Pablo Cuevas

Pablo Cuevas
Pablo Cuevas 2016 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Uruguay
Birthday:	January 1, 1986
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	80 kg
1st professional season:	2004
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Alberto Mancini Facundo Savio
Prize money:	$ 8,513,549
singles
Career record:	221: 192
Career title:	6th
Highest ranking:	19 (August 15, 2016)
Current placement:	45
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	204: 159
Career title:	9
Highest ranking:	14 (April 20, 2009)
Current placement:	126
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: November 11, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Pablo Gabriel Cuevas (born January 1, 1986 in Concordia , Argentina ) is a Uruguayan tennis player .

Career

The older brother of tennis player Martín Cuevas took part with the Uruguayan team in the 2002 South American Games in Brazil . In 2003 Pablo Cuevas won his first tournament in Uruguay, and in 2004 he turned pro. In 2005 he won his first title at a future tournament in Argentina , and a little later he was victorious in a future tournament in Venezuela . He won his first double title in 2006 at a smaller tournament in Montauban and he collected more wins at smaller tournaments. Cuevas made his first appearance at a Grand Slam tournament on August 27, 2007 at the US Open , but was eliminated in the first round against Andy Murray (2: 6, 3: 6 and 0: 6).

The greatest success of his career so far in singles was his first tournament victory on the 2014 World Tour in Båstad . Another title followed in Umag . In the 2015 season he celebrated his third title win in São Paulo , which pushed him up to 23rd place in the world rankings; He achieved his best ranking to date in August 2016 with position 19.

In doubles he had his greatest success so far against the Peruvian Luis Horna . With him he won the French Open in 2008 when they defeated Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić in two sets (6: 2 and 6: 3) in the final. In addition, Cuevas reached the finals in Houston that same year . In 2009 he had two more successes in doubles, in 2010 he won his fourth double title. At Challenger tournaments, Cuevas has so far recorded a total of eleven single and 15 double titles.

In 2010 he played in the tennis Bundesliga with the then reigning German champions TK Kurhaus Lambertz Aachen . He was also registered in 2011 , but did not play a game that year.

Pablo Cuevas has been playing for the Uruguayan Davis Cup team since 2004 . In his first year as a professional he made his debut against Haiti; since then he has played a total of 40 games in the Davis Cup , in which he celebrated 30 wins (20: 6 wins in singles).

Awards

As part of the honors of the best Uruguayan athletes from 2009 to 2010 ("Deportista del Año"), he was named the best athlete of 2009 and best athlete of 2010 in the Teatro Solís by the Comité Olímpico Uruguayo on March 28, 2011 in the “Tennis” division.

successes

Legend (victories in brackets) Grand Slam (1) ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (2) ATP World Tour 500 (3) ATP World Tour 250 (9) ATP Challenger Tour (29)

Title after covering Hard Court (2) Sand (12) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 13, 2014	Båstad	sand	João Sousa	6: 2, 6: 1
2.	July 27, 2014	Umag	sand	Tommy Robredo	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	February 15, 2015	Sao Paulo (1)	Sand (i)	Luca Vanni	6: 4, 3: 6, 7: 6 4
4th	February 21, 2016	Rio de Janeiro	sand	Guido Pella	6: 4, 6: 7 5 , 6: 4
5.	February 28, 2016	Sao Paulo (2)	sand	Pablo Carreño Busta	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
6th	March 6, 2017	Sao Paulo (3)	sand	Albert Ramos	6: 7 3 , 6: 4, 6: 4

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 12, 2007	Tunica resorts	sand	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 3
2.	July 15, 2007	Scheveningen	sand	Dominik Meffert	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	November 25, 2007	Lima	sand	Marcos Daniel	0: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
4th	April 5, 2009	Naples	sand	Victor Crivoi	6: 1, 6: 3
5.	October 11, 2009	Montevideo (1)	sand	Nicolás Lapentti	7: 5, 6: 1
6th	September 19, 2010	Szczecin	sand	Igor Andreyev	6: 1, 6: 1
7th	October 27, 2013	Buenos Aires	sand	Facundo Argüello	7: 6 6 , 2: 6, 6: 4
8th.	March 30, 2014	Barranquilla	sand	Martin Kližan	6: 3, 6: 1
9.	June 8, 2014	Mestre	sand	Marco Cecchinato	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2
10.	15th November 2014	Guayaquil	sand	Paolo Lorenzi	without a fight
11.	23rd November 2014	Montevideo (2)	sand	Hugo Dellien	6: 2, 6: 4
12.	November 12, 2017	Montevideo (3)	sand	Gastão Elias	6: 4, 6: 3
13.	April 21, 2019	Tunis	sand	João Domingues	7: 5, 6: 4
14th	May 12, 2019	Aix-en-Provence	sand	Quentin Halys	7: 5, 3: 6, 6: 2

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 3, 2015	Istanbul	sand	Roger Federer	3: 6, 6: 7 11
2.	June 25, 2016	Nottingham	race	Steve Johnson	6: 7 5 , 5: 7
3.	17th July 2016	Hamburg	sand	Martin Kližan	1: 6, 4: 6
4th	5th May 2019	Estoril	sand	Stefanos Tsitsipas	3: 6, 6: 7 4

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 8, 2008	French Open	sand	Luis Horna	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6: 2, 6: 3
2.	February 8, 2009	Viña del Mar	sand	Brian Dabul	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	6: 3, 6: 3
3.	October 25, 2009	Moscow	Hard court	Marcel Granollers	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	4: 6, 7: 5, [10: 8]
4th	February 15, 2010	Costa do Sauípe	sand	Marcel Granollers	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	7: 5, 6: 4
5.	17th May 2015	Rome	sand	David Marrero	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6: 4, 7: 5
6th	February 25, 2017	Rio de Janeiro	sand	Pablo Carreño Busta	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6: 4, 5: 7, [10: 8]
7th	April 24, 2017	Monte Carlo	sand	Rohan Bopanna	Feliciano López Marc López	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 4]
8th.	5th August 2017	Kitzbühel	sand	Guillermo Duran	Hans Podlipnik-Castillo Andrej Wassileuski	6: 4, 4: 6, [12:10]
9.	October 29, 2017	Vienna	Hard court (i)	Rohan Bopanna	Marcelo demoliner Sam Querrey	7: 6 7 , 6: 7 4 , [11: 9]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 9, 2006	Montauban	sand	Adrian García	Marc Gicquel Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6: 3, 4: 6, [10: 8]
2.	November 26, 2006	Naples	sand	Horacio Zeballos	Goran Dragicevic Mirko Pehar	7: 6 5 , 6: 3
3.	January 7, 2007	São Paulo	Hard court	Adrian García	Marcelo Melo Alexandre Simoni	6: 4, 6: 2
4th	April 29, 2007	Florianópolis	sand	Horacio Zeballos	André Miele João Souza	6: 4, 6: 4
5.	July 8, 2007	Turin	sand	Horacio Zeballos	Pablo Andújar Flávio Saretta	6: 3, 6: 1
6th	August 12, 2007	San Marino	sand	Juan Pablo Guzmán	Tomasz Bednarek James Cerretani	6: 1, 6: 0
7th	October 7, 2007	Medellin	sand	Horacio Zeballos	Santiago González Bruno Soares	6: 4, 6: 4
8th.	November 4, 2007	Montevideo (1)	sand	Luis Horna	Marcel Granollers Santiago Ventura	walkover
9.	November 25, 2007	Lima	sand	Eduardo Schwank	Michael Quintero Martín Vilarrubí	6: 4, 6: 2
10.	April 5, 2009	Naples	sand	David Marrero	Frank Moser Lukáš Rosol	6: 4, 6: 3
11.	May 17, 2009	Bordeaux	sand	Horacio Zeballos	Xavier Pujo Stéphane Robert	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 4]
12.	3rd November 2013	Montevideo (2)	sand	Martín Cuevas	Rogério Dutra da Silva André Ghem	walkover
13.	March 29, 2014	Barranquilla	sand	Pere Riba	František Čermák Michail Jelgin	6: 4, 6: 3
14th	June 7, 2014	Mestre	sand	Horacio Zeballos	Daniele Bracciali Potito Starace	6: 4, 6: 1
15th	23rd November 2014	Montevideo (3)	sand	Martín Cuevas	Nicolás Jarry Gonzalo Lama	6: 2, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 14, 2008	Houston	sand	Marcel Granollers	Ernests Gulbis Rainer Schüttler	5: 8, 6: 7 3
2.	May 9, 2010	Estoril (1)	sand	Marcel Granollers	Marc López David Marrero	7: 6 1 , 4: 6, [4:10]
3.	29th September 2013	Kuala Lumpur	Hard court	Horacio Zeballos	Eric Butorac Raven Klaasen	2: 6, 4: 6
4th	February 16, 2014	Buenos Aires	sand	Horacio Zeballos	Marcel Granollers Marc López	5: 7, 4: 6
5.	May 4, 2014	Estoril (2)	sand	David Marrero	Santiago González Scott Lipsky	3: 6, 6: 3, [8:10]
6th	June 27, 2015	Nottingham	race	David Marrero	Chris Guccione André Sá	2: 6, 5: 7
7th	April 24, 2016	Barcelona	sand	Marcel Granollers	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	5: 7, 5: 7
8th.	July 30, 2017	Hamburg	sand	Marc López	Ivan Dodig Mate Pavic	3: 6, 4: 6

Web links

Commons : Pablo Cuevas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Pablo Cuevas (English)
• ITF profile Pablo Cuevas (English)
• Davis Cup statistics Pablo Cuevas (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German duel clear to Kamke - quarter-finals in Stettin! In: spox.com. September 16, 2010, accessed July 17, 2016 . 
2. ↑ El Comité Olímpico Premio a los mejores Deportistas. In: elobservador.com. April 11, 2011, archived from the original on August 1, 2016 ; Retrieved July 17, 2016 (Spanish).