Francisco Montana

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Francisco Montana Tennis player
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: 5th November 1969
Size: 183 cm
Weight: 74 kg
1st professional season: 1990
Resignation: Time unknown
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 1,248,094
singles
Career record: 17:37
Career title: 0
Highest ranking: 100 (May 4 1992)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 187: 173
Career title: 10
Highest ranking: 13 (June 8 1998)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Francisco Montana (born November 5, 1969 in Miami , Florida ) is a retired American tennis player .

Life

Montana, whose father owned a tennis club in Miami, began playing tennis at an early age. As a junior player, he won numerous national championships and reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon junior tournament in 1987. He studied at the University of Georgia and was named in the 1989 All-American selection. The following year he became a professional tennis player. In the individual he did not achieve any major successes, his best results include the finals at the ATP Challenger tournaments in Segovia in 1991 and San Luis Potosí in 1992.

He was significantly more successful in the men's doubles. He has won eleven titles on the ATP Challenger Tour, eight wins on the ATP World Tour and two Masters titles . He was also in seven finals, including the 1997 ATP Championship Series tournament in Stuttgart . In 1997 and 1998 he was able to qualify for the ATP World Championship with his partner Donald Johnson . Here they reached the semi-finals in 1998, in which they were defeated by Paul Haarhuis and Jacco Eltingh . In the course of his career he mostly appeared alongside Donald Johnson, but also played alongside David Wheaton , Jim Pugh and Marc-Kevin Goellner, among others . He reached his highest ranking in the tennis world rankings in 1992 with position 100 in singles and in 1998 with position 13 in doubles.

Montana competed in all four Grand Slam tournaments in singles , but could never reach the second round. In the doubles competition, he reached the quarter-finals of the French Open twice . In mixed he stood next to Kristine Kunce in the semi-finals of the French Open in 1998 , but they were subject to Justin Gimelstob and Venus Williams .

Tournament victories

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series (2)
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series (8)

Double

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Bottom line
1. 1992 United StatesUnited States long Island Hard court United StatesUnited States Greg Van Emburgh ItalyItaly Gianluca Pozzi Olli Rahnasto
FinlandFinland 
6: 4, 6: 2
2. 1994 MexicoMexico Mexico city sand United StatesUnited States Bryan Shelton United StatesUnited States Luke Jensen Murphy Jensen
United StatesUnited States 
6: 3, 6: 4
3. 1995 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel sand United StatesUnited States Greg Van Emburgh SpainSpain Jordi Arrese Wayne Arthurs
AustraliaAustralia 
6: 7, 6: 3, 7: 6
4th 1996 MexicoMexico Acapulco sand United StatesUnited States Donald Johnson Venezuela 1954Venezuela Nicolas Pereira Emilio Sánchez
SpainSpain 
6: 2, 6: 4
5. 1996 NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam sand United StatesUnited States Donald Johnson SwedenSweden Rikard Bergh Jack Waite
United StatesUnited States 
6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 2
6th 1997 MonacoMonaco Monte Carlo sand United StatesUnited States Donald Johnson NetherlandsNetherlands Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis
NetherlandsNetherlands 
7: 6, 2: 6, 7: 6
7th 1998 FranceFrance Marseille Hard court United StatesUnited States Donald Johnson United StatesUnited States Mark Keil T.J. Middleton
United StatesUnited States 
6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3
8th. 1998 PortugalPortugal Estoril sand United StatesUnited States Donald Johnson MexicoMexico David Roditi Fernon Wibier
NetherlandsNetherlands 
6: 1, 2: 6, 6: 1
9. 1998 GermanyGermany Hamburg sand United StatesUnited States Donald Johnson South AfricaSouth Africa David Adams Brett Steven
New ZealandNew Zealand 
6: 4, 6: 4
10. 1998 ItalyItaly Palermo sand United StatesUnited States Donald Johnson ArgentinaArgentina Pablo Albano Daniel Orsanic
ArgentinaArgentina 
6: 4, 7: 6

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