Lito Álvarez

Lito Álvarez

Country	Argentina
Residence	Santa Monica, California
Born	(1947-12-05) 5 December 1947 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Plays	Right-handed
Singles
Career record	47-115
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 104 (15 Dec 1975)
Grand Slam Singles results
French Open	2R (1975, 1976, 1978)
Wimbledon	2R (1977)
US Open	2R (1975)
Doubles
Career record	87-121
Career titles	1
Grand Slam Doubles results
French Open	2R (1976, 1978)
Wimbledon	3R (1973, 1978)
US Open	2R (1979)

Elio "Lito" Álvarez (born 5 December 1947) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.^[1]

Career

Álvarez played collegiate tennis for the UCLA Bruins, on the same team as Jimmy Connors, in the early 1970s.^[2]

He appeared in eight Davis Cup ties for Argentina from 1970 to 1978.^[3] He played mainly in doubles rubbers but had two wins in the singles, against Carlos Kirmayr and Luis Felipe Tavares, both of Brazil.^[3] His doubles record was 4/4 and his partners included Guillermo Vilas and José Luis Clerc.^[3]

Álvarez made the second round of the singles draw at a Grand Slam tournament five times, from 14 attempts, but was unable to progress any further.^[4]

As well as being runner-up at the Dutch Open in 1977, Álvarez made six Grand Prix/WCT doubles finals, for one win, at Sao Paulo in 1976.^[5]

Grand Prix/WCT career finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	1977	Hilversum, Netherlands	Clay	Patrick Proisy	0–6, 2–6, 0–6

Doubles: 6 (1–5)

Outcome	No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	1974	Dublin, Ireland		Jorge Andrew	Colin Dowdeswell John Yuill	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2.	1974	Hilversum, Netherlands	Clay	Julian Ganzabal	Tito Vasquez Guillermo Vilas	2–6, 6–3, 1–6, 2–6
Winner	3.	1976	São Paulo, Brazil	Carpet	Víctor Pecci	Ricardo Cano Belus Prajoux	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Runner-up	4.	1976	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Belus Prajoux	Patricio Cornejo Hans Gildemeister	3–6, 6–7
Runner-up	5.	1977	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Guillermo Vilas	Wojtek Fibak Ion Țiriac	5–7, 6–0, 6–7
Runner-up	6.	1978	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	George Hardie	Ismail El-Shafei Brian Fairlie	3–6, 5–7, 2–6

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