Spanish tennis player (born 1942)
Juan Gisbert Sr. (born 5 April 1942) is a retired Spanish
professionaltennis player from the 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked world No. 14 in 1967. He was active from 1956 to 1976 and won 14 career singles titles.
He won oneATP singles title (plus several others) and reached the finals at theAustralian Championships in 1968 andCincinnati in 1971.
In June 1965 he won theConde de Godo Championships (currentlyBarcelona Open) in Barcelona on clay at the Réal Tennis Club defeatingManuel Santana,Rafael Osuna, andMartin Mulligan in best-of -five set matches.
Gisbert won the 1971 ATPBavarian International Tennis Championships at Munich on clay defeating Mulligan,Christian Kuhnke, andPéter Szőke in the final.
Grand Slam tournament performance timeline
[edit](W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
Open era career finals
[edit]Singles (1 title, 6 runner-ups)
[edit]Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Loss | 1. | 1968 | Australian Championships, Melbourne | Grass | Bill Bowrey | 5–7, 6–2, 7–9, 4–6 |
Loss | 2. | 1971 | Cincinnati, U.S. | Clay | Stan Smith | 6–7, 3–6 |
Loss | 3. | 1972 | New York City | Carpet (i) | Stan Smith | 6–4, 5–7, 4–6, 1–6 |
Loss | 4. | 1974 | Tokyo WCT, Japan | Hard | Rod Laver | 7–5, 2–6, 0–6 |
Loss | 5. | 1974 | Cedar Grove, U.S. | Clay | Ilie Năstase | 4–6, 6–7 |
Win | 1. | 1975 | Shreveport, U.S. | Clay | Wojtek Fibak | 6–3, 5–7, 6–1 |
Loss | 6. | 1975 | Barcelona, Spain | Clay | Ilie Năstase | 1–6, 5–7, 2–6 |
Doubles (21 titles, 17 runner-ups)
[edit]Result | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Win | 1. | 1971 | New York, U.S. | Carpet (i) | Manuel Orantes | Jimmy Connors
Haroon Rahim | 7–6, 6–2 |
Win | 2. | 1971 | Salisbury, U.S. | Carpet (i) | Manuel Orantes | Clark Graebner
Thomaz Koch | 6–3, 4–6, 7–6 |
Win | 3. | 1971 | Barcelona WCT, Spain | Clay | Željko Franulović | Cliff Drysdale
Andrés Gimeno | 7–6, 6–2, 7–6 |
Loss | 1. | 1972 | Salisbury, U.S. | Carpet (i) | Vladimír Zedník | Andrés Gimeno
Manuel Orantes | 4–6, 3–6 |
Win | 4. | 1972 | Brussels, Belgium | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Patricio Cornejo
Jaime Fillol | 9–7, 6–3 |
Win | 5. | 1972 | Eastbourne, England | Grass | Manuel Orantes | Nicholas Kalogeropoulos
Andrew Pattison | 8–6, 6–2 |
Win | 6. | 1972 | Barcelona, Spain | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Frew McMillan
Ilie Năstase | 6–3, 3–6, 6–4 |
Loss | 2. | 1972 | Paris Indoor, France | Hard (i) | Andrés Gimeno | Pierre Barthès
François Jauffret | 3–6, 2–6 |
Win | 7. | 1973 | Roanoke, U.S. | Carpet (i) | Jimmy Connors | Ian Fletcher
Butch Seewagen | 6–0, 7–6 |
Loss | 3. | 1973 | Omaha, U.S. | Carpet (i) | Jimmy Connors | William Brown
Mike Estep | DEF |
Loss | 4. | 1973 | Des Moines, U.S. | Carpet (i) | Ion Țiriac | Jiří Hřebec
Jan Kukal | 6–4, 6–7, 1–6 |
Loss | 5. | 1973 | Salisbury, U.S. | Carpet (i) | Jürgen Fassbender | Clark Graebner
Ilie Năstase | 6–2, 4–6, 3–6 |
Win | 8. | 1973 | Barcelona, Spain | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Mike Estep
Ion Țiriac | 6–4, 7–6 |
Win | 9. | 1973 | Monte Carlo, Monaco | Clay | Ilie Năstase | Georges Goven
Patrick Proisy | 6–2, 6–2, 6–2 |
Loss | 6. | 1973 | Florence, Italy | Clay | Ilie Năstase | Paolo Bertolucci
Adriano Panatta | 3–6, 4–6 |
Win | 10. | 1973 | Paris, France | Hard (i) | Ilie Năstase | Arthur Ashe
Roscoe Tanner | 6–2, 4–6, 7–5 |
Loss | 7. | 1974 | Tokyo WCT, Japan | Hard | Roger Taylor | Raymond Moore
Onny Parun | 6–4, 2–6, 4–6 |
Win | 11. | 1974 | Bournemouth, England | Clay | Ilie Năstase | Corrado Barazzutti
Paolo Bertolucci | 6–4, 6–2, 6–0 |
Loss | 8. | 1974 | Rome, Italy | Clay | Ilie Năstase | Brian Gottfried
Raúl Ramírez | 3–6, 2–6, 3–6 |
Win | 12. | 1974 | Barcelona, Spain | Clay | Ilie Năstase | Manuel Orantes
Guillermo Vilas | 3–6, 6–0, 6–2 |
Loss | 9. | 1975 | Roanoke, U.S. | Carpet (i) | Ion Țiriac | Vitas Gerulaitis
Sandy Mayer | 6–7, 6–1, 3–6 |
Win | 13. | 1975 | Boca Raton, U.S. | Hard | Clark Graebner | Jürgen Fassbender
Ion Țiriac | 6–2, 6–1 |
Win | 14. | 1975 | Shreveport, U.S. | | William Brown | János Benyik
Róbert Machán | 6–4, 6–4 |
Win | 15. | 1975 | Bournemouth, UK | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Syd Ball
Dick Crealy | 8–6, 6–3 |
Win | 16. | 1975 | Hamburg, West Germany | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Wojtek Fibak
Jan Kodeš | 6–3, 7–6 |
Loss | 10. | 1975 | Båstad, Sweden | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Björn Borg
Ove Nils Bengtson | 6–7, 5–7 |
Win | 17. | 1975 | Indianapolis, U.S. | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Wojtek Fibak
Hans-Jürgen Pohmann | 7–5, 6–0 |
Loss | 11. | 1975 | Madrid, Spain | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Jan Kodeš
Ilie Năstase | 6–7, 6–4, 7–9 |
Win | 18. | 1975 | Tehran, Iran | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Bob Hewitt
Frew McMillan | 7–5, 6–7, 6–1, 6–4 |
Loss | 12. | 1975 | Tokyo, Japan | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Brian Gottfried
Raúl Ramírez | 6–7, 4–6 |
Win | 19. | 1975 | Calcutta, India | Carpet (i) | Manuel Orantes | Anand Amritraj
Vijay Amritraj | 1–6, 6–4, 6–3 |
Win | 20. | 1976 | Valencia, Spain | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Corrado Barazzutti
Antonio Zugarelli | |
Win | 21. | 1976 | Munich, West Germany | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Jürgen Fassbender
Hans-Jürgen Pohmann | 1–6, 6–3, 6–2, 2–3, ret. |
Loss | 13. | 1976 | Bournemouth, England | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Wojtek Fibak
Fred McNair | 6–4, 5–7, 5–7 |
Loss | 14. | 1976 | Båstad, Sweden | Clay | Wojtek Fibak | Fred McNair
Sherwood Stewart | 3–6, 4–6 |
Loss | 15. | 1976 | Montreal, Canada | Hard | Manuel Orantes | Bob Hewitt
Raúl Ramírez | 2–6, 1–6 |
Loss | 16. | 1976 | Tehran, Iran | Clay | Manuel Orantes | Wojtek Fibak
Raúl Ramírez | 5–7, 1–6 |
Loss | 17. | 1976 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Hard | Stan Smith | Brian Gottfried
Sherwood Stewart | 6–1, 1–6, 2–6, 6–7 |