Roberto Jabali
Roberto Jabali ( born May 16, 1970 in Ribeirão Preto ) is a former Brazilian tennis player.
Life
Jabali In 1987, in the second round of the junior tournament, the U.S. Open, the following year he reached after victories, among other things Marc Rosset and Todd Martin the semi-finals of the junior competition of the French Open, where he lost to Magnus Larsson. In the following junior tournaments, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, he was in each Vierfelfinale the doubles competition.
The success of the junior time he could not repeat as a professional tennis player, and he played most of his career on the ATP Challenger Tour, where he won five individual titles between 1989 and 1997. His biggest success on the ATP World Tour, he celebrated in 1994 in Mexico City. As a qualifier come into the main draw he defeated, among others, Luis Enrique Herrera and Bryan Shelton, before he was smooth inferior in the final in straight sets Thomas Muster. The highest quotation in the tennis world ranking he reached in 1996 with position 130 in single and in 1989 with position 355 in doubles.
For a Grand Slam tournament he could only qualify once. After he had defeated in the qualifiers for the U.S. Open in 1996, among others, Justin Gimelstob, he was defeated in his Erstrundenbegegnung clear in three sets against Tim Henman.