Rafael Arevalo

Infobox Tennis player


playername= Rafael Arevalo
country= ESA
residence= Sonsonate, El Salvador
datebirth= birth date and age|1986|7|4
placebirth= Sonsonate, El Salvador
height= height|m=1.80
weight= convert|76|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro= 2003
plays= Right-handed
grip=
careerprizemoney= US$26,398
singlesrecord= 5–2
singlestitles= 0
highestsinglesranking= No. 434 (July 7, 2008)
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doublesrecord= 2–1
doublestitles= 0
highestdoublesranking= No. 520 (February 27, 2006)
updated = July 16, 2008

Rafael Arevalo (born July 4, 1986) is a professional tennis player from El Salvador. The majority of Arevalo's professional career has been restricted to playing on the Futures (ITF) circuit, with a further 22 appearances for the El Salvador Davis Cup team; he also encountered modest success in the juniors, reaching a peak of No. 10 in 2004. However, in 2008, aided by the Salvadoran Tennis Federation ("Federación Salvadoreña de Tenis"), he was awarded an invitation to the 2008 Beijing Olympics tennis tournament. The Tripartite Commission, which issued the invitation, is composed of representatives from International Olympic Committee (IOC), National Olympic Committees (NOCs), and the International Tennis Federation (ITF), and it is standard practice to award such invitations (of which there were two for the men's singles tennis event) to countries with small Olympic teams. Arevalo will be the first player from El Salvador to represent the country, in a tennis competition, at the Olympics. [cite news|author=International Tennis Federation|title=Olympic Tripartite Invitation places announced| url =http://www.itftennis.com/olympics/news/newsarticle.asp?articleid=18514|date =2008-03-31| accessdate =2008-07-16| language =English] Arevalo defeated Lee Hyung-taik in three sets, in the first round, before being easily beaten by Swiss world number one Roger Federer in the second. [citeweb|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/tennis/7555533.stm|title=Easy wins for Federer and Nadal|publisher=BBC Sport|date=2008-08-12|accessdate=2008-08-15]

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