Óscar Martínez (tennis)

Óscar Martínez
Country (sports)	Spain
Born	9 March 1974 (age 50); Valencia, Spain
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	1992
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$240,000
Singles
Career record	19-27
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 68 (10 Apr 1995)
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	1R (1995)
Wimbledon	1R (1995)

Óscar Martínez Diéguez (born 9 March 1974) is a former professional tennis player from Spain and now a coach.^[1]

Career

Martinez made his debut on the ATP Tour at the 1994 Casablanca Open, where he defeated two top 100 players, Carl-Uwe Steeb and Franco Davín, en route to a quarter-final appearance. He was runner-up in the 1994 Athens International, beating the second and third seeds, before losing the final to Alberto Berasategui. The Spaniard also reached the quarter-finals in Prague that year.^[2]

In 1995, Martinez was a quarter-finalist in Mexico City. He had a win that year over world number 13 Alberto Berasategui in Stuttgart's Mercedes Cup and appeared in two Grand Slam tournaments. In the 1995 French Open he was beaten in the first round by Daniel Vacek and in Wimbledon he lost again in the opening round, to Stefan Edberg.^[3]

Result	No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	1994	Athens, Greece	Clay	Alberto Berasategui	6–4, 6–7^(4–7), 3–6

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	1994	Neu-Ulm, Germany	Clay	Václav Roubíček	6–1, 6–1
2.	1995	Agadir, Morocco	Clay	Bohdan Ulihrach	3–6, 6–3, 6–3
3.	1996	Salinas, Ecuador	Hard	Luis Adrian Morejon	6–2, 6–7, 6–3