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Alberto Martín

b. 1978

Spanish tennis player

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Born 1978. Alberto Martín is a Spanish tennis player.

Alberto Martín Magret (; born 20 August 1978) is a retired tennis player from Spain. He won three singles titles and reached five Masters Series quarterfinals on clay.

Tennis career Martín turned professional in 1995. He won three singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 34 in June 2001.

His best Grand Slam performance was reaching the fourth round of Roland Garros in 2006. En route to this performance, Martín's first-round win was his first victory over former world No. 1, Andy Roddick, in their fifth encounter. Martín led by two sets when Roddick retired with an ankle injury. Martín also beat No. 1 seed, Lleyton Hewitt, in the first round of the 2002 Australian Open, though Hewitt was recovering from chickenpox at the time of his victory.

Martín suffered the heaviest defeat in the history of the Australian Open. Andy Murray beat him in the first round of the 2007 tournament, 6–0, 6–0, 6–1. Martín had to wait until the penultimate game of the match before winning his only game.

In 2004, Martín was a member of the victorious Spain Davis Cup team for the Davis Cup first round against Czech Republic in Brno, although he did not play.

In 2017, he was a member of the victorious H30 Team of TV Ober-Eschbach which got promoted to the Bezirks-Oberliga (HTV) in 2018.

Personal life He studied psychology at the University of Barcelona and graduated with a master's degree from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.

ATP Tour career finals

Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)ATP 250 Series (3–2)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (3–2)Grass (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoor (3–2)Indoor (0–0)

Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)ATP World Tour 250 Series (3–3)Titles by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (3–3)Grass (0–0)Titles by settingOutdoor (3–3)Indoor (0–0)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 14 (5–9) LegendATP Challenger (5–9)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–2)Clay (5–7)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Doubles: 19 (7–12) LegendATP Challenger (7–12)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (7–12)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Top 10 wins per season

Wins over top-ten players per season

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Who is Alberto Martín?

Spanish tennis player

When was Alberto Martín born?

Alberto Martín was born on 20 August 1978 in Barcelona.

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Alberto Martín is a tennis player.

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Alberto Martín is Spanish.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Alberto Martín

· Wikidata: Q457047

· DBpedia: Alberto Martín

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