Fernando Verdasco

Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco at the US Open in 2016
Nation:	Spain
Birthday:	November 15, 1983
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	87 kg
1st professional season:	2001
Playing hand:	Left, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Ignacio Truyol
Prize money:	$ 15,171,205
singles
Career record:	500: 373
Career title:	7th
Highest ranking:	7 (April 20, 2009)
Current placement:	35
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	195: 185
Career title:	8th
Highest ranking:	8 (November 11, 2013)
Current placement:	45
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: May 28, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Fernando Verdasco Carmona (born November 15, 1983 in Madrid ) is a Spanish tennis player .

Tennis career

The beginnings

Verdasco started playing tennis at the age of four. With his father José, who runs a restaurant in Madrid with his mother Olga, he played on the in-house hard courts. At the age of eight he already had a full-time coach available to train. At the age of 15 he earned his first ATP world ranking point and at 17 he became a professional.

2004 to 2008

Verdasco reached his first ATP final in Acapulco in 2004 , in which he lost 3: 6, 0: 6 to his compatriot Carlos Moyá . In the same year he won his first double title on the tour. With Feliciano López he defeated the Australians Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley 6: 4, 6: 4 in the Stockholm final . His first individual title followed in October 2004 when he won the final of the Valencia Open against his compatriot Albert Montañés 7: 6, 6: 3.

In 2005 he was in his third ATP final at the Generali Open , in which he lost out to Gastón Gaudio 6: 2, 2: 6, 4: 6, 4: 6. In 2006 he reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon , which he lost to Radek Štěpánek in five sets. At the French Open 2007 he was also defeated by Novak Đoković in the second round. In 2008 he won his second ATP title at the Croatia Open ; he prevailed in the final against Igor Andrejew with 3: 6, 6: 4 and 7: 6.

2009 season

At his first ATP tournament in Brisbane in the new year , Verdasco reached the final again, but failed again at Štěpánek 6: 3, 3: 6, 4: 6.

In the semifinals of the Australian Open in 2009 there was a clash with Rafael Nadal . The encounter, which Nadal won 7: 6, 4: 6, 6: 7, 7: 6, 4: 6 after a double fault by Verdasco, was the second longest in tournament history at 5:14 hours. At the same time, Verdasco's participation in the semi-finals was his best result in a Grand Slam tournament . With this, he moved up to the top ten in the world rankings for the first time with position 9 . At the US Open , he reached the quarter-finals, in which he was defeated by fourth place in the world Đoković in four sets.

2010 season

At the Australian Open, Verdasco lost to Nikolai Dawydenko in the round of 16 in a long five-set match . At his next tournament in San José he secured his fourth individual title by defeating top seeded Andy Roddick in the final 3: 6, 6: 4 and 6: 4. The European clay court season also got off to a positive start for him when he reached the final of a Masters tournament in Monte Carlo for the first time , in which defending champion Nadal clearly showed him the limits at 6-0 and 6-1. At the next tournament in Barcelona Verdasco won his second title of the season when he defeated Robin Söderling in the final 6: 3, 4: 6 and 6: 3.

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successes

Legend (victories in brackets) Grand Slam Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals (1) ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 (4) ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 (10) ATP Challenger Tour (1)

Title after covering Hard Court (5) Sand (10) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 12, 2004	Valencia	sand	Albert Montañés	7: 6 5 , 6: 3
2.	July 20, 2008	Umag	sand	Igor Andreyev	3: 6, 6: 4, 7: 6 4
3.	August 29, 2009	New Haven	Hard court	Sam Querrey	6: 4, 7: 6 6
4th	February 14, 2010	San Jose	Hard court (i)	Andy Roddick	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
5.	April 25, 2010	Barcelona	sand	Robin Soderling	6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 3
6th	April 13, 2014	Houston	sand	Nicolás Almagro	6: 3, 7: 6 4
7th	April 25, 2016	Bucharest	sand	Lucas Pouille	6: 3, 6: 2

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 7, 2004	Acapulco (1)	sand	Carlos Moyá	3: 6, 0: 6
2.	July 30, 2005	Kitzbühel	sand	Gastón Gaudio	6: 2, 2: 6, 4: 6, 4: 6
3.	October 27, 2007	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Andy Murray	2: 6, 3: 6
4th	June 22, 2008	Nottingham	race	Ivo Karlović	5: 7, 7: 6 4 , 6: 7 8
5.	January 5, 2009	Brisbane	Hard court	Radek Štěpánek	6: 3, 3: 6, 4: 6
6th	4th October 2009	Kuala Lumpur	Hard court (i)	Nikolai Davydenko	4: 6, 5: 7
7th	April 18, 2010	Monte Carlo	sand	Rafael Nadal	0: 6, 1: 6
8th.	May 22, 2010	Nice	sand	Richard Gasquet	3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 7 5
9.	February 13, 2011	San Jose	Hard court (i)	Milos Raonic	6: 7 6 , 6: 7 5
10	May 1, 2011	Estoril	sand	Juan Martín del Potro	2: 6, 2: 6
11.	July 31, 2011	Gstaad	sand	Marcel Granollers	4: 6, 6: 3, 3: 6
12.	March 3, 2012	Acapulco (2)	sand	David Ferrer	1: 6, 2: 6
13.	July 14, 2013	Båstad (1)	sand	Carlos Berlocq	5: 7, 1: 6
14th	17th July 2016	Båstad (2)	sand	Albert Ramos	3: 6, 4: 6
15th	4th March 2017	Dubai	Hard court	Andy Murray	3: 6, 2: 6
16.	February 25, 2018	Rio de Janeiro	sand	Diego Schwartzman	2: 6, 3: 6

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 5, 2007	Segovia	Hard court	Alun Jones	6: 2, 6: 4

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 1, 2004	Stockholm	Hard court (i)	Feliciano López	Wayne Arthurs Paul Hanley	6: 4, 6: 4
2.	February 26, 2012	Buenos Aires	sand	David Marrero	Michal Mertiňák André Sá	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	March 3, 2012	Acapulco	sand	David Marrero	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6: 3, 6: 4
4th	July 14, 2012	Umag	sand	David Marrero	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6: 3, 7: 6 4
5.	July 22, 2012	Hamburg	sand	David Marrero	Rogério Dutra da Silva Daniel Muñoz de La Nava	6: 4, 6: 3
6th	22nd September 2013	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	David Marrero	Dominic Inglot Denis Istomin	7: 6 6 , 6: 3
7th	11th. November.2013	London	Hard court (i)	David Marrero	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7: 5, 6: 7 3 , [10: 7]
8th.	February 25, 2018	Rio de Janeiro	sand	David Marrero	Nikola Mektić Alexander Peya	5: 7, 7: 5, [10: 8]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 22, 2007	Stuttgart	sand	Guillermo García-López	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	4: 6, 4: 6
2.	January 10, 2009	Brisbane	Hard court	Mischa Zverev	Marc Gicquel Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	4: 6, 3: 6
3.	October 28, 2012	Valencia	Hard court (i)	David Marrero	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	3: 6, 2: 6
4th	April 12, 2014	Houston	sand	David Marrero	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 4, 4: 6, [9:11]

Grand Slam record

singles

Tournament 1	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	total
Australian Open	2R	1R	2R	3R	2R	3R	1R	AF	AF	HF	2R	2R	2R	2R	1R	-	-	-	-	HF
French Open	AF	AF	3R	2R	AF	2R	3R	3R	AF	AF	AF	AF	2R	1R	2R	-	-	-	-	AF
Wimbledon	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	VF	3R	2R	1R	AF	AF	3R	AF	2R	2R	1R	-	-	-	VF
US Open	3R	2R	1R	2R	2R	1R	3R	3R	VF	VF	3R	3R	3R	AF	2R	3R	-	-	-	VF
Individual titles won	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	7th
Overall wins / defeats 2	6: 4	29:25	29:26	24:26	26:20	29:23	32:22	36:24	43:22	52:25	47:27	34:28	32:26	35:28	31:25	7:12	1: 2	0-0	0-0	492: 364
Year-end position	(35)	35	42	49	33	30th	24	24	9	9	16	26th	35	33	36	107	173	462	1334	N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1R, 2R, 3R = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round or Q1, Q2, Q3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd qualifying round

¹ tournament result in brackets means that the player has not yet finished the tournament; it shows its current tournament status. After the player finishes the tournament, the bracket is removed.
² As of the end of the 2017 season

Web links

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• ATP profile of Fernando Verdasco (English)
• ITF profile Fernando Verdasco (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Fernando Verdasco (English)