Sergio Roitman

Sergio Roitman

Country	Argentina
Residence	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Born	(1979-05-16) May 16, 1979 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	185cm
Turned pro	1996
Retired	2009
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,206,782
Singles
Career record	25–59
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 62 (October 8, 2007)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2007, 2008)
French Open	1R (2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	1R (2007, 2008, 2009)
Doubles
Career record	41–62
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 45 (September 8, 2008)
Last updated on: October 23, 2013.

Sergio Andres Roitman (born May 16, 1979) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, nicknamed Escopeta (Shotgun in Spanish)^[1] is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina.

He achieved a career-high rankings of World No. 62 in singles in October 2007 and World No. 45 in doubles in September 2008.

He has no main tour singles titles, but has won several Challenger and Futures singles titles in his career. In addition Roitman has won two ATP doubles titles - at Amsterdam in 2000 and Umag in 2001.

Personal life

At the age of 17 Roitman was at a Hermética concert and was shot in the stomach with a rubber bullet. Roitman studied classical piano between the ages of 6 and 12, but chose tennis instead.^[2] He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, English and Italian.^[3]

Tennis career

Roitman began playing tennis at age 10 and turned professional in 1996.^[4]

Between 1998 and 2000 Roitman won seven futures singles titles all of these were in South America on clay. On 2000-07-23 he won the ATP doubles title with fellow countryman Andres Schneiter in Amsterdam at his debut at that level.

In 2001, once again with Schneiter he won his second ATP doubles title in Umag. Roitman won four challenger singles titles between 2002 and 2005, in the process defeating Rafael Nadal at Cherbourg in 2003. At the 2003 Roland Garros Roitman played defending champion Albert Costa in the first round and was leading 2 sets to 0 and 4–1 (with a break point for 5–1), but ended up losing in 5 sets.^[3]

2006 saw Roitman finish in the Top 100 of ATP Rankings for the first time in his career, he compiled a 41–19 match record, and won two titles in Challenger action. In November he won the title at Challengers in Aracaju and Guayaquil

2007 was the most successful season for Roitman, where he reached his highest ranking and finished in the top 75 for the second straight year, highlighted by a career-best 11 ATP match wins and three Challenger titles. In June he captured the Prostějov Challenger title. In September he picked up another Challenger title in Szczecin, Poland. He closed the season with the title at the Buenos Aires Challenger.^[5] He had wins over world # 41 José Acasuso of Argentina, 7–6 (4), 6–1, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In April he defeated world # 76 Jan Hernych, 7–5, 7–6 (7), in Valencia, Spain, and world # 29 Jürgen Melzer of Austria on clay, 3–6, 6–1, 6–4 in Monte Carlo. In June he beat world # 28 Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany, 6–2, Ret, in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands on grass. In July he defeated world # 65 Nicolás Massú of Chile 7–5, 6–2, and twice defeated world # 18 (and 20) Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina 5–7, 6–3, 6–4, and 6–1, 6–2, on clay.

In the 2009 Buenos Aires tournament Roitman lost 6–0, 6–0 to Juan Mónaco. In June 2009, he retired from his first round match due to a recurring injury to the acromion in his right shoulder.^[6]

On September 25, 2009, he announced that the Copa Petrobas challenger in Buenos Aires would be his last professional tournament, citing injuries as the main reason for his retirement.^[7]

Challengers and futures (17)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	July 20, 1998	Londrina	Clay	Paulo Taicher	6–3, 6–4
2.	November 9, 1998	Asunción	Clay	Alejandro Aramburu	6–1, 6–3
3.	November 16, 1998	Asunción	Clay	Ivan Rodrigo	6–2, 2–6, 6–3
4.	September 13, 1999	Lima	Clay	Solon Peppas	6–3, 7–5
5.	April 17, 2000	Santiago	Clay	Mauricio Hadad	6–4, 6–3
6.	May 1, 2000	Santiago	Clay	Adrián García	6–3, 6–3
7.	May 8, 2000	Mendoza	Clay	José Acasuso	1–6, 7–6(2), 6–2
8.	July 29, 2002	St. Petersburg	Clay	Andrei Stoliarov	7–6(3), 6–2
9.	February 24, 2003	Cherbourg	Hard (i)	Rafael Nadal	6–3, 5–7, 6–4
10.	June 6, 2005	Barcelona	Clay	Teymuraz Gabashvili	6–2, 6–3
11.	August 29, 2005	Freudenstadt	Clay	Flavio Cipolla	7–5, 6–4
12.	October 30, 2006	Aracaju	Clay	Boris Pašanski	6–1, 6–3
13.	November 13, 2006	Guayaquil	Clay	Mariano Zabaleta	6–3, 4–6, 6–1
14.	June 4, 2007	Prostějov	Clay	Florian Mayer	7–6(1), 6–4
15.	September 17, 2007	Szczecin	Clay	Ivo Minář	6–2, 7–5
16.	November 12, 2007	Buenos Aires	Clay	Marcos Daniel	6–1, 6–4
17.	November 3, 2008	Guayaquil	Clay	Brian Dabul	3–6, 6–3, 6–2

Jewish heritage

Roitman, along with Dudi Sela, Jesse Levine and Shahar Pe'er was one of a number of Jewish tennis players recently ranked in the top 100.^[8][9]

See also

• List of select Jewish tennis players

References

External links

• Sergio Roitman at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Roitman Recent Match Results
• Roitman World Ranking History
• Interview w/Sergio Roitman, 6/22/09

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