German Puentes

Germán Puentes

Country	Spain
Born	18 December 1972 Barcelona, Spain
Height	5'8" (173 cm)
Weight	155 lbs (70 kg)
Turned pro	1995
Plays	Right-handed
Career prize money	$481,369
Singles
Career record	13-28
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 90 (20 Nov 2000)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2001)
French Open	1R (1999)
Wimbledon	2R (2001)
US Open	1R (1999, 2001)
Doubles
Career record	14-29
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 73 (22 Nov 1999)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2001)
French Open	1R (1999, 2000, 2001)
Wimbledon	1R (1999, 2000)
US Open	1R (1999, 2001)

Germán Puentes Alcañiz (born 18 December 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Spain.^[1]

Career

Puentes was the runner-up in the 1989 Spanish Junior Championships.

The Spaniard appeared in the main singles draw of five Grand Slams during his career but only once made the second round, at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships, with a win over Mariano Puerta. He also won just one Grand Slam doubles match, which was against South Africans Jeff Coetzee and Marcos Ondruska in the 2001 Australian Open, partnering Juan Balcells.^[2]

His best singles showing on the ATP Tour came at Prague in 1999 when he reached the semi-finals and he was also a quarter-finalist in the Swedish Open that year and again in the 2001 Grand Prix Hassan II.

As a doubles player he teamed up with countryman Eduardo Nicolas to make the semi-final stage of the 1999 Swedish Open. That effort was matched in the 2001 Mexican Open with Albert Portas. The pair also had a win that year over the fifth seeds in the 2001 Hamburg Masters, Wayne Ferreira and Yevgeny Kafelnikov, although it was due to a first set retirement.^[3]

Challenger Titles

Singles: (4)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	2000	Barletta, Italy	Clay	Tommy Robredo	6-4, 7-6(3)
2.	2000	Ulm, Germany	Clay	David Sanchez	6-3, 6-3
3.	2000	Linz, Austria	Clay	Edwin Kempes	7-6(7), 6-1
4.	2001	Furth, Germany	Clay	Kristian Pless	6-4, 6-3

Doubles: (10)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
1.	1996	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Alberto Berasategui	Branislav Galik Borut Urh	6-0, 6-0
2.	1998	Montauban, France	Clay	Eduardo Nicolas	Edwin Kempes Rogier Wassen	7-6, 7-6
3.	1998	Budva, Yugoslavia	Clay	Eduardo Nicolas	Emanuel Couto Joao Cunha-Silva	3-6, 6-1, 6-3
4.	1998	Skopje, Macedonia	Clay	Eduardo Nicolas	Andrei Merinov Andrei Stoliarov	7-5, 3-6, 7-6
5.	1999	Braunschweig, Germany	Clay	Albert Portas	Tomas Carbonell Nebojsa Djordjevic	6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3
6.	1999	Venice, Italy	Clay	Albert Portas	Diego del Rio Mariano Hood	6-4, 6-0
7.	1999	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Eduardo Nicolas	Alberto Martin Javier Sanchez	7-6(1), 7-6(5)
8.	2000	Furth, Germany	Clay	Eduardo Nicolas	Devin Bowen Brandon Coupe	6-4, 6-2
9.	2000	Sevilla, Spain	Clay	Eduardo Nicolas	Tommy Robredo Santiago Ventura	6-3, 6-2
10.	2001	Barletta, Italy	Clay	Jairo Velasco, Jr.	Tomas Behrend Mikhail Youzhny	6-1, 1-0 RET

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