Gustavo Kuerten Biography - Coached By Surrogate Father, Clay Court Champion, Chronology, "stayed The Same Person", Awards And Accomplishments - CONTACT INFORMATION
1976-
Brazilian tennis player
Gustavo Kuerten took the tennis world by storm in 1997 when the virtually unknown player won the French Open championship, the clay court Grand Slam event. Kuerten has won the championship three times. He has also won a total of sixteen singles titles and eight doubles titles since turning professional in 1995. Kuerten reached the number one ranking in the world by the end of 2000 and held that position for much of 2001. Aside from being a great clay court player, Kuerten is known as being a friendly, laid back, and humble person.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Address: ATP Tour International Headquarters, 201 ATP Tour Boulevard, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082.
Sketch by Janet P. Stamatel
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Gustavo Kuerten, popularly known as "Guga," was born on September 10, 1976 in Florianopolis, Brazil. Florianopolis is a city of 270,000 people on the island of Santa Catarina off of the Brazilian coast. He is the second of three sons born to Aldo Amadeu and Alice Kuerten. His father owned an aluminum siding business and his mother was a social worker. Both parents enjoyed
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Kuerten turned professional in 1995 when he was nineteen. Within a year he broke into the top 100 rankings of male tennis players worldwide and he became the number one player in Brazil. In 1996 he won his first doubles title with Fernando Meligeni at the Tour de Santiago. Only one year later Kuerten won his first singles title, which also happened to be a Grand Slam championship. Kuerten won the …
Kuerten missed most of the 2002 tennis season because he was recovering from hip surgery. He is expected to return to the circuit once he is physically able to play a regular schedule. For Kuerten to return to the number one position in the world tennis rankings, he will probably have to become a more versatile player and win more tournaments on surfaces other than clay. "For me [that] woul…
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