Franco Ferreiro

Franco Ferreiro

Franco Ferreiro 2009

Nation:

Brazil

Birthday:

July 1, 1984

Size:

188 cm

Weight:

82 kg

1st professional season:

2002

Resignation:

Time unknown

Playing hand:

Right

Trainer:

Rodrigo Ferreiro

Prize money:

$ 388,200

singles

Career record:

3: 5

Highest ranking:

136 (August 4, 2008)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	-
French Open	1R (2009)
Wimbledon	-
US Open	-

Double

Career record:

15:20

Highest ranking:

53 (February 28, 2011)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	1R (2011)
French Open	1R (2011)
Wimbledon	1R (2011)
US Open	2R (2011)

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Franco Ferreiro (born July 1, 1984 in Uruguaiana ) is a former Brazilian tennis player .

Career

Franco Ferreiro became a professional tennis player in 2002. From the beginning he played more and more in doubles, in the course of time he became a doubles specialist - he rarely plays in singles, at Grand Slam tournaments he was only able to qualify once ( Roland Garros 2009 ). He celebrated his first title at future level in Mexico in 2003 , and his first tournament win on the ATP Challenger Tour took place in Turin in 2005 . In 2010 Ferreiro increased his form noticeably and was able to win a total of eight titles on the Challenger Tour, five of them with his current regular partner André Sá .

The breakthrough came in the 2011 season on the ATP Tour : with his compatriot Sá he reached his first ATP final in Buenos Aires in February ; The two were subject to the duo Oliver Marach / Leonardo Mayer . After participating in the finals, Ferreiro reached his previous career high with 53rd place in the double tennis world rankings . In August 2011 he reached his second tour final in Kitzbühel , again at the side of André Sá; they were narrowly defeated by the Italian-Mexican duo Daniele Bracciali / Santiago González .

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP World Tour 250
ATP Challenger Tour (19)

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 24, 2005	Italy Turin	sand	Argentina Sergio Roitman	Italy Francesco Aldi Alessio di Mauro Italy	6: 7 ⁴ , 7: 5, 7: 6 ²
2.	September 25, 2006	Brazil Gramado	Hard court	Uruguay Martín Vilarrubí	Brazil Marcelo Melo André Sá Brazil	6: 2, 6: 4
3.	June 25, 2007	Italy Reggio nell'Emilia	sand	Algeria Lamine Ouahab	Uruguay Pablo Cuevas Horacio Zeballos Argentina	6: 4, 1: 6, [10: 4]
4th	June 14, 2008	Bulgaria Sofia	sand	Argentina Mariano Puerta	North Macedonia Lazar Magdinčev Predrag Rusevski North Macedonia	6: 3, 1: 6, [10: 3]
5.	September 29, 2008	Brazil Aracaju	sand	Argentina Juan-Martín Aranguren	Brazil Thiago Alves João Souza Brazil	6: 4, 6: 4
6th	October 13, 2008	Uruguay Montevideo	sand	Brazil Flávio Saretta	Spain Daniel Gimeno Traver Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Spain	6: 3, 6: 2
7th	October 26, 2009	Brazil Sao Paulo (1)	sand	Brazil Ricardo Mello	Argentina Diego Junqueira David Marrero Spain	6: 3, 6: 3
8th.	April 11, 2010	Colombia Bogotá	sand	Mexico Santiago González	Germany Dominik Meffert Philipp Oswald Austria	6: 3, 5: 7, [10: 7]
9.	April 12, 2010	Brazil Blumenau (1)	sand	Brazil André Sá	Brazil André Ghem Simone Vagnozzi Italy	6: 4, 6: 3
10.	5th July 2010	Netherlands Scheveningen	sand	India Harsh Mankad	Australia Rameez Junaid Philipp Marx Germany	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 7]
11.	August 2, 2010	Spain Segovia	Hard court	Brazil Thiago Alves	United States Brian Battistone Harsh Mankad India	6: 2, 5: 7, [10: 8]
12.	August 9, 2010	Brazil Brasília	Hard court	Brazil André Sá	Brazil Ricardo Mello Caio Zampieri Brazil	7: 6 ⁵ , 6: 3
13.	August 16, 2010	Brazil Salvador da Bahia	Hard court	Brazil André Sá	Belarus Uladsimir Ihnazik Martin Kližan Slovakia	6: 2, 6: 4
14th	September 26, 2010	Colombia Bogotá	sand	Brazil André Sá	Germany Gero Kretschmer Alexander Satschko Germany	7: 6 ⁶ , 6: 4
15th	October 30, 2010	BrazilSao Paulo (2)	sand	Brazil André Sá	Portugal Rui Machado Daniel Muñoz de La Nava Spain	3: 6, 7: 6 ² , [10: 8]
16.	January 9, 2011	Brazil São Paulo	Hard court	Brazil André Sá	Mexico Santiago González Horacio Zeballos Argentina	7: 5, 7: 6 ¹²
17th	April 11, 2011	BrazilBlumenau (2)	sand	Brazil André Sá	Spain Adrián Menéndez Leonardo Tavares Portugal	6: 2, 3: 6, [10: 4]
18th	April 18, 2011	Brazil Santos	sand	Brazil André Sá	Austria Gerald Melzer José Pereira Brazil	6: 3, 6: 3
19th	October 30, 2011	Brazil Sao Leopoldo	sand	Spain Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	Portugal Gastão Elias Frederico Gil Portugal	6: 7 ⁴ , 6: 3, [11: 9]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 20, 2011	Argentina Buenos Aires	sand	Brazil André Sá	Austria Oliver Marach Leonardo Mayer Argentina	6: 7 ⁶ , 3: 6
2.	August 6, 2011	Austria Kitzbühel	sand	Brazil André Sá	Italy Daniele Bracciali Santiago González Mexico	6: 7 ¹ , 6: 4, [9:11]

Web links

Commons : Franco Ferreiro - Collection of images, videos and audio files

ATP profile of Franco Ferreiro (English)
ITF profile Franco Ferreiro (English)
Davis Cup statistics Franco Ferreiro (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Ferreiro, Franco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	July 1, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Uruguaiana