Julián Alonso Pintor (; born 2 August 1977) is a Spanish-American former professional

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, who turned professional in 1995 and retired in 2003. He was known in tennis because of his powerful serve and Forehand compared with the

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´s service. In 1997, playing against Ivanisevic (2nd seeded), in Long Island, beat him for first Top 10 victory en route to semifinal and in that match fired a 143 mph serve to become just third player ( Philippoussis, Rusedski) to register a serve of at least 143. He is the founder of ELITE TENNIS TEAM focusing on junior development and also is coaching pro players

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, Arantxa Rus as many others before like, Qinwen Zheng,

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and Nicolas Almagro. Married to Arantxa Vivanco and father of two children.

Tennis career

Alonso was awarded the

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prize after winning his first ATP title in

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and finishing in the Top 30 in 1997. In the final of the tournament, he defeated

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, World No. 1 ranking 6–1, 6–2 in 46 min. Previously, that same year,

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after being defeated by Alonso at "The Lipton" Key Biscayne (current Miami open) declared: "''Julian will be the next number 1 in the World before Wimbledon''" After this promising start, however, his career is considered underwhelming; he only won one more title (

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, 1998) and retired in 2003 after half year playing only Challengers. He confessed that the decline of his career started with the relationship with

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. The pressure of the media and his mother-in-law made Alonso's ranking and self-confidence fall. He reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 29 in June 1998 (after winning his second and final title). He used to play doubles in

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Spanish team with

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during Manolo Santana captaincy, and several single matches.

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 4 (2–2)

Doubles: 6 (2–4)

Performance timeline

Singles

Doubles

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alonso, Julian 1977 births Living people People from Canet de Mar Sportspeople from the Province of Barcelona Tennis players from Catalonia People from Monte Carlo Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Monaco Spanish male tennis players