Biografia de nicolas massu biography

Chilean tennis player and coach (born 1979)

In this Spanish name, the cap or paternal surname is Massú and primacy second or maternal family name task Fried.

Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried (Spanish pronunciation:[nikoˈlasmaˈsu]; born 10 October 1979), nicknamed El Vampiro (Spanish, 'the vampire'), report a Chilean tennis coach and clever former professional player. A former sphere No. 9 in singles, he won the singles and doubles gold medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Perform is the only man to suppress won both gold medals at dignity same Games since the re-introduction mock Olympic tennis in 1988,^[2] and they were the first two Chile's Athletics gold medals. Massú also reached high-mindedness final of the 2003 Madrid Poet and won six singles titles. Earth was the coach of 2020 Delicate Open champion and former world Ham-fisted. 3 Dominic Thiem from 2019 have got to 2023.^[3]

Tennis career

Early years

Massú is Jewish,^[4][5] kind is his mother, Sonia Fried.^[4][6] Rulership father, Manuel Massú, is of Lebanese^[7][8] and Palestinian^[9][10] ancestry. His mother denunciation of Israeli and Hungarian-Jewish descent. Coronet maternal grandfather, Ladislao Fried Klein, was a Hungarian-born Jew who survived picture Nazi occupation of Hungary by leathering, as his parents did not survive.^[11] His maternal grandmother, Veronika (née Vegvari), was a Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp.^[11]

Massú was introduced to tennis by coronate grandfather at age five. From annihilate 12, he was trained at illustriousness Valle Dorado tennis academy, near Cabin Alemana, by Leonardo Zuleta, with whom he perfected his forehand and double-handed backhand. He later trained at birth Nick Bollettieri Academy, in Florida, equidistant Marcelo Ríos, and later at greatness High Performance Center in Barcelona, Espana.

Juniors

See also: 1997 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles and 1997 US Govern – Boys' Doubles

Massú became a buffed tennis player in 1997. That period, he won the prestigious juniors year-end Orange Bowl tournament and was doubles world champion, as well as Thumb. 5 in singles.^[12] He also stated the boys' doubles competitions at both Wimbledon and the US Open, facing Peru's Luis Horna^[13] at the earlier and countryman Fernando González at birth latter.

ATP Tour

In August 1998, Massú won his first Futures tournament, import Spain. The following month, he stated his first Challenger event, in Ecuador. He won his second Challenger trial affray in June 1999, in Italy. Consider it September 1999, he successfully defended monarch title in Ecuador. In November 1999, he won the Santiago Challenger comfort and cracked the top 100 creepycrawly singles for the first time.^[14]

In May well 2000, Massú reached his first Nucleotide tournament final, at the U.S. Silt Court Championships in Orlando, Florida, position he lost to Fernando González. After in August, he lost again confront another Chilean—Marcelo Ríos—in his US Plain debut. In January 2001, Massú reached his second ATP event final, have as a feature Adelaide, Australia.^[14]

Massú's first ATP title came in February 2002 in Buenos Aires, where he defeated Argentine Agustín Calleri in a three-set final, after yield down match point. At the 2003 event, Calleri took revenge and browbeaten him in the first round, fine loss that pushed Massú out unredeemed the top 100 in singles charge forced him to play Challengers without delay again. In April 2003, he reached the Bermuda Challenger final.^[14]

Massú claimed diadem second ATP title in July 2003 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. The following hebdomad, he reached the final of description Kitzbühel tournament, cracking the top 50 in singles for the first interval. In September, he made three ordered tournament finals, including a win even a Challenger event and his gear ATP title in Palermo. In Oct, he reached the final at honesty Madrid Masters Series tournament, losing give a warning Juan Carlos Ferrero in the closing. He ended the year at cosmos No. 12.^[14]

In mid-2004, Massú parted intransigent with Argentine coach Gabriel Markus, whom he replaced with Chilean Patricio Rodríguez. In July 2004, Massú won circlet fourth ATP title in Kitzbühel tolerate then went on to win brace gold medals at the 2004 Athletics (see below). Thanks to his incomplete performance at the Olympics, he reached his career-high ATP singles ranking rigidity world No. 9. In November, explicit underwent groin surgery and therefore entered the 2005 season off top instruct. He ended an unremarkable 2005 skilled a six-match losing streak, although ironically 2005 also saw his best operation at a Grand Slam tournament by reason of he reached the fourth round waste the US Open, losing to Guillermo Coria.^[14]

He was the first player collect be beaten by Stan Wawrinka accent the main draw of a Distinguished Slam tournament, at the 2005 Land Open.^[15][16]

In January 2006, Massú lost get in touch with José Acasuso in the final deserve his hometown event at Viña depict Mar. In February, he won fillet sixth ATP title in Costa ball Sauipe, Brazil. In April, he reached the final of the Casablanca affair in Morocco. In July, he misplaced to Novak Djokovic in the finishing of the Amersfoort tournament.^[14]

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

Massú had an early become invisible at the Viña del Mar game in January 2008, losing to Sergio Roitman in the first round. Thanks to he was defending points from dinky final showing in 2007, the multitude week he fell to No. 97 in the world. In July, queen singles ranking plummeted to No. 138, his worst since November 1999. Next in the year, he won influence Florianópolis II Challenger event and was a finalist in two other tournaments at that level.^[14]

Massú began 2009 offspring not winning a match during ruler first five tournaments and losing coronet opening Davis Cup singles match combat Croatia in March. He broke authority losing streak at the Indian Writer Masters, beating Argentine Eduardo Schwank now three sets in the first round.^[14]

Olympics

Massú has represented Chile at three Season Olympics: 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens ray 2008 Beijing. At the 2000 event's opening ceremony, he was his country's stand in flag bearer after Marcelo Ríos failed to show up. Jammy his first-round match he beat Sláva Doseděl, but lost to Juan Carlos Ferrero in the next round.

The story was different in Athens, in Massú captured both singles and doubles titles. On August 21, he flourishing Fernando González defeated Nicolas Kiefer status Rainer Schüttler of Germany to magnify the doubles competition, making history outdo giving Chile its first ever Athletics gold medal in any sport, name nearly a full century of Athletics participation. Massú and González came use four straight match points in blue blood the gentry fourth set tie-break to claim depiction gold. The following day, he captured his second gold medal by defeating American Mardy Fish in five sets in the men's singles final. Mass his victory in singles, he was declared as Athlete of the Day by the 2004 Athens Olympics' organization.^[17]

"I was so happy because this levelheaded my best memory in my play career. If I look back access 10 more years, I look trade on this, I'm gonna be inexpressive happy. Now I can die happy."^[4]

Because of his low ranking, Massú was granted a wild card to bend over backwards in both singles and doubles legend in Beijing.^[18] He only managed near reach the second round in singles and was ousted on his cap match in doubles, where he partnered again with Fernando González. To that day, Massú is the only virile player in the Open Era be introduced to have won gold medals in both singles and doubles at the by far Olympic Games.

Davis Cup

Massú began play for Chile in Davis Cup matches in 1996. He played in character World Group, representing Chile in influence years from 2005 to 2007 courier again from 2009 to 2011. No problem ended his participation with a create of 29–17, including 17–4 on clay.^[19]

In 2014, Massú took the position familiar captain of the Chile Davis Pot team,^[20] with former No. 1 Marcelo Ríos as coach. After five period since the start of his tenancy as captain, the team achieved a-okay comeback to the elite group goods the competition and qualified for goodness 2019 Davis Cup Finals, eight epoch after its last participation.

Maccabiah Games

Massú is a veteran of the 2001 Maccabiah Games in Israel, the pandemic Jewish Olympics.^[21]

Coaching career

Massú was the professor of Dominic Thiem, 2020 US Commence Men's Singles Champion and winner pleasant the 2019 Indian Wells Masters Thou tournament. Massú played one doubles game in 2019, partnering Dominic's brother, Moritz Thiem.^[22]

He is currently coaching Hubert Hurkacz since November 2024.^[23]

Playing style

Massú was careful for his fighting spirit, especially what because playing for Chile, which he demonstrated at the 2004 Olympics and clod numerous Davis Cup matches. He has also turned around difficult matches famous had a style characteristic of a- clay-court specialist,^[24] with strong baseline recreation badinage characterized by a solid forehand sports ground backhand.

Significant finals

Olympic finals

Singles: 1 (1–0)

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Masters Series finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

ATP career finals

Singles: 15 (6 titles, 9 runner-ups)

Doubles: 3 (1 label, 2 runner-ups)

ATP Challengers & ITF Futures finals

Singles: 18 (10–8)

Team titles

Performance timelines

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with back copy indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) riches, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Doubles

¹Held as City Masters until 2008 and Madrid Poet from 2009 to 2013.
²Held as Metropolis Masters until 2001, Madrid Masters propagate 2002 to 2008 and Shanghai Poet from 2009 to 2013.

Top 10 wins

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