The bookmaker listed the best rackets on the continent and reviewed their careers
Not all young people in Latin America dream of a football career. As children, the protagonists of the review of the world betting house 1xBet They chose tennis and achieved great success in this sport.
#1 Guillermo Vilas
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Guillermo Vilas was born in 1952 in Buenos Aires. The career of this athlete reached its peak in the second half of the 1970s. During this period, the Argentinean won the Australian Open twice (1978 and 1979) and also won a trophy at Roland Garros (1977) and another at the US Open (1977). In terms of the number of Grand Slams and championship titles won in competitions under the auspices of the ATP, Guillermo Vilas is the best tennis player on the South American continent.
Vilas competed on par with the much more successful Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe, so he did not rise above second place in the ATP rankings. However, the authoritative English newspaper The Daily Telegraph placed Guillermo Vilas third on its list of the best clay-court tennis players of all time, after Rafael Nadal and Bjorn Borg.
Vilas’s incredible game and high achievements significantly increased the popularity of tennis in Argentina’s footballing world. Guillermo Cañas and Guillermo Coria, who were among the ATP top 10 in different years, were named by their parents in honour of their famous namesake. Vilas was also the idol of the young Gabriela Sabatini.
#2 Gustavo Kuerten
Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten was born in 1976. Guga shone on clay and won the French Open three times (1997, 2000 and 2001).
Kuerten lived through an interesting time in tennis, when the careers of Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi were coming to an end, and Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic were still playing at lower levels. To some extent, Kuerten took advantage of the lack of serious competition and became world number one in December 2000.
Guga was not a universal tennis player, his game on hard courts and grass courts often left much to be desired. However, in Brazilian tennis he is the number 1 player. The centre court of the Jockey Club Brasileiro, where the main matches of the Rio Open are played, was named after Gustavo Kuerten.
#3 Juan Martin del Potro
Juan Martin del Potro was born in 1988. He found it difficult to compete against Federer at Wimbledon and the US Open, Nadal at Roland Garros and Djokovic at the Australian Open. However, del Potro wrote his name in Grand Slam history with a 5-set victory over Federer in the 2009 US Open final.
One day, the Argentine became the third racket in the world, which is equivalent to being the first after the gods.
#4 Andres Gomez
Andrés Gómez was born in 1960 in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil. This tennis player began his professional career in 1979 and took 11 years to achieve his first serious success.
In 1990, the 30-year-old Ecuadorian defeated Andre Agassi in the French Open final. At the same time, Gomez became the world’s fourth-ranked player and reached his highest ranking in the ATP rankings.
#5 Marcelo Rios
How can you be the world’s number one player without winning a single Grand Slam title? Just ask Marcelo Ríos, a Chilean tennis player born in Santiago in 1975.
In 1998, Marcelo reached the final of the Australian Open, where he lost completely to the Czech Petr Korda. Rios then accumulated enough points to lead the world rankings for 6 weeks. The Chilean shone for only a couple of years and went down in history as the second and, until now, last South American to reach number 1 on the ATP list.
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