Luiz Mattar

 ( Brazilian Male Tennis Players ) 

Luiz Mattar (born August 18, 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil.

He played on the professional tour from 1985 to 1995, during which time he won seven top-level singles titles and five tour doubles titles. Mattar's career-high rankings were World No. 29 in singles (in 1989) and World No. 55 in doubles (in 1991). His career prize money totalled $1,493,136.

With seven ATP singles titles in tournaments of the Association of Professional Tennis Players, he is the second Brazilian tennis player, after Gustavo Kuerten, with more ATP titles in his career. He also led the Brazilian Davis Cup team to their best result in history back in 1992 defeating Germany and Italy and reaching the semi-final of the World Group in the 1992 Davis Cup. This feat has only been matched by Gustavo Kuerten who led the Brazilian team again to the semi-final in 2000.

He started his professional career only at the age of 22, unlike most tennis players who started their careers at 18 or earlier, after dropping out in his last year of engineering at Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo.

He was trained by Paulo Cleto from the beginning to the end of his career. He even said that he couldn't see himself training with another coach. He is considered by several sports analysts, tennis critics and former tennis players as one of the ten greatest Brazilian tennis players of the Open Era.

Mattar is the son of textile businessman Fuad Mattar and is of Lebanese descent. After retiring from tennis he became an entrepreneur and is the founder of TIVIT, one of Brazil's largest information technology service providers.

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ATP career finals

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Singles: 11 (7 wins, 4 runner-ups)

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Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)

ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)

ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0)

ATP Championship Series (0–0)

ATP World Series (7–4)

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Hard (2–4)

Clay (3–0)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (2–0)

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Outdoors (5–4)

Indoors (2–0)

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Win	1–0		Guarujá, Brazil	Grand Prix	Hard	Cássio Motta	6–3, 5–7, 6–2
Loss	1–1		São Paulo, Brazil	Grand Prix	Hard	Jaime Yzaga	2–6, 6–4, 2–6
Loss	1–2		ATP Itaparica, Brazil	Grand Prix	Hard	Andre Agassi	6–7, 2–6
Win	2–2		Guarujá, Brazil	Grand Prix	Clay	Eliot Teltscher	6–3, 6–3
Win	3–2		Guarujá, Brazil	Grand Prix	Clay	Jimmy Brown	7–6, 6–4
Win	4–2		Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Grand Prix	Carpet	Martín Jaite	6–4, 5–7, 6–4
Loss	4–3		Guarujá, Brazil	World Series	Hard	Martín Jaite	6–3, 4–6, 3–6
Win	5–3		Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	World Series	Carpet	Andrew Sznajder	6–4, 6–4
Win	6–3		São Paulo, Brazil	World Series	Hard	Jaime Oncins	6–1, 6–4
Loss	6–4		Scottsdale, USA	World Series	Hard	Andre Agassi	4–6, 3–6
Win	7–4		Coral Springs, USA	World Series	Clay	Jamie Morgan	6–4, 3–6, 6–3

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Doubles (5 wins, 6 losses)

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Grand Slam (0)

Tennis Masters Cup (0)

ATP Masters Series (0)

ATP Tour (4)

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Hard (2)

Grass (0)

Clay (3)

Carpet (0)

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Win	1–0	Jan 1987	Guarujá, Brazil	Hard	Cássio Motta	Martin Hipp Tore Meinecke	7–6, 6–1
Win	2–0	Sep 1987	ATP Geneva, Switzerland	Clay	Ricardo Acioly	Mansour Bahrami Diego Pérez	3–6, 6–4, 6–2
Loss	2–1	Feb 1990	Guarujá, Brazil	Hard	Cássio Motta	Javier Frana Gustavo Luza	6–7, 6–7
Loss	2–2	Jun 1990	ATP Florence, Italy	Clay	Diego Pérez	Sergi Bruguera Horacio de la Peña	6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Loss	2–3	Oct 1990	São Paulo, Brazil	Carpet	Mark Koevermans	Shelby Cannon Alfonso Mora	7–6, 3–6, 6–7
Win	3–3	Dec 1990	Wellington, New Zealand	Hard	Nicolás Pereira	John Letts Jaime Oncins	4–6, 7–6, 6–2
Loss	3–4	Apr 1991	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Gustavo Luza Cássio Motta	0–6, 5–7
Loss	3–5	May 1991	Bologna, Italy	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Luke Jensen Laurie Warder	4–6, 6–7
Loss	3–6	Apr 1992	Tampa, USA	Clay	Andrei Olhovskiy	Mike Briggs Trevor Kronemann	6–7, 7–6, 4–6
Win	4–6	Jun 1992	ATP Florence, Italy	Clay	Marcelo Filippini	Royce Deppe Brent Haygarth	6–4, 6–7, 6–4
Win	5–6	Oct 1994	ATP Montevideo, Uruguay	Clay	Marcelo Filippini	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	7–6, 6–4

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ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

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Singles: 9 (5–4)

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ATP Challenger (5–4)

ITF Futures (0–0)

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Hard (4–0)

Clay (1–3)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–1)

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Loss	0–1		São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Pedro Rebolledo	3–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2		Brasília, Brazil	Challenger	Carpet	Mario Tabares	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–2		Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Francisco Roig	6–4, 6–3
Win	2–2		Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Luis-Enrique Herrera	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Win	3–2		Zaragoza, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Tomas Carbonell	7–5, 3–6, 6–2
Loss	3–3		Birmingham, United States	Challenger	Clay	Mikael Pernfors	6–7, 4–6
Win	4–3		Recife, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Jaime Oncins	7–6, 5–7, 7–5
Win	5–3		São Luís, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Maurice Ruah	6–4, 6–4
Loss	5–4		Campinas, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Fernando Meligeni	4–6, 2–6

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Doubles: 8 (3–5)

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ATP Challenger (3–5)

ITF Futures (0–0)

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Hard (0–0)

Clay (2–1)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–1)

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Loss	0–1		Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Dacio Campos	Charles Beckman Shelby Cannon	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–1		São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Cassio Motta	Juan-Antonio Pino-Perez Mario Tabares	7–5, 6–2
Loss	1–2		Brasília, Brazil	Challenger	Carpet	Fernando Roese	Jaime Oncins Andrew Sznajder	5–7, 6–3, 6–7
Win	2–2		São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Juan-Ignacio Garat Marcelo Saliola	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2–3		Recife, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Jaime Oncins	Sebastien Lareau Daniel Nestor	7–5, 4–6, 6–7
Win	3–3		São Luís, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Jaime Oncins	Maurice Ruah Mario Tabares	6–3, 7–5
Loss	3–4		Natal, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Stephen Noteboom Jack Waite	6–4, 0–6, 3–6
Loss	3–5		São Luís, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Jaime Oncins	Otavio Della Marcelo Saliola	7–6, 3–6, 6–7

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Performance timelines

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Singles

Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	2R	A	1R !0 / 3 !2–3 !
French Open	A	3R	2R	2R	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	A !0 / 9 !6–9 !
Wimbledon	Q3	A	1R	A	A	1R	2R	1R	A	A	A !0 / 4 !1–4 !
US Open	A	1R	A	1R	1R	3R	3R	1R	2R	A	A !0 / 7 !5–7 !
Win–loss !0–0 !2–2 !1–2 !1–2 !1–2 !3–3 !4–4 !0–3 !2–3 !0–1 !0–1 !0 / 23 !14–23 !
National Representation
Olympic Games	Not Held			1R	Not Held			1R	Not Held !0 / 2 !0–2 !
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	2R	A	2R	A	A !0 / 4 !2–4 !
Miami	A	A	2R	2R	1R	A	1R	A	1R	1R	1R !0 / 7 !2–7 !
Monte Carlo	A	A	1R	1R	A	1R	1R	A	1R	A	A !0 / 5 !0–5 !
Hamburg	A	A	1R	A	A	3R	2R	A	1R	A	A !0 / 4 !3–4 !
Rome	A	A	2R	A	1R	2R	1R	A	2R	A	A !0 / 5 !3–5 !
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	A !0 / 2 !0–2 !
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A !0 / 1 !1–1 !
Win–loss !0–0 !0–0 !2–4 !1–3 !0–3 !3–3 !2–5 !0–0 !3–7 !0–2 !0–1 !0 / 28 !11–28 !

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Doubles

Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A !0 / 1 !0–1 !
French Open	A	3R	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	1R	3R	A !0 / 8 !6–8 !
Wimbledon	Q3	A	1R	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	A !0 / 3 !0–3 !
US Open	A	2R	A	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	A	A !0 / 6 !3–6 !
Win–loss !0–0 !3–2 !0–2 !0–2 !0–2 !3–3 !1–3 !0–2 !2–2 !0–0 !0 / 18 !9–18 !
National Representation
Olympic Games	Not Held			2R	Not Held			1R	NH !0 / 2 !1–2 !
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	QF	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A !0 / 2 !2–2 !
Miami	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	1R	1R !0 / 3 !0–3 !
Monte Carlo	A	A	2R	A	A	1R	1R	A	Q2	A !0 / 3 !1–3 !
Hamburg	A	A	QF	A	A	2R	1R	A	QF	A !0 / 4 !5–4 !
Rome	A	1R	1R	A	QF	2R	2R	A	2R	A !0 / 6 !5–6 !
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	A !0 / 0 !0–0 !
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	A !0 / 0 !0–0 !
Win–loss !0–0 !0–1 !5–4 !0–0 !2–1 !2–3 !1–5 !0–0 !3–3 !0–1 !0 / 18 !13–18 !

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