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Key facts
- Country sports
- Brazil
- Residence
- Belo Horizonte , Brazil
- Born
- ( 1982-02-27 ) 27 February 1982 (age 44) , Belo Horizonte
- Height
- 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
- Retired
- September 2022
- Plays
- Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
- Coach
- Hugo Daibert
- Prize money
- US $6,948,824
- Career record
- 2–0
- Highest ranking
- No. 221 (22 March 2004)
- French open
- Q2 ( 2004 )
- Wimbledon
- Q1 ( 2004 )
- Us open
- Q1 ( 2004 )
- Australian open
- W ( 2016 )
- Tour finals
- SF ( 2013 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 )
- Olympic games
- QF ( 2012 , 2016 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bruno
- Family name
- Soares
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Belo Horizonte
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Participant in
- tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- tennis
- Country for sport
- Brazil
- Mass
- 77
- Image
- Soares WM19 (34) (48521705926).jpg
- Height
- 180
- Residence
- Belo Horizonte
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- Commons category
- Bruno Soares
- date of birth
- 1982-02-27
- singles record
- 2–0
- doubles record
- 545–324
- prize money
- 6948824
- ranking
- 221
- start of work period
- 2001-00-00
- social media followers
- 53215
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Encyclopedic overview
Bruno Fraga Soares ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɾunu soˈaɾis]; born 27 February 1982) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player who specialised in doubles.
A doubles specialist, Soares won six major titles, the Australian Open and US Open in 2016 alongside Jamie Murray, and the 2020 US Open with Mate Pavić in men's doubles. In mixed doubles, Soares won the 2012 US Open partnering Ekaterina Makarova, the 2014 US Open with Sania Mirza, and the 2016 Australian Open with Elena Vesnina. He also finished runner-up at the 2013 US Open and 2020 French Open in men's doubles, and the 2013 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles. Soares was the fourth Brazilian to win a major title in any discipline, following Maria Bueno, Thomaz Koch and Gustavo Kuerten.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bruno Soares” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.