Gerardo Vacarezza

{{short description|Chilean tennis player}}

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| name = Gerardo Vacarezza

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| country_represented = {{CHI}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|8|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Santiago, Chile

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| plays = Right-handed

| careerprizemoney = $31,361

| singlesrecord = 1–1 (ATP Tour)

| singlestitles =

| highestsinglesranking = No. 165 (29 August 1988)

| doublesrecord = 1–1 (ATP Tour)

| doublestitles =

| highestdoublesranking = No. 282 (17 November 1986)

| Team = yes

| DavisCupresult = 3–3

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Gerardo Vacarezza (born 16 August 1965) is a Chilean former professional tennis player.

Vacarezza, who was born in Santiago, reached a best singles ranking on the professional tour of 165 in the world.{{cite web |title=Los 25 tenistas chilenos que llegaron a los 200 mejores del mundo |url=https://www.t13.cl/noticia/deportes/los-25-tenistas-chilenos-que-llegaron-a-los-200-mejores-del-mundo |website=Teletrece |language=Spanish |date=9 February 2015}} He won two titles on the Challenger Tour and made his only Grand Prix (ATP Tour) main draw appearance at Buenos Aires in 1986, where he made the second round.

A right-handed player, Vacarezza featured in five Davis Cup ties for Chile from 1986 to 1991. Vacarezza won one of his three singles rubbers, which came against Brazil's Nelson Aerts.{{cite news |title=Yesterday's Results |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/492889279/ |work=Daily News |date=21 July 1986}} He also had a doubles win over future world number one Mark Knowles of the Bahamas.

Challenger titles

=Singles: (2)=

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1.

|1986

|Knokke, Belgium

|Clay

|{{flagicon|SWE}} Christer Allgårdh

|6–3, 6–3

2.

|1988

|Ostend, Belgium

|Clay

|{{flagicon|IND}} Srinivasan Vasudevan

|6–1, 6–1

See also

References

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