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WIMBLEDON - (16) Mariano Puerta PROFILE
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| (16) Mariano Puerta |
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| PRE-TOURNAMENT ODDS: |
500/1 |
| NATIONALITY: |
ARG |
| BIRTH DATE: |
19/09/78 |
| BECAME PRO: |
1998 |
| WORLD RANKING: |
11 |
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| VERDICT |
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| Surprised virtually every tennis expert with his run to the final of the recent French Open - by far and away his best Grand Slam performance, one which came soon after completion of a nine-month drugs ban. Played some fine stuff on the Paris clay, but has yet to compete on any other surface this season. Having never won a match on the lawns of SW19, he should be opposed early on, although with confidence up he may be able to break his Wimbledon duck. |
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| TEN-YEAR GRAND SLAM HISTORY |
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05 |
04 |
03 |
02 |
01 |
00 |
99 |
98 |
97 |
96 |
| Australian Open |
- |
- |
1R |
- |
- |
1R |
2R |
- |
- |
- |
| French Open |
RU |
- |
2R |
2R |
2R |
3R |
2R |
- |
- |
- |
| Wimbledon |
- |
- |
1R |
- |
1R |
- |
- |
1R |
- |
- |
| US Open |
- |
- |
1R |
- |
- |
1R |
2R |
1R |
- |
- |
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