Key facts
- Country sports
- Spain
- Born
- ( 1980-11-26 ) 26 November 1980 (age 45) , Sant Carles de la Ràpita , Spain
- Height
- 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Prize money
- $ 5,866,340
- Career record
- 255–287
- Highest ranking
- No. 22 (2 August 2010)
- Australian open
- 3R ( 2010 )
- French open
- 4R ( 2011 )
- Wimbledon
- 3R ( 2009 , 2010 )
- Us open
- 4R ( 2010 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Albert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- La Ràpita
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Sport
- tennis
- Country for sport
- Spain
- Mass
- 70
- Official website
- www.albertmontanes.es
- Image
- Montanes Estoril Open 2009 1.jpg
- Height
- 175
- Residence
- Barcelona
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- Albert Montañés
- doubles record
- 60–121
- date of birth
- 1980-11-26
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- singles record
- 255–287
- birth name
- Albert Montañés Roca
- prize money
- 5866340
- end of work period
- 2017-00-00
- start of work period
- 1999-00-00
- ranking
- 73
- social media followers
- 28641
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Encyclopedic overview
Albert Montañés Roca ( Catalan: [əlˈβɛɾt muntəˈɲes ˈrɔkə], Spanish: [alˈβeɾ montaˈɲes ˈroka]; born 26 November 1980) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He first entered the top 100 in 2001, achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 22 in 2010, and has won six singles titles and two doubles titles.
Montañés is one of very few players to win a title after saving match points in two different matches. He did it during his title run in Estoril 2009 in his quarterfinals and the final. He holds the record for most first-round exits at Grand Slam events; 35 reached at Wimbledon in 2016, beating Kenneth Carlsen's long standing record of 30 first-round exits. Montañés' career ended at the 2017 Barcelona Open, where he lost to countryman Feliciano López in the second round.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Albert Montañés” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.