Luiz Mattar

Luiz Mattar (born August 18, 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil.

He played on the professional tour from 1985 to 1995, during which time he won seven top-level singles titles and five tour doubles titles. Mattar's career-high rankings were World No. 29 in singles (in 1989) and World No. 55 in doubles (in 1991). His career prize money totalled $1,493,136.

With seven ATP singles titles in tournaments of the Association of Professional Tennis Players, he is the second Brazilian tennis player, after Gustavo Kuerten, with more ATP titles in his career. He also led the Brazilian Davis Cup team to their best result in history back in 1992 defeating Germany and Italy and reaching the semi-final of the World Group in the 1992 Davis Cup. This feat has only been matched by Gustavo Kuerten who led the Brazilian team again to the semi-final in 2000.

He started his professional career only at the age of 22, unlike most tennis players who started their careers at 18 or earlier, after dropping out in his last year of engineering at Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo.

Mattar is the son of textile businessman Fuad Mattar and is of Lebanese descent. After retiring from tennis he became an entrepreneur and is the founder of TIVIT, one of Brazil's largest information technology service providers.

ATP career finals

Singles: 11 (7 wins, 4 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 (7–4)Finals by surfaceHard (2–4)Clay (3–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (2–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (5–4)Indoors (2–0)

Doubles (5 wins, 6 losses) Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (4) Titles by surface Hard (2) Grass (0) Clay (3) Carpet (0)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 9 (5–4) LegendATP Challenger (5–4)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (4–0)Clay (1–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)

Doubles: 8 (3–5) LegendATP Challenger (3–5)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (2–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles