.jpg) Zeballos in 2015 | |||||||||||||||
| Country (sports) |  Argentina | ||||||||||||||
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| Residence | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 April 1985 Mar del Plata, Argentina | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Plays | Left-handed (one-handed backhand) | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Alejandro Lombardo | ||||||||||||||
| Prize money | $8,599,693 | ||||||||||||||
| Singles | |||||||||||||||
| Career record | 91–133 | ||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 39 (4 March 2013) | ||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam singles results | |||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | 1R (2010, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018) | ||||||||||||||
| French Open | 4R (2017) | ||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | 2R (2018) | ||||||||||||||
| US Open | 2R (2009, 2016) | ||||||||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||||||||
| Career record | 364–212 | ||||||||||||||
| Career titles | 22 | ||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (6 May 2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 3T (11 November 2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | SF (2022, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
| French Open | SF (2013, 2022, 2023, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | F (2021, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
| US Open | F (2019) | ||||||||||||||
| Other doubles tournaments | |||||||||||||||
| Tour Finals | F (2023) | ||||||||||||||
| Olympic Games | 1R (2021) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 11 November 2024. | |||||||||||||||
Horacio Zeballos Jr. (Latin American Spanish: [oˈɾasjo seˈβaʝos], locally [oˈɾasjo seˈβaʃos];[1] born 27 April 1985) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 1 on 6 May 2024, becoming the first Argentinian man to achieve the feat.[2] He also has a career-high singles ranking of No. 39 achieved on 4 March 2013.
In singles, Zeballos won his first and only ATP title at the 2013 Chile Open. In the final, he beat Rafael Nadal, becoming one of only five players (with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, and Nuno Borges) to beat Nadal in a clay court final.[3] He also reached the fourth round at the French Open, doing so in 2017, and the final in St. Petersburg in 2009, Russia, losing to Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky. Zeballos won the 2009 ATP Newcomer of the Year award.
In doubles, he has won 22 ATP titles and reached the men's doubles finals at the 2019 US Open and at Wimbledon in 2021 and 2023 alongside Marcel Granollers. He reached his first doubles final at the 2010 Chile Open in Santiago, with partner Potito Starace. They lost to top seeds Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach. He won his first doubles title at the Argentina Open with Sebastián Prieto.
- ^ "The pronunciation by Horacio Zeballos himself". ATP World Tour. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ "Granollers and Zeballos, on top of the world as doubles No. 1s". 6 May 2024.
- ^ "Tennis: Nadal denied title in comeback tournament", Global Post, 10 February 2013.