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Playername | Guillermo Cañas |
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Country | |
Residence | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Birth date | November 25, 1977 |
Birth place | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Height | |
Weight | |
Turnedpro | 1995 |
Retired | 2010 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Careerprizemoney | $5,211,718 |
Singlesrecord | 250–190 |
Singlestitles | 7 |
Highestsinglesranking | No. 8 (June 6, 2005) |
Australianopenresult | 4R (2004, 2005) |
Frenchopenresult | QF (2002, 2005, 2007) |
Wimbledonresult | 4R (2001) |
Usopenresult | 3R (2004) |
Doublesrecord | 61–82 |
Doublestitles | 2 |
Highestdoublesranking | No. 47 (July 15, 2002) |
Updated | April 13, 2009 |
Guillermo Ignacio Cañas (born November 25, 1977), often referred to as Willy Cañas, is a retired Argentine professional tennis player. He was born in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, and named after Argentine tennis star Guillermo Vilas. His highest singles ranking was 8th (June 2005).
Cañas played a defensive counter-punching game from the baseline, and utilised his retrieving skills in order to frustrate opponents. He used a double-handed backhand. His favourite surface was clay, but he is adept on hardcourt and grass too.
After a year of suspension for doping, Cañas returned to the circuit on September 2006 at the challenger of Belém, Brazil.
Cañas holds a record of 5 victories and 2 defeats (3:1 in singles) in Davis Cup matches.
From 1995–1999, Cañas played mainly Challenger Series tournaments, that is, the level of competition directly below that of the ATP Tour. In April 1998, he broke in to the top 100 for the first time, having won three Challenger tournaments in the previous 52 weeks. This allowed him to qualify for more ATP level tournaments, and he reached his first final in 1999 at Orlando. He also began to regularly qualify for Grand Slam tournaments, the most prestigious events in tennis.
In 2001, after a right wrist injury the previous year, he climbed from 227th place in the ATP rankings to the 15th, and was named ATP Comeback Player of Year. Cañas had won the first ATP level title of his career that season, in Casablanca, and reached the final of three other tournaments. In addition to this, he reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time, achieving this result on two occasions, at the French Open and Wimbledon.
In the 2002 ATP Masters Series of Canada, an unseeded Cañas won his first ATP Masters Series title in Toronto, defeating Andy Roddick 6–4, 7–5 in the final. Cañas's path to the final saw him defeat a renowned set of players, including world number two Marat Safin, and top ten ranked Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Roger Federer. Cañas was also the first Argentine to win the Canada Open since Guillermo Vilas in 1976, and also the first to win a Masters Series shield (the Series was created in 1990). Cañas won one other tournament in 2002, the Chennai Open, and reached in the finals in Casablanca and Stuttgart. He also emerged as a more potent force at the Grand Slams, as he reached his first quarter-final at the French. At the time of his ban, Cañas had been at the highest ranking of his career, world number eight.
Cañas reached the final of one more tournament in 2007, the Torneo Godó in Barcelona, where he lost to clay-court ace Rafael Nadal. Cañas commented afterwards that he believed he would be a strong contender at the French Open. However, his bid was thwarted for a third time at the quarter-final stage, as Nikolay Davydenko denied him an opportunity to play Federer for a third time in the next round. Having set himself a goal of finishing in the top 20, Cañas finished the year in 15th, equalling his finishes from 2001 and 2002. He announced his retirement from professional tennis in March 2010.
{| class="sortable wikitable" |- |width=50|No. |width=125|Date |width=250|Tournament |width=75|Surface |width=200|Opponent in the final |width=200|Score in the final |- | 1. | April 9, 2001 | Casablanca, Morocco | Clay | Tommy Robredo | 7–5, 6–2 |- | 2. | December 31, 2001 | Chennai, India | Hard | Paradorn Srichaphan | 6–4, 7–6(2) |- bgcolor="#dfe2e9" | 3. | July 29, 2002 | Toronto, Canada | Hard | Andy Roddick | 6–4, 7–5 |- bgcolor=#d0f0c0 | 4. | July 12, 2004 | Stuttgart, Germany | Clay | Gastón Gaudio | 5–7, 6–2, 6–0, 1–6, 6–3 |- | 5. | July 19, 2004 | Umag, Croatia | Clay | Filippo Volandri | 7–5, 6–3 |- | 6. | September 27, 2004 | Shanghai, China | Hard | Lars Burgsmüller | 6–1, 6–0 |- | 7. | February 12, 2007 | Costa do Sauípe, Brazil | Clay | Juan Carlos Ferrero | 7–6(4), 6–2 |}
;Runner-ups (9) {| class="sortable wikitable" |- |width=50|No. |width=125|Date |width=250|Tournament |width=75|Surface |width=200|Opponent in the final |width=200|Score in the final |- | 1. | April 26, 1999 | Orlando, USA | Clay | Magnus Norman | 6–0, 6–3 |- | 2. | June 25, 2001 | s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands | Grass | Lleyton Hewitt | 6–3, 6–4 |- bgcolor=#d0f0c0 | 3. | July 23, 2001 | Stuttgart, Germany | Clay | Gustavo Kuerten | 6–3, 6–2, 6–4 |- bgcolor=#d0f0c0 | 4. | October 15, 2001 | Vienna, Austria | Hard (i) | Tommy Haas | 6–2, 7–6(6), 6–4 |- | 5. | April 15, 2002 | Casablanca, Morocco | Clay | Younes El Aynaoui | 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 |- | 6. | July 22, 2002 | Stuttgart, Germany | Clay | Mikhail Youzhny | 6–3, 3–6, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4 |- bgcolor=#d0f0c0 | 7. | October 18, 2004 | Vienna, Austria | Hard (i) | Feliciano López | 6–4, 1–6, 7–5, 3–6, 7–5 |- bgcolor="#dfe2e9" | 8. | April 2, 2007 | Miami, USA | Hard | Novak Djokovic | 6–3, 6–2, 6–4 |- bgcolor=#d0f0c0 | 9. | April 30, 2007 | Barcelona, Spain | Clay | Rafael Nadal | 6–3, 6–4 |}
;Runner-ups (4) {| class="sortable wikitable" |- |width=50|No. |width=125|Date |width=250|Tournament |width=75|Surface |width=200|Opponent in the final |width=200|Score in the final |- | 1. | March 9, 1998 | Salinas, Ecuador | Hard | André Sá | 7–5, 5–7, 6–4 |- | 2. | March 29, 1999 | Barletta, Italy | Clay | Jacobo Díaz | 6–7(6), 6–0, 6–3 |- | 3. | April 12, 1999 | Bermuda, Bermuda | Clay | Hernán Gumy | 6–3, 7–6(3) |- | 4. | October 2, 2006 | Quito, Ecuador | Clay | Chris Guccione | 6–3, 7–6(4) |}
LQ = lost in qualifying draw
SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.
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