Ricardo Acuña (born 13 January 1958) is a former
tennis player
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
from
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...
, who won three doubles titles during his career. The right-hander reached his highest
ATP singles ranking of World No. 47 in March 1986.
Since his retirement from competition, Acuña has served as both the assistant director and the Director of Tennis at the ATP Headquarters in
Ponte Vedra Beach
Ponte, a word meaning ''bridge'' in Italian, Portuguese, and Galician languages, may refer to:
Places England
*Pontefract, a town in the Metropolitan City of Wakefield
France
*Ponte Leccia, a civil parish (hameau) in the department of Haute-Cors ...
, Florida. He currently serves on the
USTA
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national Sport governing body, governing body for tennis in the United States. A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and devel ...
Player Development staff as a National Coach for Men's tennis.
Career finals
Singles (1 runner-up)
Doubles (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)
References
External links
*
*
1958 births
Living people
Chilean emigrants to the United States
Chilean male tennis players
Northwestern State University alumni
Sportspeople from Jupiter, Florida
Tennis players from Santiago, Chile
Tennis players from Florida
Tennis players at the 1979 Pan American Games
Pan American Games silver medalists in tennis
Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile
Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
20th-century Chilean sportsmen
{{Chile-tennis-bio-stub