalán was last in the world rankings. He won a total of 10 matches at Challengers and none since 2012. From April 2020 he will be eligible to play again.

Alleged match-fixing

Saavedra Corvalán was provisionally suspended from tournament operations by the Tennis Integrity Unit in October 2017 . In early 2019, the verdict was finally passed that the Chilean will remain on hold until April 2020 and will have to pay $ 8,000. The reasons for this were some suspicious games that indicated match-fixing and the lack of cooperation with the authorities.

Web links

• ATP profile Cristobal Saavedra Corvalan (English)
• ITF profile Cristobal Saavedra Corvalan (English)
• ITF junior profile Cristobal Saavedra Corvalan (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Cristobal Saavedra Corvalan (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jovica Ilic: ristobal Saavedra-Corvalan is suspended for two and a half years. In: tennisworldusa.com. January 10, 2019, accessed July 8, 2019 . 
2. ^ Cristobal Saavedra-Corvalan banned for more than 2 years. In: espn.com. January 8, 2019, accessed July 8, 2019 .