Horacio Zeballos

Began playing tennis at age six with father (also Horacio) who is a tennis coach and who coached him until the age of 18…Mother, Carolina, is a geography teacher…Has one younger sister, Carolina, who plays on the ITF Women’s Circuit…Moved to Buenos Aires in January 2009…Favorite surface is hard, shot is forehand and tournaments, US Open and Acapulco…Idols growing up were Goran Ivanisevic and Thomas Muster, whom he both met at Graz, Austria, in 2008…Soccer fan of Boca Juniors and enjoys drinking mate on the Argentinean coast…Best friends on the ATP World Tour are Eduardo Schwank, Sergio Roitman and Pablo Cuevas…Ambition is to reach the Top 30…Coached by countryman Alejandro Lombardo since October 2008.

2009 -- The No.3 Argentine (behind No. 5 del Potro, No. 30 Monaco) made one of biggest ranking jumps of any player in Top 50, climbing 164 positions from previous year…Compiled an outstanding 48-14 record on Challenger circuit with season-best five titles in eight finals…Late in year also advanced to his first ATP World Tour final…Opened season with a SF showing at Sao Paulo Challenger, then won his first career ATP Challenger title at Bucaramanga (d. Salamanca)…Then won title at Bogota Challenger (d. S. Gonzalez)…In May was runner-up at Pereira Challenger (l. to Falla)…Won two Challengers in three weeks at Manta (d. Millot) and Campos do Jordao (d. Alves)…Qualified for his first Grand Slam event at US Open, winning one round before losing to Berdych in four sets…Went back to Challengers and captured his first title on home soil in Buenos Aires (d. Gaudio)…In his fourth career entry into an ATP World Tour level event in St. Petersburg reached his first final, losing to qualifier Stakhovsky (after holding a match point in third set tie-break)...Played nine of his 10 matches on hard courts (5-4) and earned a career-high $253,637.

2008 -- Compiled his best results on Challenger circuit, winning first career title at Recanati (d. Zemlja) as a qualifier in June and reaching final at Bogota (l. to Daniel) in September…Also advanced to QF at Leon, Sassuolo, Cali and Puebla…

2007 -- Turned in SF efforts at San Luis Potosi and Tunica Resorts Challengers, both on clay and QF in four other tournaments…

2006 -- Compiled a 4-1 record in Futures finals, winning two titles in Argentina and France…Also runner-up in Spain…His best Challenger result was QF in Quito…

2005 -- Reached final at Italy and Colombia Futures events while advancing to SF in four other Futures…

2004 -- Reached first Futures final in Buenos Aires in September

2010

After four successive first-round exits to open the season, the Argentine got off the mark with a quarter-final effort (l. to Monaco) at the Copa Telmex in Buenos Aires…He also teamed with countryman Sebastian Prieto to win his first ATP World Tour doubles title (d. Greul-Luczak)…Two weeks earlier he had finished runner-up with Potito Starace in the doubles final at the Movistar Open.