Juan Pablo Varillas

Juan Pablo Varillas
	Varillas at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships
Full name	Juan Pablo Varillas Patiño-Samudio
Country (sports)	Peru
Residence	Lima, Peru
Born	6 October 1995 (age 29); Lima, Peru
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2013
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Diego Junqueira
Prize money	$1,629,996
Singles
Career record	38–48 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 60 (26 June 2023)
Current ranking	No. 210 (2 December 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2023, 2024)
French Open	4R (2023)
Wimbledon	1R (2023)
US Open	2R (2023)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2021)
Doubles
Career record	3–13 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 289 (10 May 2021)
Current ranking	No. 660 (9 December 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2023)
French Open	1R (2023)
Wimbledon	1R (2023)
US Open	1R (2023)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	13–12
Medal record
Representing Peru
Pan American Games
South American Games
	Last updated on: 10 December 2024.

Juan Pablo Varillas Patiño-Samudio (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxwam ˈpaβlo βaˈɾiʝas];^[a] born 6 October 1995) is a Peruvian professional tennis player. Varillas has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 60 achieved on 26 June 2023. He is currently the No. 1 Peruvian player.^[1]

Varillas has won 5 ATP Challenger and 5 ITF singles titles. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 289 achieved on 10 May 2021. He has also won 4 ITF doubles titles. He has represented Peru at the Davis Cup where he has a total W/L record of 13–12. In singles his W/L is 11–8.

Career

2020–2021: ATP & Olympics debut

Varillas made his ATP debut at the 2020 Chile Open as a lucky loser where he reached the second round by defeating Filip Horansky before losing to Albert Ramos Viñolas.^[2] The following year at the same tournament he reached the quarterfinals as a qualifier where he lost to top seed and eventual winner Cristian Garín. Varillas qualified to represent Peru at the Summer Olympics.

2022: Grand Slam & top 100 debut

At the 2022 French Open he qualified to make his Grand Slam main draw debut but lost to ninth seed Félix Auger-Aliassime.^[3]

He reached the quarterfinals at the 2022 Swiss Open Gstaad as a qualifier defeating top-20 player and third seed Roberto Bautista Agut before losing to Dominic Thiem.^[4] He also reached the round of 16 at the 2022 Generali Open Kitzbühel where he lost to fifth seed Albert Ramos Viñolas.^[5]^[6] As a result, he made his debut in the top 100, as one of the five Peruvian men to achieve the feat, at a new career-high of world No. 97 on 1 August 2022.

2023: Best season: first Major wins & fourth round, top 60

At the Australian Open he entered for the first time into the main draw at this Major as a lucky loser but lost in the first round to former top-2 player and twelfth seed Alexander Zverev. At the 2023 Argentina Open he reached the round of 16 as a qualifier defeating João Sousa. Next he defeated former top-3 player wildcard Dominic Thiem to move into the quarterfinals.^[7]^[8]^[9] He reached his first ATP semifinal with his second win over a top-20 player and third seed Lorenzo Musetti.^[10] As a result, he moved 20 positions up and reached a new career high ranking in the top 80 on 27 February 2023.

At the French Open, Varillas came from two sets to love down to defeat Shang Juncheng and win his first Grand slam match. He then defeated 19th seed Roberto Bautista Agut in five sets also from two sets to love down. He recorded the biggest victory of his career by ranking defeating 13th seed Hubert Hurkacz also in five sets to reach the fourth round for the first time at a Major. He became the first Peruvian to reach the fourth round of Roland Garros in 29 years since Jaime Yzaga in 1994.^[11] He reached a new career-high ranking in the top 60 on 26 June 2023.

Performance timelines

Key
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	P#	DNQ	A	Z#	PO	G	S	B	NMS	NTI	P	NH

(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 number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (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.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Current through the 2024 Australian Open – Men's singles.

Tournament	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	A	Q2	1R	1R	0 / 2	0–2	0%
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	Q1	1R	4R	Q1	0 / 2	3–2	60%
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	NH	Q1	Q1	1R	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
US Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	Q1	2R	Q1	0 / 1	1–1	50%
Win–loss						0–0	0–0	0–1	4–4	0–1	0 / 6	4–6	40%
Career statistics
	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	Total
Tournaments	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	6	20	7	36
Titles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Overall win–loss	0–3	1–0	0–2	1–2	1–1	3–1	5–3	8–6	17–20	2–10	38–48
Win (%)	0%	100%	0%	33%	50%	75%	63%	57%	46%	17%	44%
Year-end ranking	655	641	493	350	143	158	129	105	83	211

ATP Challenger and Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 25 (11–14)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (6–5)
Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (5–9)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (10–13)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2014	Peru F4, Arequipa	Futures	Clay	Filipe Brandão	4–6, 6–4, 4–6
Loss	0–2	Oct 2016	Ecuador F1, Quito	Futures	Clay	Iván Endara	6–4, 1–6, 6–7^(1–7)
Loss	0–3	Nov 2016	Colombia F7, Pereira	Futures	Clay	Juan Sebastián Gómez	7–6^(7–4), 1–6, 3–6
Loss	0–4	Apr 2017	Turkey F13, Antalya	Futures	Clay	Alexis Musialek	3–6, 7–6^(7–5), 6–7^(1–7)
Loss	0–5	May 2017	Turkey F17, Antalya	Futures	Clay	Dennis Novak	2–6, 2–6
Win	1–5	Mar 2018	Turkey F9, Antalya	Futures	Clay	Dennis Novak	6–4, 6–4
Loss	1–6	Mar 2018	Turkey F10, Antalya	Futures	Clay	Ivan Nedelko	2–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Loss	1–7	May 2018	Turkey F18, Antalya	Futures	Clay	Jules Okala	2–6, 2–6
Win	2–7	Jul 2018	Belgium F2, Arlon	Futures	Clay	Zizou Bergs	7–6^(8–6), 4–6, 6–1
Win	3–7	Mar 2019	M15 Cancún, Mexico	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Naoki Nakagawa	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–8	Mar 2019	M15 Cancún, Mexico	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Facundo Mena	6–4, 3–6, 1–6
Win	4–8	May 2019	M25 Pensacola, United States	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Harrison Adams	6–2, 6–4
Loss	4–9	Jun 2019	M25+H Arlon, Belgium	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Jeroen Vanneste	5–7, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	5-9	Sep 2019	M25 Trieste, Italy	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Alexander Erler	6–7^(6–8), 6–1, 6–4
Win	6–9	Oct 2019	Campinas, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Juan Pablo Ficovich	2–6, 7–6^(7–4), 6–2
Win	7–9	Oct 2019	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Challenger	Clay	Federico Coria	6–3, 2–6, 6–2
Win	8–9	May 2021	Biella, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Guido Andreozzi	6–3, 6-1
Loss	8–10	May 2021	Zagreb, Croatia	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Báez	6–3, 3–6, 1–6
Loss	8–11	Sep 2021	Ambato, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Thiago Agustín Tirante	5-7, 5-7
Win	9-11	Oct 2021	Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Báez	6-4, 7-5
Loss	9–12	Mar 2022	Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia	Challenger	Clay	Paul Jubb	3–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Loss	9–13	Oct 2022	Campinas, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Jan Choinski	4–6, 4–6
Win	10-13	Nov 2022	São Leopoldo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Facundo Bagnis	7–6^(7–5), 4–6, 6–4
Loss	10–14	Mar 2023	Sanremo, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Luca Van Assche	1–6, 3–6
Win	11–14	Mar 2024	Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Facundo Bagnis	6-3, 6-2

Doubles: 7 (4-3)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–2)
Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (4–1)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (4-2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Aug 2014	Arequipa, Peru F4	Futures	Clay	Jorge Panta	Ryusei Makiguchi Devin McCarthy	6–3, 3–6, 10–6
Loss	1–1	Nov 2016	San Jose, Costa Rica F1	Futures	Hard	Raleigh Smith	Farris Fathi Gosea Cameron Silverman	6–3, 4–6, 4–10
Win	2-1	Apr 2017	Antalya, Turkey F16	Futures	Clay	Martín Cuevas	Joel Cannell James Frawley	6–2, 6–4
Win	3-1	May 2019	M25 Bacău, Romania	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Alejandro Tabilo	Alexander Merino Manuel Peña López	7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(7–4)
Win	4-1	Jun 2019	M25 Huelva, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Sergio Galdós	Mateusz Kowalczyk Maciej Smola	6–2, 6–4
Loss	4-2	Aug 2019	San Benedetto, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Sergio Galdós	Ivan Sabanov Matej Sabanov	4–6, 6–4, 5–10
Loss	4-3	Apr 2021	Rome, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Paolo Lorenzi	Sadio Doumbia Fabien Reboul	6–7^(5–7), 5–7

Other finals

South American Games

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1.	Jun 2018	Cochabamba, Bolivia	Clay	Jorge Panta	Diego Hidalgo Emilio Gómez	2–6, 3–6

Record against top 10 players

Varillas's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface. Only ATP Tour main draw matches are considered:

Player	Record	Win %	Hard	Clay	Grass	Last Match
Number 1 ranked players
Novak Djokovic	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	Lost (3–6, 2–6, 2–6) at 2023 French Open
Number 2 ranked players
Alexander Zverev	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (6–4, 1–6, 7–5, 6–7^(3–7), 4–6) at 2023 Australian Open
Number 3 ranked players
Dominic Thiem	1–2	33%	0–1	1–1	–	Lost (3–6, 6–7^(8–10)) at 2023 Astana Open
Grigor Dimitrov	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (3–6, 4–6) at 2023 Chengdu Open
Number 5 ranked players
Andrey Rublev	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	Lost (2–6, 2–6) at 2023 Srpska
Number 6 ranked players
Félix Auger-Aliassime	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	Lost (6–2, 6–2, 1–6, 3–6, 3–6) at 2022 French Open
Number 8 ranked players
Diego Schwartzman	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (5–7, 4–6) at 2020 Summer Olympics
Cameron Norrie	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	Lost (6–7^(5–7), 4–6) at 2023 Argentina Open
Number 9 ranked players
Roberto Bautista Agut	2–0	100%	–	2–0	–	Won (1–6, 4–6, 6–3, 6–1, 6–1) at 2023 French Open
Hubert Hurkacz	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	Won (3–6, 6–3, 7–6^(7–3), 4–6, 6–2) at 2023 French Open
Total	4–9	31%	0–4 (0%)	4–5 (44%)	0–0 ( – )	* Statistics correct as of 28 September 2023^[update].

Notes

^ In isolation, Juan and Varillas are pronounced [ˈxwan] and [baˈɾiʝas] respectively.

References

^ "Rankings | Singles".
^ "Juan Pablo Varillas | Player Activity".
^ "#NextGenATP Star Chun-hsin Tseng Qualifies for Roland Garros".
^ "Dominic Thiem Soars into Gstaad SFS | ATP Tour | Tennis".
^ "Misolic Wins Memorable Kitzbühel Debut". 25 July 2022. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
^ "Dominic Thiem Battles into Kitzbühel Quarter-finals".
^ "After first win of 2023, Thiem loses at Argentina Open". 16 February 2023.
^ "Not Thiem's Time Yet – Varillas Stuns Former World No.3 in Buenos Aires – Tennis Now".
^ "Puntodebreak". 17 February 2023.
^ "Varillas tops Musetti, reaches Buenos Aires semis". 17 February 2023.
^ "'Mr. Five-Setter' Varillas Upsets Hurkacz To Extend Fairytale Paris Run". atptour.com. 2 June 2023.

External links

Juan Pablo Varillas at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Juan Pablo Varillas at the International Tennis Federation
Juan Pablo Varillas at the Davis Cup

[1] In isolation, Juan and Varillas are pronounced [ˈxwan] and [baˈɾiʝas] respectively.

[2] "Rankings | Singles".

[3] "Juan Pablo Varillas | Player Activity".

[4] "#NextGenATP Star Chun-hsin Tseng Qualifies for Roland Garros".

[5] "Dominic Thiem Soars into Gstaad SFS | ATP Tour | Tennis".

[6] "Misolic Wins Memorable Kitzbühel Debut". 25 July 2022. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 28 July 2022.

[7] "Dominic Thiem Battles into Kitzbühel Quarter-finals".

[8] "After first win of 2023, Thiem loses at Argentina Open". 16 February 2023.

[9] "Not Thiem's Time Yet – Varillas Stuns Former World No.3 in Buenos Aires – Tennis Now".

[10] "Puntodebreak". 17 February 2023.

[11] "Varillas tops Musetti, reaches Buenos Aires semis". 17 February 2023.

[12] "'Mr. Five-Setter' Varillas Upsets Hurkacz To Extend Fairytale Paris Run". atptour.com. 2 June 2023.

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