Juan Carlos Báguena Explained

Juan Carlos Báguena
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Birth Date:7 January 1967
Birth Place:Barcelona, Spain
Plays:Right-handed
Careerprizemoney:$168,464
Singlesrecord:3–18
Singlestitles:0
Highestsinglesranking:No. 206 (15 Jan 1990)
Frenchopenresult:1R (1991)
Doublesrecord:27–53
Doublestitles:1
Highestdoublesranking:No. 107 (9 Sep 1991)
Frenchopendoublesresult:2R (1989)

Juan Carlos Báguena (pronounced as /es/; born 7 January 1967) is a tennis coach[1] and former professional tennis player from Spain.[2]

Career

Báguena was primarily a doubles player and reached the semi-finals at Bari in 1988.[3]

He made the second round of the men's doubles in the 1989 French Open, partnering Borja Uribe.[3] The pair beat Australians Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzmann in what was a close opening round encounter, won 9–7 in the third and final set.[3] In the mixed doubles he played with Jo-Anne Faull and also reached the second round.[3]

In 1990, Baguena teamed up with Omar Camporese to win the Madrid Trophy.[3] At the same event he also reached the singles quarter-finalist. He also reached the doubles semi-finals in Genova that year.[3]

The Spaniard made his only Grand Slam singles appearance at the 1991 French Open and lost a five set opening match to Christian Miniussi.[3] His best performance of the year came in Florence, where he and Carlos Costa were doubles runners-up.[3]

ATP career finals

Doubles: 2 (1–1)

ResultW-LDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–01990Madrid, SpainClay Omar Camporese Andrés Gómez
Javier Sánchez
6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Loss1–11991Florence, ItalyClay Carlos Costa Ola Jonsson
Magnus Larsson
6–3, 1–6, 1–6

Challenger titles

Doubles: (2)

No.YearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
1. 1988Strasbourg, FranceClay Borja Uribe Pavel Vojtíšek
Ivo Werner
6–4, 6–3
2.1990Casablanca, MoroccoClay Francisco Roig Slava Doseděl
Richard Krajicek
7–5, 5–7, 6–4

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jcbaguena.com www.jcbaguena.com Juan Carlos Báguena - Tenis en los colegios
  2. http://itftennis.com/ProCircuit/players/player/profile.aspx?PlayerID=10000068 ITF Tennis Profile
  3. http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/players/enwiki/B084/overview ATP World Tour Profile