Pablo Cuevas

Pablo Gabriel Cuevas

Cuevas at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	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	$3,757,687
Singles
Career record	125–113
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 21 (March 23, 2015)
Current ranking	No. 36 (February 1, 2016)[2]
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2016)
French Open	3R (2015)
Wimbledon	2R (2009)
US Open	2R (2009, 2010, 2015)
Doubles
Career record	127–100
Career titles	5
Highest ranking	No. 14 (April 20, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 33 (February 1, 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2016)
French Open	W (2008)
Wimbledon	3R (2014)
US Open	3R (2009, 2013)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2015)
US Open	QF (2010)
Last updated on: 1 February 2016.

Pablo Gabriel Cuevas Urroz (born January 1, 1986 in Concordia, Argentina)^[1] is a 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. 21 in March 2015, as a result of winning his three singles titles in Båstad and Umag in 2014 and São Paulo in 2015. Cuevas' career-high doubles ranking is World No. 14, which he achieved 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.^[3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5]

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.

2010

Cuevas defeated eight-seeded Albert Montañés at the 2010 Abierto Mexicano Telcel to reach quarter-finals, where he lost to David Ferrer. At the 2010 Kremlin Cup he beat world number 11 Nikolay Davydenko in second round and fifth-seeded Radek Stepanek in quarter-finals, then was defeated by eventual champion Viktor Troicki.

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 world number 8 Andy Roddick by the same score, 6–4, 7–6, to reach the third round.

At the 2011 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, Cuevas beat third seeded Guillermo Garcia-Lopez to reach semi-finals, where he lost to Kei Nishikori.

At the 2011 Estoril Open he defeated third-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and sixth-seeded Thomaz Bellucci in consecutive matches to reach the semifinals, where he lost to Juan Martin Del Potro.

After losing in first round of Roland Garros, Cuevas did not play on tour for two years due to injury.

2013

The Uruguayan played again in ATP Challenger Tour events in May 2013. He won the first round match at Roland Garros. Later he defeated eight-seeded Nikolay Davydenko at first round of the 2013 Proton Malaysian Open.

2014

In 2014, Cuevas won the first round matches at the Rio Open, Portugal Open and Roland Garros. At the Swedish Open, he beat sixth-seeded Jérémy Chardy, third-seeded Fernando Verdasco and fifth-seeded João Sousa to win his first ATP 250 tournament and became number 61 in the ATP ranking.

One week later, he won his second ATP tournament at the Umag Croatia Open. Cuevas had to play the qualifying round, defeating Nikolas Walterscheid-Tukic, Nikola Čačić and Renzo Olivo. In the main tournament, he beat Croatian Mate Delić 4–6, 6–4, 6–4, then Italian Andreas Seppi 6–3, 6–1, Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili 6–3, 4–6, 6–2 in the quarterfinals, and finally, on Sunday, he beat Fabio Fognini in semifinals, and second-seeded Tommy Robredo in the finals, without losing a set, 6–3, 6–4. After the tournament he rose to inside the world's top 40 in the ATP rankings for the first time in his career.

In November, the Uruguayan won the Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil and Uruguay Open singles clay tournaments.

2015

At the 2015 Australian Open, Cuevas lost in first round to unseeded player Matthias Bachinger. At the doubles event he partnered David Marrero to reach quarterfinals, where he was beaten by Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli.

He began the Latin American season with his third ATP singles title at the ATP 250 São Paulo, after winning over Jiri Vesely, Nicolás Almagro and Santiago Giraldo. Later he beat again Almgaro and then Albert Montañés to reach third round of the Rio 500, where he was defeated by clay master Rafael Nadal in three sets. Also, together with Marrero he won over Vesely / Frantisek Cermak to reach quarterfinals of the doubles event.

At the ATP 250 Buenos Aires he lost to local Juan Mónaco in quarterfinals. Cuevas then played the Davis Cup Americas Zone round versus Colombia, where he lost to Alejandro González and won over Giraldo. He partnered his brother Martín to defeat doubles specialists Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah.

At the Indian Wells Masters, Cuevas defeated Jarkko Nieminen to reach third round, where he lost to Feliciano López. This was his best singles result in big tournaments since his third round appearance at the 2011 Miami Masters. At the doubles event he lost in first round to Nadal / Pablo Carreño Busta. Cuevas lost in second round of the Miami Masters to Thomaz Bellucci.

At the inaugural ATP 250 Istanbul Open, he appeared in the tournament as the number 3 seed, first defeating Teymuraz Gabashvili 4-6 6-4 6-4 in the Round of 16. Next, he defeated Thomaz Bellucci in the quarterfinals by a score of 7-5 6-3. In the semifinals, he defeated Grigor Dimitrov, the number 2 seed, by a score of 6-2 6-4 to reach his fourth ATP Tour level final. He then faced Roger Federer, 17-time grand slam champion, and fell 6-3 7-6(11). He will next compete at the Mutua Madrid Open.

Davis Cup

Cuevas is 20–6 in Davis Cup singles matches, and 10–4 in Davis Cup doubles matches.

Playing Style

Pablo Cuevas has a clay court style of play. He utilizes heavy topspin off his forehand side and plays a one-handed backhand. His one-handed backhand is not a weakness and he uses it well to create angles and to hit passing shots. Cuevas also has a good slice. For most of his serves, he uses a heavy kick serve. Most of his skill set was on display when he defeated Andy Roddick in Miami in 2011.

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

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2015	Rome	Clay	David Marrero	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–4, 7–5

ATP career finals

Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	July 13, 2014	SkiStar Swedish Open, Båstad, Sweden	Clay	João Sousa	6–2, 6–1
Winner	2.	July 27, 2014	ATP Vegeta Croatia Open, Umag, Croatia	Clay	Tommy Robredo	6–3, 6–4
Winner	3.	February 15, 2015	Brasil Open, São Paulo, Brazil	Clay (i)	Luca Vanni	6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up	1.	May 3, 2015	TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open, Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Roger Federer	3–6, 6–7(11–13)

Doubles: 11 (5 titles, 6 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
Runner-up	4.	February 16, 2014	Copa Claro, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Horacio Zeballos	Marcel Granollers Marc López	5-7, 4-6
Runner-up	5.	May 4, 2014	Portugal Open, Oeiras, Portugal	Clay	David Marrero	Santiago González Scott Lipsky	3–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Winner	5.	May 17, 2015	Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome, Italy	Clay	David Marrero	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	6.	27 June 2015	Nottingham Open, Nottingham, United Kingdom	Grass	David Marrero	Chris Guccione André Sá	2-6, 5-7

Performance Timelines

Singles

¹ Held as Hamburg Masters (outdoor clay) until 2008, Madrid Masters (outdoor clay) 2009–present.

Men's Doubles

Mixed Doubles

Mixed Doubles partners: ^GD Gisela Dulko ^HSW Hsieh Su-Wei

Wins over top 10 players

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score
2011
1.	Andy Roddick	8	Miami, United States	Hard	2R	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
2015
2.	Tomáš Berdych	5	Beijing, China	Hard	1R	6–4, 6–4

References

External links

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