Juan Mónaco

Juan Mónaco

Full name	Juan Mónaco
Nickname(s)	Piquito Pico
Country	Argentina
Residence	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of birth	March 29, 1984 (1984-03-29) (age 25)
Place of birth	Tandil, Argentina
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	76 kg (170 lb)
Turned pro	2002
Plays	Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money	$2,592,205
Singles
Career record	152-122
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 14 (February 4, 2008)
Current ranking	No. 30 (October 26, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3R (2008)
French Open	4R (2007)
Wimbledon	1R (2005, 2007, 2009)
US Open	4R (2007)
Doubles
Career record	40-59
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 41 (January 5, 2009)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2009)
French Open	1R (2005, 2007)
Wimbledon	1R (2005, 2009)
US Open	SF (2008)
Last updated on: September 28, 2009.

Juan Mónaco (born March 29, 1984 in Tandil), nicknamed "Pico", is a male tennis player from Argentina. He dated Argentinian model and actress Luisana Lopilato until May 2009. He is sponsored by adidas and Yonex.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 2.1 2002-2003 2.2 2004 2.3 2005 2.4 2006 2.5 2007 2.6 2008 2.7 2009 3 Singles titles (3) 3.1 Singles finalist (5) 3.2 Doubles wins (2) 4 Singles performance timeline 5 ATP Tour career earnings 6 Reference 7 External links

Biography

Started playing at age six. His father, Héctor, is a businessman and mother, Cristina, is an architect. He has two siblings. He enjoys spending time at home in Tandil with family and friends. Favorite sports to follow are soccer and basketball. His favorite teams are Estudiantes de La Plata and the San Antonio Spurs. His favorite surface is clay. He grew up idolizing Andre Agassi and countryman Mariano Zabaleta. He also enjoys going to the cinema. His favorite movies are "Gladiator" and "Lord of the Rings" series. He is coached by former ATP pro Luis Lobo of Argentina.

Career

2002-2003

In 2002 Monaco made his pro circuit debut. In February 12 he won his first Tournament in Jamaica F20, Montego Bay by defeating Francisco Rodriguez of Paraguay. He ended the year ranked no. 470 in the singles.

In 2003 Monaco reached six finals finishing as runner-up in two events in Jamaica F3, Montego Bay losing to American Wayne Odesnik and in Argentina F6, Buenos Aires losing to compatriot Diego Moyano. He however won four which were all in Clay of his six finals he won in Jamaica F4, Montego Bay, in Bolivia F1, La Paz, in Argentina F1, Buenos Aires defeating and in Uruguay F2, Uruguay defeating Dmitri Sitak of Russia, and his fellow compatriots Matias O'Neille, Carlos Berlocq, and Ignacio Gonzalez King respectively. he ended the year ranked at 324 in singles.

2004

Monaco started 2004 by winning in São Paulo-1, Brazil defeating Adrian Garcia of Chile. He also made his ATP Debut in his home of Buenos Aires, Argentina in the 2004 Argentina Open were he reached the Qaurterfinals (l. Guillermo Coria). He followed it up with a Third Round result in his first Master Series event in the 2004 NASDAQ-100 Open losing to Paradorn Srichaphan. He made his Grand Slam debut in the 2004 French Open as a Qualifier losing in the Second Round to eventual finalist and compatriot Guillermo Coria. He also reached the Quarterfinals of 2004 Swedish Open losing to Chilean Fernando Gonzalez. He got his best result of the year in the ATP circuit reaching his first Semifinals in 2004 Idea Prokom Open in Sopot (l. to Jose Acasuso) and 2004 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia in Paloma (l. to Filippo Volandri). He also made his 2004 US Open debut but lost to compatriot Gaston Gaudio in the First Round. He ended the year inside the top 100 for the first time ranked no. 73 in singles.

2005

In 2005, Monaco made his 2005 Australian Open debut, losing in the First Round to American Mardy Fish 6-2, 0-6, 4-6, 6-4, 7-9. He reached the Second Round of the 2005 Pacific Life Open and Quarterfinals in 2005 BMW Open, both times losing to compatriot David Nalbandian. He reached his first ATP finals in Casablanca at the 2005 Grand Prix Hassan II but lost to compatriot Mariano Puerta. He reached the second Round of 2005 Internazionali BNL d'Italia and 2005 Hamburg Masters losing to Guillermo Canas and Jin Novak respectively. He lost in First Round of the 2005 French Open to Sebastian Grosjean. He made his Wimbledon Debut losing to future Australian Open champion Serbian Novak Djokovic. However he got his first top 20 win, defeating Spaniard David Ferrer, but lost the next Round to Tomáš Zíb in the 2005 Mercedes Cup Open. He reached the Quarterfinals in Vietnam Open losing to Radek Štěpánek. He ended the year 12 places lower than the previous year, at no. 85.

2006

In 2006 Monaco recorded 3 First Round exits at the first 2 months in ATP Buenos Aires, Movistar Open, and Adelaide and Second Round exits at the Australian Open and 2006 Medibank International. However he rebounded by reaching the Semifinals in Brasil Open losing to Nicolas Massu of Chile. Following the Semifinals appearance he lost four straight matches at the ATP circuit in Abierto Mexicano Telcel, 2006 NASDAQ-100 Open, 2006 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships and Grand Prix Hassan II. He also lost in the First Round of 2006 Internazionali BNL d'Italia losing to veteran French player Fabrice Santoro and lost in the Second Round of the 2006 Hamburg Masters losing to Robin Söderling.

Following the lost Monaco achieved great results the next four weeks. Reaching the quarterfinals in Poertschach (l. to Luis Horna), the Third Round of 2006 Roland Garros (l. to Ivan Ljubicic), Semifinals of the 2006 Mercedes Cup (l. to Jose Acasuso). Following the Semifinals appearance he lost four matches in a row again a Second Round lost in the Orange Warsaw Open (l. to Nikolay Davydenko) and First Round lost in the 2006 US Open, BCR Open Romania, and Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open. He reached the Third Round of AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships losing to Jarkko Nieminen. He ended the year ranked number 69 in singles.

In the doubles he made two Semifinals appearance in the 2007 Brasil Open partnering compatriot Agustin Calleri and in the 2007 Mercedes Cup partnering Jose Acasuso.

2007

2007 was Monaco's most successful year. Monaco started the year with a Quarterfinal appearance of the 2007 Heineken Open losing to compatriot Agustin Calleri. He also reached the Quarterfinals of the 2007 Brasil Open losing to another compatriot Juan Ignacio Chela. Monaco enters his home tournament of 2007 Copa Telmex in Buenos Aires as world ranked no. 66, and exited with his his first ATP title dominating Alessio Di Mauro in the finals in straight sets with the score 6-1 6-2.

However he exited in the First Rounds of his next three tournament in the 2007 Abierto Mexicano Telcel, 2007 Indian Wells Masters and a challenger event Sunrise. He reached the second round of the 2007 Miami Masters losing to David Ferrer. He also reached the Quarterfinals in 2007 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships losing to American James Blake and in 2007 Estoril Open (l. to Paul-Henri Mathieu). He qualified for Hamburg Masters but lost to no. 1 seed and eventual champion Roger Federer in the Second Round in three tight sets 3-6 6-2 4-6. Following his good performance against Federer, he went to compete in 2007 Hypo Group Tennis International and won the title against French Player Gaël Monfils 7-6(3) 6-0. In the 2007 Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart he lost to Rafael Nadal in straight sets 1-6 3-6 in the Quarterfinals.

He won his third title of the year in the 2007 Austrian Open^[1] after defeating the no. 1 seed Tommy Robredo in the Quarterfinals 6-2 2-6 6-2 and Potito Starace in the Finals 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. in 2007 Cincinnati Masters he defeated a player in the top 5 for the first time and the highest ranked player he has defeated the world ranked no. 2 at the time Rafael Nadal^[2] 7-6(5), 4-1 RET, before losing to Sam Querrey in the Third Round. He also reached the Quarterfinals of 2007 Stockholm Open were he lost to Tommy Haas and the Third Round of 2007 Madrid Masters after revenging his lost against Tommy Haas in the Second Round winning 6-4 7-5.

In the Grand Slams, Monaco lost in the First Rounds of the 2007 Australian Open and 2007 Wimbledon losing to Nicolas Mahut and Kristof Vliegen respectively. Although, he reached the Fourth Round in the 2007 French Open and 2007 US Open, losing to former French Open Champion Guillermo Canas and Novak Djokovic. These results are the farthest he has gone at Grand Slams. He ended the year ranked 23, his highest year-end rank.

2008

In 2008 Monaco started the year with a Semifinal appereance in 2008 Heineken Open losing to German Philipp Kohlschreiber. He also reached the Third Round of the 2008 Australian Open the furthest he has reached so far, losing to Tomáš Berdych. in his post Australian Open tournament, he reached the finals of 2008 Movistar Open^[3] before forcing to withdrew from the match against Fernando Gonzalez before it even took place due to injuring his left ankle in his doubles match which was held before the Semifinal match of Fernando Gonzalez even forcing to retire in the said doubles finals match. Following his performance in the said tournament and finals withdrawal he reached a career high world ranked number 14.

His next tournament was at 2008 Copa Telmex were he was the defending Champion but end up losing in the very First Round. He lost in the second Round of 2008 Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco continuing his bad record on the said tournament. He also reached the Third Round of both 2008 Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells (l. to Guillermo Canas) and 2008 Sony Ericsson Open in Miami (l. to Mario Ancic). He represented Argentina in the Davis Cup Quarterfinal Clash against Sweden and won his only match against Thomas Johansson 6-3 6-3.

He reached the Quarterfinals of 2008 Open de Tenis Comunidad Valenciana and Second Round of 2008 Monte Carlo Masters and 2008 Rome Masters losing to Nicolas Almagro and Igor Andreev respectively. He also reached the Third Round of 2008 Hamburg Masters (l. to Andreas Seppi) and the Finals^[4] of 2008 Hypo Group Tennis International losing to no. 1 seed Nikolay Davydenko. He reached the Semifinals of 2008 Orange Warsaw Open losing to Tommy Robredo. He then lost three matches in a row in the Beijing Olympics losing to Marin Cilic 4-6 7-6(5) 3-6, 2008 Pilot Pen Tennis and the 2008 US Open. He fell in the first rounds of 2008 Mutua Madrileña Masters Madrid (l. to Radek Štěpánek) and 2008 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon (l. to Gilles Simon). He reached the Second Round of both 2008 Stockholm Open and 2008 BNP Paribas Masters after qualifying in both tournaments. He ended the year 23 places lower at 46.

In the doubles Monaco started the year with a win in the 2008 Heineken Open partnering Luis Horna. He reached the Semifinals of 2008 US Open losing to Lukáš Dlouhý & Leander Paes, Finals of 2008 Movistar Open and Won in 2008 Open de Tenis Comunidad Valenciana all partnering fellow Argintenian Maximo Gonzalez.

2009

In 2009 Monaco started the year in 2009 Heineken Open losing to Serbian Viktor Troicki in the Second Round and a Qaurterfinal appearance in the 2009 Movistar Open. He lost in the First Rounds of 2009 Brasil Open, the 2009 Australian Open and Acapulco. He reached his first finals of the year in Buenos Aires at the 2009 Copa Telmex losing to Tommy Robredo in a tight three setter 5-7 6-2 6-7(5). In the doubles He reached the Third Round of the 2009 Australian Open and the Finals of 2009 Brasil Open both partnering Lucas Arnold Ker

He represented Argentina in the Davis Cup defeating Thiemo de Bakker of the Netherlands. He also reached the Second Round of the 2009 Sony Ericsson Open losing to Andy Murray after winning the first set 6-4 3-6 2-6. He also reached the third round of 2009 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters losing to German Andreas Beck 6-3 2-6 5-7 after defeating Tommy Robredo 6-2, 6-4 in the Second Round and the 2009 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell losing to Fernando Gonzalez after defeating Marat Safin in the First Round. He reached his first Masters Quarterfinals at the 2009 Internazionali BNL d'Italia entering as a Qualifier beating Andy Murray^[5] in the Second Round 1-6 6-3 7-5, Marin Cilic in the Third Round 6-4 6-4 then losing to Fernando Gonzalez 6-2 3-6 4-6. He also reached the Round of 16 at the 2009 Estoril Open and the 2009 Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open were he faced three Spaniards losing to Fernando Verdasco after defeating Feliciano Lopez and David Ferrer. He also represented Argentina along with Juan Martin Del Potro and Maximo Gonzalez at the 2009 ARAG World Team Cup were he won his only singles match aganist Serbian Janko Tipsarevic. He reached the Second Round of Roland Garros losing to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

He lost in the First Round of Wimbledon still failing to capture his first win at the Slam losing to Nicolas Almagro 7-6(3) 7-6(7) 6-7(5) 4-6 6-8 a match that lasted almost four hours long. He represented Argentina once again in the Quarterfinal of the 2009 Davis Cup against Czech Republic losing both his matches. He then competed in the 2009 Swedish Open defeating eight seed Maximo Gonzalez 7-6(4) 3-6 6-1, and dominating his next three matches against Victor Crivoi 6-0 7-6(1), no. 1 seed Fernando Verdasco 6-1 3-1RET, and no. 3 seed and defending Champion Tommy Robredo 6-0 6-2 before losing to Robin Söderling in the Finals^[6] 3-6 6(4)-7. In the 2009 International German Open he defeated Mikhail Youzhny 7-6(4) 6-3 and Jose Acasuso 6-1 1-1ret. He then lost to David Ferrer in the Third Round 6-4 5-7 2-6. Monaco will compete directly in the 2009 US Open without competing in any events in 2009 US Open Series. He lost to eventual champion Juan Martin del Potro 6-3 6-3 6-1 in the first Round of the 2009 US Open. At the 2009 BCR Open Romania Monaco reached his 3rd finals of the year but once again ending as runner-up to Albert Montañés 7-6(2) 7-6(5) after defeating qualifiers Julio Silva and Pere Riba, 8th seed Pablo Cuevas and German Simon Greul respectively. Because of this final appearance he will end the year with 29 wins in clay, the most wins in the year in Clay out of any other players. In the 2009 Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships and retired against Ernests Gulbis 6-3 4-1 ret in the second round after defeating Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 5-0 ret. He the lost to Victor Troicki 6-1 6-2 in the first round of 2009 Shanghai ATP Masters 1000. He lost to Joachim Johansson 6-4 6-4 after defeating Jan Hernych 6-2 5-7 7-5 in the first round of the 2009 If Stockholm Open.He is currently competing in the 2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon as the fourth seed he was upsetted by Michael Llodra 6-3 6-4 in the second round after defeating frenchman Josselin Ouanna 6-3 6-2 in 60 minutes converting 6 of 10 break points in the first round. He lost in the second round of 2009 Valencia Open 500 to Nikolay Davydenko 6-3 7-5 after failing to convert of his breaks of serve, He defeated Martin Vassallo Arguello in the match prior 6-3 6-2. He then lost to Novak Djokovic 6-3 7-5 despite leading 5-3 in the second set, after defeating Jérémy Chardy 7-6(6) 7-5 in the 2009 BNP Paribas Masters. This was his last tournaments, reaching three finals the most since winning 3 titles in 2007, He ended the year at no. 30 and the most clay court wins.

Singles titles (3)

Legend (Singles)

Grand Slam (0)

Tennis Masters Cup / ATP World Tour Finals (0)

ATP Masters Series / ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0)

ATP International Series Gold / ATP World Tour 500 Series (1)

ATP International Series / ATP World Tour 250 Series (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	February 19, 2007	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Alessio di Mauro	6–1, 6–2
2.	May 20, 2007	Pörtschach, Austria	Clay	Gaël Monfils	7–6(3), 6–0
3.	July 23, 2007	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Potito Starace	5–7, 6–3, 6–4

Singles finalist (5)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	April 4, 2005	Casablanca, Morroco	Clay	Mariano Puerta	4–6, 1–6
2.	January 28, 2008	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Fernando González	W/O
3.	May 19, 2008	Poertschach, Austria	Clay	Nikolay Davydenko	2–6, 6–2, 2–6
4.	February 16, 2009	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Tommy Robredo	5–7, 6–2, 6–7(5)
5.	July 19, 2009	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Robin Söderling	3–6, 6–7(4)
6.	September 27, 2009	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Albert Montañés	6–7(2), 6–7(5)

Doubles wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	January 11, 2008	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Luis Horna	Xavier Malisse Jürgen Melzer	6–4, 3–6, [10-7]
2.	April 19, 2008	Valencia, Spain	Clay	Máximo González	Travis Parrott Filip Polasek	7–5, 7–5

Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only after a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics. This table is current through the 2009 Cincinnati Masters, which ended on August 23, 2009.

Tournament	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Career win-loss
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	3R	1R	3–5
French Open	A	A	2R	1R	3R	4R	1R	2R	7–6
Wimbledon	A	A	A	1R	A	1R	A	1R	0–3
U.S. Open	A	A	1R	1R	1R	4R	1R	1R	3–6
Grand Slam Win-Loss1	0-0	0-0	1-2	0-4	3-3	6-4	2-3	1-4	13-20
Year-End Championship
Tennis Masters Cup	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0–0
Olympic games
Summer Olympics	NH		A	Not Held			1R	NH	0–1
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	2R	A	1R	3R	A	3–3
Miami Masters	A	A	3R	1R	1R	2R	3R	2R	5–6
Monte-Carlo	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	3R	3–2
Rome	A	A	A	2R	1R	A	2R	QF	5–4
Madrid	A	A	A	LQ	A	3R	1R	3R	4–3
Canada Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0–0
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	3R	A	A	2–1
Shanghai	NH			Not ATP Masters Series				1R	0–1
Paris Masters	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	2R	2–3
Hamburg Masters	A	A	A	2R	2R	2R	3R	NM1	5–4
Career Statistics
Tournaments Played	0	0	13	25	23	22	22	25	129
Finals	0	0	0	1	0	3	2	3	9
Total Titles	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3
Hardcourt Win-Loss	0-0	0-0	2-3	1-8	3-8	12-9	9-10	7-11	32-47
Clay Win-Loss	0-0	0-0	13-9	14-13	15-15	28-8	19-9	29-13	118-67
Grass Win-Loss	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-1	0-3
Carpet Win-Loss	0-0	0-0	0-2	2-2	0-0	1-1	0-1	0-0	3-6
Overall Win-Loss	0-0	0-0	16-13	17-25	18-23	41-19	28-20	36-26	156-126
Percentage Win	0%	0%	55%	41%	44%	68%	58%	58%	55%
Year End Ranking	605	319	73	85	69	23	46	30	N/A

A = did not participate in the tournament.
LQ = lost in qualifying draw.
1. The win total does not include walkovers.

ATP Tour career earnings

Year	Majors	ATP wins	Total wins	Earnings ($)	Money list rank
2004	0	0	0	$194,712	118
2005	0	0	0	$284,361	86
2006	0	0	0	$267,330	94
2007	0	3	3	$695,945	25
2008	0	0	0	$555,206	50
2009*	0	0	0	$613,019	37
Career*	0	3	3	$2,634,809	187

• As of October 26, 2009

Reference

External links

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