JC Aragone
JC Aragone | |||||||||||||
Nation: | United States | ||||||||||||
Birthday: | June 28, 1995 | ||||||||||||
Size: | 178 cm | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 79 kg | ||||||||||||
1st professional season: | 2017 | ||||||||||||
Playing hand: | Right, two-handed backhand | ||||||||||||
Trainer: | Franco Davin | ||||||||||||
Prize money: | $ 198,999 | ||||||||||||
singles | |||||||||||||
Career record: | 0: 3 | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 224 (December 17, 2018) | ||||||||||||
Current placement: | 258 | ||||||||||||
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Career record: | 0-0 | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 172 (July 15, 2019) | ||||||||||||
Current placement: | 172 | ||||||||||||
Last update of the infobox: July 15, 2019 |
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Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) |
JC Aragone (full name: Juan Cruz Aragone ; born June 28, 1995 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is an American tennis player .
Career
Beginnings and Junior Tour
Aragone, whose father Facundo comes from Argentina, started playing tennis at the age of five, something his father, himself a tennis professional, encouraged him to do.
He played a few tournaments on the Junior Tour. For the US Open in 2011 and 2013, he received wildcards for single and double competitions, but could only win one match there. In April 2013, he achieved his best placement in the junior world ranking with 149th place.
Illness and Studies (2012-2016)
At the beginning of 2012, when Aragone wanted to go to tournaments in South America, he fell seriously ill. He had to be taken to the hospital, where he was transferred directly to the intensive care unit and was in a coma for three weeks. There was a liver and kidney failure diagnosed. Months later, he still couldn't play tennis. Eventually he was diagnosed with diabetes . In all his matches he has to play with a device glued around his stomach that vibrates in the event of hypoglycemia .
On the professional tour, he was only able to play again at the end of 2013 after two matches on the ITF Future Tour 2011. Between 2013 and 2015 he played only a few tournaments with little success, as he began studying government at the University of Virginia in mid-2013 . In college tennis , he had a score of 109: 22 and won the NCAA Division I Tennis Championships three times with the men's team from 2015 to 2017 .
First successes on the professional tour (from 2016)
In 2016 he successfully qualified for a Challenger tournament in Charlottesville , where he lost to Liam Broady . By that year the American had already buried his dream of becoming a professional tennis player and was working as an intern at JPMorgan Chase while studying to prepare for a career in finance. Then he tried his hand at tennis and was able to reach two future finals by mid-2017 and a few more Challenger main fields (including the round of 16 in Gatineau and Winnetka ), so that after some players had canceled, he entered the field to qualify for the 2017 US Open slipped. There he won as world number 534. one after the other with Marco Cecchinato , Riccardo Bellotti and Akira Santillan against three much higher placed opponents and thus reached the main field . Here he lost against Kevin Anderson clearly in three sets. In the world rankings , he was able to improve to 426th place by the end of the season, his highest ranking so far.
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 (2) |
Double
Tournament victories
No. | date | competition | Topping | partner | Final opponent | Result |
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1. | 2nd March 2019 | Indian Wells | Hard court | Marcos Giron |
Darian King Hunter Reese |
6: 4, 6: 4 |
2. | 13th July 2019 | Winnetka | Hard court | Bradley Klahn |
Christopher Eubanks Thai-Son Kwiatkowski |
7: 5, 6: 4 |
Web links
- ATP profile of JC Aragone (English)
- ITF profile JC Aragone (English)
- ITF junior profile JC Aragone (English)
- College profile (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The secret star of the US Open: JC Aragone was still in a coma five years ago. In: bluewin.ch. August 30, 2017, archived from the original on January 25, 2018 ; accessed on January 24, 2018 .
- ^ Scott Cacciola: JC Aragone Tried Tennis Again, and Landed in the US Open. In: nytimes.com. August 28, 2017, accessed January 24, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Aragone, JC |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Juan Cruz Aragone (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1995 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires , Argentina |