Leonardo Tavares

Leonardo Tavares

Country	Portugal
Residence	Espinho, Portugal
Born	(1984-02-20) February 20, 1984 Espinho, Portugal
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 180,919
Singles
Career record	6–11 (35.29%)[1]
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 186 (16 August 2010)
Current ranking	No. 777 (9 February 2015)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2011)
French Open	Q1 (2010)
Wimbledon	Q1 (2010)
US Open	Q1 (2010)
Doubles
Career record	15–15 (50%)[2]
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 95 (13 September 2010)
Current ranking	No. 744 (9 February 2015)
Last updated on: 9 February 2015.

Leonardo Tavares (born February 20, 1984) is a Portuguese professional tennis player. He competes on the ATP Tour. In August 2010, he achieved a career-high singles world ranking of no. 186.

Tavares has mainly played in the futures circuit. However, a breakthrough year in 2009 led him to his first Challenger final in August. Since then he has been a mainstay at that level, capturing several doubles titles and breaking into the top 100 doubles ranking, with a career high no. 95 ranking, achieved in September 2010. He also regularly plays in the Davis Cup.

Career finals

ATP Challenger Tour

Singles: 2 (0–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	August 30, 2009	Manerbio, Italy	Clay	Federico Delbonis	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	2.	August 1, 2010	Tampere, Finland	Clay	Éric Prodon	6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 10 (5–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	November 22, 2009	Cancún, Mexico	Hard	Andre Begemann	Adil Shamasdin Greg Ouellette	6–1, 6–7(6–7), [10–8]
Winner	2.	April 25, 2010	Curitiba, Brazil	Clay	Dominik Meffert	Ramón Delgado André Sá	3–6, 6–2, [10–4]
Runner-up	1.	May 30, 2010	Carson, United States	Hard	Artem Sitak	Brian Battistone Nicholas Monroe	5–7, 6–3, [10–4]
Winner	3.	June 6, 2010	Ojai, United States	Hard	Artem Sitak	Harsh Mankad Izak van der Merwe	4–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Winner	4.	July 4, 2010	Braunschweig, Germany	Clay	Simone Vagnozzi	Igor Kunitsyn Yuri Schukin	7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	5.	August 1, 2010	Tampere, Finland	Clay	João Sousa	Andis Juška Deniss Pavlovs	7–6(7–3), 7–5
Runner-up	2.	February 25, 2011	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Simone Vagnozzi	Guillermo Alcaide Adrián Menéndez	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	3.	April 16, 2011	Blumenau, Brazil	Clay	Adrián Menéndez	Franco Ferreiro André Sá	6–2, 3–6, [10–4]
Runner-up	4.	June 17, 2011	Milan, Italy	Clay	Andrea Arnaboldi	Adrián Menéndez Simone Vagnozzi	0–6, 6–3, [10–5]
Runner-up	5.	March 3, 2012	Florianopolis, Brazil	Clay	Javier Martí	Blaž Kavčič Antonio Veić	6–3, 6–3

ITF Men's Circuit

Singles: 7 (2–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	June 7, 2004	Saudi Arabia F2, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Hard	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–3
Runner-up	2.	October 11, 2004	Bolivia F2, Santa Cruz, Bolivia	Clay	Cristian Villagrán	6–3, 6–3
Winner	1.	October 15, 2007	Portugal F4, Porto, Portugal	Clay	Cristian Villagrán	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	August 8, 2008	Germany F16, Wahlstedt, Germany	Clay	Adrián García	6–3, 4–6, 6–0
Winner	2.	April 6, 2009	Portugal F3, Albufeira, Portugal	Hard	Raemon Sluiter	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	March 17, 2013	Portugal F4, Guimarães, Portugal	Hard	Jules Marie	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	November 15, 2014	Morocco F5, Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Oriol Roca Batalla	3–6, 3–6

Doubles: 23 (11–12)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	June 18, 2001	Morocco F3, Agadir, Morocco	Clay	João Paulo Magalhães	Kane Dewhurst David McNamara	6–0, 6–1
Runner-up	2.	November 25, 2002	Thailand F2, Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Tiago Godinho	Hiroki Kondo Michihisa Onoda	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	November 25, 2002	Vietnam F1, Ha Noi, Vietnam	Hard	Tiago Godinho	Johan Du Randt Dirk Stegmann	7–5, 7–6(7–2)
Winner	1.	June 15, 2003	Portugal F8, Lisbon, Portugal	Clay	Harsh Mankad	Baptiste Dupuy Gregory Girault	6–1, 6–2
Winner	2.	June 22, 2003	Portugal F9, Lisbon, Portugal	Clay	Harsh Mankad	Fábrice Betencourt Baptiste Dupuy	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	4.	June 29, 2003	Portugal F10, Lisbon, Portugal	Clay	Jorge Laranjeiro	Tiago Godinho António Van Grichen	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	March 22, 2004	Portugal F2, Albufeira, Portugal	Hard	Frederico Gil	Juan Ignacio Cerda Jasper Smit	6–4, 6–4
Winner	3.	June 7, 2004	Saudi Arabia F1, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Hard	Jamie Delgado	Mustafa Ghouse Jhonathan Medina-Alvarez	6–2, 3–6, 6–3
Runner-up	6.	October 4, 2004	Bolivia F1, La Paz, Bolivia	Clay	Guillermo Carry	Michael Quintero Carlos Salamanca	7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	7.	March 21, 2005	Portugal F3, Lagos, Portugal	Hard	Frederico Gil	Rickard Holmstrom Christian Johansson	walkover
Winner	4.	May 29, 2006	Italy F14, Napoli, Italy	Clay	Marcelo Melo	Deniss Pavlovs Giancarlo Petrazzuolo	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	April 16, 2007	Egypt F1, Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Cesar Ferrer-Victoria	Adrian Cruciat Cătălin Gârd	6–4, 5–7, 6–4
Runner-up	9.	June 25, 2007	Belarus F3, Minsk, Belarus	Clay	Cesar Ferrer-Victoria	Michail Elgin Alexandre Krasnoroutsky	6–4, 6–0
Runner-up	10.	July 30, 2007	France F11, Saint-Gervais, France	Clay	Ivan Sergeyev	Jonathan Eysseric Adrian Mannarino	6–1, 6–4
Winner	5.	October 13, 2008	Portugal F7, Porto, Portugal	Clay	Nuno Marques	Vladislav Bondarenko Vladyslav Klymenko	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	11.	October 20, 2008	Portugal F8, Espinho, Portugal	Clay	Javier Marti	Vladislav Bondarenko Vladyslav Klymenko	6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
Runner-up	12.	February 16, 2009	Ivory Coast F1, Abidjan, Ivory Coast	Hard	Andre Begemann	Pierre-Ludovic Duclos Andreas Haider-Maurer	6–1, 6–7(5–7), [14–12]
Winner	6.	June 27, 2009	France F9, Toulon, France	Clay	Augustin Gensse	Julien Jeanpierre Nicolas Renavand	6–2, 6–2
Winner	7.	August 15, 2009	Italy F23, Bolzano, Italy	Clay	Manuel Jorquera	Marius Copil Antal Van Der Duim	6–7(2–7), 6–3, [10–5]
Winner	8.	February 24, 2012	Brazil F8, Itajaí, Brazil	Clay	Goran Tošić	Fernando Romboli Jonathan Eysseric	1–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Winner	9.	October 4, 2014	Portugal F8, Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal	Hard	Frederico Gil	Romain Barbosa Frederico Ferreira Silva	6–1, 3–6, [10–4]
Winner	10.	October 11, 2014	Portugal F9, Porto, Portugal	Clay	Frederico Gil	Romain Barbosa Frederico Ferreira Silva	2–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Winner	11.	November 1, 2014	Portugal F12, Elvas, Portugal	Hard	Romain Barbosa	Jaime Pulgar-Garcia Javier Pulgar-Garcia	walkover

Performance timelines

Key

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.

Current through 2011 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I 2nd round.

Singles

Davis Cup

Tavares has played for the Portugal Davis Cup team since 2002. His singles record is 5–9 and his doubles record is 10–7 (15–16 overall).

Participations (31)

Singles (14)

Edition	Round	Date	Against	Surface	Opponent	W–L	Result
2002 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group I	QF	12–14 July 2002	Belarus	Carpet	Alexander Shvec	Loss	2–6, 6–7(4–7)
	GI Play-Offs	20–22 September 2002	Italy	Carpet	Davide Sanguinetti	Loss	3–6, 2–6, 1–6
2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group I	1R	4–6 April 2003	Monaco	Clay	Emmanuel Heussner	Loss	2–6, 4–6
	QF	11–13 July 2003	South Africa	Hard	Wesley Moodie	Loss	3–6, 4–6, 6–1, 6–7(7–9)
					Rik de Voest	Loss	1–6, 4–6
2004 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	9–11 April 2004	Tunisia	Hard	Haithem Abid	Win	7–6(7–5), 6–1, 4–6, 6–2
	QF	16–18 July 2004	Serbia and Montenegro	Clay	Boris Pašanski	Loss	6–3, 1–6, 6–1, 1–6, 2–6
2005 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	4–6 March 2005	Estonia	Carpet	Alti Vahkal	Win	3–6, 2–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–5), 6–4
	SF	23–25 September 2005	Slovenia	Clay	Marko Tkalec	Win	7–4, 7–5
2008 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	11–13 April 2008	Tunisia	Clay	Slah Mbarek	Win	6–2, 6–4
	SF	19–21 September 2008	Ukraine	Hard	Ivan Sergeyev	Loss	3–6, 2–6, 4–6
2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	GII Play-Offs	10–12 July 2009	Algeria	Clay	Valentin Rahmine	Win	6–1, 6–0
2010 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	5–7 March 2010	Denmark	Clay	Martin Pedersen	Loss	5–7, 4–6
2011 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group I	2R	8–10 July 2011	Switzerland	Hard	Stanislas Wawrinka	Loss	6–7(1–7), 0–6

Doubles (17)

Edition	Round	Date	Partnering	Against	Surface	Opponents	W–L	Result
2003 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	QF	11–13 July 2003	Rui Machado	South Africa	Hard	Chris Haggard Robbie Koenig	Loss	5–7, 3–6, 2–6
2004 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	9–11 April 2004	Frederico Gil	Tunisia	Hard	Haithem Abid Malek Jaziri	Win	7–5, 6–3, 6–2
	QF	16–18 July 2004	Frederico Gil	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	Frederico Gil	Estonia	Carpet	Mait Künnap Alti Vahkal	Win	6–3, 6–4, 6–4
	QF	15–17 July 2005	Frederico Gil	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	Frederico Gil	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	Frederico Gil	Luxembourg	Hard	Gilles Müller Mike Scheidweiler	Loss	6–4, 3–6, 5–7, 1–6
2008 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	11–13 April 2008	Gastão Elias	Tunisia	Clay	Walid Jallali Malek Jaziri	Win	6–3, 6–3, 6–3
	QF	18–20 July 2008	Frederico Gil	Cyprus	Clay	Photos Kallias Demetrios Leontis	Win	6–2, 6–1, 5–7, 6–3
	SF	19–21 September 2008	Gastão Elias	Ukraine	Hard	Sergei Bubka Sergiy Stakhovsky	Loss	3–6, 2–6, 4–6
2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Group II	1R	6–8 March 2009	Frederico Gil	Cyprus	Hard	Marcos Baghdatis Photos Kallias	Loss	4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 3–6, 1–6
	GII Play-Offs	10–12 July 2009	Frederico Gil	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 2010	Frederico Gil	Denmark	Clay	Frederik Nielsen Martin Pedersen	Win	6–4, 6–3, 6–1
	QF	9–11 July 2010	Frederico Gil	Cyprus	Clay	Eleftherios Christou Rares Cuzdriorean	Win	6–1, 6–2, 6–3
	SF	17–19 September 2010	Frederico Gil	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	Frederico Gil	Slovakia	Clay	Michal Mertiňák Filip Polášek	Loss	3–6, 4–6, 6–1, 1–6
	2R	8–10 July 2011	Frederico Gil	Switzerland	Carpet	Roger Federer Stanislas Wawrinka	Loss	3–6, 4–6, 4–6

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• Leonardo Tavares at the Davis Cup

Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Portuguese male doubles tennis players as of 9 February 2015 1. João Sousa (80 1) 2. Gastão Elias (271 5) 3. Romain Barbosa (361 9) 4. Gonçalo Oliveira (395 14) 5. Frederico Ferreira Silva (409 3) 6. Frederico Gil (496 1) 7. João Domingues (541 2) 8. Rui Machado (629 3) 9. André Gaspar Murta (709 2) 10. Leonardo Tavares (744 6)