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Spanish tennis player

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Type
Person

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Key facts

Country sports
Spain
Born
( 1980-11-26 ) 26 November 1980 (age 45) , Sant Carles de la Ràpita , Spain
Height
1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Plays
Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money
$ 5,866,340
Career record
255–287
Highest ranking
No. 22 (2 August 2010)
Australian open
3R ( 2010 )
French open
4R ( 2011 )
Wimbledon
3R ( 2009 , 2010 )
Us open
4R ( 2010 )

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Sports profile

Sport
Tennis
Team
_Retired Tennis
Position
Tennis Player
Nationality
Spain

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Encyclopedic overview

Albert Montañés Roca ( Catalan: [əlˈβɛɾt muntəˈɲes ˈrɔkə], Spanish: [alˈβeɾ montaˈɲes ˈroka]; born 26 November 1980) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He first entered the top 100 in 2001, achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 22 in 2010, and has won six singles titles and two doubles titles.

Montañés is one of very few players to win a title after saving match points in two different matches. He did it during his title run in Estoril 2009 in his quarterfinals and the final. He holds the record for most first-round exits at Grand Slam events; 35 reached at Wimbledon in 2016, beating Kenneth Carlsen's long standing record of 30 first-round exits. Montañés' career ended at the 2017 Barcelona Open, where he lost to countryman Feliciano López in the second round.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Albert Montañés” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.