Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
Name	Umag
Official name	City of Umag''Grad Umag'' – ''Città di Umago''
Settlement type	City
Motto
Image shield	Umag.gif
Pushpin map	Croatia
Pushpin label position
Pushpin map caption	Location of Umag within Croatia
Pushpin mapsize
Coordinates region	HR
Subdivision type	Country
Subdivision name	Croatia
Subdivision type1	County
Subdivision name1	Istria
Subdivision name2
Leader title	Mayor
Leader name	Vili Bassanese
Leader title1
Established title
Established title2
Established title3
Established date3
Area total km2	87
Area land km2
Area metro km2
Population as of	2001
Population total	12,901
Population density km2	auto
Population density urban km2
Timezone	CET
Utc offset	+1
Timezone dst	CEST
Utc offset dst	+2
Elevation footnotes
Elevation m	0
Postal code type	Postal code
Postal code	52 470
Area code	052
Website	grad-umag.hr
Footnotes	}}

Umag (; ) is a coastal city in Istria, Croatia. The city hosts the yearly Croatia Open ATP tennis tournament on clay courts.

Geography

It is the westernmost city of Croatia, and the municipality includes Savudrija which is westernmost point of Croatia.

Demographics

Umag has a population of 7,769 (2001), total municipal population 12,901 (2001). Like many other towns in Istria, Umag has a multi-ethnic population. Croats comprise an absolute majority with 59.6%; Italians 18.3%, Serbs 3.8%, Slovenes 2.2%, Bosniaks 1.7%, Albanians 1.3% and those regionally declared (as Istrians) make up the final 1.57%.

History

Umag was mentioned for the first time in the 7th century by an anonymous citizen from Ravenna, but had already existed in Roman times. Proof of that is found in the numerous remains of Roman retreats, the so-called villa rustica uncovered all along the coast. The town's history is closely linked to the settlement of Sipar whose ruins can be found on the narrow cape, six kilometres north of Umag. In the 9th century the fortified settlement of Sipar was devastated by invaders, the Neretva pirates. However, after this unfortunate incident Umag grew in significance thanks also to its location, a small islet separated from the mainland with a narrow channel. It was actually this location to safeguard the settlement from the continuous invasions throughout the centuries. The Roman period of relative prosperity was substituted by one of insecurity caused primarily by frequent invasions, outbreaks of plague, cholera, and malaria. The number of its dwellers declined rapidly. Umag became part of the reigns of Odoacre, Theodoric and was ruled by the Longobards too.

From 6th to 8th centuries it fell under Byzantine dominion, followed by the rule of the Lombards in 751 and Francs in 774. The period to come was marked by insecurity and frequent changes of government from the Patriarchs of Grado and Aquileia to the Bishops of Trieste. However, the increasingly powerful Venetian Republic imposed its rule over Istria forcing Umag and other western Istrian towns to swear loyalty to Venice. Actually, in 1269 the Commune of Umag promised loyalty to Venice which from that time all through 1797 was to appoint governors of Umag from among its nobility. This period was by no means a peaceful one.

Century old clashes with Genoa brought about more destruction and looting. In 1370 the Genovese navy attacked Umag destroying the town's archive. The outbreaks of plague that decimated the dwellers forced the Venetian authorities to consider colonising the area with new settlers, mainly from the territories threatened by Turkish invasions. Through centuries of the Venetian rule Umag's economy was exclusively based on agriculture. The harbour of Umag was utilised for loading agricultural surplus from the hinterland. Up to the collapse of Venice Umag had lived like other Istrian towns. Its communal arrangement was guaranteed in the Statute from 1541.

With the fall of the Venetian Republic, Umag, like the entire eastern Adriatic coast came under the rule of France until 1815 when it passed over to Austria until 1918. With the end of World War I Istria became part of Italy. After World War II the flaring up of the Trieste crises resulted in the establishment of the Free Territory of Trieste, while Umag became part of Zone B governed by the Yugoslav Army, and eventually became part of SR Croatia within SFR Yugoslavia in 1954. Exodus of many Italians, until then majority.

In 1993 with the establishment of the new local rule Umag became an independent municipality (''općina''), and in 1997 was awarded the status of town or city (''grad'').

Economy

The natural features of the area have considerably influenced the development of the economy as a whole. The geographical location of Umag, in particular, has ensured an intensive and dynamic growth of the tourist industry after World War II, which has been expanding rapidly ever since. The closeness of big west European markets and the rise in standard of East European countries have both accounted for the expansion of this economic branch which is tightly linked to other economic resources in the region the most significant being agriculture. The best fertile soil and the vast arable land in the area have fostered the production of traditional Mediterranean crops present in the region for thousands of years, with particular emphasis on olive growing and wine growing.

The latter accounts for a successful winemaking industry and the emerging in recent years of a number of highly renowned local wine makers that can be traced in the wine chart of Istria. Linked with agriculture is the rapidly expanding tourist branch agro-tourism which has not only enriched the tourist offer but is also committed to preserving the old-world values of the region. Apart from that, mention must be made of the "Podravka" food factory in Umag where huge quantities of tomatoes are processed. In fact, the food industry started in Umag in the early 20th century with the opening of the "Arrigoni" plant for packing fish and tomatoes and the building of a flour mill, the predecessor of today's bakery and biscuit factory.

Today new factories have grown up in two industrial zones (Ungarija and Kravlji rt), which are provided with the necessary infrastructure continuously rebuilt and enlarged. The economic growth of Umag is based on the stimulation and support of small and medium- sized firms and the establishment of business zones. For this purpose, the town authorities have set apart 355,200.00 kuna for the program aimed at stimulating the growth of agriculture and businesses for the year 2002. Besides, Umag is the founding member of the "Istarska razvojna agencija" IDA (Istrian Development Agency), with its seat in Pula.

Towns and Villages in Municipality

The list of town and villages in the municipality.

Babići / Babici Bašanija / Bassania Crveni Vrh / Monterosso Čepljani / Ceppiani Đuba / Giubba

Finida / Finida Juricani / Giurizzani Katoro / Cattoro Kmeti / Metti Kržine / Cresine

Lovrečica / San Lorenzo Materada / Matterada Monterol / Monterol Murine / Morino Petrovija / Petrovia

Savudrija / Salvore Seget / Seghetto Sveta Marija na Krasu / Madonna del Carso Umag / Umago Valica / Valizza

Vardica / Vardizza Vilanija / Villania Zambratica / Zambrattia

References

External links

Umag official site

Map of Umag

First portal of Umag

Category:Cities and towns in Croatia Category:Populated coastal places in Croatia

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Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
Name	Carlos Moyá
Country	Spain
Residence	Geneva, Switzerland
Birth date	August 27, 1976
Birth place	Palma, Majorca
Height
Weight
Turnedpro	1995
Retired	17 November 2010
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney	$13,390,822
Singlesrecord	573–314
Singlestitles	20
Highestsinglesranking	No. 1 (15 March 1999)
Australianopenresult	F (1997)
Frenchopenresult	W (1998)
Wimbledonresult	4R (2004)
Usopenresult	SF (1998)
Doublesrecord	23–49
Doublestitles	0
Grandslamsdoublesresults	yes
Australianopendoublesresult	QF (2001)
Highestdoublesranking	No. 108 (29 October 2001)
Updated	17 January 2011 }}

Carlos Moya Llompart (, ; born 27 August 1976) is a retired former World No. 1 tennis player from Spain. He was the French Open singles champion in 1998 and was the singles runner-up at the 1997 Australian Open. In 2004, he helped his country win the Davis Cup. He currently resides in Switzerland. Although he plays with his right hand, he is naturally left-handed – the opposite of fellow Majorcan Rafael Nadal .

Personal life

Moyá was born in Palma, Spain. He began playing tennis at six years old with his parents. Carles turned professional in 1995 and won his first tour title later that year in Buenos Aires. He previously dated Italian Flavia Pennetta. The two split in 2007. He is dating Spanish actress Carolina Cerezuela, and with whom he has a daughter, Carla, born by C-section on 18 August 2010 at the USP Clínica Palmaplanas in Palma, Majorca.

Tennis career

In 1997, Moyá reached his first Grand Slam final at the Australian Open, defeating world number three Michael Chang in the semifinals in straight sets, before losing in straight sets to Pete Sampras.

In 1998, Moyá won the French Open. He defeated the tournament favourite, Marcelo Ríos in the quarter finals, and fellow-Spaniard Álex Corretja in the final with a straight sets win. He also won his first Tennis Masters Series tournament that year at Monte Carlo. He reached the semi-finals of the US Open, losing to Mark Philippoussis. He concluded the year by finishing runner-up at the ATP World Championships (now known as the Tennis Masters Cup), where he lost in a five-set final to Corretja having won the first two sets.

In March 1999, after finishing runner-up at Indian Wells, Moyá reached the World No. 1 singles ranking. He held the top spot for two weeks. Later that year, he entered the French Open as defending champion, and lost in the fourth round to Andre Agassi (who would go on to be that year's champion). At the US Open, Moyá withdrew in the second round with a back injury and only played in two tournaments for the rest of the year.

In 2000, despite being hampered with a stress fracture in his lower back from the 1999 US Open through the early part of 2000, Moyá still managed to finish top 50 in the world for the fifth straight year. He reached the fourth round of the US Open, where he held a match point in the fourth set but eventually lost to Todd Martin in an epic five-set marathon 6–7, 6–7, 6–1, 7–6, 6–2. Moyá's best result for the rest of 2000 was winning at Portugal.

In 2001, Moyá won the title at Umag. He also finished runner-up at Barcelona, where he lost in a four-hour marathon final to countryman Juan Carlos Ferrero.

2002 saw Moyá win four titles from six finals. He captured his second career Tennis Masters Series title, and the biggest hardcourt title of his career, at Cincinnati, where he defeated World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt in the final.

Moyá captured three clay court titles in 2003. He also helped Spain reach the final of the Davis Cup, compiling a 6–0 singles record. In the semifinals, he won the deciding rubber against Gastón Gaudio as Spain beat Argentina 3–2. He beat Mark Philippoussis on grass court in the final. But that proved to be Spain's only point as they lost the final 4–1 to Australia.

In 2004, Moyá helped Spain go one better and win the Davis Cup. In the final, he won two critical singles rubbers against Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish, as Spain beat the United States 3–2. The year also saw Moyà capture his third career Masters Series title at Rome, where he defeated David Nalbandian in the final (6–3, 6–3, 6–1). He was the only player on the tour to win at least 20 matches on both clay courts and hardcourts that year.

In July 2004, Moyá's kind hearted gesture to hit with ball boy Sandeep Ponniah at the 2004 Tennis Masters Series Toronto event captured audiences during an injury timeout against opponent Nicholas Kiefer of Germany. To the crowd's surprise, Ponniah shuffled Moyá across the baseline and received an ovation for an overhead smash on a Moyá lob.

Moyá won his 18th career title in January 2005 at Chennai. He donated his prize money for the win to the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake victims.

In January 2007, Moyá was the runner-up at the Medibank International in Sydney, losing to defending champion James Blake.

In May 2007, at the Hamburg Masters, he defeated Mardy Fish, World No. 12 Tomáš Berdych, World No. 9 Blake, and World No. 6 Novak Djokovic, a run which saw him reach his first Masters semifinal since 2004 Indian Wells. After reaching the semifinals against Roger Federer, Moyá lost 4–6, 6–4, 6–2.

Moyá lost against Nadal in straight sets in the quarter-finals of the 2007 French Open.

During Wimbledon, Moyá lost in the first round to Tim Henman in a 5-set thriller, the fifth set stretching to 24 games (Henman won 13–11). Despite the loss, Moyá had no points to defend (he had not played a grasscourt match in a few years), resulting in moving to World No. 20, his first time inside the top 20 since 13 June 2005.

In July 2007, Moyá won the Studena Croatia Open in Umag, Croatia, defeating Andrei Pavel 6–4, 6–2. The win brought him to World No. 18 in the rankings, his highest rank since 23 May 2005, when he was World No. 15.

In August 2007, Moyá lost to Marcos Baghdatis in the first round of the Montréal Masters. At Cincinnati, one week later and just two weeks shy of his 31st birthday, he beat David Nalbandian 7–6, 7–6, World No. 3 Djokovic 6–4, 6–1, and Juan Martín del Potro 7–5, 3–6, 7–5 (after being down an early break in the third set) to set up a quarterfinal clash with Lleyton Hewitt.

In 2008 at the Cincinnati Masters, Moyá defeated Nikolay Davydenko 7–6, 4–6, 6–2 which was played over the course of two days because of rain. Hours after his match with Davydenko, Moyá beat Igor Andreev 6–4, 7–6.

Moyá made a slow start in 2009. He failed to progress beyond the second round of his first 4 tournaments, including a first round loss at the Australian Open. In March 2009, he announced that he would have an indefinite hiatus from tennis to recover from injured tendons and ischium in his hip. He returned to professional tennis in January 2010 losing 6–3, 7–6 against Janko Tipsarević in the first round of the Chennai Open, then losing in the first round of the 2010 Australian Open to Illya Marchenko, 7–6, 7–5, 6–3.

On 17 November 2010, he announced his retirement from tennis due to a long standing foot injury from which he failed to recover. He received a special ceremony at the O2 Arena in London during the 2010 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals with all top eight singles and doubles players attending. Other players who attended included Fernando Verdasco, Mikhail Youzhny, Àlex Corretja, Jonas Björkman and Thomas Johansson.

He has won ATP Tour singles titles in 11 different countries: Argentina, Croatia, France, Italy, India, Mexico, Monaco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United States.

Grand Slam record

Australian Open

*Singles runner-up: 1997

*Singles quarterfinalist: 2001

*Doubles quarterfinalist: 2001

French Open

*Singles champion: 1998

*Singles quarterfinalist: 2003, 2004, 2007

US Open

*Singles semifinalist: 1998

*Singles quarterfinalist: 2007

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 2 (1–1)

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Masters Series finals

Singles: 6 (3–3)

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Career finals

Singles: 44 (20–24)

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{|class="sortable wikitable" style=font-size:97% !width=80|Outcome !width=20|No. !width=120|Date !width=280|Championship !width=75|Surface !width=200|Opponent in the final !width=200|Score in the final |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |1.||13 November 1995||Buenos Aires, Argentina||Clay|| Félix Mantilla||6–0, 6–3 |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |1. |6 May 1996 |Munich, Germany |Clay | Sláva Doseděl |4–6, 6–4, 3–6 |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |2.||19 August 1996||Umag, Croatia||Clay|| Félix Mantilla||6–0, 7–6^{(7–4) |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |2. |16 September 1996 |Bucharest, Romania |Clay | Alberto Berasategui |1–6, 6–7(5–7) |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |3. |13 January 1997 |Sydney, Australia |Hard | Tim Henman |3–6, 1–6 |-bgcolor=#e5d1cb |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |4. |27 January 1997 |Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia |Hard | Pete Sampras |2–6, 3–6, 3–6 |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |5. |4 August 1997 |Amsterdam, Netherlands |Clay | Sláva Doseděl |6–7(4–7), 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–4), 2–6 |-bgcolor=#d0f0c0 |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |6. |18 August 1997 |Indianapolis, USA |Hard | Jonas Björkman |3–6, 6–7(3–7) |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |3.||25 August 1997||Long Island, USA||Hard|| Patrick Rafter||6–4, 7–6(7–1) |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |7. |15 September 1997 |Bournemouth, UK |Clay | Félix Mantilla |2–6, 2–6 |-bgcolor=#dfe2e9 |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |4.||27 April 1998||Monte Carlo, Monaco||Clay|| Cédric Pioline||6–3, 6–0, 7–5 |-bgcolor=#e5d1cb |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |5.||8 June 1998||French Open, Paris, France||Clay|| Àlex Corretja||6–3, 7–5, 6–3 |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |8. |5 October 1998 |Majorca, Spain |Clay | Gustavo Kuerten |7–6(7–5), 2–6, 3–6 |-bgcolor=#ffffcc |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |9. |30 November 1998 |ATP Championships, Hanover, Germany |Hard | Àlex Corretja |6–3, 6–3, 5–7, 3–6, 5–7 |-bgcolor=#dfe2e9 |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |10. |8 March 1999 |Indian Wells, USA |Hard | Mark Philippoussis |7–5, 4–6, 4–6, 6–4, 2–6 |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |6.||17 April 2000||Estoril, Portugal||Clay|| Francisco Clavet||6–3, 6–2 |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |11. |23 April 2000 |Toulouse, France |Hard (i) | Àlex Corretja |3–6, 2–6 |-bgcolor=#d0f0c0 |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |12. |30 April 2001 |Barcelona, Spain |Clay | Juan Carlos Ferrero |6–4, 5–7, 6–3, 3–6, 5–7 |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |7.||23 July 2001||Umag, Croatia (2)||Clay|| Jérôme Golmard||6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–2) |-bgcolor=#d0f0c0 |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |8.||4 March 2002||Acapulco, Mexico||Clay|| Fernando Meligeni||7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–4) |-bgcolor=#dfe2e9 |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |13. |22 April 2002 |Monte Carlo, Monaco |Clay | Juan Carlos Ferrero |5–7, 3–6, 4–6 |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |9.||15 July 2002||Båstad, Sweden||Clay|| Younes El Aynaoui||6–3, 2–6, 7–5 |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |10.||22 July 2002||Umag, Croatia (3)||Clay|| David Ferrer||6–2, 6–3 |-bgcolor=#dfe2e9 |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |11.||12 August 2002||Cincinnati, USA||Hard|| Lleyton Hewitt||7–5, 7–6(7–5) |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |14. |30 September 2002 |Hong Kong, China |Hard | Juan Carlos Ferrero |3–6, 6–1, 6–7(4–7) |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |12.||17 February 2003||Buenos Aires, Argentina (2)||Clay|| Guillermo Coria||6–3, 4–6, 6–4 |-bgcolor=#dfe2e9 |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |15. |31 March 2003 |Miami, USA |Hard | Andre Agassi |3–6, 3–6 |-bgcolor=#d0f0c0 |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |13.||21 April 2003||Barcelona, Spain||Clay|| Marat Safin||5–7, 6–2, 6–2, 3–0 retired |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |14.||21 July 2003||Umag, Croatia (4)||Clay|| Filippo Volandri||6–4, 3–6, 7–5 |-bgcolor=#d0f0c0 |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |16. |13 October 2003 |Vienna, Austria |Hard (i) | Roger Federer |3–6, 3–6, 3–6 |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |15.||5 January 2004||Chennai, India||Hard|| Paradorn Srichaphan||6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–5) |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |17. |19 January 2004 |Sydney, Australia (2) |Hard | Lleyton Hewitt |3–4 ret. |-bgcolor=#d0f0c0 |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |16.||1 March 2004||Acapulco, Mexico (2)||Clay|| Fernando Verdasco||6–3, 6–0 |-bgcolor=#dfe2e9 |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |17.||3 May 2004||Rome, Italy||Clay|| David Nalbandian||6–3, 6–3, 6–1 |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |18. |16 February 2004 |Buenos Aires, Argentina |Clay | Guillermo Coria |4–6, 1–6 |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |18.||3 January 2005||Chennai, India (2)||Hard|| Paradorn Srichaphan||3–6, 6–4, 7–6(7–5) |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |19. |1 August 2005 |Umag, Croatia |Clay | Guillermo Coria |2–6, 6–4, 2–6 |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |20. |9 January 2006 |Chennai, India |Hard | Ivan Ljubičić |6–7(6–8), 2–6 |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |19.||13 February 2006||Buenos Aires, Argentina (3)||Clay|| Filippo Volandri||7–6(8–6), 6–4 |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |21. |15 January 2007 |Sydney, Australia (3) |Hard | James Blake |3–6, 7–5, 1–6 |-bgcolor=#d0f0c0 |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |22. |5 March 2007 |Acapulco, Mexico |Clay | Juan Ignacio Chela |3–6, 6–7(2–7) |- |bgcolor=#98fb98|Winner |20.||29 July 2007||Umag, Croatia (5)||Clay|| Andrei Pavel||6–4, 6–2 |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |23. |17 February 2008 |Costa do Sauípe, Brazil |Clay | Nicolás Almagro |6–7(4–7), 6–3, 5–7 |- |bgcolor=#ffa07a|Runner-up |24. |14 September 2008 |Bucharest, Romania (2) |Clay | Gilles Simon |3–6, 4–6 |}}

Team titles

2004 – Davis Cup winner with Spain

Singles performance timeline

''To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2009 Australian Open.

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See also

List of Grand Slam Men's Singles champions

References

External links

Carlos Moya on Twitter /

bio – file interview with Carlos Moya

Moya Recent Match Results

Moya World Ranking History

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Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
Name	Andrei Pavel
nickname	''Cneazul''
Country
Residence	Borgholzhausen, Germany
Birth date	January 27, 1974
Birth place	Constanţa, Romania
Height
Weight
Turnedpro	1995
Retired	September 23, 2009
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney	$5,123,329
Singlesrecord	277–261
Singlestitles	3
Highestsinglesranking	No. 13 (October 25, 2004)
Australianopenresult	4th (1999, 2004)
Frenchopenresult	QF (2002)
Wimbledonresult	3rd (2000, 2002)
Usopenresult	4th (2000, 2004)
Doublesrecord	137–130
Doublestitles	6
Highestdoublesranking	No. 13 (April 30, 2007)
Updated	May 25, 2009 }}

Andrei Pavel (born January 27, 1974 in Constanţa) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Romania. He is currently coaching former world No. 1 and the current world No. 15 of the WTA, Jelena Janković.

Career

Andrei began playing tennis at age eight, and moved to Germany at age sixteen.

Pavel has turned professional in 1995. He has won three singles titles, including the ATP Masters Series tournament in Montreal/Toronto in 2001. He has also won seven doubles titles, the latest title being the Open Seat Barcelona, in 2007.

Pavel played what John McEnroe considers to be the best first round match at a Grand Slam he has ever seen at the U.S Open in August 2006, where he lost to Andre Agassi in four sets; 6–7(4), 7–6(8), 7–6(6), 6–2; taking three and half hours. Had Pavel won, it would have been Agassi's last match in a professional tournament.

His best single result over the course of his career took place in 2001, when he captured the Masters Series title in Montreal. For his efforts during that week alone, Pavel earned US$400,000. When playing Andy Murray in the Australian Open in 2009, Pavel was forced to retire from the game in the second set due to a recurring back injury. He had lost the previous set. Andrei entered the 2009 French Open, where he was defeated by Tommy Haas 6–1, 6–4, 6–4.

He played his last singles match in his homeland tournament in Bucharest in 2009, where he lost in the first round to Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay. In the same tournament he teamed up with his old friend Gabriel Trifu, losing in the quarter finals to Spaniards Ramírez Hidalgo / Ventura. He also played two more exhibition matches, one facing Goran Ivanišević, while in the other he paired up with Ilie Năstase against the Mansour Bahrami / Yannick Noah pair. The week before, he had been the captain of Romania's Davis Cup team, where they lost to Sweden 3–2 in the qualifying rounds.

His highest rank of the career was 13th in October 2004.

Coaching

At the start of 2011, former world number one Jelena Janković announced her decision of working with Andrei Pavel on a trial basis. The Serbian player has not performed up to the mark in 2010 and thus dropped to as low as number eight in the WTA rankings.

Singles titles (3)

Legend (Singles)

Grand Slam (0)

Tennis Masters Cup (0)

ATP Masters Series (1)

ATP International Series Gold (1)

ATP Tour (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	April 13, 1998		Hard	Byron Black	6–3, 6–4
2.	May 22, 2000		Clay	Andrew Ilie	7–5, 3–6, 6–2
3.	July 30, 2001		Hard	Patrick Rafter	7–6, 2–6, 6–3

Runners-ups (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	April 26, 1999		Clay	Franco Squillari	6–4, 6–3
2.	June 14, 1999		Grass	Patrick Rafter	3–6, 7–6, 6–4
3.	October 27, 2003		Carpet	Tim Henman	6–2, 7–6, 7–6
4.	April 25, 2005	Munich, Germany	Clay	David Nalbandian	6–4, 6–1
5.	May 22, 2006		Clay	Nikolay Davydenko	6–0, 6–3
6.	July 23, 2007		Clay	Carlos Moyà	6–4, 6–2

ATP Doubles titles (6)

Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
September 21, 1998	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Gabriel Trifu	George Cosac Dinu Pescariu	7–6(2), 7–6(4)
July 31, 2005	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Leoš Friedl	Christophe Rochus Olivier Rochus	6–2, 6–7(5), 6–0
January 15, 2006	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Rogier Wassen	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	6–3, 5–7, (10–4)
May 7, 2006	Munich, Germany	Clay	Alexander Waske	Alexander Peya Björn Phau	6–4, 6–2
July 16, 2006	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Jiří Novák	Marco Chiudinelli Jean-Claude Scherrer	6–3, 6–1
April 29, 2007	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Alexander Waske	Rafael Nadal Bartolomé Salvá-Vidal	6–3, 7–6(1)

Doubles runner-ups (5)

Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in final	Score in final
February 14, 1999	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Menno Oosting	Jeff Tarango Daniel Vacek	3–6, 6–3, 7–5
January 10, 2005	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Mikhail Youzhny	Albert Costa Rafael Nadal	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
September 18, 2005	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Victor Hănescu	José Acasuso Sebastián Prieto	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
February 25, 2007	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Hard	Alexander Waske	Martin Damm Leander Paes	6–3, 6–7(5), (10–7)
May 23, 2009		Clay	Horia Tecău	Marcelo Melo André Sá	6–7(9), 6–2, (10–7)

Singles performance timeline

! Tournament !! 1990 ATP Tour

1990 !! 1991 !! 1992 !! 1993 !! 1994 !! 1995 !! 1996 !! 1997!! 1998 !! 1999 !! 2000 !! 2001 !! 2002 !! 2003 !! 2004 !! 2005 !! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008 !! 2009

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Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
Name	Nicolás Massú
Country
Nickname	Vampiro, Nico
Residence	Viña del Mar
Birth date	October 10, 1979
Birth place	Viña del Mar
Height
Weight
Turnedpro	1997
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney	US$4,286,614
Singlesrecord	257–233 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Singlestitles	6
Highestsinglesranking	No. 9 (September 13, 2004)
Currentsinglesranking	No. 448 (June 20, 2011)
Australianopenresult	2nd Round (2005)
Frenchopenresult	3rd Round (2004, 2006)
Wimbledonresult	3rd Round (2001)
Usopenresult	4th Round (2005)
Othertournaments	Yes
Olympicsresult	20px Gold medal (2004)
Doublesrecord	81–98 (at ATP Tour level and Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Doublestitles	1
Highestdoublesranking	No. 31 (July 25, 2005)
Othertournamentsdoubles	Yes
Olympicsdoublesresult	20px Gold medal (2004)
Updated	January 17, 2011 }}

}} Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried (born October 10, 1979, in Viña del Mar, Chile), nicknamed ''Vampiro'' (Spanish: "vampire"), is a Chilean tennis player, a former world number nine in singles, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist. He is the only male player to have won both the singles and doubles gold medals in the same Olympic Games in modern (1988 ff.) Olympic tennis.

Tennis career

Early years

Massú was introduced to tennis at age five by his Hungarian grandfather, Ladislao Fried. From age 12, he was trained at the Valle Dorado tennis academy, near Villa Alemana, by Leonardo Zuleta, with whom he perfected his forehand and double-handed backhand. He later trained at the Nick Bollettieri academy, in Florida, United States, alongside Marcelo Ríos, and later at the High Performance Center in Barcelona, Spain.

Juniors

Massú became a professional tennis player in 1997. That year he won the prestigious juniors year-end Orange Bowl tournament. He also claimed the boys doubles competitions at Wimbledon (with Peru's Luis Horna) and the US Open (with countryman Fernando González), and was junior doubles world champion.

ATP Tour

In August 1998, Massú won his first future tournament, in Spain. The following month he claimed his first challenger event, in Ecuador. He won his second challenger tournament in June 1999, in Italy. In September 1999, he successfully defended his title in Ecuador. In November 1999, he won the Santiago challenger event, and cracked the top 100 in singles for the first time.

In May 2000, Massú reached his first ATP tournament final, at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Orlando, Florida, where he lost to Fernando González. Later in August, he lost again to another Chilean—Marcelo Ríos—on his US Open debut. In January 2001, Massú reached his second ATP event final, in Adelaide, Australia.

Massú's first ATP title came in February 2002 in Buenos Aires, where he defeated Argentine Agustín Calleri in a three-set final, after being down match point. At the 2003 event, Calleri took revenge and defeated him in the first round, a loss that pushed Massú out of the top 100 in singles and forced him to play challengers once again. In April 2003, he reached the Bermuda challenger final.

Massú claimed his second ATP title in July 2003 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. The following week he reached the final of the Kitzbühel, Austria tournament, cracking the top 50 in singles for the first time. In September he made three consecutive tournament finals, including a win at a challenger event and his third ATP title at Palermo, Italy. In October, he reached the final at the Madrid Tennis Masters Series tournament, losing to Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final. He ended the year at number 12.

In mid-2004, Massú parted ways with Argentine coach Gabriel Markus, whom he replaced with Chilean Patricio Rodríguez. In July 2004 Massú won his fourth ATP title in Kitzbühel, and then went on to win two gold medals at the Athens Olympics in August (see below). Thanks to his outstanding performance at the Olympics, he reached his best ATP Singles Ranking to date, at number 9. In November he underwent groin surgery, and therefore entered the 2005 season off top form. He ended an unremarkable 2005 with a six-match losing streak.

In January 2006, Massú lost his hometown event at Viña del Mar to José Acasuso in the final. In February he won his sixth ATP event at Costa do Sauipe, Brazil. In April he reached the final of the Casablanca event in Morocco. In July he lost to Novak Djokovic in the final of the Amersfoort tournament.

In January 2007, Massú repeated his Viña del Mar showing of 2006, losing to Luis Horna in straight sets. In July he began an eight-match losing streak, ended in October in Saint Petersburg.

Massú had an early exit at the Viña del Mar tournament in January, 2008, losing to Sergio Roitman in the first round. Because he defended points from a final showing in 2007, the following week he fell to number 97 in the world. In July his singles ranking plummeted to #138, his worst since November 1999. Later in the year he won the Florianópolis II challenger event and was finalist in two other tournaments of this level.

Massú began 2009 by not winning a match during his first five tournaments, and losing his opening Davis Cup singles match against Croatia in March. He broke his losing streak at the Indian Wells Masters, beating Argentine Eduardo Schwank in three sets in the first round.

Olympics

Massú has represented Chile in three Summer Olympics: Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. At the 2000 event's opening ceremony, he was his country's standard bearer, after Marcelo Ríos failed to show up. On his first-round match he beat Slava Doseděl, but lost to Juan Carlos Ferrero in the next round.

The story was different in Athens, where Massú captured both singles and doubles titles. On August 21, he and partner Fernando González, defeated Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schüttler of Germany to win the doubles competition, making history by giving Chile its first-ever Olympic gold medal. The following day, he captured his second gold medal by defeating American Mardy Fish in five sets in the men's singles final. Following his victory in singles he was declared as ''Athlete of the Day'' by the 2004 Athens Olympics' organization.

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Because of his low ranking, Massú was granted a wild card to compete in both singles and doubles events in Beijing. He only managed to reach the second round in singles and was ousted on his first match in doubles, where he partnered with Fernando González.

Davis Cup

Massú began playing for Chile in Davis Cup matches in 1996. He currently is 29–17, including 17–4 on clay.

Maccabiah Games

Massú is a veteran of the 2001 Maccabiah Games, the international Jewish Olympics.

Playing style

Massú has a style characteristic of a clay court specialist, with strong baseline play characterized by a solid forehand and backhand.

Massú is known for his fighting spirit, especially when playing for Chile, as he has demonstrated at the 2004 Olympics and at numerous Davis Cup matches. He has also turned around difficult matches.

Personal life

Massú is Jewish, as is his mother, Sonia Fried. His father, Manuel Massú, is of Palestinian or Lebanese ancestry. He has two brothers, Stefano and Jorge.

All finals

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Legend

Grand Slam (0)

ATP World Tour Finals (0)

Olympic Gold (1)

ATP Masters Series (0)

ATP International Series Gold (1)

ATP Tour (4)

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Titles by Surface

Hard (1)

Clay (5)

Grass (0)

Carpet (0)

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Singles titles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	February 24, 2002		Clay	Agustín Calleri	2–6, 7–6(5), 6–2
2.	July 20, 2003		Clay	Raemon Sluiter	6–4, 7–6(3), 6–2
3.	September 28, 2003		Clay	Paul-Henri Mathieu	1–6, 6–2, 7–6(0)
4.	July 25, 2004		Clay	Gastón Gaudio	7–6(3), 6–4
5.	August 22, 2004		Hard	Mardy Fish	6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4
6.	February 26, 2006		Clay	Alberto Martín	6–3, 6–4

Singles runners-up

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 7, 2000		Clay	Fernando González	2–6, 3–6
2.	January 7, 2001		Hard	Tommy Haas	3–6, 1–6
3.	July 27, 2003		Clay	Guillermo Coria	1–6, 4–6, 2–6
4.	September 14, 2003		Clay		2–6, 2–6
5.	October 19, 2003		Hard (i)	Juan Carlos Ferrero	3–6, 4–6, 3–6
6.	February 5, 2006		Clay	José Acasuso	4–6, 3–6
7.	April 30, 2006		Clay	Daniele Bracciali	1–6, 4–6
8.	July 23, 2006		Clay	Novak Djokovic	6–7(5), 4–6
9.	February 4, 2007		Clay	Luis Horna	5–7, 3–6

Doubles titles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	August 21, 2004		Hard	Fernando González	Nicolas Kiefer Rainer Schüttler	6–2, 4–6, 3–6, 7–6(7), 6–4

Team competition wins

2003 – World Team Championship, Düsseldorf, Germany (Clay)

2004 – World Team Championship, Düsseldorf, Germany (Clay)

Challenger singles titles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	September 7, 1998		Clay	Mariano Sánchez	3–6, 6–3, 6–0
2.	June 21, 1999	Biella, Italy	Clay	Oleg Ogorodov	7–6(5), 5–7, 6–3
3.	September 6, 1999		Clay	Luis Adrián Morejón	6–2, 3–6, 6–3
4.	November 1, 1999	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Karim Alami	6–7(4), 6–2, 6–4
5.	September 15, 2003		Clay	Albert Portas	6–4, 6–3
6.	May 5, 2008		Clay	Christophe Rochus	6–2, 6–2
7.	October 6, 2008	Florianópolis, Brazil	Clay	Olivier Patience	6–7(4), 6–2, 6–1
8.	November 22, 2009	Cancún, Mexico	Clay	Grega Zemlja	6–3, 7–5

Challenger singles runners-up

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	November 22, 1999	Guadalajara, Mexico	Clay		6–4, 5–7, 3–6
2.	April 14, 2003		Clay	Flávio Saretta	1–6, 4–6
3.	August 3, 2008		Hard		4–6, 3–6
4.	October 13, 2008		Clay	Peter Luczak	W/O
5.	October 23, 2009		Clay	Eduardo Schwank	2–6, 2–6

Grand Slam performance timeline

! Tournament !! 2000 !! 2001 !! 2002 !! 2003 !! 2004 !! 2005 !! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008 !! 2009 !! 2010 !! 2011 !! Career SR !! Career win-loss

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A = did not participate in the tournament.

LQ = lost in pre-tournament qualifying.

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

See also

List of select Jewish tennis players

References

External links

Nicolás Massú's Davis Cup record Official website of the Davis Cup

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Alka Vuica (pronounced ) (born 8 June 1961 in Pula, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia, now Croatia) is a popular Croatian singer and songwriter. Her musical style can be described as a mixture of pop, folk and Latin.

Vuica entered the Croatian presidential election, 2009–2010. On October 26th, 2009 the Green List of Croatia announced they were supporting her bid for president.

Discography

Albums

''Laži me'' (1994)

''Za tebe čuvam sebe'' (1995)

''Alkatraz'' (1997)

''Balkan girl'' (1999)

''Profesionalka'' (2001)

''Cirkus'' (2004)

Compilations

''The Best of Alka'' (1999)

Sources

http://izbori.dnevnik.hr/rubrika/alka_vuica/

External links

Official Website

http://www.diskografija.com/sastav/alka-vuica.htm

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