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
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	172 (July 15, 2019)
Current placement:	172
Last update of the infobox: July 15, 2019
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
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

1. ↑ 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 . 
2. ^ Scott Cacciola: JC Aragone Tried Tennis Again, and Landed in the US Open. In: nytimes.com. August 28, 2017, accessed January 24, 2018 .