Pablo Cuevas

Pablo Gabriel Cuevas

Country	Uruguay
Residence	Salto, Uruguay
Born	(1986-01-01) January 1, 1986 Concordia, Argentina[1]
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,784,698
Singles
Career record	74-69
Career titles	0 6 Challengers
Highest ranking	No. 45 (October 12, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 244 (October 28, 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2010, 2011)
French Open	2R (2013)
Wimbledon	2R (2009)
US Open	2R (2009, 2010)
Doubles
Career record	78-60
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 14 (April 20, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 69 (October 7, 2013)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2011)
French Open	W (2008)
Wimbledon	1R (2009)
US Open	3R (2009, 2013)
Last updated on: September 25, 2012.

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

He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world no. 45 in October 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking of world no. 14 in April 2009.

Professional career

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 titles.

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 semifinals 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 quarterfinals, 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.

2009

At the 2009 Movistar Open in Viña del Mar, Cuevas, as in 2008, 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, 6–3, 6–3. This win helped Cuevas achieve his doubles ranking high of no. 17 in the world on February 9, 2009.

In the first round at Wimbledon in 2009, Cuevas defeated Christophe Rochus of Belgium in a come-from-behind victory, 3–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–1, 11–9. 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, ninth-seeded Jürgen Melzer, eighth-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber, and 14th-seeded Nicolás Almagro in the quarterfinals. He lost his semifinal match with Paul-Henri Mathieu, 6–4, 3–6, 5–7.

Cuevas played in the 2009 Kremlin Cup as fifth 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 Marcel Granollers.

2011

He went 0–4 at the start of 2011, but 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.

Cuevas did not play on tour in 2012.

Davis Cup

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

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

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

ATP career finals

Doubles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	April 14, 2008	U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, Houston, United States	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Ernests Gulbis Rainer Schüttler	5–7, 6–7(7–3)
Winner	1.	June 7, 2008	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	Luis Horna	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6–2, 6–3
Winner	2.	February 7, 2009	Movistar Open, Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Brian Dabul	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	6–3, 6–3
Winner	3.	October 22, 2009	Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Marcel Granollers	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	4–6, 7–5, [10–8]
Winner	4.	February 14, 2010	Brasil Open, Costa do Sauípe, Brazil	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	May 9, 2010	Estoril Open, Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Marc López David Marrero	7–6(7–1), 4–6, [4–10]
Runner-up	3.	September 29, 2013	Proton Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard (i)	Horacio Zeballos	Eric Butorac Raven Klaasen	2-6, 4-6

Grand Slam results

Singles

Doubles

References

External links

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• Cuevas World Ranking History