Horacio Zeballos
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| Country | Argentina |
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| Residence | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Born | 27 April 1985 Mar del Plata, Argentina |
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 78.0 kg (172 lb; 12.28 st) |
| Turned pro | 2003 |
| Plays | Left-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Career prize money | US$ 700,243 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 21–33 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 41 (16 November 2009) |
| Current ranking | No. 107 (18 July 2011) |
| Grand Slam results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2010) |
| French Open | 2R (2010) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (2010) |
| US Open | 2R (2009) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 33–23 |
| Career titles | 2 |
| Highest ranking | No. 32 (25 October 2010) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 3R (2010) |
| French Open | 2R (2010) |
| Wimbledon | 2R(2010) |
| US Open | SF (2010) |
| Other Doubles tournaments | |
| Last updated on: 19 July 2010. | |
| Medal record | ||
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Competitor for  Argentina |
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| Pan American Games | ||
| Gold | 2007 Rio de Janeiro | Men's Doubles |
Horacio Zeballos Jr. (born on April 27, 1985 in Mar del Plata) is a professional Argentine tennis player on the men's circuit. His highest singles ranking to date is World Number 41, which he reached on November 16, 2009. His highest doubles ranking to date has been World Number 32, on October 25, 2010. He has played most of his tennis on the Challenger events. He qualified for the US Open and defeated Michael Berrer in the first round for his first win at Grand Slam level, before losing to Tomáš Berdych in 4 sets in the second round.
Zeballos enjoys music, ping-pong, and swimming. His father is named Horacio Zeballos as well, and his mother is named Carolina. He has one sister, Carolina Jr. His favorite surface is the clay and is coached by Alejandro Lombardo who also coaches Gastón Gaudio.
He reached the final in the St. Petersburg Open in Russia, losing to Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky. He also reached the doubles final at the Movistar Open in Santiago in 2010, partnered with Potito Starace. They lost to the number 1 seeds, Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach. He then won the title in doubles at the Copa Telmex with Sebastián Prieto. Zeballos won the 2009 ATP Newcomer of the Year award on February 17, 2010.
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[edit] 2009
Zeballos played most of his tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour. He won 5 singles titles and 6 doubles titles. Then he played the St. Petersburg Open in St. Petersburg and made it to the final, defeating Yuri Schukin, Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr., Ernests Gulbis, and Igor Kunitsyn before falling to Stakhovsky in a third set tiebreak in the final.
[edit] 2010
Zeballos started the singles season in a slump, falling in the first round four times. Losing to countryman Juan Mónaco in Auckland, German Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Australian Open, before losing in 3 after taking the opener against Łukasz Kubot in Santiago. Before retiring half way through losing the second set when already a set down with Spain's Marcel Granollers, in his first clay match of the year in Brazil. Horacio, though, had an excellent start to the doubles season. In his first tournament, the Heineken Open, Zeballos and Rogier Wassen defeated World Number 1 team Bob and Mike Bryan. Zeballos then reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open with countryman Leonardo Mayer, and reached the final at the Movistar Open with Italian Potito Starace. Zeballos then turned to the clay in the Copa Telmex in his home country of Argentina, where in the first round, he defeated countryman and former French Open champion Gastón Gaudio 6–3, 3–6, 6–3. It was Zeballos' first ATP win since he reached the final in St. Petersburg. Zeballos next defeated former world number 1 Carlos Moyá, 6–4, 6–4. It was his first ATP quarterfinal since October. He then lost to countryman Juan Mónaco. In doubles, Zeballos and countryman Sebastián Prieto were the fourth seeds and won the title against Simon Greul and Peter Luczak, 7–6, 6–1. It was Zeballos' first career ATP title. The next week, at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Zeballos lost in the first round to Łukasz Kubot. He made it to the doubles semifinals, partnered with Monaco, when Monaco withdrew.
Zeballos then was selected for the Argentine Davis Cup team for the first time. He played doubles with David Nalbandian against the Swedish pair of Robert Lindstedt and Robin Söderling. They won in straight sets. Next, Zeballos played the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. Zeballos lost to Ricardo Mello. Then, he redeemed himself by winning his first round match at the Sony Ericsson Open against Andreas Seppi. After that, Zeballos reached a career milestone as he defeated his first-ever top-25 player, 24th ranked Gilles Simon in the second round, 6–2, 6–3. He then lost in the third round to eventual finalist Tomáš Berdych.
His next tournament was the US Men's Clay Court Championships. He defeated Taylor Dent in the first round and then defeated Israeli Dudi Sela, 6–3, 6–2. He then defeated World number 11, Fernando González, for his first top-15 win and the biggest one of his career. He then faced Juan Ignacio Chela in the semifinal, where he lost in straight sets, Chela went on to take the title.
Horacio then went to Europe. At the Monte Carlo Masters he lost in the first round in straight sets to Spain's Tommy Robredo and in the Barcelona Open to Pablo Cuevas . He then lost to John Isner in Rome but defeated Peter Polansky in Belgrade in his next match. In the second round of the Serbia Open, he lost to Filip Krajinović. However, he beat new rival Krajinovic in the ARAG World Team Cup, where Argentina won in the title when Zeballos defeated American Robby Ginepri, in the second rubber of the final. In the first round of the French Open, Zeballos defeated qualifier Martin Fischer, 7–6, 6–7, 1–6, 6–4, 8–6. He lost to eventual champion Rafael Nadal in the second round. At Wimbledon, Horacio lost to Lu Yen-hsun in the first round but in doubles with partner Leonardo Mayer, defeated fifth seeded pair of Łukasz Kubot and Olivier Marach. Horacio later won a Davis Cup doubles rubber with Eduardo Schwank, and Argentina went into the semifinal.
Horacio next plays the Atlanta Tennis Championships. He is the 4th seed, gets a bye into the second round, and lost to Taylor Dent. He then lost in Los Angeles, won one match in Washington and lost in New Haven to Máximo González. At the US Open, Horacio recorded the biggest win of his career. In singles, he lost to Igor Andreev. In doubles, with Eduardo Schwank, they won their first round and in the second round, came back from serving 2–4, 15–40 in a third set to win in a tiebreak against the world number 4 team, Max Mirnyi and Mahesh Bhupathi. They then defeated Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecău for Horacio to reach his first major quarterfinal. On Arthur Ashe Stadium, they defeated Kubot and Marach to get to the semifinals. Their great run was ended there, losing to Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.
Horacio then went to play two tournaments in France, the first being Davis Cup. In Argentina's loss to France, he and Schwank lost to Michaël Llodra and Arnaud Clément. Horacio next made his Davis Cup singles debut against Clement. He lost the match. A month later, Horacio played in Moscow, Russia. He made it to the quarterfinals, with a great upset of Janko Tipsarević on the way. After losing in St. Petersburg, Horacio made his way back to the Challenger tour. In his first three tournaments, he made 2 quarterfinals and lost in round 2 of the Copa Topper to countryman Juan Pablo Brzezicki.
[edit] 2011
Horacio started the season playing challengers. First, in São Paulo, he beat Júlio Silva before falling to 448th ranked qualifier Rafael Camilo. He rebounded in Bucaramanga by beating veteran Iván Navarro in the first round, before losing to Moroccan Reda El Amrani in the second.
His victories were good enough to maintain his ranking of 108, and to get into the main draw of the ATP event, the Movistar Open in Santiago. Horacio beat qualifier Ricardo Hocevar in the first round, before taking on David Nalbandian in the second.
[edit] Career finals
[edit] ATP World Tour finals
[edit] Doubles: 3 (2–1)
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| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partnering | Opponents in the final | Score |
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| Winner | 1. | 21 February 2010 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Clay | Sebastián Prieto |
 Simon Greul Peter Luczak |
7–6(7–4), 6–3 |
| Runner-up | 1. | 07 February 2010 |  Santiago, Chile |
Clay |  Potito Starace |
 Oliver Marach Łukasz Kubot |
4–6, 0–6 |
| Winner | 2. | 01 May 2011 | Munich, Germany |
Clay | Simone Bolelli |
Andreas Beck Christopher Kas |
7–6(7–3), 6–4 |
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- Horacio Zeballos at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Horacio Zeballos at the International Tennis Federation
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| Preceded by Kei Nishikori |
ATP Newcomer of the Year 2009 |
Succeeded by Tobias Kamke |
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