Sergio Roitman

Sergio Roitman
Sergio Roitman at the 2006 Kremlin Cup in Moscow
Nation:	Argentina
Birthday:	May 16, 1979
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	79 kg
1st professional season:	1996
Resignation:	2009
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Alejandro Lombardo
Prize money:	$ 1,296,022
singles
Career record:	25:62
Highest ranking:	62 (October 8, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	43:66
Career title:	2
Highest ranking:	45 (September 8, 2008)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Sergio Andres Roitman (born May 16, 1979 in Buenos Aires ) is a retired Argentinian tennis player .

Career

Roitman started playing tennis at the age of ten and turned pro in 1996. He achieved his greatest sporting successes in doubles, each time together with Andrés Schneiter . In 2000 he won in Amsterdam and in 2001 he won his only two titles on the ATP World Tour in Umag . On the lower class ATP Challenger Tour he won a total of 35 titles, 10 of them in singles. In 2003 when he won the tournament in Cherbourg , he was able to defeat the later number 1 Rafael Nadal in the final . His best performance in a Grand Slam tournament was the semi-finals at the US Open . In the individual, he never got past the opening round in twelve main draw participations. On September 8, 2008 he reached 45th place in the double world rankings ; in the individual he was on October 8, 2007 on rank 62. After the Challenger in Buenos Aires 2009 he announced his resignation due to recurring injuries.

Personal

At the age of 17, Roitman was shot in the stomach with a rubber bullet at a Hermética concert . Roitman learned the piano at the ages of 6 and 12, but ultimately decided to play tennis.

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 (2) ATP Challenger Tour (33)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (0) Sand (2) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 4, 2002	St. Petersburg	sand	Andrei Stolyarov	7: 6 3 , 6: 2
2.	March 2, 2003	Cherbourg	Hard court (i)	Rafael Nadal	6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 4
3.	June 11, 2005	Barcelona	sand	Teimuras Gabashvili	6: 2, 6: 3
4th	September 4, 2005	Freudenstadt	sand	Flavio Cipolla	7: 5, 6: 4
5.	November 4, 2006	Aracaju	sand	Boris Pašanski	6: 1, 6: 3
6th	November 19, 2006	Guayaquil (1)	sand	Mariano Zabaleta	6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 1
7th	June 9, 2007	Prostějov	sand	Florian Mayer	7: 6 1 , 6: 4
8th.	September 23, 2007	Szczecin	sand	Ivo Minář	6: 2, 7: 5
9.	November 18, 2007	Buenos Aires	sand	Marcos Daniel	6: 1, 6: 4
10.	November 8, 2008	Guayaquil (2)	sand	Brian Dabul	7: 6 5 , 6: 4

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 23, 2000	Amsterdam	sand	Andrés Schneiter	Edwin Kempes Dennis van Scheppingen	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1
2.	July 16, 2001	Umag	sand	Andrés Schneiter	Ivan Ljubičić Lovro Zovko	6: 2, 7: 5

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 12, 2000	Sopot	sand	Andrés Schneiter	Óscar Hernández German Puentes	6: 4, 6: 2
2.	September 1, 2000	Budapest (1)	sand	Andrés Schneiter	David Miketa David Škoch	6: 3, 6: 3
3.	September 16, 2000	Skopje	sand	Enzo Artoni	Dejan Petrovic Sebastián Prieto	7: 5, 5: 7, 6: 3
4th	April 14, 2001	San Luis Potosí	sand	Edgardo Massa	Paul Hanley Nathan Healey	6: 4, 5: 7, 7: 6 3
5.	May 25, 2001	Budapest (2)	sand	Daniel Melo	Jordan Kerr Damien Roberts	6: 2, 6: 4
6th	August 31, 2002	Brindisi	sand	Mariano Delfino	Marc López Salvador Navarro	7: 6 4 , 6: 7 3 , 6: 4
7th	September 13, 2002	Budapest (1)	sand	Paul Baccanello	Jan Frode Andersen Oliver Gross	6: 4, 6: 7 5 , 6: 5 up.
8th.	September 28, 2002	Maia	sand	Sebastian Prieto	Paul Baccanello Todd Perry	6: 4, 6: 4
9.	March 29, 2003	Barletta	sand	Sebastian Prieto	Massimo Bertolini Giorgio Galimberti	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 3
10.	September 4, 2004	Kiev	sand	Albert Portas	Igor Kunitsyn Yuri Shchukin	6: 1, 6: 1
11.	November 27, 2004	Bogotá	sand	Santiago Ventura	Richard Barker Frank Moser	7: 5, 6: 4
12.	May 28, 2005	Turin	sand	Franco Ferreiro	Francesco Aldi Alessio di Mauro	6: 7 4 , 7: 5, 7: 6 2
13.	September 10, 2005	Genoa	sand	Leonardo Azzaro	Marco Pedrini Andrea Stoppini	6: 1, 6: 4
14th	September 16, 2005	Budapest (2)	sand	Leonardo Azzaro	Philipp Petzschner Lars Uebel	6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 3
15th	November 19, 2005	Aracaju (1)	sand	Máximo González	Carlos Berlocq Martín Vassallo Argüello	6: 4, 6: 7 5 , 6: 3
16.	January 28, 2006	Santiago de Chile	sand	Máximo González	Jorge Aguilar Felipe Parada	6: 4, 6: 3
17th	April 15, 2006	Florianópolis	sand	Máximo González	Thiago Alves Júlio Silva	6: 2, 3: 6, [10: 5]
18th	August 12, 2006	San Marino	sand	Máximo González	Jérôme Haehnel Julien Jeanpierre	6: 3, 6: 4
19th	October 28, 2006	Montevideo	sand	Máximo González	Guillermo Cañas Martín García	6: 3, 7: 6 5
20th	November 3, 2006	Aracaju (2)	sand	Máximo González	Tomas Behrend Marcel Granollers	7: 6 6 , 3: 6, [10: 6]
21st	May 18, 2008	Bordeaux	sand	Diego Hartfield	Tomasz Bednarek Dušan Vemić	6: 4, 6: 4
22nd	July 25, 2009	Poses	sand	Alexandre Sidorenko	Michael Kohlmann Rogier Wassen	6: 4, 6: 4
23.	October 3, 2009	Buenos Aires	sand	Brian Dabul	Lucas Arnold Ker Máximo González	6: 7 4 , 6: 0, [10: 8]

Web links

Commons : Sergio Roitman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Sergio Roitman (English)
• ITF profile Sergio Roitman (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roitman se retira del tenis profesional. In: atpworldtour.com. September 26, 2009, archived from the original on September 29, 2009 ; Retrieved December 18, 2017 (Spanish).