Spanish tennis player

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gimeno and the second or maternal family name is Traver.

Daniel Gimeno Traver (Spanish pronunciation::; born 7 August 1985) is a professional Spanish tennis player who turned pro in 2004, when he was eighteen years old. He reached the final of Casablanca in 2015 and has won 12 Challenger Tour events, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 48 in March 2013.

Contents

• 1 Personal life
• 2 Tennis career
  • 2.1 Juniors
  • 2.2 Pro tour
• 3 ATP career finals
  • 3.1 Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)
  • 3.2 Doubles: 2 (1 *le, 1 runner-up)
• 4 Challenger career finals
  • 4.1 Singles (14–11)
    • 4.1.1 Runners-up
  • 4.2 Doubles (3–6)
    • 4.2.1 Runners-up
• 5 Performance timelines
  • 5.1 Singles
  • 5.2 Doubles
• 6 Wins over top 10 players
• 7 References
• 8 External links

Personal life

Daniel Gimeno Traver was born 7 August 1985 in Valencia, Spain. He is the son of Javier, a chemist, and Marisol, a nurse, and is the second of four brothers, Carlos, Miguel and Víctor being his siblings.

Tennis career

Gimeno Traver started playing tennis at the age of 2. He prefers to play on clay and is currently coached by Israel Sevilla.

Juniors

As a junior, he won the European Championships in 2003 beating Marcos Baghdatis in Switzerland. Gimeno Traver won a further 5 junior *les, compiling a singles win–loss record of 51–10 and reaching as high as No. 4 in the junior world rankings in May 2003. He also beat Novak Djokovic on the way to a quarter-final place at Roland Garros, losing to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Junior Slam results:

Australian Open: -
French Open: QF (2003)
Wimbledon: 1R (2003)
US Open: 3R (2003)

Pro tour

Gimeno Traver reached ATP World Tour semifinals at Stuttgart and Gstaad in 2010, St. Petersburg in 2012 and Oeiras in 2014. His best Grand Slam performance was at the 2010 US Open, when he beat Jarkko Nieminen and Jérémy Chardy to reach the third round.

At the 2015 Grand Prix H*an II, Gimeno Traver defeated seeded players Mikhail Kukushkin and Jiří Veselý to reach his first ATP 250 final, where he lost to Martin Kližan.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 2 (1 *le, 1 runner-up)

Challenger career finals

Singles (14–11)

Runners-up

Doubles (3–6)

Runners-up

Performance timelines

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record. To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current till 2018 Wimbledon Championships.

Singles

Doubles

Wins over top 10 players

• He has a 3–20 (.130) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

References

External links

• Daniel Gimeno Traver at the *ociation of Tennis Professionals
• Daniel Gimeno Traver at the International Tennis Federation
• Gimeno Traver recent match results
• Gimeno Traver World ranking history