Pablo Cuevas

Pablo Gabriel Cuevas Urroz (born January 1, 1986) is a Uruguayan professional tennis player.

At the 2007 French Open, Cuevas and Argentine partner Carlos Berlocq made the third round of the men's doubles tournament.

Cuevas won the Tunica, Scheveningen, and Lima singles Challenger titles, and the São Paulo-1 and Florianópolis-2 doubles Challenger titles.

Cuevas opened the year at the Movistar Open in Viña del Mar, Chile.

He earned his first tour-level victory in his first-round match against Guillermo Coria.

He then beat Fernando Verdasco and José Acasuso, before falling in the semifinals against Fernando González.

Cuevas reached his career-high singles ranking of no. 88 following Viña del Mar.

In March, Cuevas qualified for the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, his first ATP Masters Series event.

He defeated Vince Spadea in the first round, before falling to Fernando González in the second round.

At Houston, he partnered with Spaniard Marcel Granollers to reach the doubles final, falling to Ernests Gulbis and Rainer Schüttler.

Cuevas won the 2008 French Open men's doubles title with Luis Horna.

At the 2008 French Open in May, Cuevas partnered with Peruvian Luis Horna to win the doubles title.

On their way to the title, the pair defeated seventh seeds Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra in the first round, ninth seeds Lukáš Dlouhý and Leander Paes in the third round, top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan in the quarterfinals, and second-seeded Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić in the final.

They defeated Nestor and Zimonjić 6–2, 6–3, in only 56 minutes to win the title.

Cuevas and Horna became the first all-South American team to win a Grand Slam men's doubles title, and Cuevas became the second Uruguayan, after Fiorella Bonicelli, to win a Grand Slam title.

Cuevas' career-high doubles ranking is World No. 14, which he achieved in April 2009.

At the 2009 Movistar Open in Viña del Mar, Cuevas, as in 2008, reached the semifinals in singles, where he met local favorite Fernando González.

González won the match 6–3, 6–2.

In doubles, Cuevas paired with Argentinean Brian Dabul, and together they won the tournament, winning the final against František Čermák and Michal Mertiňák, 6–3, 6–3.

This win helped Cuevas achieve his doubles ranking high of no. 17 in the world on February 9, 2009.

In the first round at Wimbledon in 2009, Cuevas defeated Christophe Rochus of Belgium in a come-from-behind victory, 3–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–1, 11–9. In the second round, he lost to 21-year-old Jesse Levine of the U.S. (who defeated Marat Safin in the first round), 6–2, 6–1, 4–6, 4–6, 6–3.

Cuevas qualified into the 2009 International German Open.

Cuevas played in the 2009 Kremlin Cup as fifth seed.

He advanced to the quarterfinals by defeating Lu Yen-hsun and Teymuraz Gabashvili.

He lost in the quarterfinals to Mikhail Kukushkin, 6–4, 1–6, 4–6.

He did, however, win the doubles title, partnering Marcel Granollers.

Cuevas defeated eight-seeded Albert Montañés at the 2010 Abierto Mexicano Telcel to reach quarter-finals, where he lost to David Ferrer.

At the 2010 Kremlin Cup he beat world number 11 Nikolay Davydenko in second round and fifth-seeded Radek Štěpánek in quarter-finals, then was defeated by eventual champion Viktor Troicki.

He went 0–4 at the start of 2011, but on arrival at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, he defeated both Michael Berrer and world number 8 Andy Roddick by the same score, 6–4, 7–6, to reach the third round.

At the 2011 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, Cuevas beat third seeded Guillermo García López to reach semi-finals, where he lost to Kei Nishikori.

At the 2011 Estoril Open he defeated third-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and sixth-seeded Thomaz Bellucci in consecutive matches to reach the semifinals, where he lost to Juan Martín del Potro.

After losing in first round of Roland Garros, Cuevas underwent knee surgery and did not play on tour for two years.

Cuevas did not play at all in 2012 due to injury.

The Uruguayan played again in ATP Challenger Tour events in May 2013.

He won the first round match at Roland Garros.

Later he defeated eight-seeded Nikolay Davydenko at first round of the 2013 Proton Malaysian Open.

He reached the semifinals of that tournament by beating Björn Phau, ninth-seeded Jürgen Melzer, eighth-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber, and 14th-seeded Nicolás Almagro in the quarterfinals.

He lost his semifinal match with Paul-Henri Mathieu, 6–4, 3–6, 5–7.

He has won six singles titles and has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 19 achieved in August 2016.

In September 2019, Cuevas led the Uruguayan Davis Cup team to a victory over the Dominican Republic, winning entry into the highest Davis Cup tier, the World Group.