João Sousa

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João Sousa Tennis player
João Sousa
João Sousa 2014 in Madrid
Nation: PortugalPortugal Portugal
Birthday: March 30, 1989
Size: 185 cm
Weight: 73 kg
1st professional season: 2005
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Frederico Marques
Prize money: $ 4,827,410
singles
Career record: 182: 203
Career title: 3
Highest ranking: 28 (May 16, 2016)
Current placement: 69
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 3R (2015, 2016, 2019)
French Open 2R (2013, 2015-2017)
Wimbledon AF (2019)
US Open AF (2018)
Double
Career record: 75: 108
Highest ranking: 26 (May 13, 2019)
Current placement: 39
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open HF (2019)
French Open AF (2014, 2018)
Wimbledon AF (2018)
US Open VF (2015, 2019)
Last update of the infobox:
July 1st, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

João Sousa (born March 30, 1989 in Guimarães ) is a Portuguese tennis player .

Career

So far, Sousa has achieved first successes, especially on the Challenger Tour . In 2010 he won his first title in doubles when he was victorious with Leonardo Tavares in Tampere against the Latvian duo Andis Juška and Deniss Pavlovs . The first individual title followed in 2011 in Fürth , where he defeated the German champion Jan-Lennard Struff in three sets. He won his second individual title in April 2012 in Mersin, Turkey, against Javier Martí 6: 4, 0: 6, 6: 4. Sousa was able to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in 2012 at the French Open . In the opening round, however, he failed to Marcel Granollers in four sets. He made his debut on the ATP World Tour in Estoril in 2008 when he successfully qualified for the main draw. In the game against Oliver Marach , he clearly had the upper hand and clearly won 6: 1, 6: 3. In the subsequent round of 16 against Frederico Gil, he lost in two sets. Only four years later, in 2012, did he qualify again for a main field on the World Tour. In Barcelona he moved into the main draw of the ATP 500 tournament and defeated the Russian Igor Kunitsyn in two sets in the first round . In the second round it was again Frederico Gil who knocked Sousa out of the tournament. Gil just won in three sets. In September 2013 he was the first Portuguese to win an individual tournament on the ATP Tour in Kuala Lumpur . In the final he defeated Julien Benneteau in three sets.

Sousa has been playing for the Portuguese Davis Cup team since 2008 .

Remarks

João Sousa should not be confused with the Brazilian tennis player João Souza, who is almost a year older . You have already stood together several times in the main draw of the same tournament; They met for the first time at the ATP tournament in Geneva in May 2015.

There is also another Portuguese tennis player named Pedro Sousa who is not related to him. João Sousa was able to win the two previous duels with him clearly in two sets.

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP World Tour 250 (3)
ATP Challenger Tour (7)
Title after covering
Hard Court (2)
Sand (1)
Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. 29th September 2013 MalaysiaMalaysia Kuala Lumpur Hard court (i) FranceFrance Julien Benneteau 2: 6, 7: 5, 6: 4
2. November 1, 2015 SpainSpain Valencia Hard court (i) SpainSpain Roberto Bautista Agut 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
3. May 6, 2018 PortugalPortugal Estoril sand United StatesUnited States Frances Tiafoe 6: 4, 6: 4
ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. June 5, 2011 GermanyGermany Fuerth (1) sand GermanyGermany Jan-Lennard Struff 6: 2, 0: 6, 6: 2
2. April 15, 2012 TurkeyTurkey Mersin sand SpainSpain Javier Martí 6: 4, 0: 6, 6: 4
3. July 29, 2012 FinlandFinland Tampere sand FranceFrance Eric Prodon 7: 6 5 , 6: 4
4th June 9, 2013 GermanyGermanyFuerth (2) sand United StatesUnited States Wayne Odesnik 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
5. July 28, 2013 PortugalPortugal Guimarães Hard court RomaniaRomania Marius Copil 6: 3, 6: 0

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. July 13, 2014 SwedenSweden Båstad sand UruguayUruguay Pablo Cuevas 2: 6, 1: 6
2. September 21, 2014 FranceFrance Metz Hard court (i) BelgiumBelgium David Goffin 4: 6, 3: 6
3. May 23, 2015 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Geneva sand BrazilBrazil Thomaz Bellucci 6: 7 4 , 4: 6
4th July 26, 2015 CroatiaCroatia Umag sand AustriaAustria Dominic Thiem 4: 6, 1: 6
5. September 27, 2015 RussiaRussia St. Petersburg Hard court (i) CanadaCanada Milos Raonic 3: 6, 6: 3, 3: 6
6th January 14, 2017 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland Hard court United StatesUnited States Jack Sock 3: 6, 7: 5, 3: 6
7th 5th August 2017 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel sand GermanyGermany Philipp Kohlschreiber 3: 6, 4: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. August 1, 2010 FinlandFinland Tampere sand PortugalPortugal Leonardo Tavares LatviaLatvia Andis Juška Deniss Pavlovs
LatviaLatvia  		7: 6 3 , 7: 5
2. June 10, 2012 GermanyGermany Fuerth sand SpainSpain Arnau Brugués Davi AustraliaAustralia Rameez Junaid Purav Raja
IndiaIndia  		7: 5, 6: 7 4 , [11: 9]

Final participation

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. 20th May 2018 ItalyItaly Rome sand SpainSpain Pablo Carreño Busta ColombiaColombia Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah
ColombiaColombia  		6: 3, 4: 6, [4:10]

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personal data
SURNAME Sousa, João
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Guimarães , Portugal