Tommy Robredo

Tomás Robredo Garcés, known as Tommy Robredo (, ; born 1 May 1982), is a Spanish former professional tennis player.

(Robredo's mother Dolores is herself a former assistant coach.) He was coached by his father until 1996 when he joined the Spanish Tennis Federation at the Centre d'Alt Rendiment ("High Performance Center"), a famous center for professional sports training in Sant Cugat del Vallès.

Robredo turned professional in 1998 and was coached by José Manuel "Pepo" Clavet and then by Karim Perona.

Robredo considered his forehand to be his best shot, and red clay his favorite surface.

He turned professional in 1998.

As a junior player, Robredo won the Junior Orange Bowl 16-Under in both singles and doubles (with Marc López) in 1998.

As a professional he made the singles and doubles finals of a Futures-level event, winning the doubles title with Pedro Cánovas.

In 1999, he made the semifinals of the boys' event at the French Open and won a Futures tournament in singles as well as another in doubles.

Earlier that year in Robredo's hometown tournament of Barcelona – his first event at the ATP Tour level – he recorded a win over Marat Safin, who was then ranked in the world's top thirty, before going on to lose to top ten player Todd Martin.

In 2000 Robredo reached the singles and doubles finals of the boys' event at Roland Garros, losing to Paul-Henri Mathieu in singles but winning the doubles with López.

He also won the boys' doubles title at the Australian Open (with Nicolas Mahut).

Robredo began the year with a final at a Challenger event in Bartella, Italy losing to Germán Puentes.

He then eventually won two Challenger events in Espinho, Portugal defeating Jimy Szymanski and in Seville, Spain defeating Óscar Serrano.

He played two ATP events main draw in the year, losing in the first round of both at the Torneo Godó and Davidoff Swiss Indoors

Robredo began his 2001 season by reaching his first ATP semifinals at the Gold Flake Open losing to Russian Andrei Stoliarov 6–4, 3–6, 4–6.

Robredo began 2002 by partnering with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario to win the Hopman Cup for Spain.

In the Final against the United States, Sánchez Vicario lost 1–6, 6–7 to Monica Seles before Robredo levelled the tie with a 6–3, 2–6, 7–6 victory over Jan-Michael Gambill.

The Spanish pair then won the mixed doubles, 6–4, 6–2.

However, in the first four months of the season, he was only able to win 4 matches to 10 loses, and was unable to win back-to-back matches.

His career-high singles ranking was world No. 5, which he reached in August 2006 as a result of winning the Hamburg Masters earlier in the year.

Robredo reached the quarterfinals at seven singles major tournaments.

He was also a three-time semifinalist at the US Open men's doubles tournament, and a semifinalist at the Australian Open in mixed doubles.

He remains the only player in Open Era history to mount three consecutive comebacks from two sets down, a feat achieved en route to the quarterfinals of the 2013 French Open.

He has one of the highest percentages of five-set matches won with 77.3 per cent (17–5 win–loss record).

Robredo began playing tennis regularly when he was five and his family moved to Olot, where his father Ángel became the director of the local tennis club, Club Natació Olot.

He made his slam debut at the Australian Open but lost to eventual runner-up and 18th ranked Arnaud Clément in straight sets.

He then fell early at the Chevrolet Cup and the Copa AT&T.

He then reached his first ATP final at the Grand Prix Hassan II losing to Guillermo Cañas 5–7, 2–6 in the final, the result pushed him inside the top 100 for the first time.

He backed it up with a third round appearance at the Open SEAT Godó after defeating his first top 20 player in then world no. 13 Sébastien Grosjean before losing to Michel Kratochvil.

He played in Spain again at the Majorca Open reaching the second round.

He then won his first slam match at the French Open defeating Raemon Sluiter 7–5, 7–5, 7–6(11–9) and surprisingly reached the fourth round losing the former French Open champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov 3–6, 4–6, 6–1, 4–6.

He then backed it up with a semifinal showing at the Heineken Trophy losing to Guillermo Cañas.

At the slam of Wimbledon, he reached the second round but lost to Sargis Sargsian.

He then went back to clay, reaching the quarterfinals of the Telenordia Swedish Open and third round of the Mercedes Cup.

At the Idea Prokom Open, he was able to win his first title of the year defeating compatriot Albert Portas 1–6, 7–5, 7–6(7–2).

He then fell early at the RCA Championships and Legg Mason Tennis Classic.

At the US Open, he earn his first top ten win defeating world number five Juan Carlos Ferrero in a tight five setter 7–6(7–5), 4–6, 6–4, 4–6, 7–6(7–1) before losing in the 4th Round to Andy Roddick in straight sets.

He followed it up with a semifinal at the Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia.

He ended the year with a four match losing streak, in the second round of the CA-TennisTrophy, and the first rounds of Stuttgart Masters, Davidoff Swiss Indoors, and Paris Masters.

He was the second youngest player to end the season inside the world's top thirty, behind Roddick.