Ricardo Rodríguez (tennis), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Venezuelan tennis player
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Place of Birth: Caracas, Capital District, Venezuela
About Ricardo Rodríguez (tennis)
- Ricardo Rodríguez (born 28 April 1993) is a Venezuelan professional tennis player.
- He achieved a career high ATP Ranking of World No.
- 282 on June 9, 2014.
- Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Rodríguez started playing tennis at the age of seven and achieved more success on singles.
- He entered the pro circuit in 2008 and has won ten Futures tournaments in singles and nine in doubles.
- Rodríguez is also a member of the Venezuela Davis Cup team where he holds the record of most singles victories in the history of Venezuela (22-9) in 17 appearances.Rodriguez made his first appearance in Davis Cup in February of 2012, in the tie played in Caracas against Puerto Rico, for the first round of America’s group II.
- Rodriguez won 6 singles in a row, breaking the previous record of most singles wins without losing held by Isaias Pimentel (3-0).
- In the 2013 campaign, Rodriguez went undefeated to take Venezuela into America’s group I, winning 4 singles in 3 ties (Guatemala, Peru, El Salvador).
- Rodriguez continued playing Davis Cup helping Venezuela to reach 3 consecutive America’s group II finals, after the relegation of the 2014 Davis Cup campaign.
- In February of 2018, Rodriguez breaks the record of most singles victories in the history of Venezuela’s Davis Cup, by beating the player number 1 of Guatemala Christofer Diaz with scores of (4-6, 6-3, 6-0) and clinching the last point to win the tie.
- Later that year he added one more victory to consolidate his Davis Cup performance against Uruguay. As a singles player, Rodriguez has combined his participations between the Challenger Tour and the Futures Tour.
- Combined, he has a positive record of 317-196 (W-L), with a total of 10 titles in three different continents, making him the best ranked player of Venezuela in the past 6 years.
- Mainly focused in singles, as a doubles player Rodriguez won 6 doubles titles with four different partners, reaching his highest doubles ranking on October of 2016 of 670 in the world.
- As a junior, Rodriguez got his highest ranking of Number 10 in the world (January 2010) where he competed in two Grand Slams (Roland Garros and US Open), one Grade A (Copa Gerdau, Brazil) reaching to semifinals, and became the first Venezuelan in the history to play a Youth Olimpyc Games (Singapore 2010) where amongst with his partner from Paraguay Diego Galeano, lost the match for the bronze medal.
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