Martín Vassallo Argüello

Martín Vassallo Argüello
Martín Vassallo Argüello 2009
Nation:	Argentina
Birthday:	February 10, 1980
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	80 kg
1st professional season:	1999
Resignation:	2011
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Gabriel Markus
Prize money:	$ 1,420,101
singles
Career record:	47:81
Highest ranking:	47 (April 27, 2009)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	20:32
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	71 (June 25, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Martín Miguel Vassallo Argüello (born February 10, 1980 in Temperley , Gran Buenos Aires ) is a retired Argentine tennis player .

Career

Vassallo Argüello started playing tennis and football at the age of nine. When he was 13 he decided to play tennis.

The Argentine won 17 of his 18 Challenger tournaments on clay, his favorite surface, 8 of which were in the individual competition. Vassallo Argüello won his only title on the ATP Tour in a doubles in Acapulco alongside the Italian Potito Starace . In the final, he and his partner beat the Czech duo Lukáš Dlouhý and Pavel Vízner 6-0 and 6-2.

In April 1998 the Argentine played his first Future tournament in his home country. Until 2001 he played exclusively youth tournaments before he completed his first tournament in August 2001 as part of the ATP Challenger Tour in Brazil . In April 2002 he finally won his first tournament in this category. In Rome he clearly beat the Italian Filippo Volandri on clay in two sets.

Vassallo Argüello played his first Grand Slam tournament in 2002 at the French Open in Paris. In the first round he was eliminated from the American Todd Martin . In May 2006 he achieved his greatest single success when he advanced to the second round of the French Open . Here he lost to his compatriot David Nalbandian in three sets. Vassallo Argüello achieved his best placement with 47th place in April 2009, after he had won three Challengers in 2008 and at the beginning of the year reached a semifinal on the ATP World Tour for the only time in Acapulco and was eliminated from Nicolás Almagro . Shortly thereafter, he also came to his only use in the Argentine Davis Cup team , where he was able to book a victory in singles and doubles. After that, he never got past the second round on the World Tour and ended his career in 2011.

successes

Legend (number of victories)

Grand Slam

Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals

ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000

ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series

ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series

ATP Challenger Tour (18)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 4, 2002	Rome	sand	Filippo Volandri	6: 4, 6: 0
2.	May 18, 2003	Košice	sand	Hermes Gamonal	6: 3, 6: 3
3.	July 13, 2003	Oberstaufen	sand	Andreas Seppi	6: 1, 6: 4
4th	August 3, 2003	Trani	sand	Francisco Fogues	6: 3, 7: 5
5.	January 28, 2007	Santiago de Chile	sand	Fabio Fognini	1: 6, 7: 5, 6: 4
6th	October 12, 2008	Asunción	sand	Leonardo Mayer	3: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6 2
7th	October 26, 2008	Buenos Aires	sand	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	6: 3, 4: 6, 7: 5
8th.	November 29, 2008	Lima	sand	Sergio Roitman	6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 4

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 3, 2007	Acapulco	sand	Potito Starace	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner	6-0, 6-2

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 10, 2001	Montevideo	sand	Diego del Río	Gastón Etlis Mariano Hood	without a fight
2.	July 20, 2002	Aptos	Hard court	Amir Hadad	Brandon Coupe Brandon Hawk	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	May 3, 2003	Rome	sand	Amir Hadad	Manuel Jorquera Diego Moyano	6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3
4th	2003	Biella	sand	Stefano Galvani	Jordan Kerr Tom Vanhoudt	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , 6: 3
5.	June 14, 2003	Mantua	sand	Stefano Galvani	Jordan Kerr Tom Vanhoudt	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , 6: 3
6th	October 2, 2004	Dubrovnik	sand	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	Leonardo Azzaro Yuri Shchukin	6: 1, 6: 2
7th	September 3, 2005	Kiev	sand	Diego Junqueira	Lukáš Dlouhý Jan Mertl	6: 4, 6: 2
8th.	April 8, 2006	Aguascalientes	sand	Juan Martín del Potro	Héctor Almada Víctor Romero	7: 5, 7: 5
9.	November 10, 2007	Asunción	sand	Carlos Berlocq	Adrián García Bartolomé Salvá-Vidal	7: 5, 6: 7 5 , [13:11]
10.	May 9, 2010	Sanremo	sand	Diego Junqueira	Carlos Berlocq Sebastián Decoud	2: 6, 6: 4, [10: 8]

Web links

Commons : Martín Vassallo Argüello  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Martín Vassallo Argüello (English)
• ITF profile of Martín Vassallo Argüello (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Martín Vassallo Argüello (English)