Albert Ramos-Viñolas

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[Kamileki]

[arti]

Albert Ramos-Vinolas kicked off his week in style at the Cordoba Open in Argentina. The fifth-seeded Spaniard outlasted local qualifier Facundo Bagnis 6-4, 7-6(3) to reach the second round on Tuesday.

Ramos-Vinolas let slip a match point on his serve at 6-5 in the second set, but recovered to advance after two hours. His next match will be an all-Spanish affair with Pablo Andujar, who cruised through Slovakian Filip Horansky 6-2, 6-2.

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[Damian]

Ramos-Vinolas Up & Running In Cordoba

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#NextGenATP Moutet advances on Tuesday
Albert Ramos-Vinolas kicked off his week in style at the Cordoba Open in Argentina. The fifth-seeded Spaniard outlasted local qualifier Facundo Bagnis 6-4, 7-6(3) to reach the second round on Tuesday.

Ramos-Vinolas let slip a match point on his serve at 6-5 in the second set, but recovered to advance after two hours. His next match will be an all-Spanish affair with Pablo Andujar, who cruised through Slovakian Filip Horansky 6-2, 6-2.

#NextGenATP Frenchman Corentin Moutet continued his outstanding start to the year by defeating Brazilian Thiago Monteiro 6-4, 6-3. Moutet, who reached his first ATP Tour final last month in Doha (l. to Rublev), will now face second-seeded Argentine Guido Pella.

Moutet Cordoba 2020

Andrej Martin fought back from 2-4 in the opening set to move past home favourite Federico Coria 7-6(5), 6-4. Spanish qualifier Pedro Martinez kept up his strong form by rallying to defeat Italian Federico Gaio 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. The 22-year-old scored his maiden tour-level win last month at the Australian Open. He’ll play fourth-seeded Serbian Laslo Djere in the next round.

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Eighth seed Juan Ignacio Londero began his title defence with a flourish in the night session, delighting the home crowd by navigating past Marco Cecchinato 6-2, 7-5. Londero didn't face a break point and won 70 per cent (26/37) of his first-serve points. Next up for Londero is fellow Argentine Pedro Cachin, who raced past Bolivian Hugo Dellien 6-1, 6-1 in just 58 minutes.

Jaume Munar completed a clean sweep for the Spaniards on Tuesday by defeating Leonardo Mayer 6-4, 6-3. He'll face another Argentine in the next round when he meets top seed Diego Schwartzman.

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[Damian]

Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas held off countryman Pablo Andujar 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-4 to make his second quarter-final of 2020 (Adelaide). Ramos-Vinolas, a two-time ATP Tour clay-court titlist, broke Andujar at 4-4 in the third after a 20-minute rain delay.

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World No. 88 Monteiro will next challenge third seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas, who eliminated Peruvian lucky loser Juan Pablo Varillas 7-6(3), 6-2 in one hour and 39 minutes.

Ramos-Vinolas has won both of his previous ATP Head2Head meetings against Monteiro, earning three-set victories at 2017 Bastad and 2018 Quito. Ramos-Vinolas is a two-time ATP Tour titlist (both on clay), and he has reached six additional tour-level finals, including the championship match of the 2017 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters.

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Ramos-Vinolas: 'I Didn't Feel I Was Going To Be A Professional'

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Spaniard details his road to success on the ATP Tour
Albert Ramos-Vinolas remembers as a kid following his parents to the local tennis club in Mataro, watching them play on the weekend. The Spaniard, who began the sport at five, would spend much of his time at the club’s fronton, where he’d hit against the wall. The lefty slowly began to pick up tennis and play tournaments in Catalonia and Spain. By 11, he began competing outside the country.

“I didn’t think anything. I just was playing,” Ramos-Vinolas told ATPTour.com. “I was playing, playing, playing and somehow I’m here. I didn’t feel it at any point that I was going to be a professional.”
It has been a dream come true for Ramos-Vinolas. The 32-year-old once watched his parents hit tennis balls, and now he is doing so for a career. He is currently the No. 41 player in the FedEx ATP Rankings. With the exception of a three-month stretch in 2014, he has been inside the Top 100 since 13 June 2011.

“I think I’m pretty lucky to do something that I like a lot,” Ramos-Vinolas said. “For sure there are a lot of moments I think that it’s really tough, but I feel like I’m really lucky to be here and to do one thing I was doing all my life.”

Ramos-Vinolas has had his fair share of difficult moments, too, particularly after his junior career.

“I had two years when the results were not really good. I was lucky there that I had my coach and also my family, my wife, they told me to finish school and also start the university. I started to study a little bit in university, but online,” said Ramos-Vinolas, who studied business administration. “It helped me to have less pressure on the tennis and not to think just in tennis. It started to get better and better and then I stopped [studying] because it was a lot. To mix two things, it helped me a lot.

“If you just play tennis and you are No. 400 and you try to be better, but you are not earning a lot to just be a tennis player, you have to try another thing… I think it helped me a lot because if you don’t think just on one thing, you know that you have another thing [in your life], you can play much more relaxed and much better.”
When Ramos-Vinolas finishes his career, he says he might return to university to resume his studies. But for now, he’s focussed on getting as much as possible out of tennis. The Spaniard owns six Top 10 wins, has climbed as high as No. 17 in the FedEx ATP Rankings and won two ATP Tour titles. Perhaps most impressive was his run to the championship match of the 2017 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, beating then-World No. 1 Andy Murray along the way.

“The final in Monte-Carlo is the best result of my career. It changed my career a little bit, because I improved a lot my ranking. But I think I’m still doing the same thing as my whole career, trying to improve every day,” Ramos-Vinolas said. “You always have things to improve. Even sometimes you improve and the ranking is not improving as you want — I’m talking about myself. But I always try to keep improving, because it’s better to try to concentrate on the improvements, not on the results.

“Sometimes when I did good results, then I had more pressure on me and I played worse. Sometimes when I had bad results, I worked better to improve something I was not doing good.”
Ramos-Vinolas has earned plenty of respect from his peers. At the 2015 Rolex Shanghai Masters, he defeated Roger Federer. Even superstars he hasn’t beaten, like Novak Djokovic (0-6), know they have to be at their best against the Spaniard.

“I had to earn it. I worked hard on the court,” Djokovic said after defeating Ramos-Vinolas at the 2018 Australian Open. “Ramos-Vinolas doesn't hand you the win. He makes you earn it.”

That’s how Ramos-Vinolas wants fans to remember him.

“I would like that they remember me as a player who fights a lot and he’s doing his best on the court,” Ramos-Vinolas said. “I’m just doing my best to play well.”

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[Kamileki]

[Kamileki]

2020 w liczbach:

Ranking: 46
Bilans meczów: 9-14
Tytuły: 0
Finały: 0
Zarobki: $495,483

[arti]

[Damian]

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[Damian]

Ramos-Vinolas Takes Revenge On Schwartzman In Cordoba

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Spaniard improves to 1-5 in Head2Head vs Schwartzman
Fifth-seed Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas broke up the Argentine party at the Cordoba Open as he took down last year’s finalist Diego Schwartzman 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 on Friday.

Schwartzman was looking to become the fourth Argentine to advance and complete a home sweep of the semi-finals. But Ramos-Vinolas didn’t read the script, and won his third three-setter of the week to stun the World No. 9 at home.

“I’m really happy because it was my first win against him after five losses,” Ramos-Vinolas told ATPTour.com. “I think he’s a great player, and I did a great job to beat him today.”

It was the perfect revenge for Ramos-Vinolas, who fell at this stage to Schwartzman last year in Cordoba. That result extended the Argentine’s ATP Head2Head lead to 5-0, with Ramos-Vinolas unable to win a set in any of their encounters.

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But this time around, Ramos-Vinolas raised his level to overpower Schwartzman and reel off the first four games of the match en route to taking a one-sided opening set. He had to weather a mid-match comeback from Schwartzman, who was drawing from the crowd’s energy as he sported taping on his left knee.

Ramos-Vinolas needed two hours and 27 minutes to prevail and move into his first ATP Tour semi-final since 2020 Santiago. He will face another Argentine in his next match after qualifier Facundo Bagnis recorded a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Jozef Kovalik.

Earlier in the day, Cancha Central witnessed back-to-back upsets as two more Argentine players claimed big wins over seeded players to advance in Cordoba. 19-year-old Juan Manuel Cerundolo continued his dream run with a 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 victory over No. 7 seed Thiago Monteiro to start Friday’s action.

Sitting at No. 335 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, Cerundolo qualified for his first ATP Tour event to join older brother Francisco in the main draw, becoming the first pair of Argentine siblings to feature at the same tournament since 1981. But Juan Manuel just kept winning, toppling third-seeded Miomir Kecmanovic in the second round before taking down Monteiro to reach the semi-finals.

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“It’s amazing, I can’t believe it,” Cerundolo told ATPTour.com. “I just feel very happy and I want to enjoy this moment… The most important thing is the confidence [from] these matches. Since the qualies, I have a lot of confidence so I think that was the key. I need to stay healthy mentally too because these matches are very hard.”

Cerundolo is now the youngest Argentine to reach an ATP Tour semi-final since 18-year-old Juan Martin del Potro in Adelaide in 2007.

Federico Coria followed Cerundolo's upset with one of his own as he powered past No. 2 seed Benoit Paire 6-3, 6-2. No. 95 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, Coria broke Paire six times and needed just 72 minutes to move into his first ATP Tour semi-final.

The younger brother of former World No. 3 Guillermo Coria, 28-year-old Federico will be looking to channel his sibling’s famous clay-court prowess and lift his maiden ATP Tour trophy at home. Guillermo himself lifted nine trophies during his career, including one on home soil at the Argentina Open in Buenos Aires in 2004.

In order to achieve the same in Cordoba, Coria will have to end another Cerundolo brother’s run in his next match. Coria defeated Francisco in the second round, and will now face 19-year-old Juan Manuel for a spot in the final.

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[Barty]

Finał w Cordobie.

9. zawodowy finał Ramosa (2-7).

Albert Ramos - przegrane finały (7):
2021 (1) Cordoba
2019 (1) Kitzbuhel
2018 (1) Quito
2017 (2) ATP Masters 1000 Monte Carlo, Sao Paulo
2016 (1) Chengdu
2012 (1) Casablanca

[Damian]

Fifth seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas, who made the Cordoba final, overcame a difficult challenge against current junior World No. 1 Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune. The Spaniard defeated the 17-year-old wild card 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 after one hour and 57 minutes.

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