Guillermo Vilas

Guillermo Vilas

Nation:

Argentina

Birthday:

17th August 1952

Size:

180 cm

Resignation:

1989

Playing hand:

Left, one-handed backhand

Prize money:

$ 4,923,882

singles

Career record:

951: 297

Career title:

62

Highest ranking:

2 (April 30 1975)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 4

Australian Open	S (1978, 1979)
French Open	S (1977)
Wimbledon	VF (1975, 1976)
US Open	S (1977)

Double

Career record:

217: 149

Career title:

16

Highest ranking:

13 (May 21 1979)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	AF (1977)
French Open	HF (1975)
Wimbledon	AF (1976)
US Open	VF (1975)

Mixed

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	-
French Open	1R (1973)
Wimbledon	2R (1972, 1974)
US Open	-

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

Guillermo Vilas (born August 17, 1952 in Buenos Aires ) is a retired Argentinian tennis player .

life and career

The son of a lawyer, who grew up in Mar del Plata , Argentina and now lives in Monte Carlo , won his first Grand Prix tournament in Buenos Aires in 1973 . He won a total of 62 titles, including two wins at the Australian Open and one each at the French Open and the US Open ; another four times he was in the final of a Grand Slam tournament . In 1977 Vilas remained undefeated in 46 games in a row, this record still holds today. The winning streak ended in the finals of the Aix-en-Provence tournament when Vilas gave up against Ilie Năstase . Nastase went to the final with the so-called spaghetti cover, which was banned immediately after this tournament. Then Vilas won another 30 games in a row. That year he won 16 tournaments, which is also a record. Another record series of the Argentine of 53 victories in a row was broken by Rafael Nadal in 2006 at the French Open in Roland Garros. Vilas won 681 matches on ashes in his career; he is still the player with the most wins on this underground. At the French Open Vilas, who was also successful as a book author and musician, announced his departure from professional tennis in 1989 after a first round defeat against Claudio Pistolesi in Paris (Roland Garros).

In 1991, Vilas was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame . He is one of the twelve players who have played more than a thousand matches on the ATP Tour . Behind Jimmy Connors (1557 matches), Roger Federer (1513) and Ivan Lendl (1310), Vilas (1248) is in fourth place in this statistic; in terms of the number of wins he is fifth with 951 successes behind Connors (1274) , Federer (1242), Lendl (1068) and Nadal (990). And Vilas, with 104 finals reached, is one of seven players who have reached more than 100 finals. In 2005 the American Tennis Magazine included him in the "list of the 40 best players" of the Open Era . On the occasion of the Davis Cup final between Argentina and Spain in Mar del Plata in November 2008, which Spain won 3-1 without the then world number one Nadal, Guillermo Vilas received the Davis Cup Award of Excellence from the ITF .

Vilas was named Argentina's Sportsman of the Year ( Olimpia de Oro ) in 1974, 1975 and 1977 .

Greatest successes

1974 Masters
1977 French Open, US Open
1978 Australian Open
1979 Australian Open

From 1970 to 1973 and between 1975 and 1984 Vilas played 81 games in the Davis Cup , of which he won 57 (individual balance: 45:10).

Web links

Commons : Guillermo Vilas - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Olimpias de oro www.cpd.com.ar. Retrieved September 4, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Vilas, Guillermo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	argentinian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	17th August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buenos Aires , Argentina

[1] Olimpias de oro www.cpd.com.ar. Retrieved September 4, 2019.