Country (sports) | Venezuela | |||||||||||||||||
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Residence | Caracas, Venezuela | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Caracas, Venezuela | September 15, 1975|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Turned pro | 1994 | |||||||||||||||||
Plays | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||
Prize money | $194,839 | |||||||||||||||||
Singles | ||||||||||||||||||
Career record | 7–31 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup) | |||||||||||||||||
Career titles | 0 2 Challenger, 6 Futures | |||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 160 (15 November 1999) | |||||||||||||||||
Grand Slam singles results | ||||||||||||||||||
French Open | Q2 (2000) | |||||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | Q3 (1994, 2001) | |||||||||||||||||
US Open | 1R {1996, 1997} | |||||||||||||||||
Doubles | ||||||||||||||||||
Career record | 8–12 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup) | |||||||||||||||||
Career titles | 0 2 Challenger, 2 Futures | |||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 187 (19 June 2000) | |||||||||||||||||
Other doubles tournaments | ||||||||||||||||||
Olympic Games | 2R (2000) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Last updated on: 1 November 2021. |
Jimy Szymanski Ottaviano (born September 15, 1975, in Caracas) is a former tennis player from Venezuela.
He reached his highest junior world ranking of no. 1 in the world in summer 1993. He reached finals in Wimbledon Juniors 1993 and won the Italian Junior world championship in Bonfiglio Milano in 1993. He won the Junior Orange Bowl in doubles in 1993 and finished no. 3 in the juniors world ranking in 1993.
He turned professional in 1994 and reached his highest singles ATP ranking on November 15, 1999, at no. 160.
He played in the ATP tour for more than 10 years and had wins over Fernando González, Nicolás Lapentti, James Blake, Félix Mantilla, Olivier Rochus, Goran Ivanišević, Nicolás Pereira, Horst Skoff, Nuno Marques, Franco Squillari, Jaime Oncins, and Sébastien Lareau.
Szymanski represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and in 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney.
As a coach, he worked with Milagros Sequera, Maria Kirilenko, Nadia Petrova, and was Davis Cup captain and Fed Cup captain for his native country.
He is president of STA TENNIS LLC, a company that manages tennis facilities in South Florida.