Frederico Gil

Frederico Gil

Country	Portugal
Residence	Sintra, Portugal
Born	(1985-03-24) 24 March 1985 Lisbon, Portugal
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,380,841
Singles
Career record	66–76[1] (46%)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 62 (25 April 2011)
Current ranking	No. 538 (16 September 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	3R (2012)
French Open	1R (2008, 2009, 2011)
Wimbledon	1R (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
US Open	1R (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Doubles
Career record	24–33[2] (42%)
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 105 (20 September 2010)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2010, 2012)
French Open	1R (2011)
Wimbledon	2R (2008)
US Open	3R (2010)
Last updated on: 16 September 2013.

Frederico Gil (born 24 March 1985) is a Portuguese professional tennis player who competes on the ATP Tour. In April 2011, he achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 62, the highest ranking a Portuguese player had ever held until September when Rui Machado placed No. 61 in the rankings. He was the first Portuguese to reach an ATP Tour final at the 2010 Estoril Open, and the first to achieve a career prize money over one million dollars. As a qualifier, Gil reached the quarterfinals of the 2011 Monte-Carlo Masters. His former coaches were Juan Manuel Esparcia and Bernardo Mota, whilst he is currently coached by former player João Cunha e Silva.

Family and early life

Frederico Gil was born in Lisbon, Portugal to Rui and Carlota Gil. He has a younger sister named Ana. Gil began to play tennis at the age of five and considers clay his favorite surface. During his junior career he won three titles (in Bolivia in 2002 and Argentina and Portugal in 2003) and reached three other finals (twice in Portugal in 2002 and once in Brazil in 2003). In his last junior tournament he reached the quarterfinals at the Orange Bowl, which led him to finish at no. 10 in the world junior rankings in 2003.^[3]

Career

2003–2007

Gil turned professional in 2003 and spent several years on the Futures and Challenger circuits. Until his ATP debut in May 2006, at the Estoril Open, he had won five singles and two doubles Futures titles. He entered Estoril as a wildcard and reached the quarterfinals, surprisingly defeating fifth seed and no. 33 Dmitry Tursunov 4–6, 6–4, 6–1 along the way, before losing to eventual champion and first seed and no. 4 David Nalbandian 6–1, 6–2. He then captured his first Challenger title in June, at Sassuolo.

The year 2007 proved to be equally successful, as Gil qualified for the Casablanca Open in April. However, he lost to no. 39 Julien Benneteau 7–6(2), 2–6, 7–6(5) in the first round. He later reached the second round at Estoril the following week, losing to no. 15 Richard Gasquet 6–1, 6–2, but finally won the Seville Challenger in September.

2008

In April, Gil added more success to his career by again reaching the quarterfinals at Estoril, before losing to world no. 1 and eventual champion Roger Federer 6–4, 6–1. After winning his first Challenger doubles title, in May at Marrakech, he qualified for the first time to a Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, but lost in the first round against no. 145 Jérémy Chardy 6–3, 6–2, 7–6(1). After taking the Sassuolo Challenger title for a second time, he qualified for the Wimbledon Championships. In the singles, he lost once again to Chardy 7–5, 6–7(1), 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 in the first round, and in the doubles he reached the second round partnering with Dick Norman. Adding the Turin Challenger doubles title and the Istanbul Challenger singles title that summer to his curriculum, he entered the top-100 ranking for the first time, becoming only the second Portuguese player to do so, after the 86th place of Nuno Marques in 1995. Gil was then able to enter automatically at the US Open, however he would play and lose a third time with Chardy 3–6, 6–3, 6–2, 6–3 in the first round.

2009

Skipping the first Grand Slam of the year, Gil made his season's debut in February, at the inaugural Johannesburg tournament. He reached the semifinals at the hard-court event, before losing to eventual champion and first seed and no. 14 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6–3, 6–4. In doing this, Gil was the second Portuguese player to reach the semifinals of an ATP tournament, after his coach João Cunha Silva (in 1992 at Tel Aviv). The following week, in a different continent and in a different surface (clay), he repeated the feat. At the Brasil Open, in Costa do Sauípe, he upset the defending champion and top seed and no. 18 Nicolás Almagro in two tiebreak sets, 7–6(5), 7–6(4), but ended up losing in the semifinals to home player no. 84 Thomaz Bellucci in two tiebreak sets, 6–7(3), 6–7(4). After this, he broke the previous Portuguese singles ranking record by reaching the 83rd position at the ATP rankings table.

In March, as world no. 74, Gil surpassed the qualifying round in Miami, his first ATP Masters 1000 event. He defeated no. 77 Mischa Zverev 7–6(7), 6–2, and no. 27 Ivo Karlović 6–4, 6–4, in the first two rounds, respectively. The draw placed Gil in the path of the first seed and world number one Rafael Nadal. After closing a hard-fought first set in his favor, Nadal replied to a 2–0 game advantage for Gil with a sequence of service breaks and ended up winning the match by 7–5, 6–3. On 6 April, he rose to the 70th place of the revised ATP Tour ranking.

In April, competing in Casablanca, Gil reached the quarterfinals of an ATP 250 Series event for the third time this year, where he was defeated 7–6(5), 6–4 by Albert Montañés, ranked 35th. He then qualified to the Barcelona Open and after getting past no. 63 Yen-hsun Lu 6–2, 6–1 in the first round, he again faced and lost to no. 1 Rafael Nadal 6–2, 6–2.

In May, in Estoril, as the first Portuguese player to enter directly the main round via ranking, he lost in the first round to fourth seed and eventual finalist and no. 16 James Blake by 5–7, 6–4, 6–2. He then played second seed and no. 26 Jürgen Melzer in the first round of the Kitzbühel Open, losing 6–3, 6–0. At the French Open, he lost in the first round to no. 14 David Ferrer 6–2, 6–4, 6–4. After an early exit from the Czech Open at the hands of no. 113 Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6–3, 6–3, Gil defeated the Spanish player in the first round of the Queen's Club 6–1, 6–3; in the second round, former world no. 1 and four-time Queen's Club champion and no. 49 Lleyton Hewitt recovered from a first-set loss to defeat Gil by 3–6, 6–2, 6–2.

At Wimbledon, he faced no. 38 Paul-Henri Mathieu in the first round and lost 6–1, 2–6, 6–4, 6–2. In July, Gil played the Båstad and Umag tournaments losing in the first and second rounds respectively. In August, during the US hardcourt season, Gil reached the first round in Washington and the third round in New Haven before losing in the first round at the US Open against qualifier no. 162 Somdev Devvarman 6–3, 6–4, 6–3. Gil then lost in the first round in Bucharest. In late September, Gil participated in the Tennislife Cup Challenger event, in Napoli, as the world's number 100. He reached the singles final, where he defeated home player Potito Starace (86th) by 2–6, 6–1, 6–4, to win his first tournament of 2009—more than a year after his last in the 2008 Istambul Challenger and his fifth career ATP Challenger Tour title. Hours later, he would also win the doubles title, partnering with Ivan Dodig. On 5 October, Gil climbed back to the 83rd rank. Gil closed the year as the world no. 69th with a second round effort in Vienna and qualifying losses in Basel and Paris.

2010

Gil began the year with a 6–2, 6–0 first round loss to Starace in Doha. The following week, after qualifying for the main draw in Sydney, Gil again faced no. 62 Potito Starace in the first round, losing 6–1, 6–4. At the Australian Open, he retired in the first round after trailing 6–0, 6–0, 2–0 to no. 18 David Ferrer. His poor run of form continued throughout the first part of the season with successive early round exits at Costa do Sauípe, Buenos Aires, Acapulco and Indian Wells. By the end of March, Gil had fallen off the top-100 and began playing in the tour's qualifying draws, most notably in Casablanca, where he lost 6–2, 7–6(1) to no. 212 Martin Kližan in the third qualifying round, an event where he had reached the quarterfinals in the previous year. Not getting past the qualifying rounds of both Miami and Monte-Carlo's Masters, Gil finally reached a good result at the Tunis Challenger, where he lost only in the semifinal to 89th-ranked Daniel Brands by 6–7(6), 1–6.

Gil was initially entering the Estoril Open as a wildcard, in virtue of his low ranking, but he eventually qualified directly, for the second time, because of pre-tournament drop-outs by seeded players such as Nikolay Davydenko and Ivan Ljubičić. Gil achieved his career's best result by becoming the first Portuguese player to reach an ATP World Tour final. He paved his way to the last match by defeating better ranked players: Florian Mayer (49th; 6–2, 6–7(5), 6–3), Santiago Giraldo (61st; 6–4, 6–4), Rui Machado (114th; 4–6, 7–6(1), 6–3), and Guillermo García-López (40th; 6–2, 5–7, 6–3). In the final, Gil met defending champion and fourth-seed and no. 34 Albert Montañés who had eliminated first-seed and world no. 1 Roger Federer in two sets. The Spanish won the first set, 6–2, and had two match points in the second, but Gil recovered and closed the set in his favour on tie-break, 7–6(4). Gil had a 3–0 advantage in the final set and when it looked like he would grab his first ATP World Tour title, Montañés came from behind and ended the Portuguese's hopes with a 7–5 finish, revalidating his title. With this successful campaign, on 10 May, Gil climbed 31 places in the world rankings to become no. 102.

After that, Gil went back to the Challenger tour capturing the Milan tournament in June. The rest of the year was played between the Challenger and World tours, with the only significant victory coming in July against no. 38 Tommy Robredo in the first round in Gstaad where he beat the fifth seed 4–6, 7–5, 6–1. He lost in the second round against no. 147 Yuri Schukin 6–3, 6–3. He also reached the semi-finals in the Istanbul and Tarragona Challengers. In Grand Slams is losing streak continued losing in the Wimbledon and US Open first rounds and the qualifying tournament in Roland Garros. In October, at Montpellier in the Open Sud de France he beat no. 128 Édouard Roger-Vasselin by 6–4, 2–6, 7–5. He lost in the second round against no. 13 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6–3, 6–4. He finished the year placed in the 103rd position in the world and losing his Portuguese no. 1 status to his friend Rui Machado.

2011

Gil began the season losing in the Aircel Chennai Open in the first round to Tomáš Berdych (6th) by 6–0, 6–1. A week later, at Medibank International Sydney, he defeated world number 39 Jarkko Nieminen by 6–2 ret, reaching the second round where he lost to no. 41 Gilles Simon by 6–1, 6–3. At the Australian Open, he wins for the first time in the first round of a Grand Slam by 6–4, 6–7(7), 4–6, 6–3, 9–7 to Pablo Cuevas (63rd) in a four-hours-and-23-minutes five-setter thrilling match. He lost in the second round to world number 12 Gaël Monfils by 4–6, 3–6, 6–1, 2–6.

In February, at the Movistar Open, he lost in First round to no. 52 Tommy Robredo by 2–6, 6–3, 6–4. Later, he lost in the first round of Copa Claro to no. 55 Fabio Fognini by 1–6, 6–2, 6–2. A week later, at Abierto Mexicano Telcel he suffer his third consecutive lost in a first round of a tournament to no. 86 Filippo Volandri by 6–1, 3–6, 6–4.

In March, at the Miami Open Gil defeated no. 146 Paul Capdeville 6–1, 3–6, 7–6(6) in the first round. He then lost to no. 12 Nicolás Almagro by 6–4, 3–6, 6–2.

In April, competing in Casablanca, Gil reached the Second round where he was defeated 6–3, 6–4 by Gilles Simon, ranked 27th. At the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, he defeated world number 10 and 8th seed Gaël Monfils, reaching the quarterfinals of an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event for the first time. Despite the 6–2, 6–1 loss to world number 4 Andy Murray, Gil collected 205 points which allowed him to reach a career-high world ranking number 64. A week later, after achieving the quarter-finals in a challenger in Naples, defeated by Ivo Minář (122nd), by 6–7(5), 6–3, 3–6, where he reached a new career-high world ranking number 62, a week before is favorite tournament in Estoril, Portugal where he has many points to defend after losing in the final in the previous year. Gil was initially invited for the Estoril Open as a wildcard, in virtue of his low ranking, but he eventually qualified directly, because of pre-tournament drop-outs. He defeated in the first round world no. 159 Flavio Cipolla by 6–3, 6–2, but lost in the second round to the second-seed and world no. 15 Fernando Verdasco by 6–1, 7–6(5).

In May, he failed to pass the qualifying rounds of Internazionali BNL d'Italia, losing to no. 143 Łukasz Kubot by 6–3, 7–6(2). At the 2011 French Open he was eliminated in first round, losing to no. 29 Marcos Baghdatis by 7–6(4), 6–2, 6–2.

In June, he lost in Eastbourne in the first round to no. 106 Illya Marchenko by 6–1, 6–3. At Wimbledon, he faced no. 84 Dudi Sela in the first round and lost 6–4, 6–1, 6–4.

In July, in the first round in Gstaad he beat the qualifier João Souza world no. 112 by 4–6, 6–3, 6–4. He lost in the second round to the world no. 20 Fernando Verdasco by 6–3, 6–2.

In August, in the first round in Winston-Salem Open he lost to the world no. 102 Steve Darcis by 3–6, 6–3, 6–4. A week later, at the US Open, he lost in First round to world no. 23 Alexandr Dolgopolov by 6–4, 6–2, 7–5 in 1h58m.

In September, he reached the semi-final in the Genova Challenger. In the first round in Bucharest he beat world no. 106 Jérémy Chardy by 2–6, 6–4, 6–3 in 2h14m. He lost in the second round to the world no. 183 Alessandro Giannessi by 7–6(2), 0–6, 6–3 in 2h25m.

In October, he reached the quarter-finals in the Palermo Challenger.

In November, he reached the quarter-finals in the Buenos Aires Challenger in his last tournament of the season losing to his friend Gastão Elias by 1–6, 7–5, 7–5 in 2h57m after his opponent saved 2 match points when Gil was leading by 6–1, 5–4. Gil finished the year placed in the 102nd position in the world once again behind Rui Machado.

2012

Gil began the season losing in the Aircel Chennai Open in the first round to Go Soeda (120th) by 6–2, 6–7(4), 7–5 in 2h38m. A week later, at Apia International Sydney, he won the first round in the qualifying where he defeated world number 1099 Sadik Kadir by 6–4, 6–4 in 1h15m, in the second round he lost to no. 105 Stéphane Robert by 6–4, 6–1 in 1h5m, losing the 16 points he had achieved last year by reaching the second round. At the Australian Open, he won for the second time in the first round of a Grand Slam by defeating Ivan Dodig (36th) 2–6, 6–1, 6–1, 4–1, ret in 2h1m. Gil then made history by becoming the first Portuguese tennis player to reach the 3rd round of a Grand Slam tournament after downing Spain's Marcel Granollers (28th) in 4 sets by 6–3, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3, in 2h48m. In the third round, Gil lost to the world no. 6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga by 6–2, 6–2, 6–2 in 1h31m. Tsonga saved all six break points faced on serve and capitalised on six of his seven opportunities. After the Open, Gil reentered in top-100.

He then won the first round of VTR Open in Viña del Mar against world no. 106 Paolo Lorenzi. After splitting sets, Gil took command of the match in the third set, breaking the Italian four times to win the hard-fought encounter 6–3, 5–7, 6–1 in two hours and 26 minutes. Gil finished the match eight for 22 on his break point opportunities. In the second round, Gil ousted fourth seed and world no. 44 Pablo Andújar by 6–2, 6–1. Gil dominated with his return game, breaking the Spaniard six times, winning 66 per cent of his return points to clinch the upset in 57 minutes. In the quarter-finals, Gil lost to world no. 82 Jérémy Chardy by 6–2, 7–6(5) in 1h36m. At the Brasil Open, in São Paulo, he lost to the Spanish wild card and world no. 184 Javier Marti, who is the youngest player in the main draw and converted four of 11 break point opportunities, by 6–2, 6–4 in 1h26m. A week later, he lost in the first round of Copa Claro to no. 150 Federico Delbonis by 6–2, 6–2 in only 53m.

In March, at Indian Wells, Gil he won the first round in the qualifying where he defeated world number 193 Alex Kuznetsov by 6–1, 6–1 in only 56m, in the second round he lost to no. 165 Ruben Bemelmans by 6–4, 3–6, 6–4 in 2h5m, but he entered in the main draw as a lucky looser. He then defeated no. 427 Rhyne Williams by 6–3, 6–7(6), 6–4 in the first round in 2h26m. In the second round, he lost to world no. 11 John Isner by 7–5, 6–3 in 1h18m. At the Miami Open Gil defeated no. 45 Thomaz Bellucci 6–3, 6–4 in the first round in 1h32m. In the second round, he lost to world no. 35 and 32nd seed Philipp Kohlschreiber who won 78 per cent of his service points by 6–2, 7–5 in 1h12m.

In April, at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Gil won the first round in the qualifying where he defeated world number 167 Arnau Brugues-Davi by 1–6, 7–6(5), 7–5 in 2h16m, in the second round he won no. 67 Steve Darcis by 6–3, 3–6, 7–6(5) in 2h6m. He then defeated no. 35 Mikhail Youzhny by 6–1, 6–3 in the first round in 1h4m. In the second round, he lost to world no. 15 Gilles Simon by 6–3, 6–0 in 1h3m. A week later, at Barcelona Open Gil knocked out in the first round local resident and 12th seed and world no. 26 Marcel Granollers by 6–2, 6–2 in 1h13m. In the second round, he won over countryman world no. 140 João Sousa by 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 in 2h12m. In the third round, Gil lost to world no. 8 and 5th seed Janko Tipsarević by 6–2, 6–2 in only 1h9m.

In May, at the Estoril Open Gil lost in the first round to the German no. 87 Björn Phau, the oldest player in the draw at 32, by 6–4, 6–2 in 1h21m on Central Court. Phau converted five of seven break point opportunities in the pair's first tour-level meeting. A week later in the Madrid Open, Gil won the first round in the qualifying where he defeated world number 72 Matthew Ebden by 6–2 7–6(3) in 1h25m, in the second round he lost to no. 107 Daniel Gimeno Traver by 7–5, 6–4 in 1h33m. At the 2012 French Open he couldn't past the first round of the qualifying, he lost to no. 151 Jerzy Janowicz by 7–5 4–6 6–2.

In June, at the Queen's Club Gil lost in the first round to the 11th-seeded Cypriot no. 42 Marcos Baghdatis, by 7–6(2), 4–6, 6–2, in 2h30m on Central Court. A week later, at Wimbledon, he lost in First round of the qualifying to world no. 156 Jonathan Dasnieres de Veigy by 7–5, 4–6, 6–3.

In July, Gil played in Båstad and he won in the first round to world no. 163 Marsel Ilhan by 6–4, 1–6, 6–3 in 1h48m. In the second round, he lost to world no. 69 Grigor Dimitrov by 6–3, 6–4, in 1h21m. A week later, at Hamburg, he lost in First round of the qualifying to world no. 163 Marsel Ilhan by 6–3, 6–2 in 1h15m.

In August, at the US Open, he lost in first round of the qualifying to world no. 251 Pierre-Hugues Herbert by 7–5, 6–4 in 1h22m.

2013

Gil began the season in Viña del Mar, where he failed to qualify, losing in the third round to no. 200 Gianluca Naso. A week later, at the Brazil Open, in São Paulo, he lost in the first round of qualifying to Javier Marti. A week later, at Copa Claro, he lost in the first round of qualifying.

In April, in Davis Cup competition, Gil won his rubber against Kasparas Zemaitelis from Lithania, 6-1, 6-3. In his return to the circuit, he failed to qualify for Bucharest, losing in the second round to world no. 132 Flavio Cipolla. A week later, he lost in the second round of qualifying for his favorite tournament, the Estoril Open.

In May, he won in doubles a future in Coimbra with Gonçalo Falcao, in what turned out to be his last match before a temporarily retirement from professional tennis.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Legend Grand Slam (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 (0–1)

Titles by Surface Hard (0–0) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	9 May 2010	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Albert Montañés	2–6, 7–6(7–4), 5–7

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Legend Grand Slam (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 (1–0)

Titles by Surface Hard (0–0) Clay (1–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	5 February 2012	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Daniel Gimeno-Traver	Pablo Andújar Carlos Berlocq	1–6, 7–5, [12–10]

Challengers and Futures

Singles: 13 (11–2)

Legend Challengers (6–1) Futures (5–1)

Titles by Surface Hard (6–0) Clay (5–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	7 March 2005	Portugal F1, Faro, Portugal	Hard	Marcel Granollers	6–2, 6–7(3–7), 6–3
Winner	2.	21 March 2005	Portugal F3, Lagos, Portugal	Hard	Marcel Granollers	6–1, 6–3
Winner	3.	17 October 2005	Venezuela F5, Caracas, Venezuela	Hard	Piero Luisi	7–5, 6–2
Winner	4.	6 March 2006	Nigeria F1, Benin City, Nigeria	Hard	Valentin Sanon	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–3)
Winner	5.	10 April 2006	Portugal F3, Faro, Portugal	Hard	Rui Machado	7–6(7–4), 1–6, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	1 May 2006	Morocco F5, Rabat, Morocco	Clay	Lamine Ouahab	6–4, 6–3
Winner	6.	5 June 2006	Sassuolo, Italy	Clay	Gorka Fraile	6–3, 7–5
Winner	7.	10 September 2007	Seville, Spain	Clay	Pablo Andújar	6–1, 6–3
Winner	8.	2 June 2008	Sassuolo, Italy (2)	Clay	Santiago Ventura	6–2, 6–3
Winner	9.	11 August 2008	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Benedikt Dorsch	6–4, 1–6, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	3 May 2009	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Gastón Gaudio	6–2, 1–6, 6–3
Winner	10.	4 October 2009	Napoli, Italy	Clay	Potito Starace	2–6, 6–1, 6–4
Winner	11.	20 June 2010	Milan, Italy	Clay	Máximo González	6–1, 7–5

Doubles: 25 (10–15)

Legend Challengers (7–9) Futures (3–6)

Titles by Surface Hard (4–4) Clay (6–10) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	22 March 2004	Portugal F2, Albufeira, Portugal	Hard	Leonardo Tavares	Juan Ignacio Cerda & Jasper Smit	6–4, 6–4
Winner	1.	5 April 2004	Portugal F3, Lagos, Portugal	Hard	Bernardo Mota	Juan Ignacio Cerda & Jasper Smit	7–6(7–1), 6–1
Runner-up	2.	5 July 2004	Romania F8, Galați, Romania	Clay	Felipe Lemos	Cătălin Gârd & Andrei Mlendea	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	3.	21 March 2005	Portugal F3, Lagos, Portugal	Hard	Leonardo Tavares	Richard Holstrom & Christian Johansson	Walkover
Runner-up	4.	17 October 2005	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Marcelo Melo	Marcos Daniel & Santiago González	6–2, 7–5
Runner-up	5.	6 March 2006	Nigeria F1, Benin City, Nigeria	Hard	Nicholas Monroe	Abdul-Mumin Babalola & Jonathan Igbinovia	6–3, 6–7(4–7), 6–3
Runner-up	6.	3 April 2006	France F4, Lille, France	Hard (i)	Filip Urban	Stéphane Bohli & Artem Sitak	6–1, 6–2
Winner	2.	10 April 2006	Portugal F3, Faro, Portugal	Hard	Gonçalo Nicau	Sebastian Fitz & Jasper Smit	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	7.	6 May 2006	Morocco F5, Rabat, Morocco	Clay	Walid Jallali	Enrico Burzi & Dušan Karol	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	19 June 2006	Milan, Italy	Clay	Joan Albert Viloca	Giorgio Galimberti & Harel Levy	6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	9.	12 March 2007	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Dick Norman	Martín García & Diego Hartfield	6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
Runner-up	10.	28 May 2007	Karlsruhe, Germany	Clay	Michael Berrer	Alex Kuznetsov & Mischa Zverev	6–4, 6–7(6–7), [10–4]
Runner-up	11.	4 June 2007	Fürth, Germany	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Bruno Echagaray & André Ghem	7–6(7–1), 4–6, [13–11]
Runner-up	12.	20 August 2007	Manerbio, Italy	Clay	Alberto Martín	Antal Van Der Duim & Boy Westerhof	7–6(7–4), 3–6, [10–8]
Runner-up	13.	31 March 2008	Napoli, Italy	Clay	Luis Horna	Tomáš Cibulec & Jaroslav Levinský	6–1, 6–3
Winner	3.	12 May 2008	Marrakech, Morocco	Clay	Florin Mergea	James Auckland & Franko Škugor	6–2, 6–3
Winner	4.	6 July 2008	Turin, Italy	Clay	Carlos Berlocq	Tomáš Cibulec & Jaroslav Levinský	6–4, 6–3
Winner	5.	15 August 2009	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Filip Prpic	Grigor Dimitrov & Marsel İlhan	3–6, 6–2, [10–6]
Winner	6.	4 October 2009	Napoli, Italy	Clay	Ivan Dodig	Thiago Alves & Lukáš Rosol	6–1, 6–3
Winner	7.	12 June 2010	Lugano, Switzerland	Clay	Christophe Rochus	Santiago González & Travis Rettenmaier	7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	8.	4 July 2010	Turin, Italy (2)	Clay	Carlos Berlocq	Potito Starace & Daniele Bracciali	6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Winner	9.	30 October 2011	São José do Rio Preto, Brazil	Clay	Jaroslav Pospíšil	Franco Ferreiro & Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	14.	5 November 2011	São Leopoldo, Brazil	Clay	Gastão Elias	Franco Ferreiro & Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	6–7(7–4), 6–3, [11–9]
Runner-up	15.	20 October 2012	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Clay	Pedro Sousa	Marcelo Demoliner & João Souza	6–2, 6–4
Winner	10.	24 May 2013	Portugal F7, Coimbra, Portugal	Hard	Gonçalo Falcão	Carlos Boluda-Purkiss & Roberto Ortega-Olmedo	7-6(7-4), 7-6(9-7)

Exhibition

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	18 June 2011	Liverpool, United Kingdom	Grass	Fernando González	6–1, 7–6(7–6)

Singles performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

LQ (Q#)

A

P

Z#

PO

SF-B

F

S

G

NMS

NH

Won tournament; or reached Final; Semifinal; Quarter-final; Round 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a Round Robin stage; lost in Qualification Round; absent from tournament event; played in a Davis Cup Zonal Group (with its number indication) or Play-off; won a bronze, silver (F or S) or gold medal at the Olympics; a downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament (Not a Masters Series); or a tournament that was Not Held in a given year.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.

Qualifying matches and Walkovers are neither official match wins nor losses. Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics. This table is current through 19 September 2013.

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	3R	A	0 / 3	3–3	50%
French Open	A	A	A	Q3	1R	1R	Q2	1R	Q1	A	0 / 3	0–3	0%
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	Q1	A	0 / 4	0–4	0%
US Open	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	Q1	A	0 / 4	0–4	0%
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–3	0–3	1–4	2–1	0–0	0 / 14	3–14	18%
ATP World Tour Finals
Tour Finals	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	0%
Davis Cup Singles
Davis Cup	Z2	Z2	Z1	Z1	Z2	Z2	Z2	Z1	Z1	Z2	0 / 10	18–10	64%
Olympic Games
Summer	A	Not Held			A	Not Held			A	NH	0 / 0	0–0	0%
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	2R	A	0 / 2	1–2	33%
Miami	A	A	A	A	A	3R	Q1	2R	2R	A	0 / 3	4–3	57%
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	QF	2R	A	0 / 2	4–2	67%
Madrid	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	A	0 / 0	0–0	0%
Rome	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	0%
Paris	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	0%
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	4–2	2–2	0–0	0 / 6	8–6	57%
Career statistics
ATP tournaments played	0	0	1	2	4	17	13	17	12	0	Career total: 66
ATP finals reached	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	Career total: 1
ATP Tournaments Won	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Career total: 0
Statistics by surface
Hard Win–Loss	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–2	0–1	9–7	1–7	3–6	5–5	0–0	0 / 25	19–28	40%
Clay Win–Loss	0–2	2–1	4–1	1–2	5–2	8–9	11–5	8–9	6–7	0–0	0 / 34	45–38	54%
Grass Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	0 / 7	1–7	14%
Carpet Win–Loss	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0 / 0	1–2	33%
Overall Win–Loss	1–2	3–1	4–2	1–5	5–4	18–18	12–13	11–18	11–13	0–0	0 / 66	66–76	47%
Win (%)	33%	75%	67%	17%	56%	50%	48%	39%	48%	0%	Career Win (%): 46%
Year-End Ranking	623	279	154	144	110	69	101	102	134	831	$1,380,841

Davis Cup

Gil has played for the Portugal Davis Cup team since 2004. His singles record is 18–10 and his doubles record is 10–7 (28–17 overall).

Participations (45)

Singles (28)

Edition	Round	Date	Against	Surface	Opponent	W–L	Result
2004 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	9–11 April 2004	Tunisia	Hard	Haithem Abid	Win	6–4, 6–3, 7–5
	QF	16–18 July 2004	Serbia and Montenegro	Clay	Janko Tipsarević	Loss	2–6, 4–6, 1–6
					Boris Pašanski	Loss	7–6(7–3), 2–6, 0–6
2005 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	4–6 March 2005	Estonia	Carpet	Mait Künnap	Win	7–6(9–7), 6–4, 6–2
	QF	15–17 July 2005	Algeria	Clay	Lamine Ouahab	Loss	6–7(2–7), 4–6, 3–6
					Slimane Saoudi	Win	4–6, 6–7(5–7), 6–0, 6–2, 6–2
	SF	23–25 September 2005	Slovenia	Clay	Bostjan Osabnik	Win	7–6(7–3), 6–1, 6–1
2006 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group I	1R	10–12 February 2006	Luxembourg	Hard	Gilles Müller	Loss	2–6, 1–6 4–6
	GI Play-Offs	22–24 September 2006	Morocco	Clay	Mehdi Tahiri	Win	6–2, 6–4, 6–2
					Rabie Chaki	Win	1–6, 7–5, 6–1, 7–6(7–5)
2007 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group I	1R	9–11 February 2007	Georgia	Carpet	Lado Chikhladze	Loss	3–6, 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–3), 4–6
	GI Play-Offs	21–23 September 2007	Netherlands	Hard	Raemon Sluiter	Loss	2–6, 1–6, 3–6
					Robin Haase	Loss	3–6, 4–6
2008 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	11–13 April 2008	Tunisia	Clay	Malek Jaziri	Win	6–3, 6–4, 6–3
	QF	18–20 July 2008	Cyprus	Clay	George Kallis	Win	6–1, 6–1, 6–0
					Photos Kallias	Win	6–3, 6–2
2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	6–8 March 2009	Cyprus	Hard	Photos Kallias	Win	6–0, 6–2, 6–1
					Marcos Baghdatis	Loss	2–6, 5–7, 2–6
	GI Play-Offs	10–12 July 2009	Algeria	Clay	Abdel-Hak Hameurlaine	Win	6–1, 6–2, 6–4
2010 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	5–7 March 2010	Denmark	Clay	Martin Pedersen	Win	6–2, 7–6(9–7, 3–6, 6–3
	QF	9–11 July 2010	Cyprus	Clay	Philippos Tsangaridis	Win	6–0, 6–1, ret.
	SF	17–19 September 2010	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Amer Delić	Win	6–3, 6–4, 6–7(14–16), 3–6, 9–7
					Aldin Setkic	Win	6–4, 6–3, 6–3
2011 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group I	1R	4–6 March 2011	Slovakia	Clay	Lukáš Lacko	Win	6–2, 6–2, 6–1
	2R	8–10 July 2011	Switzerland	Carpet	Stanislas Wawrinka	Loss	5–7, 3–6, 4–6
2012 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group I	2R	6–8 April 2012	Israel	Hard	Dudi Sela	Loss	3–6, 4–6, 4–6
					Amir Weintraub	Win	6–3, 3–6, 7–6(7–3)
2013 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	2R	5–7 April 2013	Lithuania	Clay	Kasparas Zemaitelis	Win	6-1, 6-3

Doubles (17)

Edition	Round	Date	Partnering	Against	Surface	Opponents	W–L	Result
2004 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	9–11 April 2004	Leonardo Tavares	Tunisia	Hard	Haithem Abid Malek Jaziri	Win	7–5, 6–3, 6–2
	QF	16–18 July 2004	Leonardo Tavares	Serbia and Montenegro	Clay	Nikola Ćirić Dušan Vemić	Loss	6–1, 7–6(7–5), 3–6, 1–6, 4–6
2005 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	4–6 March 2005	Leonardo Tavares	Estonia	Carpet	Mait Künnap Alti Vahkal	Win	6–3, 6–4, 6–4
	QF	15–17 July 2005	Leonardo Tavares	Algeria	Clay	Slimane Saoudi Abdel-Hak Hameurlaine	Win	6–7(3–7), 6–3, 6–1, 7–6(7–3)
	SF	23–25 September 2005	Leonardo Tavares	Slovenia	Clay	Rok Jarc Grega Žemlja	Win	6–4, 6–2, 6–4
2006 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group I	1R	10–12 February 2006	Leonardo Tavares	Luxembourg	Hard	Gilles Müller Mike Scheidweiler	Loss	6–4, 3–6, 5–7, 1–6
	GI Play-Offs	22–24 September 2006	Gonçalo Nicau	Morocco	Clay	Mounir El Aarej Mehdi Ziadi	Win	6–1, 6–3, 6–1
2007 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group I	1R	9–11 February 2007	Gastão Elias	Georgia	Carpet	Lado Chikhladze Irakli Labadze	Loss	6–7(6–7), 7–6(9–7), 6–7(4–7), 7–5, 3–6
	GI Play-Offs	21–23 September 2007	Gastão Elias	Netherlands	Hard	Jesse Huta Galung Peter Wessels	Loss	2–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–7(5–7), 3–6
2008 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	QF	18–20 July 2008	Leonardo Tavares	Cyprus	Clay	Photos Kallias Demetrios Leontis	Win	6–2, 6–1, 5–7, 6–3
2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	6–8 March 2009	Leonardo Tavares	Cyprus	Hard	Marcos Baghdatis Photos Kallias	Loss	4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 3–6, 1–6
	GII Play-Offs	10–12 July 2009	Leonardo Tavares	Algeria	Clay	Abdel-Hak Hameurlaine Valentin Rahmine	Win	6–1, 6–2, 6–3
2010 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	5–7 March 2009	Leonardo Tavares	Denmark	Clay	Frederik Nielsen Martin Pedersen	Win	6–4, 6–3, 6–1
	QF	9–11 July 2010	Leonardo Tavares	Cyprus	Clay	Eleftherios Christou Rares Cuzdriorean	Win	6–2, 6–1, 6–3
	SF	17–19 September 2010	Leonardo Tavares	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Amer Delić Aldn Setkic	Win	6–1, 6–4, 4–6, 6–4
2011 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group I	1R	4–6 March 2011	Leonardo Tavares	Slovakia	Clay	Michal Mertiňák Filip Polášek	Loss	3–6, 4–6, 6–1, 1–6
	2R	8–10 July 2011	Leonardo Tavares	Switzerland	Carpet	Roger Federer Stanislas Wawrinka	Loss	3–6, 4–6, 4–6

Notes

External links

• Frederico Gil at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Frederico Gil at the Davis Cup
• Gil Recent Match Results
• Gil World Ranking History

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Portuguese male singles tennis players as of 9 December 2013 1. João Sousa (49 ) 2. Gastão Elias (175 ) 3. Pedro Sousa (199 1) 4. Rui Machado (259 3) 5. João Domingues (552 3) 6. André Gaspar Murta (571 7) 7. Frederico Ferreira Silva (620 67) 8. Leonardo Tavares (698 3) 9. Frederico Gil (827 2) 10. Goncalo Oliveira (1,140 5)

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Name	Gil, Frederico
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Short description	Tennis player
Date of birth	1985-03-24
Place of birth	Lisbon, Portugal
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