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David Sánchez (tennis)

{{short description|Spanish tennis player}}

{{Infobox tennis biography

|name = David Sánchez

|image =

|country = {{flagu|Spain}}

|residence = Zamora, Spain

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1978|4|20}}

|birth_place = Zamora, Spain

|height = {{height|m=1.83}}

|turnedpro = 1997

|retired = 2005

|coach = José Luis Aparisi

|plays = Right-handed (one-handed backhand)

|careerprizemoney = $1,451,767

|singlesrecord = 86–118

|singlestitles = 2

|highestsinglesranking = No. 41 (24 February 2003)

|AustralianOpenresult = 2R (2003, 2004)

|FrenchOpenresult = 3R (2001, 2005)

|Wimbledonresult = 1R (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)

|USOpenresult = 2R (2004)

|doublesrecord = 9–21

|doublestitles = 0

|highestdoublesranking = No. 180 (4 October 2004)

|AustralianOpenDoublesresult = 1R (2003, 2004)

|FrenchOpenDoublesresult = 1R (2004)

|WimbledonDoublesresult = 1R (2004)

|USOpenDoublesresult = 2R (2004)

|updated = 21 December 2021

}}

{{family name hatnote|Sánchez|Muñoz|lang=Spanish}}

David Sánchez Muñoz ({{IPA|es|daβið sant͡ʃeθ muɲoθ}}; born 20 April 1978) is a retired Spanish tennis player. He turned professional in 1997. In 2003 he won both the Open Romania and the Movistar Open. He reached his career high singles ranking of World No. 41 on 24 February 2003.

During his third round run at the 2001 French Open, Sánchez defeated the previous year's finalist Magnus Norman and former champion Carlos Moyá in five sets, and took a set off Roger Federer.

ATP career finals

=Singles: 2 (2 titles)=

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!Legend

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|Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)

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|ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)

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|ATP Masters Series (0–0)

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|ATP Championship Series (0–0)

ATP International Series (2–0)

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!Finals by surface

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Clay (2–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

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!Finals by setting

Outdoors (2–1)
Indoors (0–0)

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!Result

!class="unsortable"|W–L

!{{ns}}Date{{ns}}

!Tournament

!Tier

!Surface

!Opponent

!class="unsortable"|Score

style="background:#98fb98;"|Win

|1–0

|2003 BellSouth Open – Singles

|Viña del Mar {{flagicon|CHI}}

|International Series

|Clay

|{{flagicon|CHI}} Marcelo Ríos

|1–6, 6–3, 6–3

style="background:#98fb98;"|Win

|2–0

|2003 BCR Open Romania – Singles

|Bucharest {{flagicon|ROU}}

|International Series

|Clay

|{{flagicon|CHI}} Nicolás Massú

|6–2, 6–2

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

=Singles: 12 (5–7)=

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!Legend

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|ATP Challenger (5–7)

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|ITF Futures (0–0)

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!Finals by surface

Hard (0–0)
Clay (5–7)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

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!Result

!class="unsortable"|W–L

!{{ns}}Date{{ns}}

!Tournament

!Tier

!Surface

!Opponent

!class="unsortable"|Score

style="background:#98fb98;"|Win

|1–0

|{{dts|Sep 1999}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|Brașov, Romania

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Thierry Guardiola

|6–2, 0–6, 6–2

style="background:#98fb98;"|Win

|2–0

|{{dts|Mar 2000}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|Lisbon, Portugal

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|CZE}} Jiří Vaněk

|6–4, 3–6, 6–2

style="background:#98fb98;"|Win

|3–0

|{{dts|Jun 2000}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|Lugano, Switzerland

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|HUN}} Attila Sávolt

|6–3, 6–2

style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss

|3–1

|{{dts|Jul 2000}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|Ulm, Germany

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|ESP}} Germán Puentes

|3–6, 3–6

style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss

|3–2

|{{dts|Sep 2000}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|Graz, Austria

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|CZE}} Michal Tabara

|5–7, 0–6

style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss

|3–3

|{{dts|Apr 2001}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|Paget, Bermuda

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|ARG}} José Acasuso

|6–7(4–7), 1–6

style="background:#98fb98;"|Win

|4–3

|{{dts|Sep 2001}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|Kyiv, Ukraine

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|HUN}} Attila Sávolt

|4–6, 6–3, 6–3

style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss

|4–4

|{{dts|Oct 2001}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|Cagliari, Italy

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|ESP}} Fernando Vicente

|6–4, 2–6, 4–6

style="background:#98fb98;"|Win

|5–4

|{{dts|Jun 2002}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|Braunschweig, Germany

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|ARG}} José Acasuso

|5–1 ret.

style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss

|5–5

|{{dts|Sep 2002}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|Szczecin, Poland

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|RUS}} Nikolay Davydenko

|3–6, 3–6

style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss

|5–6

|{{dts|Aug 2003}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|San Marino, San Marino

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|ITA}} Alessio di Mauro

|3–6, 2–3 ret.

style="background:#ffa07a;"|Loss

|5–7

|{{dts|Sep 2004}}

|style="background:moccasin;"|Szczecin, Poland

|style="background:moccasin;"|Challenger

|Clay

|{{flagicon|ARG}} Edgardo Massa

|2–6, 2–6

Performance timeline

{{Performance key|short=yes|active=no}}

=Singles=

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!Tournament!!1998!!1999!!2000!!2001!!2002!!2003!!2004!!2005!!SR!!W–L!!Win %

colspan=23 align=left|Grand Slam tournaments
align=left|Australian Open

|bgcolor=ecf2ff|Q2

|A

|A

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|2R

|bgcolor=afeeee|2R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

!0 / 5

!2–5

!{{tennis win percentage|won=2|lost=5|integer=yes}}

align=left|French Open

|bgcolor=ecf2ff|Q1

|A

|bgcolor=ecf2ff|Q3

|bgcolor=afeeee|3R

|bgcolor=afeeee|2R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|3R

!0 / 5

!5–5

!{{tennis win percentage|won=5|lost=5|integer=yes}}

align=left|Wimbledon

|A

|A

|A

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|A

!0 / 4

!0–4

!{{tennis win percentage|won=0|lost=4|integer=yes}}

align=left|US Open

|A

|A

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|2R

|A

!0 / 5

!1–5

!{{tennis win percentage|won=1|lost=5|integer=yes}}

style=text-align:left|Win–loss

!0–0

!0–0

!0–1

!2–4

!1–4

!1–4

!2–4

!2–2

!0 / 19

!8–19

!{{tennis win percentage|won=8|lost=19|integer=yes}}

colspan=23 align=left|ATP Masters Series
align=left|Indian Wells

|A

|A

|A

|bgcolor=ecf2ff|Q1

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|2R

|A

!0 / 3

!1–3

!{{tennis win percentage|won=1|lost=3|integer=yes}}

align=left|Miami

|A

|A

|A

|A

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|2R

|A

!0 / 3

!1–3

!{{tennis win percentage|won=1|lost=3|integer=yes}}

align=left|Monte Carlo

|A

|A

|A

|A

|A

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|2R

|bgcolor=ecf2ff|Q2

!0 / 2

!1–2

!{{tennis win percentage|won=1|lost=2|integer=yes}}

align=left|Hamburg

|A

|A

|A

|bgcolor=ecf2ff|Q2

|bgcolor=afeeee|2R

|bgcolor=afeeee|2R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

!0 / 4

!2–4

!{{tennis win percentage|won=2|lost=4|integer=yes}}

align=left|Rome

|A

|A

|A

|A

|A

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|bgcolor=afeeee|3R

|bgcolor=ecf2ff|Q1

!0 / 2

!2–2

!{{tennis win percentage|won=2|lost=2|integer=yes}}

align=left|Canada

|A

|A

|A

|A

|A

|A

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|A

!0 / 1

!0–1

!{{tennis win percentage|won=0|lost=1|integer=yes}}

align=left|Cincinnati

|A

|A

|A

|A

|A

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|A

|A

!0 / 1

!0–1

!{{tennis win percentage|won=0|lost=1|integer=yes}}

align=left|Madrid

|colspan=4 style=color:#cccccc|Not Held

|bgcolor=ecf2ff|Q1

|A

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|A

!0 / 1

!0–1

!{{tennis win percentage|won=0|lost=1|integer=yes}}

style=text-align:left|Win–loss

!0–0

!0–0

!0–0

!0–0

!1–3

!1–6

!5–7

!0–1

!0 / 17

!7–17

!{{tennis win percentage|won=7|lost=17|integer=yes}}

Wins over top 10 ranked players

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Season200120022003Total
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|Wins

1113

=Wins over Top 10s per season=

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!#

!width=170|Player

!Rank

!width=250|Event

!Surface

!Rd

!width=200|Score

colspan=7|2001
1.

|{{flagicon|SWE}} Magnus Norman

|bgcolor=EEE8AA|9

|bgcolor=f3e6d7|French Open, Paris, France

|bgcolor=EBC2AF|Clay

|bgcolor=afeeee|1R

|4–6, 4–6, 7–6(7–4), 6–1, 6–2

colspan=7|2002
2.

|{{flagicon|ESP}} Juan Carlos Ferrero

|bgcolor=EEE8AA|8

|Gstaad, Switzerland

|bgcolor=EBC2AF|Clay

|bgcolor=afeeee|2R

|5–7, 6–4, 6–3

colspan=7|2003
3.

|{{flagicon|THA}} Paradorn Srichaphan

|bgcolor=EEE8AA|10

|bgcolor=d4f1c5|Barcelona, Spain

|bgcolor=EBC2AF|Clay

|bgcolor=afeeee|2R

|6–0, 6–2

External links

  • {{ATP}}
  • {{ITF}}

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Category:Spanish male tennis players

Category:1978 births

Category:Living people

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