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Tommy Robredo

Robredo at 2013 Roland Garros

Country (sports)  Spain

Residence Barcelona, Spain

Born 1 May 1982 (age 33)

Hostalric, Spain

Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)

Turned pro 1998

Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)

Prize money $12,040,895

Singles

Career record 508–316 (61.32%)

Career titles 12

Highest ranking No. 5 (28 August 2006)

Current ranking No. 26 (24 August 2015)[1]

Grand Slam Singles results

Australian   Open QF (2007)

French   Open QF (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009,2013)

Wimbledon 4R (2014)

US Open QF (2013)

Other tournaments

Tour   Finals RR (2006)

Olympic   Games 3R (2004)

Doubles

Career record 147–158

Career titles 5

Highest ranking No. 16 (20 April 2009)

Current ranking No. 554 (3 November 2014)

Grand Slam Doubles results

Australian   Open QF (2003)

French   Open QF (2009)

Wimbledon QF (2010)

US Open SF (2004, 2008, 2010)

Team competitions

Davis Cup W (2004, 2008, 2009)

Hopman Cup W (2002, 2010)

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Robredo and the second or maternal family name is Garcés.

Tommy Robredo Garcés (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtomi roˈβɾeðo ɣarˈθes],Catalan: [ɣərˈses]; born 1 May 1982) is a Spanish professional tennisplayer.[2] His career-high singles ranking is World No. 5, which he reached in August 2006 as a result of winning the Hamburg Masters earlier in the year.

Robredo reached quarter-finals in seven Grand Slam singles tournaments, and was semi-finalist at three editions of the US Open doubles (tennis). In ATP Masters he reached semi-finals at the 2004 and 2006 Cincinnati Masters.

He turned professional in 1998 and was coached by José Manuel "Pepo" Clavet and is now coached by Karim Perona. Robredo considers hisforehand to be his best shot, and red clay is his favorite surface.

Contents

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1 Tennis careero 1.1 Early yearso 1.2 2000–01o 1.3 2002–03o 1.4 2004o 1.5 2005o 1.6 2006o 1.7 2007o 1.8 2008o 1.9 2009o 1.10 2010o 1.11 2011-2012o 1.12 2013: Resurgenceo 1.13 2014o 1.14 Playing Style

2 Personal life 3 Career statistics

o 3.1 Grand Slam tournament performance timeline 4 References 5 External links

Tennis career[edit]

Early years[edit]

Robredo began playing tennis regularly when he was five and his family moved to Olot, where his father Ángel became the director of the local tennis club, Club Natació Olot. (Robredo's mother Dolores is herself a former assistant coach.) He was coached by his father until 1996 when he joined the Spanish Tennis Federation at the Centre d'Alt Rendiment ("High Performance Center"), a famous center for professional sports training inSant Cugat del Vallès. He turned professional in 1998.

As a junior player, Robredo won the Junior Orange Bowl 16–Under in both singles and doubles (with Marc López) in 1998.[3] As a professional he made the singles and doubles finals of a Futures-level event, winning the doubles title with Pedro Cánovas. In 1999 he made the semifinals of the boys' event at the French Open[4] and won a Futures tournament in singles as well as another in doubles. Earlier that year in Robredo's hometown tournament ofBarcelona – his first event at the ATP Tour level – he recorded a win over Marat Safin, who was then ranked in the world's top thirty, before going on to lose to top ten player Todd Martin.