Pablo Cuevas

Pablo Gabriel Cuevas
Country	Uruguay
Residence	Salto, Uruguay
Born	January 1, 1986 (age 26); Concordia, Argentina
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	73 kg (160 lb; 11.5 st)
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$1,065,038
Singles
Career record	39–31
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 45 (October 12, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 91 (October 3, 2011)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1R (2010, 2011)
French Open	1R (2008, 2010, 2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2009)
US Open	2R (2009, 2010)
Doubles
Career record	48-32
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 14 (April 20, 2009)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	-
French Open	W (2008)
Wimbledon	1R (2009)
US Open	2R (2007, 2008)
	Last updated on: October 26, 2009.

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Pablo Gabriel Cuevas Urroz (born January 1, 1986, in Concordia, Argentina)^[1] is a Uruguayan professional tennis player. Cuevas won the 2008 French Open Men's Doubles title with Luis Horna.

In February 2009, Cuevas reached the doubles ranking of No. 16 after winning the 2009 Movistar Open. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of No. 45 on October 12, 2009.

[edit] Professional career

[edit] Early career

At the 2007 French Open, Cuevas and Argentine partner Carlos Berlocq made the third round of the men's doubles tournament. Cuevas won the Tunica, Scheveningen, and Lima singles Challenger titles, and the São Paulo-1 and Florianópolis-2 doubles Challenger tilities.

[edit] 2008

Cuevas opened the year at the Movistar Open in Viña del Mar, Chile. He earned his first tour-level victory in his first-round match against Guillermo Coria. He then beat Fernando Verdasco and José Acasuso, before falling in the semi-final against Fernando González.^[2] Cuevas reached his career-high singles ranking of No. 88 following Viña del Mar.

In March, Cuevas qualified for the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, his first ATP Masters Series event. He defeated Vince Spadea in the first round. before falling to Fernando González in the second round. At Houston, he partnered with Spaniard Marcel Granollers to reach the doubles final, falling to Ernests Gulbis and Rainer Schüttler.

At the 2008 French Open in May, Cuevas partnered with Peruvian Luis Horna to win the doubles title. On their way to the title, the pair defeated seventh seeds Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra in the first round, ninth seeds Lukáš Dlouhý and Leander Paes in the third round, top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan in the quarter-finals, and second-seeded Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić in the final. They defeated Nestor and Zimonjić 6-2, 6-3, in only 56 minutes to win the title.^[3] Cuevas and Horna became the first all-South American team to win a Grand Slam Men's Doubles title, and Cuevas became the second Uruguayan, after Fiorella Bonicelli, to win a Grand Slam title.

[edit] 2009

At the 2009 Movistar Open in Viña del Mar Cuevas, as in 2008, he reached the semifinals in singles, where he met local favorite Fernando González. González won the match 6-3, 6-2. In doubles Cuevas paired with Argentinean Brian Dabul, and together they won the tournament, winning the final against František Čermák and Michal Mertiňák by 6-3, 6-3. This win helped Cuevas achieve his doubles ranking high of 17 in the world on February 9, 2009.

In the first round at Wimbledon 2009, Cuevas defeated Christophe Rochus of Belgium in a come-from-behind victory, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, 11-9.[1] In the second round he lost to 21-year-old Jesse Levine of the U.S. (who defeated Marat Safin in the first round) 6-2, 6-1, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3.^[4]

Cuevas qualified into the 2009 International German Open. He reached the semifinals of that tournament by beating Björn Phau, 9th seeded Jürgen Melzer, 8th seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber, and 14th seeded Nicolás Almagro in the quarterfinals. He lost in his semifinal match with Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-4, 3-6, 5-7.

Cuevas played in the 2009 Kremlin Cup as the #5 seed. He advanced to the quarterfinals by defeating Lu Yen-hsun and Teymuraz Gabashvili. He lost in the quarterfinals to Mikhail Kukushkin 6-4, 1-6, 4-6. He did, however, win the doubles title partnering with Marcel Granollers.

[edit] 2011

He went 0-4 at the start of 2011, but when on arrival at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, he defeated both Michael Berrer and Andy Roddick by the same score, 6-4, 7-6 to reach the third round.

He defeated third-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and sixth-seeded Thomaz Bellucci in consecutive matches to reach the semifinals of the 2011 Estoril Open.

[edit] Davis Cup

Cuevas is 15-5 in Davis Cup singles matches, and 6–4 in Davis Cup doubles matches.

[edit] Major finals

[edit] Grand Slam finals

[edit] Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	2008	French Open	Clay	Luis Horna	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6–2, 6–3

[edit] ATP Career Finals

[edit] Doubles: 6 (4-2)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (1/0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0)
ATP World Tour 500 (0)
ATP World Tour 250 (3/2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
Runner-up	1.	April 14, 2008	Houston, USA	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Ernests Gulbis Rainer Schüttler	7–5, 7–6(3)
Winner	1.	June 7, 2008	Paris, France	Clay	Luis Horna	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6-2, 6-3
Winner	2.	February 7, 2009	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Brian Dabul	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	6-3, 6-3
Winner	3.	October 22, 2009	Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Marcel Granollers	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	4-6, 7-5, [10-8]
Winner	4.	February 14, 2010	Costa do Sauípe, Brazil	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	7-5, 6-4
Runner-up	2.	May 9, 2010	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Marc López David Marrero	6–7(1), 6–4, [10–4]