Julián Alonso Pintor (; born 2 August 1977) is a Spanish-American former professional tennis player, who turned professional in 1995 and retired in 2003. He was known in tennis because of his powerful serve and Forehand compared with the Goran Ivanišević´s service. In 1997, playing against Ivanisevic (2nd seeded), in Long Island, beat him for first Top 10 victory en route to semifinal and in that match fired a 143 mph serve to become just third player (Philippoussis, Rusedski) to register a serve of at least 143. He is the founder of ELITE TENNIS TEAM focusing on junior development and also is coaching pro players Leylah Fernandez, Arantxa Rus as many others before like, Qinwen Zheng, Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Sabine Lisicki, Ajla Tomljanović, Varvara Lepchenko, Renata Zarazúa, Marco Cecchinato and Nicolas Almagro.
Married to Arantxa Vivanco and father of two children.
Tennis career Alonso was awarded the ATP Newcomer of the Year prize after winning his first ATP title in Santiago and finishing in the Top 30 in 1997. In the final of the tournament, he defeated Marcelo Ríos, World No. 1 ranking 6–1, 6–2 in 46 min. Previously, that same year, Tim Henman after being defeated by Alonso at "The Lipton" Key Biscayne (current Miami open) declared: "Julian will be the next number 1 in the World before Wimbledon"
After this promising start, however, his career is considered underwhelming; he only won one more title (Bologna, 1998) and retired in 2003 after half year playing only Challengers. He confessed that the decline of his career started with the relationship with Martina Hingis. The pressure of the media and his mother-in-law made Alonso's ranking and self-confidence fall. He reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 29 in June 1998 (after winning his second and final title). He used to play doubles in Davis Cup Spanish team with Joan Balcells during Manolo Santana captaincy, and several single matches.
ATP career finals
Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up) LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (0–0)ATP World Series (2–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (2–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (2–1)Indoors (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Kitzbühel, AustriaWorld SeriesClay Filip Dewulf6–7(2–7), 4–6, 1–6Win1–1Santiago, ChileWorld SeriesClay Marcelo Ríos6–2, 6–1Win2–1Bologna, ItalyWorld SeriesClay Karim Alami6–1, 6–4
Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)
LegendGrand Slam Tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (0–0)ATP World Series (2–1)Finals by surfaceHard (1–0)Clay (1–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (2–1)Indoors (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Marbella, SpainWorld SeriesClay Karim Alami Alberto Berasategui Jordi Burillo4–6, 6–3, 6–0Loss1–1Santiago, ChileWorld SeriesClay Nicolás Lapentti Hendrik Jan Davids Andrew Kratzmann6–7, 7–5, 4–6Win2–1Long Island, United StatesInternational SeriesHard Javier Sánchez Brandon Coupe Dave Randall6–4, 6–4
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 4 (2–2) LegendATP Challenger (2–2)ITF Futures (0–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (2–2)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0-1Dresden, GermanyChallengerClay Dick Norman4–6, 4–6Win1-1Venice, ItalyChallengerClay Marcello Craca6–3, 6–7, 6–0Win2-1Contrexéville, FranceChallengerClay Andrea Gaudenzi6–4, 6–3Loss2-2Montauban, FranceChallengerClay Oliver Gross0–6, 1–4 ret.
Doubles: 6 (2–4) LegendATP Challenger (2–3)ITF Futures (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (2–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Alicante, SpainChallengerClay Emilio Sánchez José Antonio Conde Nuno Marques4–6, 5–7Win1–1Zagreb, CroatiaChallengerClay Mariano Puerta Eduardo Nicolás Espin Germán Puentes Alcañiz6–1, 6–4Win2–1Venice, ItalyChallengerClay Aleksandar Kitinov Andrea Gaudenzi Diego Nargiso7–6(7–3), 7–5Loss2–2Weiden, GermanyChallengerClay Hugo Armando Petr Kovačka Pavel KudrnáčwalkoverLoss2–3Andorra la Vella, AndorraChallengerHard Jairo Velasco Denis Golovanov Tuomas Ketola3–6, 4–6Loss2–4Spain F15, ReusFuturesClay Gerard Granollers Pujol David Marrero Pablo Santos González4–6, 4–6
Performance timeline
Singles Tournament19971998199920002001SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenA2R2R1RQ10 / 32–3French OpenQ21R1RQ1Q30 / 20–2WimbledonA1R1RAA0 / 20–2US Open1R1RAAA0 / 20–2Win–loss0–11–41–30–10–00 / 92–9ATP Tour Masters 1000Indian WellsA1RAAA0 / 10–1Miami3R1RAAA0 / 22–2Monte CarloA1RAAA0 / 10–1HamburgA1RAAA0 / 10–1RomeA1RAAA0 / 10–1Win–loss2–10–50–00–00–00 / 62–6
Doubles Tournament19981999SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian Open1R1R0 / 20–2French OpenQF1R0 / 23–2WimbledonAA0 / 00–0US Open1RA0 / 10–1Win–loss3–30–20 / 53–5ATP Tour Masters 1000Indian WellsQ2A0 / 00–0Miami1RA0 / 10–1Monte Carlo2RA0 / 11–1Hamburg1RA0 / 10–1Rome1RA0 / 10–1Win–loss1–40–00 / 41–4
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