Nicolás Lapentti

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Nicolás Lapentti Tennis player
Nicolás Lapentti
Nickname: Nicky, Nico
Nation: EcuadorEcuador Ecuador
Birthday: August 13, 1976
Size: 188 cm
1st professional season: 1995
Resignation: 2011
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 6,313,898
singles
Career record: 321: 299
Career title: 5
Highest ranking: 6 (November 22, 1999)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open HF (1999)
French Open AF (2000)
Wimbledon VF (2002)
US Open 3R (2001)
Double
Career record: 154: 162
Career title: 3
Highest ranking: 32 (May 10 1999)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open VF (1999, 2001, 2003)
French Open VF (1998)
Wimbledon AF (2003)
US Open AF (2003)
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (1998)
French Open -
Wimbledon HF (2000)
US Open -
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Nicolás Alexander Lapentti Gómez (born August 13, 1976 in Guayaquil ) is a former Ecuadorian tennis player . His younger brother Giovanni Lapentti also became a tennis player. Both are nephews of the French Open winner Andrés Gómez . Her father Nicolás Lapentti Carrión was prefect of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas .

Career

In 1994 Lapentti won the Orange Bowl . He turned professional in 1995 and won the ATP tournament in Bogotá that same year as a qualifier .

In 1997 he won his first two double titles. 1998 defeating Lapentti in the tournament in Kitzbuhel with Yevgeny Kafelnikov (6: 4, 6: 1) for the first time a top ten player.

In 1999 he surprisingly reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open with a five-set win over Karol Kučera . There he was defeated by Thomas Enqvist . In the same year Lapentti won the tournaments in Lyon and Indianapolis . At the end of the season he qualified for the ATP World Championship for the first time and at the end of the year he was number 6 in the world - the best placement of his career.

2000 Lapentti reached the round of 16 of the French Open . In the same year he was a member of the Ecuadorian Davis Cup team , which Great Britain could defeat at Wimbledon . Lapentti defeated Greg Rusedski in five sets.

In the following years he achieved only a few successes such as the tournament victories in Kitzbühel in 2001, in St. Pölten in 2002 and the finals in Palermo in 2006. In July 2008 he was only number 74 in the ATP world rankings .

In January 2011 Nicolás Lapentti announced his retirement from professional tennis.

successes

Nicolás Lapentti
Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold (2)
ATP International Series (6)
ATP Challenger Tour (9)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. September 11, 1995 ColombiaColombia Bogotá sand ColombiaColombia Miguel Tobón 2: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
2. August 16, 1999 United StatesUnited States Indianapolis Hard court United StatesUnited States Vincent Spadea 4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4
3. October 18, 1999 FranceFrance Lyon Carpet (i) AustraliaAustralia Lleyton Hewitt 6: 3, 6: 2
4th July 23, 2001 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel sand SpainSpain Albert Costa 1: 6, 6: 4, 7: 5, 7: 5
5. May 20, 2002 AustriaAustria St. Polten sand SpainSpain Fernando Vicente 7: 5, 6: 4
ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. November 26, 1995 ChileChile Santiago de Chile sand VenezuelaVenezuela Nicolás Pereira 7: 6, 6: 3
2. December 5, 2004 BrazilBrazil Aracaju sand BrazilBrazil Júlio Silva 6: 2, 6: 2
3. September 24, 2006 PolandPoland Szczecin sand Czech RepublicCzech Republic Bohdan Ulihrach 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
4th September 30, 2007 FranceFrance Grenoble Hard court (i) DenmarkDenmark Kristian Pless 6: 3, 7: 5
5. November 10, 2007 EcuadorEcuador Guayaquil (1) sand SpainSpain Daniel Gimeno Traver 6: 3, 6: 7 6 , 7: 5
6th November 14, 2009 EcuadorEcuadorGuayaquil (2) sand ColombiaColombia Santiago Giraldo 6: 2, 2: 6, 7: 6 4

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. September 9, 1996 ColombiaColombia Bogotá sand AustriaAustria Thomas Muster 7: 6 6 , 2: 6, 3: 6
2. October 27, 1997 ColombiaColombia Bogotá sand SpainSpain Francisco Clavet 3: 6, 3: 6
3. July 5, 1999 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Gstaad sand SpainSpain Albert Costa 6: 7 4 , 3: 6, 4: 6
4th October 9, 2000 JapanJapan Tokyo Hard court NetherlandsNetherlands Sjeng Schalken 4: 6, 6: 3, 1: 6
5. February 11, 2002 ChileChile Viña del Mar sand ChileChile Fernando González 3: 6, 7: 6 5 , 6: 7 4
6th July 7, 2003 SwedenSweden Båstad sand ArgentinaArgentina Mariano Zabaleta 3: 6, 4: 6
7th September 25, 2006 ItalyItaly Palermo sand ItalyItaly Filippo Volandri 7: 5, 1: 6, 3: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour
No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. September 9, 1997 NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam sand AustraliaAustralia Paul Kilderry AustraliaAustralia Andrew Kratzmann Libor Pimek
BelgiumBelgium 		3: 6, 7: 5, 7: 6
2. November 3, 1997 MexicoMexico Mexico city sand ArgentinaArgentina Daniel Orsanic MexicoMexico Luis-Enrique Herrera Mariano Sánchez
MexicoMexico 		4: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6
3. January 4, 1999 AustraliaAustralia Adelaide Hard court BrazilBrazil Gustavo Kuerten United StatesUnited States Jim Courier Patrick Galbraith
United StatesUnited States 		6: 4, 6: 4
ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. July 20, 1996 EcuadorEcuador Quito sand EcuadorEcuador Pablo Campana ItalyItaly Nicola Bruno Mosé Navarra
ItalyItaly  		6: 4, 6: 4
2. July 18, 1998 ItalyItaly Meran sand ArgentinaArgentina Pablo Albano ItalyItaly Giorgio Galimberti Massimo Valeri
ItalyItaly  		6: 1, 6: 1
3. January 19, 2008 ChileChile La Serena sand ArgentinaArgentina Eduardo Schwank ArgentinaArgentina Sebastián Decoud Cristian Villagrán
ArgentinaArgentina  		6: 4, 6: 0

Final participation

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. September 9, 1996 ColombiaColombia Bogotá sand ColombiaColombia Pablo Campana ColombiaColombia Nicolás Pereira David Rikl
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 		3: 6, 6: 7
2. October 20, 1997 ChileChile Santiago de Chile sand SpainSpain Julián Alonso NetherlandsNetherlands Hendrik Jan Davids Andrew Kratzmann
AustraliaAustralia 		6: 7, 7: 5, 4: 6
3. April 26, 1999 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague sand United StatesUnited States Mark Wedge Czech RepublicCzech Republic Martin dam Radek Štěpánek
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 		0: 6, 2: 6
4th February 9, 2004 ChileChile Viña del Mar sand ArgentinaArgentina Martín Rodríguez ArgentinaArgentina Gastón Gaudio Juan Ignacio Chela
ArgentinaArgentina 		6: 7 2 , 6: 7 3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex number six opens in Ecuador. In: tennisnet.com. February 7, 2017, accessed March 27, 2019 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Lapentti, Nicolás
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lapentti Gómez, Nicolás Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ecuadorian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Guayaquil , Ecuador