Mariano Hood Explained

Mariano Hood
Residence:	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Birth Date:	14 August 1973
Birth Place:	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Plays:	Left-handed
Coach:	Daniel Orsanic
Turnedpro:	1993
Retired:	2009
Careerprizemoney:	US$847,665
Singlesrecord:	4–7
Singlestitles:	0 0 Challenger, 0 Futures
Highestsinglesranking:	No. 153 (15 May 2000)
Australianopenresult:	Q2 (1999)
Frenchopenresult:	Q1 (2000)
Wimbledonresult:	Q2 (2000)
Usopenresult:	Q2 (1999)
Doublesrecord:	170–149
Doublestitles:	13 22 Challenger, 0 Futures
Highestdoublesranking:	No. 20 (27 October 2003)
Australianopendoublesresult:	2R (2002, 2005)
Frenchopendoublesresult:	QF (2003, 2005)
Wimbledondoublesresult:	2R (2004, 2005)
Usopendoublesresult:	3R (2003)

Mariano Hood (born 14 August 1973) is a retired left-handed professional Argentine tennis player who specialized in doubles.

In his career, Hood won 13 out of the 26 top level doubles finals he was in. He turned professional in 1993, and currently resides in his city of birth, Buenos Aires. He won US$806,888 in earnings and was coached by Daniel Orsanic. He won his first doubles title in Santiago, Chile, in 1998 and Palermo in 2005 was his last title. On October 27, 2003, Hood reached his highest doubles ranking of World Number 20. He partnered either Sebastián Prieto or Lucas Arnold Ker to win most of his doubles titles, although he did have other partnerships as well.

Hood was banned by the ITF of the illegal use of Finasteride after he had made the French Open quarterfinals in 2005.^[1] He thus planned to retire from the professional circuit. However, Hood made a comeback in 2008. He last played on the tour in 2009.

2008 comeback

In his first tournament of the year, he went to the semifinals with José Acasuso at the 2008 Copa Telmex. A week later, Hood teamed with Eduardo Schwank to win the Santiago, Chile, Challenger on the ITF Men's Circuit. After two weeks' early losses alongside fellow Argentine partners in Challenger tournaments, he teamed with Guillermo Coria to reach the Naples Challenger semifinals, and then with Luis Horna to reach the Monza Challenger semifinals. Directly after this, he won a second title, at Chiasso located in Switzerland with Alberto Martín in a Challenger event. Two weeks later, a third Challenger triumph arrived with a victory over Marc Fornell and Caio Zampieri alongside Guillermo García López. After a few more tournaments, he received a wildcard entry with Rafael Nadal at the 2008 Queen's Club Championships.^[2]

ATP career finals

Doubles: 26 (13 titles, 13 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–1)
ATP World Series (13–12)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (13–11)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–2)

Finals by setting
Outdoors (13–11)
Indoors (0–2)

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 1996	San Marino, San Marino	Clay		Pablo Albano Lucas Arnold Ker	1–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Aug 1998	San Marino, San Marino	Clay		Jiří Novák David Rikl	4–6, 6–7
Win	1–2	Nov 1998	Santiago, Chile	Clay		Massimo Bertolini Devin Bowen	7–6, 6–7, 7–6
Win	2–2	Aug 1999	San Marino, San Marino	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	6–3, 6–2
Win	3–2	Oct 1999	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Lan Bale Alberto Martín	6–3, 6–1
Loss	3–3	Sep 2000	Bucharest, Romania	Clay		Alberto Martín Eyal Ran	6–7, 1–6
Win	4–3	Feb 2001	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay		Martín Rodríguez André Sá	6–2, 6–4
Loss	4–4	Feb 2001	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay		Tomás Carbonell Lucas Arnold Ker	4–6, 6–2, 3–6
Loss	4–5	Feb 2001	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay		Tomás Carbonell Lucas Arnold Ker	7–5, 5–7, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	5–5	Feb 2003	Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Agustín Calleri	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	6–3, 1–6, 6–4
Win	6–5	Feb 2003	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay		Lucas Arnold Ker David Nalbandian	6–2, 6–2
Loss	6–6	Apr 2003	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	1–6, 2–6
Win	7–6	May 2003	Valencia, Spain	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Brian MacPhie Nenad Zimonjić	6–1, 6–7^(7–9), 6-4
Loss	7–7	Jul 2003	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Simon Aspelin Massimo Bertolini	7–6, 0–6, 4–6
Win	8–7	Sep 2003	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	7-6^(8–6), 6–7^(3–7), 6–3
Loss	8–8	Oct 2003	Basel, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Lucas Arnold Ker	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	4–6, 2–6
Win	9–8	Feb 2004	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Federico Browne Diego Veronelli	7–5, 6–7^(2–7), 6–4
Loss	9–9	May 2004	Barcelona, Spain	Clay		Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Win	10–9	May 2004	St. Poelten, Austria	Clay	Petr Pála	Tomáš Cibulec Leoš Friedl	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
Win	11–9	Sep 2004	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	José Acasuso Óscar Hernández	7–6^(7–5), 6–1
Win	12–9	Oct 2004	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Gastón Etlis Martín Rodríguez	7–5, 6–2
Loss	12–10	Oct 2004	Basel, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Lucas Arnold Ker	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–7, 2–6
Loss	12–11	Apr 2005	Valencia, Spain	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Fernando González Martín Rodríguez	4–6, 4–6
Loss	12–12	May 2005	Sankt Pölten, Austria	Clay		Paul Hanley Lucas Arnold Ker	3–6, 4–6
Loss	12–13	Jul 2005	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Tommy Robredo	José Acasuso Sebastián Prieto	6–7^(4–7), 3–6
Win	13–13	Oct 2005	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Martín García	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–2, 6–3

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 2 (0–2)

Legend
ATP Challenger (0–2)
ITF Futures (0–0)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1		Maia, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Juan Carlos Ferrero	3–6, 7–5, 3–6
Loss	0–2		San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Agustín Calleri	5–7, 4–6

Doubles: 38 (22–16)

Legend
ATP Challenger (22–16)
ITF Futures (0–0)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–2)
Clay (21–14)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Brașov, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Martín Rodríguez	Gheorghe Cosac Dinu-Mihai Pescariu	6–7, 1–6
Win	1–1	Merano, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Cristian Brandi Filippo Messori	6–1, 4–6, 7–6
Win	2–1	Santa Cruz, Bolivia	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Egberto Caldas Adriano Ferreira	7–6, 4–6, 6–3
Win	3–1	Lima, Peru	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Kris Goossens Jimy Szymanski	6–2, 6–1
Loss	3–2	Palmar, Puerto Rico	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Lucas Arnold Ker Daniel Orsanic	5–7, 6–3, 3–6
Win	4–2	Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Diego del Río Mariano Puerta	7–5, 6–1
Loss	4–3	Salinas, Ecuador	Challenger	Hard	Sebastián Prieto	David DiLucia Michael Sell	6–7, 4–6
Win	5–3	Nice, France	Challenger	Clay	Devin Bowen	André Sá Mariano Puerta	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
Win	6–3	Salinas, Ecuador	Challenger	Hard	Sebastián Prieto	Lucas Arnold Ker Daniel Orsanic	6–2, 7–6
Win	7–3	Maia, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Emanuel Couto Bernardo Mota	6–2, 6–0
Loss	7–4	Venice, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Diego del Río	Albert Portas Germán Puentes Alcañiz	4–6, 0–6
Loss	7–5	São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Jaime Oncins Daniel Orsanic	2–6, 2–6
Loss	7–6	Lima, Peru	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Pablo Albano Martín García	6–7, 6–3, 3–6
Loss	7–7	Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Martín Rodríguez	Alberto Martín Eyal Ran	6–7^(2–7), 7–6^(7–5), 2–6
Win	8–7	São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Tomas Behrend Germán Puentes Alcañiz	6–3, 7–6^(8–6)
Loss	8–8	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Devin Bowen	Andrea Gaudenzi Sander Groen	6–7^(6–8), 4–6
Loss	8–9	São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Diego del Río	Agustín Calleri Edgardo Massa	7–5, 5–7, 3–6
Win	9–9	Montevideo, Uruguay	Challenger	Clay	Gastón Etlis	Diego del Río Martín Vassallo Argüello	walkover
Win	10–9	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Challenger	Clay	Edgardo Massa	Luis Horna Sebastián Prieto	7–5, 6–1
Loss	10–10	Budapest, Hungary	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Karol Beck Jaroslav Levinský	6–3, 4–6, 1–6
Loss	10–11	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	František Čermák Ota Fukárek	3–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	11–11	Braunschweig, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Luis Horna	Petr Luxa František Čermák	3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Loss	11–12	Scheveningen, Netherlands	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Edwin Kempes Martin Verkerk	4–6, 4–6
Win	12–12	Seville, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Luis Horna	Álex López Morón Albert Portas	4–6, 6–1, 6–4
Win	13–12	Barcelona, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Emilio Benfele Álvarez	Karsten Braasch Peter Nyborg	7–5, 6–3
Win	14–12	São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Prieto	Luis Horna Sergio Roitman	6–3, 6–4
Win	15–12	Zagreb, Croatia	Challenger	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	6–1, 6–3
Win	16–12	Košice, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Salvador Navarro-Gutierrez Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	2–1 ret.
Win	17–12	Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Alberto Martín Óscar Hernández	6–0, 6–4
Win	18–12	Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Eduardo Schwank	Brian Dabul Jean-Julien Rojer	6–3, 6–3
Win	19–12	Chiasso, Switzerland	Challenger	Clay	Alberto Martín	Fabio Colangelo Marco Crugnola	4–6, 7–6^(7–4), [11–9]
Win	20–12	Rabat, Morocco	Challenger	Clay	Guillermo García López	Marc Fornell Mestres Caio Zampieri	6–3, 6–2
Loss	20–13	Reggio Emilia, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Leonardo Mayer	Yu Xinyuan Zeng Shaoxuan	3–6, 4–6
Loss	20–14	Lugano, Switzerland	Challenger	Clay	Eduardo Schwank	Rameez Junaid Philipp Marx	6–7^(7–9), 6–4, [7–10]
Win	21–14	Como, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Alberto Martín	Guillermo Hormazábal Antonio Veić	6–1, 6–4
Win	22–14	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Challenger	Clay	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	Rameez Junaid Philipp Marx	7–5, 7–6^(7–4)
Loss	22–15	Asunción, Paraguay	Challenger	Clay	Martín García	Leonardo Mayer Alejandro Fabbri	5–7, 4–6
Loss	22–16	São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Horacio Zeballos	Leonardo Mayer Carlos Berlocq	6–7^(1–7), 3–6

Performance timeline

Doubles

Tournament	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	2R	A	A	A	1R	0 / 8	2–8
French Open	3R	3R	1R	1R	3R	QF	2R	QF	A	A	A	A	0 / 8	13–8
Wimbledon	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	A	A	A	A	0 / 8	2–8
US Open	1R	2R	2R	1R	1R	3R	2R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 8	5–8
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	2–3	3–4	1–4	0–4	3–4	5–4	3–4	5–4	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0 / 32	22–32
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
Miami	3R	1R	2R	1R	A	1R	2R	2R	A	A	A	A	0 / 7	5–7
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	1R	2R	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	1–2
Rome	A	A	A	2R	A	2R	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 4	2–4
Hamburg	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	2R	2R	A	A	A	NMS	0 / 2	2–2
Madrid	Not Masters Series	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
Paris	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–3	2–6	3–4	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 18	10–18

Notes and References

Web site: Anti-Doping – Press Release – Decision in the case of Mariano Hood. ITF Tennis . 2006-08-02 . 2012-08-17.
http://www.protennislive.com/posting/2008/311/mdd.pdf Queen's Club doubles draw