Tommy Robredo

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**Tommy Robredo**

Country	Spain
Residence	Barcelona, Spain
Date of birth	May 1, 1982
Place of birth	Hostalric, Spain
Height	5'11" (180 cm)
Weight	165 lbs (75 kg)
Turned Pro	1998
Plays	Right-handed; One-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	$5,086,283
Singles
Career record:	255 - 159
Career titles:	4
Highest ranking:	No. 5 (August 28, 2006)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	QF (2007)
French Open	QF (2003, 2005)
Wimbledon	3rd (2003)
U.S. Open	4th (2001, 2004-2006)
Doubles
Career record:	63 - 95
Career titles:	1
Highest ranking:	No. 30 (September 27, 2004)
Infobox last updated on: April 2, 2007.

Tommy Robredo Garcés (born May 1, 1982 in Hostalric, Girona) is a professional tennis player from Spain. On 8 May 2006, he broke into the world's top ten for the first time after rising to a rank of No. 10 in the world. He rose to No. 5, his highest singles ranking to date, a few months later on 28 August. He is currently ranked at No. 6 in the world.

Robredo began playing tennis regularly when he was five and his family moved to Olot, where his father Ángel became the director of the local tennis club. (His mother Dolores is herself a former assistant coach.) He was coached by his father until 1996 when he moved to the Centre d'Alt Rendiment ("High Performance Center"), a famous center for professional sports training in Sant Cugat del Vallès. As a junior player, he won the Junior Orange Bowl 16-under in 1998 and in 2000 reached the boys' final at Roland Garros, losing to Paul-Henri Mathieu. He turned professional in 1998 and is currently coached by Jose Manuel "Pepó" Clavet, who has coached Àlex Corretja, Fernando Verdasco, and his brother Francisco Clavet.

Robredo is named after the rock opera Tommy by The Who, of which his parents are big fans; however, Tommy admits that he has not yet watched the movie in its entirety. In his free time Tommy enjoys going golfing or going down to the sea, and his favorite color is blue. His favorite foods are fish and other seafoods, as well as sweet things. Tommy is sponsored by Sergio Tacchini for his clothing, Dunlop for his tennis racquets, TW Steel watches, and also by the European sweets company HARIBO. He is known for his patrician good looks and a gentle, quiet personality. He is also an enthusiastic supporter of Futbol Club Barcelona, and his favorite player is Carles Puyol.

1 Tennis Career
- 1.1 2006
- 1.2 2007
2 Masters Series singles finals
- 2.1 Wins (1)
3 ATP Tour titles (4)
- 3.1 Singles wins (4)
- 3.2 Singles runners-up (5)
4 Performance timeline
5 External links and references

[edit] Tennis Career

[edit] 2006

Robredo at the 2006 Australian Open.

2006 has been Robredo's best season to date. Shortly after reaching a career high ranking of #10 in the world, he reached a new ranking of #7 by winning his first ATP Masters Series title on 21 May at the AMS Hamburg tournament, where he beat Radek Štěpánek in the final in straight sets. He then beat Nikolay Davydenko in straight sets in the final of the Båstad tournament for his second title of the year. After briefly peaking at an all-time high rank of #5, Tommy qualified for the year-ending Tennis Masters Cup (TMC) for the first time in his career by reaching the quarterfinals of the AMS Paris tournament on 2 November. Entering the tournament ranked #6, he did not advance past the round-robin stage but did record a fantastic three-set victory over the tournament's eventual runner-up, James Blake.

[edit] 2007

Robredo started the year well, reaching the final of a tournament played on hardcourts for the first time in his career at Auckland; his previous appearances in finals had been solely in claycourt tournaments. He also defeated eighteenth seed Richard Gasquet in the fourth round of the Australian Open to reach the quarterfinals for the first time, where he lost in straight sets to world number one Roger Federer. Although no one at the Australian Open managed to win a set off of Federer, Robredo and the eventual finalist Fernando Gonzalez tied for the most number of games won against the world number one during the tournament.

Since then Robredo has had poor results, losing at Rotterdam to Novak Djokovic, the first player he faced who was ranked inside the Top 20. He later lost his first match at Dubai to Fabrice Santoro - his first loss to the Frenchman in six meetings - as well as his first match at Indian Wells to Gilles Simon.

On March 29, Robredo lost in the Sony Ericsson Quarterfinals to Guillermo Canas.

[edit] Masters Series singles finals

[edit] Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2006	Hamburg	Radek Štěpánek	6-1, 6-3, 6-3

[edit] ATP Tour titles (4)

[edit] Singles wins (4)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (1)
ATP Tour (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	29 July 2001	Sopot, Poland	Clay	Albert Portas	1-6 7-5 7-6(2)
2.	2 May 2004	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Gastón Gaudio	6-3 4-6 6-2 3-6 6-3
3.	21 May 2006	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Radek Štěpánek	6-1 6-3 6-3
4.	15 July 2006	Bastad, Sweden	Clay	Nikolay Davydenko	6-2 6-1

[edit] Singles runners-up (5)

2001: Casablanca (Guillermo Canas)
2003: Stuttgart (Guillermo Coria)
2005: Estoril (lost to Gastón Gaudio)
2006: Barcelona (lost to Rafael Nadal)
2007: Auckland (lost to David Ferrer)

[edit] 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. This table is current up to the end of the 2007 Indian Wells tournament.

Tournament	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Career win-loss
Australian Open	-	-	-	1R	2R	1R	1R	3R	4R	QF	10-7
French Open	-	-	-	4R	3R	QF	4R	QF	4R		19-6
Wimbledon	-	-	-	2R	1R	3R	2R	1R	2R		5-6
U.S. Open	-	-	-	4R	3R	1R	4R	4R	4R		14-6
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0-0	0-0	0-0	7-4	5-4	6-4	7-4	9-4	10-4	4-1	48-25
Tennis Masters Cup	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	RR		1-2
Indian Wells Masters	-	-	-	-	1R	3R	2R	4R	3R	2R	5-6
Miami Masters	-	-	-	-	2R	2R	4R	3R	2R		4-4
Monte Carlo Masters	-	-	-	-	1R	3R	1R	-	QF		5-4
Rome Masters	-	-	-	-	QF	3R	2R	1R	1R		6-5
Hamburg Masters	-	-	-	-	SF	2R	3R	3R	W		15-4
Canada Masters	-	-	-	-	2R	3R	2R	3R	2R		7-5
Cincinnati Masters	-	-	-	-	3R	1R	SF	2R	SF		11-5
Madrid Masters (Stuttgart)	-	-	-	-	2R	2R	QF	3R	3R		5-5
Paris Masters	-	-	-	1R	2R	3R	2R	QF	SF		4-5
Total Titles	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2		4
Year-End Ranking	511	249	131	30	30	21	13	19	7		N/A