Patricio Rodriguez
Full name: Patricio H. Rodriguez
Nickname: Pato
Nickname: Pato
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| Bio | He started playing tennis at the age of ten. During his career, he achieved 23 titles and became 133rd in the world in 1973 in singles, the year the ATP Ranking began. In 1966, he was the first Chilean person to win a match at the Australian Open. He was a player of the Chilean Davis Cup team from 1958 to 1964, from 1966 to 1968 and in 1972. Of his 44 matches throughout 20 ties in Davis Cup, he won 19 and fell in 25. Pato played in the European zone between 1958 and 1963, reaching the quarter-finals twice. In 1964, he participated in the American zone final in Minneapolis, along with Patricio Cornejo and Ernesto Aguirre, he reached the final where against Australia, they lost all 5 matches (Pato lost against Fred Stolle and Roy Emerson in singles and doubles as well). Then in 1966 again he reached the quarterfinals in the American zone and lost against Argentine. In 1967, he played in the semi-finals of the European zone against the Soviet Union. One year later, he reached the final in the South America zone and lost against Ecuador. In 1972, Chile reached Americas Inter-Zonal Final and lost from USA. He was the coach of Ecuadorian Andrés Gómez —at his peak, when he won the Roland Garros Tournament in 1990 and was 4th in the ATP ranking as well as Nicolás Lapentti —at his peak, when he was 6th in the world, and of the Argentine José Luis Clerc - at its peak, when he was ranked No.4, of the Peruvian Jaime Yzaga and of the Chileans José Fernández, Gabriel Silberstein, Felipe Rivera. Furthermore he coached Nicolás Massú - at their peak, when he obtained the Olympic Gold medal in 2004 and was 9th in the ranking. Rodríguez celebrated his greatest successes with two tournament wins in doubles in 1968 and 1969. In 1973 he achieved the best place in his career in the individual world rankings with position 133. The last time he was listed on December 31, 1978 was place 496 in the men's individual world rankings. |
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