Raúl Viver
Country (sports) | Ecuador |
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Born | Guayaquil, Ecuador | 17 March 1961
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
Turned pro | 1980 |
Plays | Left-handed |
Prize money | $189,118 |
Singles | |
Career record | 27-58 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 94 (3 Oct 1988) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
French Open | 2R (1985) |
Wimbledon | 1R (1985) |
US Open | 1R (1985) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 15-45 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 184 (2 Jan 1984) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
French Open | 2R (1982) |
Mixed doubles | |
Career titles | 0 |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
French Open | QF (1986) |
Raúl Antonio Viver (born 17 March 1961) is a former professional tennis player from Ecuador.[1]
Career
[edit]Viver was the world number one ranked junior player in 1979, the year that he won the Orange Bowl (18s & Under).[2] He also reached his only semi-final on the Grand Prix tennis circuit in 1979, at Bogota.[2]
In the 1982 French Open, Viver and partner Luca Bottazzi had a win over fifth seeds Anders Järryd and Hans Simonsson, but lost in the second round.[2] Three years later he won his only Grand Slam singles match, over world number 42 John Fitzgerald.[2] He was a mixed doubles quarter-finalist in the 1986 French Open, with Mariana Perez-Roldan.[2]
The Ecuadorian reached the quarter-finals at Kitzbuhel in 1984 and Buenos Aires the following year.[2]
He appeared in 18 Davis Cup ties for Ecuador during his career, from 1978 to 1990. In the mid-1980s he was part of the team which competed in the World Group and faced players like Jimmy Arias, Boris Becker and Miloslav Mečíř. Viver finished with a 15/13 overall record, winning 14 of his 25 singles rubbers.[3]
Challenger titles
[edit]Singles: (3)
[edit]No. | Year | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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1. | 1988 | Neu-Ulm, West Germany | Clay | Stefan Eriksson | 7–5, 6–2 |
2. | 1991 | Pembroke Pines, United States | Clay | Jimmy Brown | 6–3, 1–6, 7–6 |
3. | 1991 | São Paulo, Brazil | Clay | Gabriel Markus | 7–6, 3–6, 6–3 |
Doubles: (3)
[edit]No. | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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1. | 1982 | Brussels, Belgium | Clay | Alberto Tous | David Graham Laurie Warder |
3–6, 6–3, 7–5 |
2. | 1983 | Brescia, Italy | Iván Camus | Dacio Campos Eduardo Oncins |
6–2, 5–7, 6–4 | |
3. | 1988 | Nyon, Switzerland | Clay | Hugo Núñez | Jan Apell Veli Paloheimo |
2–6, 6–4, 6–1 |
References
[edit]- 1961 births
- Living people
- Ecuadorian male tennis players
- Sportspeople from Guayaquil
- South American Games medalists in tennis
- South American Games gold medalists for Ecuador
- South American Games bronze medalists for Ecuador
- Competitors at the 1978 Southern Cross Games
- Tennis players at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games competitors for Ecuador
- 20th-century Ecuadorian people