Cássio Motta
Cássio Motta ( born February 22, 1960 in São Paulo ) is a former Brazilian tennis player.
Life
Motta was a professional tennis player in 1979 and was able to win on the side of his compatriot Carlos Kirmayr in Madrid his first doubles title on the ATP World Tour in the same year. By 1983, both played together and won three more doubles titles, they were five more times in a final. After Motta was successful with changing partners. Overall, he was able to win ten doubles titles during his career. His only singles final he reached in 1987 at a tournament in Guarujá, where he defeated his doubles partner Luiz Mattar, with whom he won the tournament in doubles. Its highest listing in the tennis world ranking he reached position 48 in the singles and in 1983 with position four in a double 1986.
His best individual result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the third round at the French Open and Wimbledon. In the doubles competition he came twice before the semi-finals of the French Open. In addition, he was in 1982 with Claudia Monteiro in the final of the French Open Mixed, where they lost John Lloyd and Wendy Turnbull.
Mattar played 1978-1993 29 single and 20 double appearances for the Brazilian Davis Cup team. His greatest success with the team was reaching the semi-finals of the World Group in 1992, where he double was used in each case. On the side of Fernando Roese he won his doubles match against Boris Becker and Eric Jelen in the first round and against Omar Camporese and Diego Nargiso in the quarterfinals. In the 0:5 semi-final defeat against Switzerland they lost Jakob Hlasek and Marc Rosset smooth in three sets.