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Guillermo Vilas
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Guillermo Vilas is an Argentine tennis player and poet born in Mar del Plata in 1952. He competes as a left-handed athlete and has represented Argentina in the Davis Cup. His professional career spanned from 1969 to 1992, during which he achieved a singles record of 949–291 and a doubles record of 225–156. He was coached by Ion Țiriac and earned prize money of 4923882.
Vilas was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He currently resides in Buenos Aires and has four children. In addition to his athletic career, he is an author with one work titled *Cosecha de cuatro*. He has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Cosecha de cuatro
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Country sports
- Argentina
- Residence
- Montecarlo
- Born
- ( 1952-08-17 ) 17 August 1952 (age 73) , Buenos Aires , Argentina
- Height
- 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
- Plays
- Left-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Prize money
- US$ 4,923,882
- Int tennis hof
- 1991 ( member page )
- Career record
- 951–297 (76.2%)
- Career titles
- 62 ( 10th in the Open Era )
- Highest ranking
- No. 2 (30 April 1975)
- Australian open
- W ( 1978 , 1979 )
- French open
- W ( 1977 )
- Wimbledon
- QF ( 1975 , 1976 )
- Us open
- W ( 1977 )
- Tour finals
- W ( 1974 )
- Wct finals
- F ( 1976 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Argentina
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Argentina
- Place of birth
- Mar del Plata
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Argentina Davis Cup team
- Country for sport
- Argentina
- Mass
- 75
- Image
- Guillermo vilas 1981.jpg
- Height
- 180
- Number of children
- 4
- Residence
- Buenos Aires
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- Commons category
- Guillermo Vilas
- handedness
- left-handedness
- date of birth
- 1952-08-17
- doubles record
- 225–156
- playing hand
- left-handedness
- singles record
- 949–291
- name in native language
- Guillermo Vilas
- prize money
- 4923882
- head coach
- Ion Țiriac
- end of work period
- 1992-00-00
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
- ranking
- 175
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
- instrumentation
- human voice
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Encyclopedic overview
Guillermo Vilas at the 1974 Dutch Open
Guillermo Vilas ( locally [ɡiˈʒeɾmo ˈβilas]; Latin American Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ˈβilas]; born 17 August 1952) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He was the world No. 1 of the ITF Grand Prix seasons in 1974, 1975 and 1977. He won 62 singles titles and 16 doubles titles during his career, including four Grand Slam singles titles and the 1974 Tour Finals. World Tennis, among other rankings and publications, rated him as world No. 1 in 1977. In the computerized ATP rankings, he peaked at No. 2 in April 1975, a position he held for a total of 83 weeks, although some have argued that Vilas should have been ranked No. 1 for at least 10 weeks, particularly in 1977 when he won two majors. Representing his country, he and José Luis Clerc led Argentina to win their first ATP World Team Cup in 1980, and reached the Davis Cup finals in 1981. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991, two years after his first retirement.
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