Career titles 1 Weight 78 kg Name Albert Portas Turned pro 1994 | Prize money $2,972,441 Role Tennis player Retired 2007 Career record 142–198 Height 1.88 m | |
Plays Right-handed (2-handed backhand) | ||
Pete sampras great shots selection against albert portas us open 2002 1r
Albert Portas Soy ([əɫˈβɛr ˈpɔrtəs ˈsɔj], [alˈβer ˈportas ˈsoi]; born 15 November 1973) is a Spanish former professional tennis player.
Contents
- Pete sampras great shots selection against albert portas us open 2002 1r
- Portas Ferrero TMS Hamburg German Open Final game 2001
- Career
- Singles performance timeline
- References
Portas - Ferrero TMS Hamburg German Open Final game 2001
Career
Portas turned professional in 1994. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 19 in October 2001.
His only top-level singles title came at the 2001 Hamburg Masters, a tournament in which his mastery of the drop shot (key to his defeat of Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final) earned him the nickname "Drop Shot Dragon". According to the BBC, Lleyton Hewitt said of Portas that "He sure hits a lot of drop shots, but he hits them so well, as well as anyone I have faced.". It is also very remarkable his final at Barcelona Open in 1997. En route to the final he won over Gustavo Kuerten (eventual champion this same year of French Open), Marcelo Rios, and Carlos Moya but lost at the final to Albert Costa. In 1999 Portas lost the final of San Marino defeated by his countryman Galo Blanco.
He coached WTA player Daniela Hantuchová from November 2008 to February 2009.
Singles performance timeline
LQ = lost in the qualifiers WR = Win Ratio, the ratio of tournaments won to those played A = Did not play in tournament