Jorge Lozano

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Jorge Lozano Tennis player
Nation: MexicoMexico Mexico
Birthday: 17th May 1963
Size: 180 cm
Weight: 70 kg
1st professional season: 1986
Resignation: 1995
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 739,424
singles
Career record: 26:49
Highest ranking: 51 (September 12 1988)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 208: 164
Career title: 9
Highest ranking: 4 (August 22, 1988)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jorge Lozano (born May 17, 1963 in San Luis Potosí ) is a retired Mexican tennis player .

Life

Lozano played for the University of Southern California from 1983 to 1985 and became a professional tennis player in 1986. That same year, he stood at the side of Todd Witsken , his partner from college days , in the quarterfinals of Indianapolis . In 1987 he reached his first double-final on the ATP World Tour with Diego Pérez in Itaparica . The following year he was able to win four tournaments with Todd Witsken, two more followed in 1989. After two defeats in the final in 1990 Lozano and Witsken parted ways, Lozano then won three more tournaments with other doubles partners. In total, he was able to win nine titles in the double competition, six of them with his long-term partner Witsken. Another 13 times he was in a double-final. He reached his highest score in the tennis world rankings in 1988 with position 51 in singles and fourth in doubles.

His best individual result in a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the round of 16 of the US Open in 1988. In the same year he was there at the side of Todd Witsken in the semi-finals of the doubles competition. Both also reached the quarter-finals of the French Open that year . In 1988 he won the mixed competition at the French Open alongside Lori McNeil . In 1990 he repeated this triumph with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario .

Lozano played 19 singles and 24 doubles games for the Mexican Davis Cup team between 1982 and 1995 . When he first appeared in 1981, his opponent in the first-round encounter of the world group was USA . Although he won the doubles on the side of Raúl Ramírez , but lost in both singles against John McEnroe and Roscoe Tanner . In 1986 he was used in the quarter-finals against the USA in doubles, with Fernando Pérez Pascal he was defeated by the world-class doubles Ken Flach and Robert Seguso in four sets.

Lozano has been the team principal of the Mexican Davis Cup team since 2009.

Tournament victories

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series (9)

Double

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Bottom line
1. May 8, 1988 United StatesUnited States Forest Hills sand United StatesUnited States Todd Witsken South AfricaSouth Africa Pieter Aldrich Danie Visser
South AfricaSouth Africa
6: 3, 7: 6
2. May 15, 1988 ItalyItaly Rome sand United StatesUnited States Todd Witsken SwedenSweden Järryd Tomáš Šmíd is different
Czech RepublicCzech Republic
6: 3, 6: 3
3. July 10, 1988 United StatesUnited States Boston sand United StatesUnited States Todd Witsken Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Bruno Orešar Jaime Yzaga
PeruPeru
6: 2, 7: 5
4th July 31, 1988 United StatesUnited States Stratton Mountain Hard court United StatesUnited States Todd Witsken South AfricaSouth AfricaPieter Aldrich Danie Visser
South AfricaSouth Africa
6: 3, 7: 6
5. April 16, 1989 BrazilBrazil Rio de Janeiro carpet United StatesUnited States Todd Witsken United StatesUnited States Patrick McEnroe Tim Wilkison
United StatesUnited States
2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
6th November 12, 1989 SwedenSweden Stockholm carpet United StatesUnited States Todd Witsken United StatesUnited States Rick Leach Jim Pugh
United StatesUnited States
6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 3
7th February 26, 1990 SwedenSweden Stockholm carpet MexicoMexico Leonardo Lavalle ItalyItaly Diego Nargiso Nicolás Pereira
VenezuelaVenezuela
6: 3, 7: 6
8th. March 16, 1992

Marrakech

sand ArgentinaArgentina Horacio de la Peña LatviaLatvia Ģirts Dzelde T.J. Middleton
United StatesUnited States
2: 6, 6: 4, 7: 6
9. 4th October 1993 GreeceGreece Athens sand ArgentinaArgentina Horacio de la Peña South AfricaSouth Africa Royce Deppe John Sullivan
United StatesUnited States
3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. American Chronicle ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)