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Alberto Martín

Country (sports)	Spain
Residence	Barcelona, Spain
Born	(1978-08-20) 20 August 1978 (age 46) Barcelona, Spain
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	1995
Retired	29 July 2010
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$3,840,885
Singles
Career record	218–269
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 34 (1 June 2001)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	3R (2002, 2003)
French Open	4R (2006)
Wimbledon	3R (1999)
US Open	3R (2003)
Doubles
Career record	90–131
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 64 (2 October 2000)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2001, 2002, 2004, 2007)
French Open	QF (2006)
Wimbledon	2R (2000)
US Open	2R (2004)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	W (2004)
Last updated on: 27 May 2021.

Alberto Martín Magret (Spanish pronunciation: [alˈβeɾto maɾˈtim maˈɣɾet]; born 20 August 1978) is a retired tennis player from Spain. He won three singles titles and reached five Masters Series quarterfinals on clay.

Tennis career

Martín turned professional in 1995. He won three singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 34 in June 2001.

His best Grand Slam performance was reaching the fourth round of Roland Garros in 2006. En route to this performance, Martín's first-round win was his first victory over former world No. 1, Andy Roddick, in their fifth encounter. Martín led by two sets when Roddick retired with an ankle injury. Martín also beat No. 1 seed, Lleyton Hewitt, in the first round of the 2002 Australian Open, though Hewitt was recovering from chickenpox at the time of his victory.

Martín suffered the heaviest defeat in the history of the Australian Open. Andy Murray beat him in the first round of the 2007 tournament, 6–0, 6–0, 6–1. Martín had to wait until the penultimate game of the match before winning his only game.

In 2004, Martín was a member of the victorious Spain Davis Cup team for the Davis Cup first round against Czech Republic in Brno, although he did not play.

In 2017, he was a member of the victorious H30 Team of TV Ober-Eschbach which got promoted to the Bezirks-Oberliga (HTV) in 2018.

Personal life

He studied psychology at the University of Barcelona and graduated with a masters degree from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.

ATP Tour career finals

Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 1999	Grand Prix Hassan II, Morocco	World Series	Clay	Fernando Vicente	6–3, 6–4
Win	2–0	Oct 1999	Bucharest, Romania	World Series	Clay	Karim Alami	6–2, 6–3
Win	3–0	May 2001	Majorca Open, Spain	World Series	Clay	Guillermo Coria	6–3, 3–6, 6–2
Loss	3–1	Feb 2005	Brasil Open, Brazil	International Series	Clay	Rafael Nadal	0–6, 7–6, 1–6
Loss	3–2	Feb 2006	Brasil Open, Brazil	International Series	Clay	Nicolás Massú	3–6, 4–6

Doubles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 1997	Brighton International, United Kingdom	World Series	Clay	Chris Wilkinson	Kent Kinnear Aleksandar Kitinov	6–7, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Oct 1999	Palermo, Italy	World Series	Clay	Lan Bale	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto	3–6, 1–6
Loss	0–3	May 2000	Majorca Open, Spain	World Series	Clay	Fernando Vicente	Michaël Llodra Diego Nargiso	6–7, 6–7
Win	1–3	Sep 2000	Bucharest, Romania	World Series	Clay	Eyal Ran	Devin Bowen Mariano Hood	7–6, 6–1
Win	2–3	Jul 2006	Dutch Open, Netherlands	World Series	Clay	Fernando Vicente	Lucas Arnold Ker Christopher Kas	6–4, 6–3
Win	3–3	Feb 2009	Buenos Aires, Argentina	250 Series	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Nicolás Almagro Santiago Ventura	6–3, 5–7,

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 14 (5–9)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 1997	Geneva, Switzerland	Challenger	Clay	Andrea Gaudenzi	2–6, 1–6
Win	1–1	Sep 1998	Seville, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Davide Scala	6–1, 5–7, 6–2
Loss	1–2	Oct 1998	Cairo, Egypt	Challenger	Clay	Albert Portas	2–6, 6–1, 3–6
Loss	1–3	Nov 1998	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Younes El Aynaoui	6–7, 1–6
Loss	1–4	Mar 1999	Singapore, Singapore	Challenger	Hard	Mosé Navarra	2–6, 2–6
Loss	1–5	Jun 2000	Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Bohdan Ulihrach	0–6, 2–6
Loss	1–6	Sep 2005	Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Agustín Calleri	6–4, 2–6, 4–6
Loss	1–7	Mar 2006	Sunrise, United States	Challenger	Hard	Dmitry Tursunov	3–6, 1–6
Win	2–7	Oct 2007	Tarragona, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Peter Luczak	6–4, 7–5
Loss	2–8	Apr 2008	Monza, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Albert Montañés	6–3, 6–7, 3–6
Loss	2–9	Apr 2008	Chiasso, Switzerland	Challenger	Clay	Younes El Aynaoui	6–7, 3–6
Win	3–9	Sep 2008	Trnava, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Julian Reister	6–2, 6–0
Win	4–9	Oct 2008	Tarragona, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Simon Greul	6–7, 6–4, 6–4
Win	5–9	Sep 2009	Genova, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Carlos Berlocq	6–3, 6–3

Doubles: 19 (7–12)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 1997	Barletta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Albert Portas	Tom Vanhoudt Nuno Marques	3–6, 4–6
Loss	0–2	Aug 1997	Graz, Austria	Challenger	Clay	Albert Portas	Tom Vanhoudt Lucas Arnold Ker	1–6, 2–6
Loss	0–3	Apr 1998	Espinho, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Tomas Anzari	Jens Knippschild Stephen Noteboom	6–7, 5–7
Loss	0–4	May 1998	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Challenger	Clay	Tomas Anzari	Marius Barnard Stephen Noteboom	6–7, 7–6, 6–7
Loss	0–5	Jun 1998	Split, Croatia	Challenger	Clay	Álex López Morón	Geoff Grant Attila Sávolt	6–4, 3–6, 2–6
Win	1–5	Sep 1998	Seville, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Salvador Navarro-Gutierrez	Edwin Kempes Rogier Wassen	2–6, 7–5, 6–3
Loss	1–6	Oct 1998	Cairo, Egypt	Challenger	Clay	Salvador Navarro-Gutierrez	Albert Portas Álex López Morón	6–4, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	1–7	Nov 1998	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Salvador Navarro-Gutierrez	Martin Garcia Guillermo Cañas	7–6, 1–6, 4–6
Loss	1–8	Oct 1999	Barcelona, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Javier Sánchez	Eduardo Nicolás Espin Germán Puentes Alcañiz	6–7, 6–7
Win	2–8	Jun 2000	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Eyal Ran	Petr Luxa Vincenzo Santopadre	6–2, 6–2
Win	3–8	Jun 2000	Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Eyal Ran	Martín Rodríguez Mariano Hood	7–6, 6–7, 6–2
Loss	3–9	Sep 2004	Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Óscar Hernández	Lucas Arnold Ker Mariano Hood	0–6, 4–6
Loss	3–10	Aug 2007	Manerbio, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Fred Gil	Antal van der Duim Boy Westerhof	6–7, 6–3,
Win	4–10	Mar 2008	Meknes, Morocco	Challenger	Clay	Daniel Munoz De La Nava	Yuri Schukin Mikhail Elgin	6–4, 6–7,
Win	5–10	Apr 2008	Monza, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Stefano Galvani	Denis Gremelmayr Simon Greul	7–5, 2–6,
Win	6–10	Apr 2008	Chiasso, Switzerland	Challenger	Clay	Mariano Hood	Fabio Colangelo Marco Crugnola	4–6, 7–6,
Loss	6–11	Jul 2008	Poznań, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Santiago Giraldo	Johan Brunström Jean-Julien Rojer	6–4, 0–6,
Win	7–11	Aug 2008	Como, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Mariano Hood	Guillermo Hormazábal Antonio Veić	6–1, 6–4
Loss	7–12	Mar 2009	Marrakesh, Morocco	Challenger	Clay	Daniel Munoz De La Nava	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Santiago Ventura	3–6, 6–7

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1996	French Open	Clay	Björn Rehnquist	6–3, 7–6

Top 10 wins per season

Wins over top-ten players per season

#	Player	Rank	Tournament	Surface	Rd	Score
1997
1.	Wayne Ferreira	10	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	2R	4–6, 6–2, 7–5
2002
2.	Lleyton Hewitt	1	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	1R	1–6, 6–1, 6–4, 7–6
2004
3.	Juan Carlos Ferrero	2	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	3R	6–2, 6–3
4.	Sébastien Grosjean	10	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	2R	6–4, 6–2
2006
5.	Andy Roddick	5	French Open, Paris	Clay	1R	6–4, 7–5, 1–0 ret.

Notes

1. In isolation, Martín is pronounced [maɾˈtin].

References

1. "Hewitt through in straight sets". The Age. Australia. 19 January 2005. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
2. "Davis Cup 2004". Retrieved 16 December 2013.
3. "Andrey Rublev lost for words during Hamburg European Open press conference". 27 July 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

External links

• Alberto Martín at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Alberto Martín at the International Tennis Federation
• Alberto Martín at the Davis Cup
• Alberto Martín at TV Ober-Eschbach

• 1978 births
• Tennis players from Catalonia
• French Open junior champions
• Living people
• Spanish male tennis players
• Tennis players from Barcelona
• Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis
• Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Spain
• Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Spain
• Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
• Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles