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Alberto Martín

Spanish tennis playerFor the Spanish footballer, see Alberto Martín (footballer). For the Spanish basketball player, see Alberto Miguel.In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Martín and the second or maternal family name is Magret.

Alberto Martín Magret (Spanish pronunciation::; born 20 August 1978) is a retired tennis player from Spain. He won three singles *les and reached five Masters Series quarterfinals on clay.

Contents

  • 1 Tennis career
  • 2 ATP Tour career finals
    • 2.1 Singles: 5 (3 *les, 2 runner-ups)
    • 2.2 Doubles: 6 (3 *les, 3 runner-ups)
  • 3 ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
    • 3.1 Singles: 14 (5–9)
    • 3.2 Doubles: 19 (7–12)
  • 4 Performance timelines
    • 4.1 Singles
    • 4.2 Doubles
  • 5 Junior Grand Slam finals
    • 5.1 Singles: 1 (1 *le)
  • 6 Top 10 wins per season
    • 6.1 Wins over top-ten players per season
  • 7 Notes
  • 8 References
  • 9 External links

Tennis career

Martín turned professional in 1995. He won three singles *les and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 34 in June 2001.

His best Grand Slam performance was reaching the fourth round of Roland Garros in 2006. En route to this performance, Martín's first-round win was his first victory over former world No. 1, Andy Roddick, in their fifth encounter. Martín led by two sets when Roddick retired with an ankle injury. Martín also beat No. 1 seed, Lleyton Hewitt, in the first round of the 2002 Australian Open, though Hewitt was recovering from chickenpox at the time of his victory.

Martín suffered the heaviest defeat in the history of the Australian Open. Andy Murray beat him in the first round of the 2007 tournament, 6–0, 6–0, 6–1. Martín had to wait until the penultimate game of the match before winning his only game.

In 2004, Martín was a member of the victorious Spain Davis Cup team for the Davis Cup first round against Czech Republic in Brno, although he did not play.

In 2017, he was a member of the victorious H30 Team of TV Ober-Eschbach which got promoted to the Bezirks-Oberliga (HTV) in 2018.

ATP Tour career finals

Singles: 5 (3 *les, 2 runner-ups)

Doubles: 6 (3 *les, 3 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 14 (5–9)


Doubles: 19 (7–12)


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.

Singles

Doubles

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 *le)


Top 10 wins per season

Wins over top-ten players per season


Notes

    References

      External links

      • Alberto Martín at the *ociation of Tennis Professionals
      • Alberto Martín at the International Tennis Federation
      • Alberto Martín at the Davis Cup
      • Alberto Martín at TV Ober-Eschbach

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