Daniel Orsanic

Daniel Orsanic
Nation:	Argentina
Birthday:	June 11, 1969
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	75 kg
1st professional season:	1989
Playing hand:	Left
Prize money:	$ 1,000,200
singles
Career record:	14:31
Career title:	0
Highest ranking:	107 (November 15 1993)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	145: 170
Career title:	8th
Highest ranking:	24 (May 11 1998)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Daniel Orsanic (born June 11, 1969 in Buenos Aires ) is a retired Argentinian tennis player and tennis coach.

Life

Orsanic became a professional tennis player in 1989. In the course of his career, he barely had any notable successes in singles, which is why he specialized in men's doubles. He celebrated his first double title in 1991 in San Luis Potosí at the ATP Challenger Tour tournament there . After another Challenger double title in 1992, he achieved his first victory at an ATP World Tour tournament in 1993 when he won alongside Olli Rahnasto in San Marino . In total, he was able to win eight ATP double titles in the course of his career, the outstanding one being the victory at the ATP International Series Gold tournament in Stuttgart . He also won ten doubles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour, five of them in 1997. He reached the highest ranking in the tennis world rankings in 1993 with position 107 in singles and in 1998 with position 24 in doubles.

In singles, he never made it past the first round in the Grand Slam tournaments. In the doubles competition he reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 1997 and 2000 . In 1997 he lost with Lucas Arnold Ker , in 2000 with Jaime Oncins against Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde respectively . In the mixed competition he was in the round of 16 at the Australian Open , the French Open and the US Open .

Orsanic played a doubles game in 1999 for the Argentine Davis Cup team . At the side of Lucas Arnold Ker he was defeated in the doubles Andrés Gómez and Nicolás Lapentti from Ecuador .

After his professional career, he worked as a trainer for Luis Horna , José Acasuso and Pablo Cuevas . In 2007 he was the team principal of the Argentine team at the World Team Cup , which won the event.

From 2014 to 2018 he was the captain of the Argentine Davis Cup team. In 2016, this team won the tournament for the first time in the country's history .

Tournament victories

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold (1)
ATP International Series (7)

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	1993	San Marino	sand	Olli Rahnasto	Juan Garat Roberto Saad	6: 4, 1: 6, 6: 3
2.	1994	Hilversum	sand	Jan Siemerink	David Adams Andrei Olchowski	6: 4, 6: 2
3.	1997	Mexico city	sand	Nicolás Lapentti	Luis-Enrique Herrera Mariano Sánchez	4: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6
4th	1998	Kitzbühel	sand	Tom Kempers	Joshua Eagle Mark Kratzmann	6: 3, 6: 4
5.	1998	Valencia	sand	Pablo Albano	Jiří Novák David Rikl	7: 6, 6: 3
6th	1999	Munich	sand	Mariano Puerta	Massimo Bertolini Cristian Brandi	7: 6, 3: 6, 7: 6
7th	1999	Stuttgart	sand	Jaime Oncins	Aleksandar Kitinov Jack Waite	6: 2, 6: 1
8th.	2001	Palermo	sand	Tomás Carbonell	Enzo Artoni Emilio Benfele Álvarez	6: 2, 2: 6, 6: 2

Web links

• ATP profile Daniel Orsanic (English)
• ITF profile of Daniel Orsanic (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Daniel Orsanic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La carta de despedida de Daniel Orsanic tras ser echado como capitán de Copa Davis: "Este final debió ser diferente" - TN.com.ar. July 31, 2018, accessed June 5, 2019 (Spanish).