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Jaime Yzaga

b. 1967

Peruvian tennis player

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Born 1967. Jaime Yzaga is a Peruvian tennis player and tennis coach.

Jaime Yzaga Tori (born 23 October 1967) is a Peruvian former professional tennis player. He reached two major singles quarterfinals during his career, at the 1991 Australian Open and the 1994 US Open.

Tennis career As a junior, Yzaga won the French Open in 1985 and reached the semifinals of Wimbledon (also in 1985) and of the US Open (1984).

Yzaga played on the professional tour from 1984 to 1996, reaching career-high rankings of world No. 18 in singles and world No. 54 in doubles (both in 1989).

He was a quarterfinalist at the Australian Open in 1991, and at the US Open in 1994, reaching the final eight by defeating in back-to-back matches finalists of the previous edition: Cédric Pioline and Pete Sampras in five sets. Yzaga came back from a 2-sets-to-0 deficit against Pioline and 2-sets-to-1 against Sampras. At , he was the shortest Grand Slam tournament quarterfinalist until Diego Schwartzman, also 5'7", at the 2017 U.S. Open.

He had earlier been the first-ever opponent of Sampras in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, in the first round of the 1988 US Open, also winning that match in 5 sets.

Since retiring as a player, Yzaga has served as captain of Peru's Davis Cup team.

ATP career finals

Singles: 11 (8 titles, 3 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (1–0)ATP World Series (7–3)Finals by surfaceHard (5–0)Clay (3–2)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)Finals by settingOutdoors (7–3)Indoors (1–0)

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (0–0)ATP World Series (0–3)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (0–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (0–3)Indoors (0–0)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 1 (0–1) LegendATP Challenger (0–1)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Doubles: 1 (1–0) LegendATP Challenger (1–0)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

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Doubles

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Who is Jaime Yzaga?

Peruvian tennis player

When was Jaime Yzaga born?

Jaime Yzaga was born on 23 October 1967 in Lima.

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Jaime Yzaga is a tennis player and tennis coach.

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Jaime Yzaga is Peruvian.

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· Wikidata: Q731499

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