Rafael Arévalo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Rafael Arévalo

Salvadorian tennis player

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1986

Place of Birth: Sonsonate, Sonsonate Department, El Salvador

Profession: tennis player

Nationality: El Salvador

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Rafael Arévalo González (Spanish pronunciation: [rafa'el a'?eßalo ?on'sales]; born July 4, 1986) is a professional tennis player from El Salvador.
The majority of Arévalo's professional career has been restricted to playing on the Futures (ITF) circuit, with a further 22 appearances for the El Salvador Davis Cup team; he also encountered modest success in the juniors, reaching a peak of No.
10 in 2004.
However, in 2008, aided by the Salvadoran Tennis Federation (Federación Salvadoreña de Tenis), he was awarded an invitation to the 2008 Beijing Olympics tennis tournament.
The Tripartite Commission, which issued the invitation, is composed of representatives from International Olympic Committee (IOC), National Olympic Committees (NOCs), and the International Tennis Federation (ITF), and it is standard practice to award such invitations (of which there were two for the men's singles tennis event) to countries with small Olympic teams.
Arévalo was the first player from El Salvador to represent the country, in a tennis competition, at the Olympics.
Arévalo defeated Lee Hyung-taik in three sets in the first round, before being beaten by Swiss World No.
1 Roger Federer in the second.He is the brother of tennis player Marcelo Arévalo, with whom he plays on the El Salvador Davis Cup team.