Gustavo Kuerten

Gustavo Kuerten (born September 10, 1976 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina) is a professional tennis player from Brazil. He is also known as "Guga", an affectionate nickname which is a common abbreviation of the name "Gustavo" in Brazil. He is a former World No. 1 and three-time French Open champion.

Titles (28)

Doubles (8)

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Performance Timeline

Singles

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The year of 1999 was Kuerten's best overall year in the Grand Slam: he reached the quarterfinals in all events but one. Symbol "-" means that Kuerten did not play in that year's edition of the event.

Related Topics:
1999 - Grand Slam

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Doubles

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Titles detail

Grand Slam

1997 French Open

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Defeated 3 champions, who had won the previous 4 editions, en route to title: Sergi Bruguera (1993 and 1994), Thomas Muster (1995) and Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1996).

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1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996

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2000 French Open

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As in 1997, faced Yevgeny Kafelnikov in the quarterfinal match; Third consecutive final against Magnus Norman ("a historical rivalry", in Kuerten's words).

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2001 French Open

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For the third time faced Yevgeny Kafelnikov in the quartefinal match; For the second time, faced Juan Carlos Ferrero in the Semifinal match. Saved a match point against Michael Russell in the Fourth Round.

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Masters Series

1999 Monte Carlo Open

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1999 Italian Open (Rome)

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2000 Hamburg Open

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2001 Monte Carlo Open

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2001 Cincinnati Open

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Kuerten later described this as his best-played tournament, given how many difficult opponents he had to defeat en route to the title.

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2000 Tennis Masters Cup (Lisbon)

After losing his first Round Robin match, Kuerten had to win the tournament in order to finish the year as world n.1 (had he won the first match, a semifinal result would have sufficed).

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