Chilean tennis player

Julio Leonardo Peralta Martínez (Spanish pronunciation::; born 9 September 1981) is a professional tennis player from Chile. Peralta has found success in the late stage of his career, reaching no. 29 in the ATP rankings in doubles. He captured six doubles *les at ATP World Tour and one singles challenger *le. He went on hiatus, from 2008 to 2011, from 2011 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2022.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 2015: Challenger Tour
  • 1.2 2016: Three ATP Doubles *les
  • 1.3 2017: Another *le, French Open quarterfinals, top 30 debut
  • 1.4 2018: Two *les
  • 1.5 2022: Back on the ATP tour
• 2 ATP career finals
  • 2.1 Doubles: 10 (6 *les, 4 runner-ups)
• 3 ATP Challenger & ITF Futures finals
  • 3.1 Singles (8–6)
  • 3.2 Doubles (18–10)
• 4 Doubles performance timeline
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Career

Peralta turned pro in 2000, and had his best year in his singles career in 2003, year which he won a challenger tournament, the BH Tennis Open International Cup in Belo Horizonte. In 2005, he retired, then made a comeback in 2007 at futures tournaments. Julio competed throughout 2008, but he suffered an injury the next year.

He made his comeback (after long, exhausting, two-year injury) in the 2011 Spark*en Open, winning comfortably the first two qualifying rounds, against Stefan Seifert and David Goffin (no. 220). In the main tournament, he defeated Victor Crivoi.

After a long hiatus, he returned in the 2014 Napa Challenger doubles tournament partnering Matt Seeberger. In early November, he won the *les in both singles and doubles USA F30 tournament. He did not lose a single set in main draw in both tournaments. In Chile F9 tournament he made the singles final, losing to Hans Podlipnik-Castillo and the following week won the doubles tournament in Chile F10 partnering Seeberger.

2015: Challenger Tour

Peralta played many challenger tournaments this year, reaching seven finals, winning four and partnering Horacio Zeballos in three of these *les. With these victories, Peralta rose almost 400 positions in the ranking, ending the year at no. 105.

2016: Three ATP Doubles *les

He broke through onto the ATP World Tour doubles circuit in 2016, winning the Brazil Open, the Swiss Open and the Moselle Open with Horacio Zeballos. He won his first match in a Grand Slam at the French Open, partnering Denis Kudla, but the duo lost in the second round. Peralta also won six challenger tournaments, partnering Zeballos in four, in one with Dennis Novikov, and at Santiago with countryman Hans Podlipnik. Peralta tied with Matt Reid and John-Patrick Smith for most Challenger *les in doubles for the year. Peralta finished the year ranked 44th in the world in doubles, and the highest ranked Chilean player in singles or doubles, record he has held since then.

2017: Another *le, French Open quarterfinals, top 30 debut

Peralta and Zeballos reached the final of the Ecuador Open, but lost to James Cerretani and Philipp Oswald. They went on to win the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships. At the French Open, he partnered Zeballos to reach the quarterfinals. This saw his ranking jump to a career high of no. 35.

In the rest of the year, Peralta reached two more tournament finals with Zeballos, and another one with Santiago González, with whom reached quarterfinals at Shangai Masters too. With these results, Peralta ended the year at no. 29, his best position yet.

2018: Two *les

Peralta had a slow beginning of the year, with semifinals at 2018 ASB Cl*ic as the only notable result. Julio and Horacio Zeballos reunited for attempting a defense of their *le in the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, but they lost in first round. They also tried to imitate their past year quarterfinals run on the French Open, but they lost in second round. Partnering with Roman Jebavy, they reached semifinals of the 2018 Antalya Open.

Peralta and Zeballos partnered again for the 2018 Wimbledon and won over 16th seeds Max Mirnyi and Philipp Oswald in first round, but then lost in second round. The partnership went on and they won the 2018 Swedish Open, defeating in the final the Italian pair Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini. The following week Peralta and Zeballos won another *le, the 2018 German Open, his first on the ATP 500 level, defeating Oliver Marach and Mate Pavić in the final.

2022: Back on the ATP tour

After almost 4 years of hiatus, Peralta came back on the ATP tour in April where he entered the 2022 BMW Open with Franko Škugor with a protected ranking and next at the 2022 Italian Open (tennis) as an alternate pair also with Škugor where they won their first round match against top 50 players Tomislav Brkic and Nikola Cacic.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 10 (6 *les, 4 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger & ITF Futures finals

Singles (8–6)

Doubles (18–10)

Doubles performance timeline

(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.

References

External links

• Julio Peralta at the *ociation of Tennis Professionals
• Julio Peralta at the International Tennis Federation