Alberto Berasategui

Country	Spain
Residence	Andorra la Vella, Andorra
Date of birth	28 June 1973 (1973-06-28) (age 36)
Place of birth	Bilbao, Spain
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Weight	65 kg (140 lb; 10.2 st)
Turned pro	1991
Retired	2001
Plays	Right-handed; one-handed backhand
Career prize money	US$4,676,187
Singles
Career record	278–199
Career titles	14
Highest ranking	No. 7 (14 November 1994)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (1998)
French Open	F (1994)
Wimbledon	1R (2000)
US Open	2R (1993, 1996)
Doubles
Career record	47–59
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 55 (6 October 1997)
Last updated on: 11 November 2007.

Alberto Berasategui (born 28 June 1973, in Bilbao, Spain) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. He reached the men's singles final at the French Open in 1994.

Berasategui began playing tennis at age 7 and was the European junior champion in 1991. He turned professional later that year, and won his first top-level singles title in 1993 in São Paulo. He established a reputation on the tour in the early 1990s as a very strong clay court player.^{[citation needed]}

In 1994, he reached nine finals, winning seven of them. And he qualified for his first (and only) Grand Slam final at the French Open, where he faced fellow-Spaniard and defending-champion Sergi Bruguera. Bruguera won the final in four sets.

Berasategui won a total of 14 top-level singles titles and 1 tour doubles titles. His career prize-money earnings totalled US$4,676,187. His last singles title was won in Estoril in 1998.

He was also known for his extreme western grip where his unusual hold on the racket would allow him to hit both forehands and backhands with the same side of the racket.^[1] This helped him on the clay surfaces only but on other surfaces he did not have much of an impact save for a quarter-final appearance at the Australian Open.^{[citation needed]}

He retired from the professional tour in 2001.

Contents 1 Major finals 1.1 Grand Slam finals 1.1.1 Singles: 1 (0-1) 2 Career finals 2.1 Singles: 23 (14-9) 2.2 Singles performance timeline 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Major finals

[edit] Grand Slam finals

[edit] Singles: 1 (0-1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1994	French Open	Clay	Sergi Bruguera	6–3, 7–5, 2–6, 6–1

[edit] Career finals

[edit] Singles: 23 (14-9)

Wins (14)

Legend

Grand Slam tournaments (0)

Tennis Masters Cup (0)

ATP Masters Series (0)

ATP Championship Series (1)

ATP Tour (13)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	8 November 1993	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Sláva Doseděl	6–4, 6–3
2.	18 April 1994	Nice, France	Clay	Jim Courier	6–4, 6–2
3.	25 July 1994	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Andrea Gaudenzi	7–5, 6–3, 7–6(5)
4.	29 August 1994	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Karol Kučera	6–2, 6–4
5.	3 October 1994	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Àlex Corretja	2–6, 7–6(6), 6–4
6.	10 October 1994	Athens, Greece	Clay	Óscar Martínez	4–6, 7–6(4), 6–3
7.	31 October 1994	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Francisco Clavet	6–3, 6–4
8.	7 November 1994	Montevideo, Uruguay	Clay	Francisco Clavet	6–4, 6–0
9.	19 June 1995	Oporto, Portugal	Clay	Carlos Costa	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
10.	24 June 1996	Bologna, Italy	Clay	Carlos Costa	6–3, 6–4
11.	29 July 1996	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Àlex Corretja	6–2, 6–4, 6–4
12.	16 September 1996	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Carlos Moyà	6–1, 7–6(5)
13.	6 October 1997	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Dominik Hrbatý	6–4, 6–2
14.	13 April 1998	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Thomas Muster	3–6, 6–1, 6–3

Runner-ups (9)

Legend

Grand Slam tournaments (1)

Tennis Masters Cup (0)

ATP Masters Series (0)

ATP Championship Series (1)

ATP Tour (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	30 August 1993	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Thomas Muster	7–5, 3–6, 6–3
2.	11 October 1993	Athens, Greece	Clay	Jordi Arrese	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
3.	15 November 1993	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Carlos Costa	3–6, 6–1, 6–4
4.	23 May 1994	Bologna, Italy	Clay	Javier Sanchez	7–6(3), 4–6, 6–3
5.	6 June 1994	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	Sergi Bruguera	6–3, 7–5, 2–6, 6–1
6.	6 November 1995	Montevideo, Uruguay	Clay	Bohdan Ulihrach	6–2, 6–3
7.	15 September 1997	Marbella, Spain	Clay	Albert Costa	6–3, 6–2
8.	20 April 1998	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Todd Martin	6–2, 1–6, 6–3, 6–2
9.	11 October 1999	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Arnaud di Pasquale	6–1, 6–3

[edit] Singles performance timeline

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	Career SR	Career Win-Loss
Grand Slams
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	3R	QF	1R	1R	A	0 / 4	6–4
French Open	A	A	1R	2R	F	3R	3R	1R	4R	4R	1R	A	0 / 9	17–9
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	0 / 1	0–1
US Open	A	A	A	2R	1R	A	2R	1R	1R	A	A	A	0 / 5	2–5
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 2	0 / 1	0 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 0	0 / 19	N/A
Annual Win-Loss	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–2	6–2	2–1	3–2	2–3	7–3	3–2	0–3	0–0	N/A	25–19
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	1R	3R	1R	QF	1R	1R	A	A	0 / 6	4–6
Miami	A	A	A	A	3R	3R	A	2R	2R	2R	1R	A	0 / 6	2–6
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	A	3R	3R	1R	2R	SF	1R	1R	A	0 / 7	8–7
Rome	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	2R	SF	SF	2R	A	A	0 / 6	11–6
Hamburg	A	A	2R	A	1R	2R	2R	QF	3R	3R	A	A	0 / 7	8–7
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	1–1
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	3R	A	A	1R	A	A	A	0 / 2	2–2
Stuttgart (Stockholm)	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 3	1–3
Paris	A	A	A	A	A	A	3R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	2–2
Masters Series SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 5	0 / 7	0 / 7	0 / 7	0 / 6	0 / 5	0 / 2	0 / 0	0 / 40	N/A
Annual Win-Loss	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	4–5	5–7	6–7	11–7	9–6	3–5	0–2	0–0	N/A	39–40
Year End Ranking	495	298	115	36	8	32	19	23	21	60	153	737	N/A

[edit] References

1. ^ Roetert, P. & J.L. Groppel: World-Class Tennis Technique, p. 156. Human Kinetics, 2001.

[edit] External links

• Alberto Berasategui at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Alberto Berasategui at Davis Cup