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Joan Manel Balcells Fornaguera (; born 20 June 1975) is a retired professional tennis player from Spain. He won one ATP Tour singles title in his career and reached the final in Scottsdale in 2002 (losing to Andre Agassi) and the semifinals in 2000 Heineken Open losing to Michael Chang.
Balcells was born in Barcelona, and played for the Spanish Davis Cup team in 2000, winning the doubles rubber (with Àlex Corretja) in the final against Australia. He retired in 2004. Ballcells was considered unusual for a Spanish player, as he possessed a serve and volley game that involved regularly rushing the net. This was not very common in Spanish tennis by the 1990s and early 2000s.
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| Win | 1–0 | Bucharest, Romania | International Series | Clay | Markus Hantschk | 6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–1) | |
| Loss | 1–1 | Scottsdale, United States | International Series | Hard | Andre Agassi | 2–6, 6–7(2–7) |
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| Loss | 0–1 | Bancolombia Open | Bancolombia Open, Colombia | International Series | Clay | Mauricio Hadad | Pablo Albano Lucas Arnold Ker | 6–7(4–7), 6–1, 2–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Doha, Qatar | International Series | Hard | Andrei Olhovskiy | Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor | 3–6, 1–6 |
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| Loss | 0-1 | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Challenger | Clay | Oliver Gross | 6–4, 1–6, 6–7(3–7) | |
| Loss | 0-2 | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Challenger | Clay | Arnaud Di Pasquale | 4–6, 3–6 |
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| Loss | 0-1 | Bratislava, Slovakia | Challenger | Clay | Devin Bowen | Jared Palmer Christo van Rensburg | 6–4, 3–6, 5–7 | |
| Win | 1-1 | Barletta, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Juan Ignacio Carrasco | Thomas Strengberger Dušan Vemić | 7–6(7–4), 6–3 | |
| Win | 2-1 | Prague, Czech Republic | Challenger | Clay | Nenad Zimonjić | Jiří Novák Radek Štěpánek | 7–6, 7–6 | |
| Loss | 2-2 | Sparkassen Open, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Emanuel Couto | Tomás Carbonell Francisco Roig | 2–6, 6–7 | |
| Win | 3-2 | Espinho, Portugal | Challenger | Clay | Gastón Etlis | Noam Behr Eyal Ran | 6–3, 6–2 | |
| Win | 4-2 | Freudenstadt, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Thomas Strengberger | Michal Tabara Robin Vik | 4–6, 6–2, 6–3 | |
| Win | 5-2 | Salinas, Ecuador | Challenger | Hard | Mauricio Hadad | Emilio Benfele Álvarez Álex Calatrava | walkover | |
| Loss | 5-3 | Santiago, Chile | Challenger | Clay | Germán Puentes Alcañiz | Irakli Labadze Dušan Vemić | 3–6, 4–6 | |
| Loss | 5-4 | Uruguay Open, Uruguay | Challenger | Clay | Germán Puentes Alcañiz | Lucas Arnold Ker Gastón Etlis | 4–6, 4–6 | |
| Loss | 5-5 | Freudenstadt, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Yuri Schukin | Diego del Río Leonardo Olguín | 6–7(2–7), 4–6 | |
| Loss | 5-6 | San Remo, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Juan Albert Viloca | Daniele Bracciali Amir Hadad | 2–6, 4–6 | |
| Win | 6-6 | Lugano, Switzerland | Challenger | Clay | Juan Albert Viloca | Álex López Morón Andrés Schneiter | 6–4, 6–4 |
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| French Open | Q2 | Q2 | A | 2R | 2R | 1R | Q3 !0 / 3 !2–3 ! | ||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | Q1 | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | A !0 / 2 !0–2 ! | ||||||||||||
| US Open | A | A | A | Q1 | 1R | A | A !0 / 1 !0–1 ! | ||||||||||||
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| Miami | A | A | A | Q1 | 3R | 1R | A !0 / 2 !2–2 ! | ||||||||||||
| Monte Carlo | A | A | A | A | 1R | Q1 | Q2 !0 / 1 !0–1 ! | ||||||||||||
| Hamburg | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | A !0 / 1 !0–1 ! | ||||||||||||
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| Australian Open | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R !0 / 4 !1–4 ! | |||||||||||||||
| French Open | A | 2R | 1R | 2R !0 / 3 !2–3 ! | |||||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | A | A | QF | 1R !0 / 2 !3–2 ! | |||||||||||||||
| US Open | A | 2R | 1R | A !0 / 2 !1–2 ! | |||||||||||||||
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| Miami | A | 1R | 1R | A !0 / 2 !0–2 ! | |||||||||||||||
| Monte Carlo | A | A | 1R | A !0 / 1 !0–1 ! | |||||||||||||||
| Hamburg | A | A | Q2 | A !0 / 0 !0–0 ! | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Marat Safin | 2 | Miami, United States | Hard | 2R | 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 |
| 2. | Marat Safin | 2 | Gstaad, Switzerland | Clay | 1R | 6–4, 6–7(4–7), 6–4 |
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