Jairo Velasco, Jr.

Jairo Velasco, Jr.

Country	Spain
Born	21 January 1974 Barcelona, Spain
Height	6' (183 cm)
Turned pro	1995
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$137,633
Doubles
Career record	26-51
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 59 (10 Jul 2000)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2000, 2001)
French Open	3R (2000)
Wimbledon	1R (1999, 2000)
US Open	1R (1999)

Jairo Velasco, Jr. (born 21 January 1974) is a former Spanish professional tennis player. His father, Jairo Velasco Senior, was a Colombian tennis player, who immigrated to Spain.

Career

Velasco was a doubles specialist, usually teaming up with countryman Juan Ignacio Carrasco. The pair appeared together in the main draw of six Grand Slams, but only once made it past the opening round. That was at the 2000 French Open, where they upset ninth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and David Prinosil to make the third round. The pair had previously played four Grand Slam matches together without a win, although they did have the misfortune of drawing Bhupathi/Paes at the French Open and the The Woodies at Wimbledon for their first two Grand Slam appearances together in 1999. They had their best ATP Tour performance at Marseille, in 2000, when they finished runners-up. The Spaniards also reached semi-finals in the 1999 Majorca Open and 2000 Colombia Open.^[1]

Before teaming up with Carrasco in 1998, Velasco made the semi-finals of the Campionati Internazionali di San Marino, with Joan Balcells, in 1996. He also played Grand Slam tennis with Virginia Ruano Pascual at the 2000 Wimbledon Championships and Mariano Hood in the 2001 Australian Open.^[2]

He played World Team Cup tennis for Spain in 1999 and 2000.

ATP Career Finals

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	2000	Marseille, France	Hard	Juan Ignacio Carrasco	Simon Aspelin Johan Landsberg	6–7(2–7), 4–6

Challenger Titles

Doubles: (8)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
1.	1998	Brașov, Romania	Clay	Juan Ignacio Carrasco	Tomáš Cibulec Leoš Friedl	6–4, 3–6, 6–2
2.	1998	Maia, Portugal	Clay	Juan Ignacio Carrasco	Cristian Brandi Stephen Noteboom	7–5, 6–4
3.	1999	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	Hard	Juan Ignacio Carrasco	Justin Bower Jason Weir-Smith	6–4, 6–4
4.	1999	Besançon, France	Hard	Juan Ignacio Carrasco	Martín García Cristiano Testa	6–1, 7–6(7–4)
5.	1999	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Juan Ignacio Carrasco	Álex López Morón Albert Portas	6–7(6–8), 6–4, 7–6(7–5)
6.	1999	Andorra	Hard	Juan Ignacio Carrasco	Scott Humphries Peter Nyborg	7–5, 7–6(9–7)
7.	2001	Barletta, Italy	Clay	Germán Puentes	Tomas Behrend Mikhail Youzhny	6–1, 1–0 RET
8.	2001	Monchengladbach, Germany	Clay	Jens Knippschild	Wim Neefs Djalmar Sistermans	6–3, 6–3

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