Frederico Gil

Frederico Gil ( born March 24, 1985 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese tennis player.

  • 2.1.2.1 ATP World Tour
  • 2.2.1 Siege 2.2.1.1 ATP World Tour
  • 2.2.1.2 ATP Challenger Tour

Life and career

After Gil his junior career by reaching the quarter-finals of the Orange Bowl " finished ", "he played between 2003 and 2007 mainly Futures tournaments., 2005, the first successes came one with victories in Faro, Lagos and Caracas. The next year he played after two other Future tournament victories also Challengerturniere and win a tournament of this category in Sassuolo. at the end of the year Gil was found among the first 200 tennis players in the ATP rankings (155) and thus best Portuguese. 2007, he then managed the first-time qualifying for an ATP tournament ( in Casablanca). A week later he was in his home country in Estoril the first round against the then Top100 Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo, then retired but against Richard Gasquet. towards the end of the year he could still win the Challenger tournament in Seville.

In 2008 he succeeded in Estoril in an ATP quarterfinal collect and could also still win two Challengerturniere. These successes helped him short in the top 100 He was the first Portuguese Nuno Marques since 1995, which abolished the.

Gils 2009 was most successful year. At the start of the season, he managed in Johannesburg and Costa do Sauipe semi-finals. After a few more successes in the world was located at No. 66 again, this is the highest ranking that has ever reached a Portuguese since the introduction of the ATP world rankings in 1973. But Gil was unable to maintain his form and even fell short again in the top 100 out first success with the Challenger in Naples brought him back on track.

The year 2010 started with three opening defeats, the latter against David Ferrer at the Australian Open, he had the score of 0:6, 0:6 to give up 0:2. After another Erstrundenniederlagen he fell back in the ATP rankings. Only after the final of the home tournament in Estoril Gil could be counted again in the top 100 tennis players in the world. He is the first Portuguese in history who has reached a final on the ATP Tour. But the rest of the year was again, with the exception of tournament victory at the Challenger in Milan and the knockout collection in a double competition at the U.S. Open, rather disappointing and Gil finished the year at No. 102

Achievements

Singles

Win

ATP Challenger Tour

Finals

ATP World Tour

Doubles

Win

ATP World Tour
ATP Challenger Tour
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