Lorenzo Manta
Lorenzo Manta 
|
|||||||||||||
| Nation: |
 Switzerland
|
||||||||||||
| Birthday: | September 16, 1974 | ||||||||||||
| Size: | 190 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight: | 82 kg | ||||||||||||
| 1st professional season: | 1992 | ||||||||||||
| Resignation: | 2002 | ||||||||||||
| Playing hand: | Right | ||||||||||||
| Trainer: | Leonardo Manta | ||||||||||||
| Prize money: | $ 429,102 | ||||||||||||
| singles | |||||||||||||
| Career record: | 11:30 | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 103 (June 12, 2000) | ||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
| Double | |||||||||||||
| Career record: | 24:29 | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 82 (July 9, 2001) | ||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
| Mixed | |||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
| Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) | |||||||||||||
Lorenzo Manta (born September 16, 1974 in Winterthur ) is a former Swiss tennis player of Italian descent.
Life
Manta was trained by his father Leonardo Manta , an Italian who took part in the Davis Cup for Switzerland in 1971 and became Swiss mixed champion in 1974 as a representative of LTC Winterthur together with Evagreth Emmenegger . He was able to reach a final in a double competition on the ATP World Tour . In 1999, he was defeated in the tournament in Tashkent on the side of Mark Keil just against his own long-standing Davis Cup doubles partner Marc Rosset , who along with Oleg Ogorodov came into office. He reached his highest ranking in the tennis world rankings in 2000 with position 103 in singles and in the following year with position 82 in doubles. His best individual result at a Grand Slam tournament was the 1999 round of 16 at Wimbledon , and in 2001 he reached the double round of 16 at the French Open .
Manta played for the Swiss Davis Cup team between 1995 and 2001 . He played his first of a total of eleven doubles (balance 9-2) alongside Jakob Hlasek , until 1999 he played with Marc Rosset, after which he was partner of Roger Federer . Between September 1997 and April 2001 he won nine doubles in a row. He also appeared in five individual games, but was defeated four times. He celebrated his only win against Vasilly Kazhera in a 5-0 win against Belarus .
In 2002 he ended his career at the age of 27 for health reasons.
Private
He is the brother of Joana Manta , who was also a tennis player. Today he and his family run the catering company Manta-Bar AG based in Winterthur.
Web links
- ATP profile of Lorenzo Manta (English)
- ITF profile Lorenzo Manta (English)
- Davis Cup stats by Lorenzo Manta (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry by Leonardo and Lorenzo Manta ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich
- ↑ Davis Cup statistics by Leonardo Manta (English)
- ↑ Lorenzo Manta ended his tennis career. In: news.ch. February 5, 2002.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manta, Lorenzo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winterthur , Switzerland |