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General First nameGuillermo
LastnamePerez-Roldan
GenderMale
CountryArgentina
Date of birth1969-10-20
Place of birthBuenos Aires, Argentina


About

He is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.

He was the second-youngest ever player (at the time) to win a tour event (17 year and half) when he beat Marian Vajda in Munich in 1987.

Pérez Roldán was known particularly as a strong clay court player. He turned professional in 1986. Between 1987 and 1993, he won nine top-level singles titles. His best Grand Slam performance came at the 1988 French Open, where he reached the quarter-finals, beating Alberto Mancini, Tore Meinecke, Patrik Kühnen and Stefan Edberg on the way, before being knocked out by Andre Agassi.

Pérez Roldán had an excellent junior career, winning the French Open Boys' Singles championship on his favored red clay in both 1986 and 1987 – since the open era, he is the only individual to have captured the Boys' Singles championship at the French Open more than once.

He burst onto the scene as a teenager in 1988 by reaching the final of the Italian Open, where he battled Ivan Lendl in five grueling sets. Later that year, at the US Open, John McEnroe famously expressed outrage at being seeded significantly lower than Pérez Roldán, who had not yet won a match on hard courts. However, Pérez Roldán silenced critics by progressing further in the tournament than McEnroe, beating Alberto Mancini, Tore Meinecke, Patrik Kühnen and Stefan Edberg before losing to Andre Agassi. He was named Rolex Rookie of the Year in 1988, influenced no doubt by his run to the finals of the Italian Open and the quarter-finals of the French Open that year.

Pérez Roldán is currently tied for tenth on the list of most titles won by a teenager in the Open Era (five).

His career-high singles ranking was World No. 13 (in 1988), and his career prize-money earnings total $1,686,341. In the early 1990s, his career was hamstrung by injuries, and he finally retired from the professional tour in 1996.
He later became a coach, and had French Open finalist (and positive doper) Mariano Puerta as a pupil for a while.

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Archive statistics Career1984 - 1993
Tournament wins0
Matches44
Match wins26


Tournaments Roland Garros - 1993 Roland Garros - 1992 Roland Garros - 1991 Roland Garros - 1990 Roland Garros - 1989 US Open - 1989 Roland Garros - 1988 US Open - 1988 Roland Garros - 1987 Itaparica - 1987 Parioli - 1986 Florence International - 1986 Florence International - Qualifying - 1986 Athens International - 1986 Bari - Qualifying - 1986 Athens International - Qualifuing - 1986 Clermont Ferrand - 1986 Chartres - 1986 Argentina Satellite - Leg 1 - 1985 Bayeux Tennis Club - 1984