The 37th version of the “Ciudad de Albacete” Intercontinental Tennis Trophy will after yet again see at minimum two substantial-stage players, these types of as the Valencia-centered Valencian, Pablo Andújar, who reached 32nd place in the globe, and Guillermo García López from Rodense , whose very best ranking was 23. Involving the two gamers they have gathered 9 victories in ATP circuit tournaments and 100 participations in Grand Slam occasions. The party will consider location from 6 to 11 September, at the Albacete Tennis Club.
Both equally tennis players by now know what it implies to gain the Albacete event, given that Guillermo García López has won it three situations, in 2006 against Juan Carlos Ferrero, in 2009 by beating Nicolás Almagro and in 2011 against Daniel Monedero, although Pablo Andújar gained the trophy as the winner in 2012 in opposition to Roberto Bautista and in 2016 he defeated Rubén Ramírez in the closing.
Pablo Andújar, a experienced since 2003, is at the moment in 92nd put in the ATP rankings, despite the fact that in the program of his job he has completed 4 seasons between the 50 finest in the environment. His big hits include things like 4 wins in ATP activities, Casablanca 2011 and 2012, Gstaad in 2014 and Marrakech in 2018. Furthermore, he dropped five extra finals. He has also gained 11 ATP Challenger classification tournaments. At the Grand Slams he reached the spherical of 16 at the Usa Open up 2019 and the third spherical in Australia, Wimbledon and Roland Garros. He was also current at the latest Tokyo Olympics. Final 12 months he obtained a extremely prestigious victory by beating Roger Federer in Geneva.
García López will also be in the metropolis of Albacete
For his aspect, Guillermo García-López introduced a couple of months ago his retirement from the expert circuit following 20 decades of knowledge, for which he will be honored through the awards ceremony of the final of the event. His finest globe rating was 23rd in 2011. His history consists of 5 tournaments on the ATP circuit, Kithbuhel, Bangkok, Casablanca, Zagreb and Bucharest, as perfectly as four other finals performed. In the Grand Slam activities, his most effective outcome was the eighth final at Roland Garros 2014.
In addition, in the doubles he was a finalist at the US Open and semifinalist at the Australian Open, the two paired with Pablo Carreño. In 2013 he participated with the Spanish staff in the Davis Cup in opposition to Canada, losing the match in opposition to Raonic. The most notorious victory of him was towards Rafa Nadal in the Bandkog semifinals in 2009, in addition to victories from tennis gamers these as Andre Agassi, Carlos Moyá, Andy Roddick, Andy Murray or Tomas Berdych, amongst others.
We recall that practically all Spanish tennis gamers have passed via the Intercontinental Tennis Trophy of the Town of Albacete in current several years, from Emilio Sánchez Vicario to Rafa Nadal himself, passing via David Ferrer, Fernando Verdasco, Feliciano López, Nicolás Almagro, Guillermo García-López , Roberto Bautista, Pablo Andújar or the famous Juan Carlos Ferrero, Sergi Bruguera Alex Corretja, Alberto Berasategui or Albert Costa, among the others. In the industry also overseas tennis players of the planet major ten this sort of as the Russian Marat Safin, the Moroccan Younes El Aynaoui or the modern finalist of Roland Garros, the Norwegian Casper Ruud.
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