Horacio Zeballos Tennis player
Horacio Zeballos, Jr. (born 27 April 1985 in Mar del Plata) is a professional Argentine tennis player on the men's circuit. His career-high singles ranking is world no. 39, which he achieved in March 2013. His highest doubles ranking to date has been world no. 32, in October 2010. He has played most of his tennis on the Challenger events. He qualified for the US Open and defeated Michael Berrer in the first round for his first win at Grand Slam level, before losing to Tomáš Berdych in four sets in the second round.He reached the final in the St. Petersburg Open in Russia, losing to Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky. He also reached the doubles final at the Movistar Open in Santiago in 2010, partnered with Potito Starace. They lost to top seeds, Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach. He then won the title in doubles at the Copa Telmex with Sebastián Prieto. Zeballos won the 2009 ATP Newcomer of the Year award on 17 February 2010.Zeballos won his first pro title in 2013 at the VTR Open in Chile on 10 February. In the final, he beat Rafael Nadal, becoming only the third player (after Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic) to beat the former world no. 1 in a clay-court final.
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