Country (sports) Argentina Career record 25–59 Name Sergio Roitman Height 1.85 m Turned pro 1996 | Prize money $1,206,782 Career titles 0 Role Tennis player Weight 79 kg Retired 2009 | |
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Residence Buenos Aires, Argentina Born 16 May 1979 (age 44)
Buenos Aires, Argentina ( 1979-05-16 ) Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand) | ||
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Sergio Andres Roitman (born 16 May 1979) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, nicknamed 'Escopeta' (Shotgun in Spanish) is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina.
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He achieved a career-high rankings of World No. 62 in singles in October 2007 and World No. 45 in doubles in September 2008.
He has no main tour singles titles, but has won several Challenger and Futures singles titles in his career. In addition Roitman has won two ATP doubles titles - at Amsterdam in 2000 and Umag in 2001.
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Personal life
At the age of 17 Roitman was at a Hermetica concert and was shot in the stomach with a rubber bullet. Roitman studied classical piano between the ages of 6 and 12, but chose tennis instead. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, English and Italian.
Tennis career
Roitman began playing tennis at age 10 and turned professional in 1996.
Between 1998 and 2000 Roitman won seven futures singles titles all of these were in South America on clay. On 2000-07-23 he won the ATP doubles title with fellow countryman Andres Schneiter in Amsterdam at his debut at that level.
In 2001, once again with Schneiter he won his second ATP doubles title in Umag. Roitman won four challenger singles titles between 2002 and 2005, in the process defeating Rafael Nadal at Cherbourg in 2003. At the 2003 Roland Garros Roitman played defending champion Albert Costa in the first round and was leading 2 sets to 0 and 4–1 (with a break point for 5–1), but ended up losing in 5 sets.
2006 saw Roitman finish in the Top 100 of ATP Rankings for the first time in his career, he compiled a 41–19 match record, and won two titles in Challenger action. In November he won the title at Challengers in Aracaju and Guayaquil
2007 was the most successful season for Roitman, where he reached his highest ranking and finished in the top 75 for the second straight year, highlighted by a career-best 11 ATP match wins and three Challenger titles. In June he captured the Prostejov Challenger title. In September he picked up another Challenger title in Szczecin, Poland. He closed the season with the title at the Buenos Aires Challenger. He had wins over world # 41 Jose Acasuso of Argentina, 7–6 (4), 6–1, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In April he defeated world # 76 Jan Hernych, 7–5, 7–6 (7), in Valencia, Spain, and world # 29 Jurgen Melzer of Austria on clay, 3–6, 6–1, 6–4 in Monte Carlo. In June he beat world # 28 Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany, 6–2, Ret, in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands on grass. In July he defeated world # 65 Nicolas Massu of Chile 7–5, 6–2, and twice defeated world # 18 (and 20) Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina 5–7, 6–3, 6–4, and 6–1, 6–2, on clay.
In the 2009 Buenos Aires tournament Roitman lost 6–0, 6–0 to Juan Monaco. In June 2009, he retired from his first round match due to a recurring injury to the acromion in his right shoulder.
On September 25, 2009, he announced that the Copa Petrobas challenger in Buenos Aires would be his last professional tournament, citing injuries as the main reason for his retirement.
Jewish heritage
Roitman, along with Dudi Sela, Jesse Levine and Shahar Pe'er was one of a number of Jewish tennis players recently ranked in the top 100.