Joan Balcells
Spanish tennis player (born 1975)
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Joan Manel Balcells Fornaguera (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈam məˈnɛl βəlˈseʎs fuɾnəˈɣeɾə, ʒuˈam bəlˈseʎs]; 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.
Country(sports)
Spain
SpainResidenceBarcelona, Spain
Born20 June 1975
Barcelona, Spain
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
| Country (sports) | Spain |
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| Residence | Barcelona, Spain |
| Born | 20 June 1975 Barcelona, Spain |
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| Turned pro | 1996 |
| Retired | 2004 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $815,801 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 41–49 |
| Career titles | 1 |
| Highest ranking | No. 57 (7 May 2001) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | 1R (2001, 2002, 2003) |
| French Open | 2R (2000, 2001) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (2001, 2002) |
| US Open | 1R (2001) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 40–54 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 65 (23 July 2001) |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2001) |
| French Open | 2R (2000, 2002) |
| Wimbledon | QF (2001) |
| US Open | 2R (2000) |
| Team competitions | |
| Davis Cup | W (2000) |
| Last updated on: 22 April 2022. | |
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. Balcells' style of play 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.
ATP career finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Win | 1–0 | Sep 2000 | Bucharest, Romania | International Series | Clay |  Markus Hantschk |
6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–1) |
| Loss | 1–1 | Mar 2002 | Scottsdale, United States | International Series | Hard |  Andre Agassi |
2–6, 6–7(2–7) |
Doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | Mar 2000 | Bogotá, Colombia | International Series | Clay |  Mauricio Hadad |
 Pablo Albano Lucas Arnold Ker |
6–7(4–7), 6–1, 2–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Jan 2001 | Doha, Qatar | International Series | Hard |  Andrei Olhovskiy |
 Mark Knowles  Daniel Nestor |
3–6, 1–6 |
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 2 (0–2)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Loss | 0-1 | May 2000 | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Challenger | Clay | Oliver Gross |
6–4, 1–6, 6–7(3–7) |
| Loss | 0-2 | May 2002 | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Challenger | Clay |  Arnaud Di Pasquale |
4–6, 3–6 |
Doubles: 12 (6–6)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Loss | 0-1 | May 1997 | Bratislava, Slovakia | Challenger | Clay | Devin Bowen |
Jared Palmer  Christo van Rensburg |
6–4, 3–6, 5–7 |
| Win | 1-1 | Apr 1998 | Barletta, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Juan Ignacio Carrasco |
 Thomas Strengberger  Dušan Vemić |
7–6(7–4), 6–3 |
| Win | 2-1 | Apr 1998 | Prague, Czech Republic | Challenger | Clay | Nenad Zimonjić |
 Jiří Novák Radek Štěpánek |
7–6, 7–6 |
| Loss | 2-2 | Jun 1998 | Braunschweig, Germany | Challenger | Clay |  Emanuel Couto |
Tomás Carbonell Francisco Roig |
2–6, 6–7 |
| Win | 3-2 | May 1999 | Espinho, Portugal | Challenger | Clay | Gastón Etlis |
 Noam Behr Eyal Ran |
6–3, 6–2 |
| Win | 4-2 | Sep 1999 | Freudenstadt, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Thomas Strengberger |
Michal Tabara Robin Vik |
4–6, 6–2, 6–3 |
| Win | 5-2 | Mar 2000 | Salinas, Ecuador | Challenger | Hard | Mauricio Hadad |
Emilio Benfele Álvarez Álex Calatrava |
walkover |
| Loss | 5-3 | Nov 2000 | Santiago, Chile | Challenger | Clay | Germán Puentes Alcañiz |
 Irakli Labadze Dušan Vemić |
3–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 5-4 | Nov 2000 | Montevideo, Uruguay | Challenger | Clay | Germán Puentes Alcañiz |
Lucas Arnold Ker Gastón Etlis |
4–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 5-5 | Sep 2002 | Freudenstadt, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Yuri Schukin |
Diego del Río Leonardo Olguín |
6–7(2–7), 4–6 |
| Loss | 5-6 | Apr 2003 | San Remo, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Juan Albert Viloca |
 Daniele Bracciali Amir Hadad |
2–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 6-6 | Jun 2003 | Lugano, Switzerland | Challenger | Clay | Juan Albert Viloca |
Álex López Morón Andrés Schneiter |
6–4, 6–4 |
Performance timelines
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
(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.
Singles
| Tournament | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | SR | W–L | Win % | |||||||||
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| Grand Slam tournaments | |||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | Q3 | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 3 | 0–3 | 0% | |||||||||
| French Open | Q2 | Q2 | A | 2R | 2R | 1R | Q3 | 0 / 3 | 2–3 | 40% | |||||||||
| Wimbledon | Q1 | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | A | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% | |||||||||
| US Open | A | A | A | Q1 | 1R | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |||||||||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0 / 9 | 2–9 | 18% | |||||||||
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Miami | A | A | A | Q1 | 3R | 1R | A | 0 / 2 | 2–2 | 50% | |||||||||
| Monte Carlo | A | A | A | A | 1R | Q1 | Q2 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |||||||||
| Hamburg | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |||||||||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0 / 4 | 2–4 | 33% | |||||||||
Doubles
| Tournament | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | SR | W–L | Win % | ||||||||||||
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| Australian Open | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 0 / 4 | 1–4 | 20% | ||||||||||||
| French Open | A | 2R | 1R | 2R | 0 / 3 | 2–3 | 40% | ||||||||||||
| Wimbledon | A | A | QF | 1R | 0 / 2 | 3–2 | 60% | ||||||||||||
| US Open | A | 2R | 1R | A | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | 33% | ||||||||||||
| Win–loss | 0–1 | 2–3 | 4–4 | 1–3 | 0 / 11 | 7–11 | 39% | ||||||||||||
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Miami | A | 1R | 1R | A | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% | ||||||||||||
| Monte Carlo | A | A | 1R | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | ||||||||||||
| Hamburg | A | A | Q2 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||||||||||||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0 / 3 | 0–3 | 0% | ||||||||||||
Top 10 wins
| # | Player | Rank | Event | Surface | Rd | Score |
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| 2001 | ||||||
| 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 |
External links
- Joan Balcells at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Joan Balcells at the International Tennis Federation
- Joan Balcells at the Davis Cup (archived)
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