Robert Farah

Robert Farah
Robert Farah at Wimbledon in 2016
Nation:	Colombia
Birthday:	January 20, 1987
Size:	191 cm
Weight:	91 kg
1st professional season:	2010
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Jeff Coetzee
Prize money:	$ 3,588,027
singles
Career record:	4: 9
Highest ranking:	163 (June 6, 2011)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	263: 151
Career title:	16
Highest ranking:	1 (July 15, 2019)
Current placement:	1
Weeks as No. 1:	9
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: September 9, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Robert Farah (born January 20, 1987 in Montreal , Canada ) is a Colombian tennis player .

Career

Robert Farah achieved his greatest successes especially in doubles. Together with his compatriot Juan Sebastián Cabal , he won a total of six titles on the Challenger Tour 2011 , twice as many as in the previous year. At the level of the ATP World Tour , the move into the round of 16 at Wimbledon was his first good result in Grand Slam tournaments. They defeated in the first round, which was only played for two instead of the usual three winning sets due to bad weather conditions 4th placed Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi in a three-hour marathon match with 21:19 in the third set. He and Cabal achieved the best result when they reached the quarter-finals at the 2013 Australian Open . He and Cabal achieved their first title wins on the World Tour in the 2014 season . They won in Rio de Janeiro and Winston-Salem , and they were also in four other finals.

In singles, he has already won a tournament at Challenger level, in 2010 in Bogotá. He was also in the final of the Challenger tournament in Aguascalientes , but lost there against Cabal. Farah won gold in both singles and doubles with Cabal at the 2011 Pan American Games .

In 2018 Farah and Cabal were in the final of the Australian Open and in the semifinals of the US Open . They finished the year together in fifth place in the world rankings. On July 13, 2019, the two of them secured their first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon and, with the victory, took over the top of the world rankings on July 15.

Robert Farah has been playing for the Colombian Davis Cup team since 2010 .

In January 2020, the world tennis association ITF announced that Farah was provisionally excluded from playing on the tour due to a positive doping test for the anabolic steroid boldenone in October 2019. Farah pointed out that the substance was used in Colombia for raising cattle and that he had ingested it through meat consumption. On February 10, the ITF lifted the provisional suspension with immediate effect.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (2) ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (2) ATP World Tour 500 (3) ATP World Tour 250 (9) ATP Challenger Tour (13)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (3) Sand (11) Grass (2)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 18, 2010	Bogotá	sand	Carlos Salamanca	6: 3, 2: 6, 7: 6 3

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 23, 2014	Rio de Janeiro (1)	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	David Marrero Marcelo Melo	6: 4, 6: 2
2.	23rd August 2014	Winston-Salem	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Jamie Murray John Peers	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	February 15, 2015	São Paulo	Sand (i)	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Paolo Lorenzi Diego Schwartzman	6: 4, 6: 2
4th	May 23, 2015	Geneva	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Raven Klaasen Lu Yen-hsun	7: 5, 4: 6, [10: 7]
5.	February 14, 2016	Buenos Aires (1)	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Íñigo Cervantes Paolo Lorenzi	6: 3, 6: 0
6th	February 21, 2016	Rio de Janeiro (2)	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Pablo Carreño Busta David Marrero	7: 6 5 , 6: 1
7th	May 21, 2016	Nice	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Mate Pavić Michael Venus	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 8]
8th.	October 23, 2016	Moscow	Hard court (i)	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Julian Knowle Jürgen Melzer	7: 5, 4: 6, [10: 5]
9.	19th February 2017	Buenos Aires (2)	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Santiago González David Marrero	6: 1, 6: 4
10.	May 7, 2017	Munich	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Jérémy Chardy Fabrice Martin	6: 3, 6: 3
11.	20th May 2018	Rome (1)	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Pablo Carreño Busta João Sousa	3: 6, 6: 4, [10: 4]
12.	April 27, 2019	Barcelona	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	6: 4, 7: 6 4
13.	19th May 2019	Rome (2)	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Raven Klaasen Michael Venus	6: 1, 6: 3
14th	June 28, 2019	Eastbourne	race	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Máximo González Horacio Zeballos	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , [10: 6]
15th	13th July 2019	Wimbledon	race	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin	6: 7 5 , 7: 6 5 , 7: 6 6 , 6: 7 5 , 6: 3
16.	September 6, 2019	US Open	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Marcel Granollers Horacio Zeballos	6: 4, 7: 5

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 18, 2010	Bogotá	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Víctor Estrella Alejandro González	7: 6 6 , 6: 4
2.	November 7, 2010	Medellin	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Franco Ferreiro André Sá	6: 3, 7: 5
3.	November 13, 2010	Guayaquil	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Franco Ferreiro André Sá	7: 5, 7: 6 3
4th	January 30, 2011	Bucaramanga (1)	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Pablo Galdón Andrés Molteni	6: 1, 6: 2
5.	March 20, 2011	San Jose	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Luis Díaz-Barriga Santiago González	6: 3, 6: 3
6th	May 8, 2011	Rome	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Santiago González Travis Rettenmaier	2: 6, 6: 3, [11: 9]
7th	August 6, 2011	Campos do Jordão	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Ricardo Hocevar Júlio Silva	6: 2, 6: 3
8th.	August 14, 2011	Binghamton	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Treat Huey Frederik Nielsen	6: 4, 6: 3
9.	September 24, 2011	Cali (1)	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Facundo Bagnis Eduardo Schwank	7: 5, 6: 2
10.	September 16, 2012	Cali (2)	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Marcelo demoliner João Souza	6: 3, 7: 6 4
11.	22nd September 2013	Kaohsiung	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Yuki Bhambri Wang Chieh-fu	6: 4, 6: 2
12.	January 25, 2014	Bucaramanga (2)	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Kevin King Juan-Carlos Spir	7: 6 3 , 6: 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 22, 2012	Gstaad	sand	Santiago Giraldo	Marcel Granollers Marc López	4: 6, 6: 7 9
2.	May 25, 2013	Nice	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Johan Brunström Raven Klaasen	3: 6, 2: 6
3.	5th January 2014	Brisbane	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Daniel Nestor Mariusz Fyrstenberg	7: 6 4 , 4: 6, [7:10]
4th	February 8, 2014	Viña del Mar	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Oliver Marach Florin Mergea	3: 6, 4: 6
5.	March 3, 2014	São Paulo	Sand (i)	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Philipp Oswald Guillermo García-López	7: 5, 4: 6, [13:15]
6th	March 29, 2014	Miami	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 7 8 , 4: 6
7th	July 26, 2015	Båstad	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Jérémy Chardy Łukasz Kubot	7: 6 6 , 3: 6, [8:10]
8th.	2nd August 2015	Hamburg	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Jamie Murray John Peers	6: 2, 3: 6, [8:10]
9.	October 11, 2015	Tokyo	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Raven Klaasen Marcelo Melo	6: 7 5 , 6: 3, [7:10]
10.	May 1, 2016	Munich	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Henri Kontinen John Peers	3: 6, 6: 3, [7:10]
11.	February 25, 2017	Rio de Janeiro	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Pablo Carreño Busta Pablo Cuevas	4: 6, 7: 5, [8:10]
12.	April 30, 2017	Budapest	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Brian Baker Nikola Mektic	6: 7 2 , 4: 6
13.	May 27, 2017	Geneva	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	6: 2, 6: 7 9 , [6:10]
14th	January 27, 2018	Australian Open	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Oliver Marach Mate Pavic	4: 6, 4: 6
15th	February 18, 2018	Buenos Aires	sand	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Andrés Molteni Horacio Zeballos	3: 6, 7: 5, [3:10]
16.	19th August 2018	Cincinnati (1)	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	6: 4, 3: 6, [6:10]
17th	January 12, 2019	Sydney	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	4: 6, 3: 6
18th	18th August 2019	Cincinnati (2)	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Ivan Dodig Filip Polášek	6: 4, 4: 6, [6:10]
19th	February 29, 2020	Acapulco	Hard court	Juan Sebastian Cabal	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	6: 7 6 , 7: 6 4 , [9:11]

Mixed

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 10, 2016	Wimbledon	race	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Henri Kontinen Heather Watson	6: 7 5 , 4: 6
2.	June 8, 2017	French Open	sand	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	Gabriela Dabrowski Rohan Bopanna	6: 2, 2: 6, [10:12]

Web links

Commons : Robert Farah  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Robert Farah (English)
• ITF profile of Robert Farah (English)
• Davis Cup statistics Robert Farah (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cabal-Farah Outlast Indo-Pak Express 21-19 In Final Set. In: atpworldtour.com. ATP, June 23, 2011, archived from the original on November 30, 2011 ; accessed on December 30, 2017 (English). 
2. ↑ Positive doping test: ITF bans Jarry and Farah. kicker.de, January 14, 2020, accessed on January 15, 2020 . 
3. ↑ The Meat Spell
4. ↑ ATP: Despite a positive doping test - No ban for double ace Farah. In: tennisnet.com. February 10, 2020, accessed February 10, 2020 .