Flávio Saretta

Flávio Saretta Filho (born June 28, 1980) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1998.

Tennis career Saretta has won one ATP Tour doubles title, the 2004 Croatia Open Umag with José Acasuso, defeating Czech players Jaroslav Levinský and David Škoch in the final.

In 2004 he competed in the Tennis Olympic Tournament in both the singles and doubles tournaments. He was eliminated by Andy Roddick in the singles tournament round of 64 and, playing together with André Sá, he reached the doubles tournament round of 16, where he was eliminated by Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett, from Zimbabwe.

He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on September 15, 2003, when he became the number 44 of the world, capping what would be the best season of his professional career. He had his best results in all 4 of the Grand Slam tournaments, reaching the Round of 16 at Roland Garros. His clay court prowess was also evident when he was successful in defending his crown at the Bermuda Challenger tournament in April.

During the Hamburg Masters in 2006, Saretta scored one of his biggest wins against the Russian former World No. 1 Marat Safin, 5–7, 6–0, 6–4.

Flávio Saretta won the Rio Pan-American Games 2007, after saving 2 match-points at semi and at final against, respectively, Eduardo Schwank and Adrián García. In the end of 2007 Saretta had one of the biggest injuries of his entire career and he is out of the circuit since then.

In 2009, Saretta announced that he will stop playing professionally because he is tired of "fighting against the pain" of his injuries. He had an unsuccessful comeback in 2014, losing all his matches that year in three tournaments played in Brazilian soil.

In 2015 Saretta became a tennis commentator for BandSports, a Brazilian sports cable channel.

Titles (12)

Singles (7) Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (7) Titles by surface Hard (4) Grass (0) Clay (3) Carpet (0)

No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score 1. January 1, 2001 São Paulo, Brazil Hard Guillermo Coria 7–6(7), 6–2 2. September 4, 2001 Curitiba, Brazil Clay Luis Horna 7–6(3), 6–1 3. April 15, 2002 Bermuda, Bermuda Clay Vince Spadea 6–3, 7–5 4. December 30, 2002 São Paulo, Brazil Hard Andres Dellatorre 7–6(5), 6–3 5. April 14, 2003 Bermuda, Bermuda Clay Nicolás Massú 6–1, 6–4 6. August 8, 2005 Gramado, Brazil Hard Jacob Adaktusson 6–1, 6–3 7. January 2, 2006 São Paulo, Brazil Hard Thiago Alves 7–6(2), 6–3

Doubles (5) Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (1) Challengers (4) Titles by surface Hard (1) Grass (0) Clay (4) Carpet (0)

No. Date Tournament Surface Partnering Opponents in the final Score 1. September 2, 2001 Campinas, Brazil Clay Edgardo Massa Adriano Ferreira Antonio Prieto 1–6, 7–6(5), 6–4 2. July 19, 2004 Umag, Croatia Clay José Acasuso Jaroslav Levinský David Škoch 4–6, 6–2, 6–4 3. January 8, 2006 São Paulo, Brazil Hard Thiago Alves Lucas Engel André Ghem 7–6(10), 6–3 4. November 12, 2006 Buenos Aires, Argentina Clay André Ghem Tomas Behrend Marcel Granollers 6–1, 6–4 5. October 19, 2008 Montevideo, Uruguay Clay Franco Ferreiro Daniel Gimeno Traver Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo 6–3, 6–2

Runners-up (14)

Singles (6) Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (6) Finals by surface Hard (1) Grass (0) Clay (5) Carpet (0)

No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score 1. July 30, 2001 Belo Horizonte, Brazil Hard Eric Taino 5–7, 6–1, 6–2 2. April 4, 2005 Mexico City, Mexico Clay Florent Serra 6–1, 6–4 3. June 6, 2005 Lugano, Switzerland Clay Albert Montañés 7–5, 6–7(4), 7–6(5) 4. November 7, 2005 Guayaquil, Ecuador Clay Marcos Daniel 6–2, 1–6, 6–0 5. November 13, 2006 Asunción, Paraguay Clay Guillermo Cañas 6–4, 6–1 6. March 12, 2007 Bogotá, Colombia Clay Santiago Giraldo 7–6(4), 6–2

Doubles (8) Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (8) Finals by surface Hard (2) Grass (0) Clay (6) Carpet (0)

No. Date Tournament Surface Partnering Opponents in the final Score 1. October 9, 2000 Guadalajara, Mexico Clay Fernando Meligeni Hugo Armando Alexander Waske 7–6(4), 4–6, 7–6(7) 2. January 1, 2001 São Paulo, Brazil Hard Cedric Kauffmann Noam Okun André Sá 6–4, 1–6, 6–4 3. March 12, 2001 Salinas, Ecuador Hard Daniel Melo Luis Horna David Nalbandian 6–4, 0–6, 6–1 4. July 9, 2001 Campinas, Brazil Clay José de Armas Edgardo Massa Leonardo Olguín 6–7(6), 6–2, 7–5 5. April 4, 2005 Mexico City, Mexico Clay Marcos Daniel Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Šnobel 5–7, 6–4, 6–3 6. July 3, 2007 Turin, Italy Clay Pablo Andújar Pablo Cuevas Horacio Zeballos 6–3, 6–1 7. September 8, 2008 Seville, Spain Clay Rogério Dutra da Silva David Marrero Pablo Santos 2–6, 6–2, [10–8] 8. March 9, 2009 Santiago, Chile Clay Rogério Dutra da Silva Sebastián Prieto Horacio Zeballos 7–6(2), 6–2