Luis Lobo

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Luis Lobo Tennis player
Nation: ArgentinaArgentina Argentina
Birthday: November 9, 1970
Size: 180 cm
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 913,682
singles
Career record: 2: 3
Highest ranking: 167 (October 7 1991)
Double
Career record: 192: 130
Career title: 12
Highest ranking: 12 (July 21 1997)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )
Luis Lobo
medal table

Tennis player

ArgentinaArgentina Argentina
Pan American Games
gold 1995 Mar del Plata Double

Luis Lobo (born November 9, 1970 in Buenos Aires ) is a retired Argentinian tennis player and tennis coach.

Career

Lobo first played satellite tournaments, in 1990 he won two of them. The following year he played on the ATP Challenger Tour and was able to reach the final in Lins . He also won the double title at the Challenger tournament in São Paulo on the side of Pablo Albano . In 1994 he won an ATP tournament for the first time at the side of Javier Sánchez in Athens . With Sanchez he won two more double titles in the following year, they were also four times in a final, including the Masters tournament in Monte Carlo . 1997 was his most successful year; he won five double tournaments, including the Masters tournament in Hamburg . In his career he won a total of twelve double titles, including two in the ATP International Series Gold category and one in the ATP Masters Series category . Another eight times he was in a double final. He reached his highest world rankings in 1991 with position 167 in singles and 1997 with position 12 in doubles.

In the individual, he could never qualify for a Grand Slam tournament . In doubles, he was in the 1996 round of 16 of the French Open , in 1998 in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open and twice in the quarter-finals of the US Open . At Wimbledon , his best result was reaching the third round.

Lobo played a singles and eleven doubles games between 1995 and 2001 for the Argentine Davis Cup team . He played his only single in 1997 when it was 3-0 against Venezuela after the double. He was defeated by Jimy Szymanski in two sets. He competed in doubles for Argentina at the 1996 Summer Olympics , alongside Javier Frana he was eliminated in the first round against the Spanish doubles, consisting of Tomás Carbonell and Sergi Bruguera . At the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata in 1995 , he won the gold medal alongside Javier Frana.

After the end of his professional career, Lobo worked as a coach. From 2006 he coached the former world number one Carlos Moyá and Juan Mónaco and was also the team manager of the Argentine team in the World Team Cup , which won the 2010 World Cup in Düsseldorf .

successes

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series (1)
ATP International Series Gold (2)
ATP International Series (9)

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. October 10, 1994 GreeceGreece Athens sand SpainSpain Javier Sánchez ItalyItaly Cristian Brandi Federico Mordegan
ItalyItaly
5: 7, 6: 1, 6: 4
2. July 17, 1995 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Gstaad sand SpainSpain Javier Sánchez FranceFrance Arnaud Boetsch Marc Rosset
SwitzerlandSwitzerland
6: 7, 7: 6, 7: 6
3. August 28, 1995 CroatiaCroatia Umag sand SpainSpain Javier Sánchez SwedenSweden David Ekerot László Markovits
HungaryHungary
6: 4, 6: 0
4th April 22, 1996 SpainSpain Barcelona sand SpainSpain Javier Sánchez United KingdomUnited Kingdom Neil Broad Piet Norval
South AfricaSouth Africa
2: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
5. August 19, 1996 CroatiaCroatia Umag sand ArgentinaArgentina Pablo Albano LatviaLatvia Ģirts Dzelde Udo Plamberger
AustriaAustria
6: 4, 6: 1
6th January 13, 1997 AustraliaAustralia Sydney Hard court SpainSpain Javier Sánchez NetherlandsNetherlands Paul Haarhuis Jan Siemerink
NetherlandsNetherlands
6: 4, 6: 7, 6: 3
7th March 10, 1997 United StatesUnited States Scottsdale Hard court SpainSpain Javier Sánchez SwedenSweden Jonas Björkman Rick Leach
United StatesUnited States
6: 3, 6: 3
8th. May 12, 1997 GermanyGermany Hamburg sand SpainSpain Javier Sánchez United KingdomUnited Kingdom Neil Broad Piet Norval
South AfricaSouth Africa
6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 4
9. October 6, 1997 RomaniaRomania Bucharest sand SpainSpain Javier Sánchez NetherlandsNetherlands Hendrik Jan Davids Daniel Orsanic
ArgentinaArgentina
7: 5, 7: 5
10. November 3, 1997 ColombiaColombia Bogotá sand BrazilBrazil Fernando Meligeni MoroccoMorocco Karim Alami Maurice Ruah
VenezuelaVenezuela
6: 1, 6: 3
11. July 30, 2001 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel sand SpainSpain Alex Corretja SwedenSweden Simon Aspelin Andrew Kratzmann
AustraliaAustralia
6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 3
12. September 30, 2002 ItalyItaly Palermo sand ArgentinaArgentina Lucas Arnold Ker Czech RepublicCzech Republic František Čermák Leoš Friedl
Czech RepublicCzech Republic
6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2

Final participation

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. January 16, 1995 New ZealandNew Zealand Auckland Hard court SpainSpain Javier Sánchez CanadaCanada Grant Connell Patrick Galbraith
United StatesUnited States
4: 6, 3: 6
2. March 6, 1995 United StatesUnited States Scottsdale Hard court SpainSpain Javier Sánchez United StatesUnited States Trevor Kronemann David Macpherson
AustraliaAustralia
6: 4, 4: 6, 3: 6
3. May 1, 1995 MonacoMonaco Monte Carlo sand SpainSpain Javier Sánchez NetherlandsNetherlands Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis
NetherlandsNetherlands
1: 6, 2: 6
4th May 8, 1995 GermanyGermany Munich sand SpainSpain Javier Sánchez United StatesUnited States Trevor Kronemann David Macpherson
AustraliaAustralia
3: 6, 4: 6
5. May 6, 1996 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague sand SpainSpain Javier Sánchez RussiaRussia Yevgeny Kafelnikow Daniel Vacek
Czech RepublicCzech Republic
3: 6, 7: 6, 3: 6
6th July 23, 2001 NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam sand SpainSpain Alex Corretja NetherlandsNetherlands Paul Haarhuis Sjeng Schalken
NetherlandsNetherlands
4: 6, 2: 6
7th February 18, 2002 ChileChile Viña del Mar Samd ArgentinaArgentina Lucas Arnold Ker ArgentinaArgentina Gastón Etlis Martin Rodríguez
ArgentinaArgentina
3: 6, 4: 6
8th. April 15, 2002 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca sand ArgentinaArgentina Martín García AustraliaAustralia Stephen Huss Myles Wakefield
South AfricaSouth Africa
4: 6, 2: 6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. sports-reference.com (English)
  2. ESPN (English)
  3. Financial Times Deutschland ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )