Pablo Cuevas

Early career

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.

2008

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.^[4] 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.

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.^[5] 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.

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.^[6]

Cuevas qualified into the 2009 International German 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.

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.

2010

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 Stepanek in quarter-finals, then was defeated by eventual champion Viktor Troicki.

2011

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 Garcia-Lopez 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 did not play on tour for two years due to injury.

2013

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.

2014

In 2014, Cuevas won the first round matches at the Rio Open, Portugal Open and Roland Garros. At the Swedish Open, he beat sixth-seeded Jérémy Chardy, third-seeded Fernando Verdasco and fifth-seeded João Sousa to win his first ATP 250 tournament and became number 61 in the ATP ranking.

One week later, he won his second ATP tournament at the Umag Croatia Open. Cuevas had to play the qualifying round, defeating Nikolas Walterscheid-Tukic, Nikola Čačić and Renzo Olivo. In the main tournament, he beat Croatian Mate Delić 4–6, 6–4, 6–4, then Italian Andreas Seppi 6–3, 6–1, Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili 6–3, 4–6, 6–2 in the quarterfinals, and finally, on Sunday, he beat Fabio Fognini in semifinals, and second-seeded Tommy Robredo in the finals, without losing a set, 6–3, 6–4. After the tournament he rose to inside the world's top 40 in the ATP rankings for the first time in his career.

In November, the Uruguayan won the Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil and Uruguay Open singles clay tournaments.

2015

At the 2015 Australian Open, Cuevas lost in first round to unseeded player Matthias Bachinger. In the doubles event, he partnered David Marrero to reach quarterfinals, where they were beaten by Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli.

He began the Latin American season with his third ATP singles title at the ATP 250 São Paulo, after beating Jiri Vesely, Nicolás Almagro, and Santiago Giraldo. Later he beat Almgaro again, and then Albert Montañés to reach the third round of the Rio 500, where he was defeated by clay master Rafael Nadal in three sets. Also, together with Marrero, he beat Vesely and Frantisek Cermak to reach the quarterfinals of the doubles event.

At the ATP 250 Buenos Aires, he lost to local Juan Mónaco in quarterfinals. Cuevas then played the Davis Cup Americas Zone round versus Colombia, where he lost to Alejandro González and defeated Giraldo. He partnered his brother Martín to defeat doubles specialists Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah.

At the Indian Wells Masters, Cuevas defeated Jarkko Nieminen to reach the third round, where he lost to Feliciano López. This was his best singles result in big tournaments since his third-round appearance at the 2011 Miami Masters. In the doubles event, he lost in the first round to Nadal and Pablo Carreño Busta. Cuevas lost in second round of the Miami Masters to Thomaz Bellucci.

At the inaugural ATP 250 Istanbul Open, as the third seed, first defeating Teymuraz Gabashvili, Thomaz Bellucci, and Grigor Dimitrov, the second seed, to reach his fourth ATP Tour level final, where he lost to Roger Federer.

2016

He won the 2016 Rio Open by defeating Rafael Nadal in the semifinals and Argentine Guido Pella in the final. The next week, he won the Brasil Open in São Paulo by defeating Spaniard Pablo Carreño Busta in the final. He was the runner up at the 2016 Nottingham Open to Steve Johnson. He was runner up at the 2016 German Open to Martin Klizan.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2008	French Open	Clay	Luis Horna	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6–2, 6–3

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2015	Italian Open	Clay	David Marrero	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–4, 7–5
Winner	2017	Monte-Carlo Masters	Clay	Rohan Bopanna	Feliciano López Marc López	6–3, 3–6, [10–4]

Singles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runners-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2014	Swedish Open, Sweden	250 Series	Clay	João Sousa	6–2, 6–1
Win	2–0	Jul 2014	Croatia Open, Croatia	250 Series	Clay	Tommy Robredo	6–3, 6–4
Win	3–0	Feb 2015	Brasil Open, Brazil	250 Series	Clay (i)	Luca Vanni	6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	3–1	May 2015	Istanbul Open, Turkey	250 Series	Clay	Roger Federer	3–6, 6–7(11–13)
Win	4–1	Feb 2016	Rio Open, Brazil	500 Series	Clay	Guido Pella	6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–4
Win	5–1	Feb 2016	Brasil Open, Brazil (2)	250 Series	Clay	Pablo Carreño Busta	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Loss	5–2	Jun 2016	Nottingham Open, United Kingdom	250 Series	Grass	Steve Johnson	6–7(5–7), 5–7
Loss	5–3	Jul 2016	German Open, Germany	500 Series	Clay	Martin Kližan	1–6, 4–6
Win	6–3	Mar 2017	Brasil Open, Brazil (3)	250 Series	Clay	Albert Ramos Viñolas	6–7(3–7), 6–4, 6–4

Doubles: 17 (9 titles, 8 runners-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2008	U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, United States	Intl Series	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Ernests Gulbis Rainer Schüttler	5–7, 6–7(3–7)
Win	1–1	Jun 2008	French Open, France	Grand Slam	Clay	Luis Horna	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6–2, 6–3
Win	2–1	Feb 2009	Chile Open, Chile	250 Series	Clay	Brian Dabul	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	6–3, 6–3
Win	3–1	Oct 2009	Kremlin Cup, Russia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Marcel Granollers	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	4–6, 7–5, [10–8]
Win	4–1	Feb 2010	Brasil Open, Brazil	250 Series	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	7–5, 6–4
Loss	4–2	May 2010	Estoril Open, Portugal	250 Series	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Marc López David Marrero	7–6(7–1), 4–6, [4–10]
Loss	4–3	Sep 2013	Malaysian Open, Malaysia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Horacio Zeballos	Eric Butorac Raven Klaasen	2–6, 4–6
Loss	4–4	Feb 2014	Argentina Open, Argentina	250 Series	Clay	Horacio Zeballos	Marcel Granollers Marc López	5–7, 4–6
Loss	4–5	May 2014	Portugal Open, Portugal (2)	250 Series	Clay	David Marrero	Santiago González Scott Lipsky	3–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Win	5–5	May 2015	Italian Open, Italy	Masters 1000	Clay	David Marrero	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–4, 7–5
Loss	5–6	Jun 2015	Nottingham Open, United Kingdom	250 Series	Grass	David Marrero	Chris Guccione André Sá	2–6, 5–7
Loss	5–7	Apr 2016	Barcelona Open, Spain	500 Series	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	5–7, 5–7
Win	6–7	Feb 2017	Rio Open, Brazil	500 Series	Clay	Pablo Carreño Busta	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–4, 5–7, [10–8]
Win	7–7	Apr 2017	Monte-Carlo Masters, Monaco	Masters 1000	Clay	Rohan Bopanna	Feliciano López Marc López	6–3, 3–6, [10–4]
Loss	7–8	Jul 2017	German Open, Germany	500 Series	Clay	Marc López	Ivan Dodig Mate Pavić	3–6, 4–6
Win	8–8	Aug 2017	Austrian Open Kitzbühel, Austria	250 Series	Clay	Guillermo Durán	Hans Podlipnik-Castillo Andrei Vasilevski	6–4, 4–6, [12–10]
Win	9–8	Oct 2017	Vienna Open, Austria	500 Series	Hard (i)	Rohan Bopanna	Marcelo Demoliner Sam Querrey	7–6(9–7), 6–7(4–7), [11–9]

Singles

¹ Held as Hamburg Masters (clay) until 2008, Madrid Masters (clay) 2009–present.

Doubles

Mixed doubles