Carlos Berlocq

Carlos Berlocq

Berlocq at the 2015 French Open
Country (sports)	Argentina
Residence	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Born	(1983-02-03) February 3, 1983 Chascomús, Argentina
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$3,351,596
Singles
Career record	120-165
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 37 (March 19, 2012)
Current ranking	No. 95 (28 November 2016)[1]
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2012, 2013)
French Open	2R (2007, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Wimbledon	1R (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
US Open	2R (2011, 2013)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2012)
Doubles
Career record	77–110
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 50 (June 6, 2011)
Current ranking	No. 571 (21 November 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2011, 2012)
French Open	3R (2007)
Wimbledon	2R (2008)
US Open	QF (2014)
Last updated on: 21 November 2016.

Carlos Alberto Berlocq (born February 3, 1983) is an Argentine professional male tennis player nicknamed Charly, Panther and Warlocq. His favourite surface is clay and he is currently coached by Walter Grinovero. Berlocq's career-high singles ranking is World No. 37, achieved in March 2012.

Career

Berlocq started playing tennis at the age of four and has had his success on the ATP Futures and Challenger circuits. In 2004 he made six consecutive finals in the Futures events, winning three of them, two finals each in Argentina, France and Slovenia. He also made his first Challenger final in Manta, Ecuador losing to Giovanni Lapentti and then won another Futures title in Argentina.

At the end of 2005 Berlocq finished inside the top 100 for the first time on the back of strong form on the Challenger circuit where he went 44–20 in singles and won two Challenger titles in Turin defeating Alessio di Mauro and in Cordenons defeating Jérôme Haehnel. Berlocq also qualified for his first ATP main event in Stuttgart losing to Răzvan Sabău and also played doubles in Bucharest with Mariano Puerta.

Berlocq struggled to adapt his level from the Futures and Challengers to the ATP main level events and has to date achieved only limited success on the ATP, however his first win was significant. In the ATP Masters Series event in Miami Berlocq defeated the much-hyped American junior and wildcard entrant Donald Young 6–0, 6–0. Both Berlocq and Young had never won a match on the ATP and this win was achieved on hardcourt which is not Berlocq's favoured surface. After defeating Young, Berlocq then played American James Blake and lost this match, 0–6, 0–6, therefore creating an unusual achievement of winning his first ATP-level match 6–0, 6–0 and then losing by the same scoreline in the next round.

Berlocq won two consecutive matches for the first time on the ATP to make the quarterfinals in Sopot after defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber and Lukáš Dlouhý.

On May 29, 2007, Berlocq upset the number thirty seed Julien Benneteau in four sets 6–7, 7–5, 6–2, 6–3 at the 2007 French Open. Berlocq won his first ever grasscourt match in Den Bosch against former World No. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero in three sets.

2011

At the French Open he defeated Australian Bernard Tomic, 7–5, 6–4, 6–2 in the first round.

Berlocq was taken out by World No. 1 Novak Djokovic in three sets 6–0, 6–0, 6–2 in the second round of the 2011 US Open.^[2]

2012

Berlocq at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships.

Berlocq started the year in Auckland, losing in the second round to Fernando Verdasco. At the 2012 Australian Open, he made it to the second round, where he was defeated by Ivo Karlović.

His best result of the year was in Viña del Mar, where he defeated World No. 25 Juan Ignacio Chela in the semifinals to set up a final appearance against Juan Mónaco, which he lost. He made the quarterfinals in São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Acapulco, losing to World No. 11 Nicolás Almagro, David Nalbandian, and Santiago Giraldo, respectively. He also made the quarterfinals in Houston, exiting against World No. 15 Feliciano López. He did not have much success in the Masters 1000 events or Grand Slams, exiting in the first or second round of each. In Umag, he made the quarterfinals, losing to World No. 19 Alexandr Dolgopolov.

He represented Argentina at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but lost in the first round to Alex Bogomolov of Russia.

At the US Open, he was defeated in the first round by Bernard Tomic in four sets.

2013

He beat Maxime Authom 1–6, 7–6(5), 7–6(4), 6–2 in the first round of the Australian Open before losing to Kei Nishikori 6–7(4), 4–6, 1–6. At the French Open he lost his first round to 19th seed John Isner in straight sets. Berlocq won his first career title at the Swedish Open, defeating Fernando Verdasco in the final. He lost in the second round of the US Open in straight sets to Roger Federer, after winning his first round match against Santiago Giraldo in five sets.

2014

In April, Berlocq won the Portugal Open after defeating Tomáš Berdych in the final.

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	5 February 2012	VTR Open, Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Juan Mónaco	3–6, 7–6(7–1), 1–6
Winner	1.	14 July 2013	Swedish Open, Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Fernando Verdasco	7–5, 6–1
Winner	2.	4 May 2014	Portugal Open, Oeiras, Portugal	Clay	Tomáš Berdych	0–6, 7–5, 6–1

Doubles: 7 (2 titles, 5 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 July 2008	Croatia Open Umag, Umag, Croatia	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Michal Mertiňák Petr Pála	6–2, 3–6, [5–10]
Winner	1.	18 July 2010	MercedesCup, Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Eduardo Schwank	Christopher Kas Philipp Petzschner	7–6(7–5), 7–6(8–6)
Runner-up	2.	23 October 2011	Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	David Marrero	František Čermák Filip Polášek	3–6, 1–6
Runner-up	3.	5 February 2012	VTR Open, Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Pablo Andújar	Frederico Gil Daniel Gimeno-Traver	6–1, 5–7, [10–12]
Runner-up	4.	7 October 2012	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Denis Istomin	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	14 July 2013	Swedish Open, Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Albert Ramos	Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler	2–6, 6–3, [3–10]
Winner	2.	8 August 2015	Austrian Open Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Nicolás Almagro	Robin Haase Henri Kontinen	5–7, 6–3, [11–9]

Challenger finals

Singles: 28 (17–11)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	2005	Turin	Clay	Alessio di Mauro	7–5, 6–1
2.	2005	Cordenons	Clay	Jérôme Haehnel	7–6, 6–4
3.	2005	Buenos Aires	Clay	Diego Hartfield	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
4.	2006	Naples	Clay	Pablo Cuevas	6–3, 7–5
5.	2007	Barletta	Clay	Werner Eschauer	3–6, 7–6, 2–0 ret.
6.	2007	Turin	Clay	Boris Pašanski	6–4, 6–2
7.	2010	Reggio Emilia	Clay	Pablo Andújar	6–0, 7–6(7–1)
8.	2010	San Benedetto	Clay	Daniel Gimeno-Traver	6–3, 4–6, 6–4
9.	2010	Todi	Clay	Marcel Granollers	6–4, 6–3
10.	2011	Turin	Clay	Albert Ramos	6–4, 6–3
11.	2011	Todi	Clay	Filippo Volandri	6–3, 6–1
12.	2011	Palermo	Clay	Adrian Ungur	6–1, 6–1
13.	2011	Buenos Aires	Clay	Gastão Elias	6–1, 7–6(7–3)
14.	2011	Montevideo	Clay	Máximo González	6–2, 7–5
15.	2014	Porto Alegre	Clay	Diego Schwartzman	6–4, 4-6, 6-0
16.	2015	São Paulo	Clay	Kimmer Coppejans	6-3, 6-1
17.	2016	Blois	Clay	Steve Darcis	6-2, 6-0

Doubles: 13 (6–7)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runners-up	12.	11 September 2010	Rijeka, Croatia	Clay	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	Adil Shamasdin Lovro Zovko	6–1, 6–7(9–11), [5–10]
Winner	13.	13 November 2011	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Eduardo Schwank	Marcel Felder Jaroslav Pospíšil	6–7(1–7), 6–4, [10–7]

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

References

Notes

External links

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Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Argentine male singles tennis players as of 5 December 2016
1. Juan Martín del Potro (38 ) 2. Federico Delbonis (41 ) 3. Diego Schwartzman (52 ) 4. Facundo Bagnis (56 ) 5. Juan Mónaco (65 )
6. Horacio Zeballos (71 ) 7. Guido Pella (80 ) 8. Renzo Olivo (83 ) 9. Carlos Berlocq (95 ) 10. Nicolás Kicker (110 )