- Rui Machado
Infobox Tennis player
playername= Rui Machado
nickname=
country= POR
residence=
datebirth= birth date and age|1984|04|10
placebirth=Faro, Algarve ,Portugal
height=
weight=
turnedpro=
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careerprizemoney=US$ 118,469
singlesrecord= 6–12
singlestitles= 0
highestsinglesranking= No. 176 (September 15 ,2008 )
currentsinglesranking= No. 176
AustralianOpenresult= -
FrenchOpenresult= -
Wimbledonresult= -
USOpenresult= 2R (2008)
doublesrecord= 0–3
doublestitles= 0
highestdoublesranking= No. 403 (September 19 ,2005 )
updated =October 11 ,2008 PAGENAME (born
April 10 ,1984 inFaro, Algarve ,Portugal ) is a Portuguese professional maletennis player.Career
2005
Machado had his first best year of his early career in 2005, reaching a career high #242 in October.
He began the year ranked #393 in singles. In the Portugal Satellite 1 in January and February,he won the first two week-long tournaments before faltering in the last two weeks, but it got his ranking to #330. He made little progress the next 4 months, mostly in Challenger qualifying, before finally qualifying into a Challenger in Germany to get his ranking to #301. He followed that up with two straight quarterfinal runs in Challengers in France and Italy, beating former top-60 players
Alex Calatrava andJuan Antonio Marin , to get his ranking to #265 in July.But he made little progress from then through October, although a couple first roundChallenger match wins helped him get his career high ranking. He returned to the Futures levelin November with good success, winning Spain F33 and reaching the finals of Spain F32 and F34to finish the year ranked #259.
2006 & 2007
Rui had an knee injury at Davis Cup Match in Portugal and during 2006 and 2007 almost did not compete at highest level.
2008
Machado began his comeback with a spectacular run on the Futures circuit early in 2008.After failing to qualify into Portugal F3 in late January, he went on to win his next 26 matches,losing just 2 sets along the way. He won Italy F1, qualified into and won Portugal F4,then won Portugal F5 an F6, both using Special Entry status. He finally lost a match two weekslater in the semifinal of Spain F12 to #264
Pere Riba , but got revenge the following weekat Spain F13, beating Riba in the final, for his 5th Futures win in his last 6 tries.The string of victories took his ranking from #729 in February to #371 in early April.Machado began April by helping Portugal to a 4-1 win in their Euro/African Zone - Group II
Davis Cup match against Tunisia inEstoril , Portugal. The following week, just 10 weeksafter having to play qualifiers to get into Futures tournaments in Portugal, he was givena Wild Card entry into Portugal's ATP stop in Estoril, and made great use of it, defeating #22Ivo Karlovic in the first round in his first-ever ATP-level match.Lately he has been participating in Challengers with a remark for Segovia where he lost in a 3rd set match at Semi-Final.
In August 2008 he managed to pass US Open qualifying, defeating Nicolas Massu (Olympic Double Gold Medal in Athens 2004 and ex-Top 10 player) and Flavio Cippola to reach his first appearance at a Grand Slam Level.
This year he has already reached Top 200 and it can be considered so far his best year of ever, climbing over 500 places in ATP Rankings.
External links
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* [http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?players=Rui+Mach&weeks=12 Machado Recent Match Results]
* [http://steveghelper.com/RankingHistory.php?player=Rui+Machado Machado World Ranking History]
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