Gastón Gaudio

Gastón Gaudio
Gastón Gaudio at the 2005 French Open
Nickname:	El gato
Nation:	Argentina
Birthday:	December 9, 1978
Size:	175 cm
Weight:	70 kg
1st professional season:	1996
Resignation:	2011
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Franco Davín
Prize money:	$ 6,066,156
singles
Career record:	270: 196
Career title:	8th
Highest ranking:	5 (April 25, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	26:39
Career title:	3
Highest ranking:	78 (June 14, 2004)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Gastón Norberto Gaudio (born December 9, 1978 in Buenos Aires ) is a retired Argentine tennis player . His nickname is El gato (Eng .: the cat ). Gaudio celebrated his greatest sporting success in 2004 when he won the individual title at the French Open .

Career

In the first all-Argentine final in the history of the French Open , he defeated Guillermo Coria 0: 6, 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1 and 8: 6. Along with Mats Wilander in 1982 and Gustavo Kuerten in 1997, he is one of three players who won the French Open as an unseeded player.

With this victory, Gaudio reached the top 10 of the ATP world rankings for the first time in his career .

In August 2011, Gastón Gaudio officially announced his retirement from professional tennis after having not played a match for a year.

successes

Legend

Grand Slam (1)

Tennis Masters Cup (0)

ATP Masters Series (0)

International Series Gold (3)

International Series (7)

ATP Challenger Tour (7)

singles

Victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Final result
1.	April 22, 2002	Barcelona	sand	Albert Costa	6: 4, 6: 0, 6: 2
2.	April 29, 2002	Mallorca	sand	Jarkko Nieminen	6: 2, 6: 3
3.	May 24, 2004	French Open	sand	Guillermo Coria	0: 6, 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1, 8: 6
4th	January 31, 2005	Viña del Mar	sand	Fernando González	6: 3, 6: 4
5.	February 7, 2005	Buenos Aires	sand	Mariano Puerta	6: 4, 6: 4
6th	May 1, 2005	Estoril	sand	Tommy Robredo	6: 1, 2: 6, 6: 1
7th	4th July 2005	Gstaad	sand	Stanislas Wawrinka	6: 4, 6: 4
8th.	July 31, 2005	Kitzbühel	sand	Fernando Verdasco	2: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4, 6: 4

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 6, 1998	Santa Cruz	sand	Luis Morejón	6: 2, 6: 3
2.	December 13, 1998	Santiago de Chile	sand	Karim Alami	6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 4
3.	April 18, 1999	Nice	sand	Jacobo Díaz	6: 2, 6: 3
4th	May 2, 1999	Espinho	sand	Markus Hipfl	6: 4, 6: 1
5.	June 25, 2000	Braunschweig	sand	Franco Squillari	6: 4, 6: 7 2 , 6: 4
6th	May 3, 2009	Tunis	sand	Frederico Gil	6: 2, 1: 6, 6: 3
7th	May 10, 2010	Sanremo	sand	Martín Vassallo Argüello	7: 5, 6: 0

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Final result
1.	July 23, 2000	Stuttgart	sand	Franco Squillari	2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4, 4: 6, 2: 6
2.	February 12, 2001	Viña del Mar	sand	Guillermo Coria	6: 4, 2: 6, 5: 7
3.	July 15, 2002	Gstaad	sand	Alex Corretja	3: 6, 6: 7 3 , 6: 7 3
4th	July 5, 2004	Båstad	sand	Mariano Zabaleta	1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 7
5.	July 12, 2004	Stuttgart	sand	Guillermo Cañas	7: 5, 2: 6, 0: 6, 6: 1, 3: 6
6th	July 25, 2004	Kitzbühel	sand	Nicolás Massú	6: 7 3 , 4: 6
7th	July 24, 2005	Stuttgart	sand	Rafael Nadal	3: 6, 3: 6, 4: 6

Double

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Final result
1.	February 16, 2004	Viña del Mar	sand	Juan Ignacio Chela	Nicolás Lapentti Martín Rodríguez	7: 6, 7: 6
2.	April 19, 2004	Estoril	sand	Juan Ignacio Chela	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	6: 2, 6: 1
3.	July 24, 2006	Stuttgart	sand	Max Mirny	Yves Allegro Robert Lindstedt	7: 5, 6: 7, [12:10]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Delpo no lo conocía”. In: ole.com. August 30, 2011, accessed March 27, 2019 (Spanish). 

Web links

Commons : Gastón Gaudio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Gastón Gaudio (English)
• ITF profile of Gastón Gaudio (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Gastón Gaudio (English)