Jaime Yzaga
Jaime Yzaga 
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| Birthday: | October 23, 1967 | ||||||||||||
| Size: | 170 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight: | 68 kg | ||||||||||||
| 1st professional season: | 1985 | ||||||||||||
| Resignation: | 1997 | ||||||||||||
| Playing hand: | Right | ||||||||||||
| Trainer: | Pato Rodríguez | ||||||||||||
| Prize money: | $ 2,235,560 | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 265: 223 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 8th | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 18 (October 30 1989) | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 55:55 | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 54 (November 20 1989) | ||||||||||||
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| Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) | |||||||||||||
Jaime Yzaga Tori (born October 23, 1967 in Lima ) is a former Peruvian tennis player .
Life
Yzaga won the junior tournament of the French Open in 1985 against the Austrian Thomas Muster as well as the junior doubles at Wimbledon on the side of Agustín Moreno . In the same year he became a professional tennis player and was able to win a tournament on the ATP Challenger Tour in Bahia . In addition, he moved into the second round of the US Open as a qualifier , in which he was defeated against the eventual winner Ivan Lendl .
In 1987 he won his first two ATP tournaments , by 1993 he was able to win a total of eight ATP tournament victories, including Sydney International , the Heineken Open and the American tennis championships on clay in Houston . He reached his highest ranking in the tennis world rankings in 1989 with position 18 in singles and position 54 in doubles. His best individual results in Grand Slam tournaments were reaching the quarter-finals at the Australian Open in 1991 and the US Open in 1994 , where he defeated the defending champion and world number one Pete Sampras .
Yzaga played 45 singles and 23 doubles games for the Peruvian Davis Cup team between 1984 and 1997 . The team was twice in the first round of the world group. In 1989, despite his two individual victories against Wally Masur and Jason Stoltenberg, she lost 3-2 to Australia . In 1994 they failed 1: 4 to Denmark , Yzaga won the only victory in the individual against Frederik Fetterlein .
In 1987 and 1988, Yzaga won the Peruvian tennis championship in an individual competition.
At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , he entered the demonstration tournaments for players under the age of 21, but no medals were awarded. At the 1992 Summer Olympics , he was eliminated in the second round against Pete Sampras.
Web links
- ATP profile Jaime Yzaga (English)
- ITF profile Jaime Yzaga (English)
- Davis Cup Statistics for Jaime Yzaga (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Todos los campeones nacionales de tenis ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 19, 2012
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| SURNAME | Yzaga, Jaime |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yzaga Tori, Jaime (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Peruvian tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lima , Peru |