Martín Rodríguez (tennis player)

Martín Rodríguez

Nation:

Argentina

Birthday:

18th December 1969

Size:

178 cm

Weight:

75 kg

1st professional season:

1991

Playing hand:

Right

Trainer:

Horacio de la Peña

Prize money:

$ 1,221,361

singles

Career record:

16:40

Highest ranking:

71 (June 16 1999)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	1R (2000)
French Open	2R (1999)
Wimbledon	1R (1999)
US Open	1R (1998, 1999)

Double

Career record:

143: 151

Career title:

6th

Highest ranking:

15 (October 25, 2004)

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	HF (2003, 2004)
French Open	VF (2003, 2004)
Wimbledon	AF (2003, 2005)
US Open	1R (1998, 1999, 2001-2005)

Mixed

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	HF (2004)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	-
US Open	-

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Martín Rodríguez (born December 18, 1969 in Córdoba ) is a retired Argentinian tennis player .

Life

Rodríguez became a professional tennis player in 1991 and initially played on the ATP Challenger Tour . In the course of his career he won 11 doubles titles and one more singles. On the ATP World Tour he won a total of six double titles, four of them with his compatriot Gastón Etlis . He reached his highest ranking in the tennis world rankings in 1999 with position 71 in singles and in 2004 with position 15 in doubles. At the 2002 ATP tournament in Basel , his doping test showed that the caffeine level was too high . He was fined $ 6,725 and stripped of 60 world ranking points.

His best individual result in Grand Slam tournaments was participation in the second round at the 1999 French Open . At the Australian Open he was able to reach the semi-finals in two consecutive years. With Gastón Etlis he lost to Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor in 2003 , the following year both lost to eventual tournament winners Michaël Llodra and Fabrice Santoro .

Rodríguez completed a double game in 2000 for the Argentine Davis Cup team . In America group zone I, Argentina met Canada in the first round . Rodríguez and his partner Martín García lost against Daniel Nestor and Sébastien Lareau clearly in three sets, the game was lost 4-1 overall. Etlis competed once for Argentina at the Summer Olympics . At the 2004 Olympic Games , he joined Etlis in doubles and was defeated by the later gold medalists Nicolás Massú and Fernando González in the second round .

Tournament victories

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series (6)

Double

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	February 11, 2002	Chile Viña del Mar	sand	Argentina Gastón Etlis	Argentina Lucas Arnold Ker Luis Lobo Argentina	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	February 18, 2002	Argentina Buenos Aires	sand	Argentina Gastón Etlis	Sweden Simon Aspelin Andrew Kratzmann Australia	3: 6, 6: 3, [10: 4]
3.	August 18, 2003	United States long Island	Hard court	South Africa Robbie Koenig	Czech Republic Martin Damm Cyril Suk Czech Republic	6: 3, 7: 6 ⁴
4th	April 19, 2004	SpainValencia (1)	sand	Argentina Gastón Etlis	Spain Feliciano López Marc López Spain	7: 5, 7: 6
5.	April 10, 2005	SpainValencia (2)	sand	Chile Fernando González	Argentina Lucas Arnold Ker Mariano Hood Argentina	6: 4, 6: 4
6th	August 22, 2005	United States New Haven	Hard court	Argentina Gastón Etlis	United States Rajeev Ram Bobby Reynolds United States	6: 4, 6: 3

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Decision in the case of Martin Rodriguez ITF September 22, 2003 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Rodríguez, Martín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	argentinian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	18th December 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cordoba , Argentina

[1] Decision in the case of Martin Rodriguez ITF September 22, 2003 ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )