Juan Gisbert Sr.

Juan Gisbert Sr.
Full nameJuan Gisbert Ortiga
Country (sports) Spain
ResidenceBarcelona, Spain
Born (1942-04-05) 5 April 1942 (age 82)
Barcelona, Spain
Turned pro1968 (amateur tour from 1962)
Retired1976
PlaysRight-handed (one-handed backhand)
Singles
Career record445-304
Career titles12
Highest rankingNo. 14 (1967, World's Top 20)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenF (1968)
French Open4R (1966)
Wimbledon2R (1963, 1972)
US Open2R (1974)
Other tournaments
Olympic GamesQF (1968, demonstration)
Doubles
Career record218–71 (Open era)
Career titles21
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian OpenSF (1968)
French OpenSF (1975, 1976)
WimbledonQF (1972)
US Open3R (1975)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour FinalsW (1975)
Olympic GamesF (1968, demonstration)
Medal record
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1967 Tokyo Doubles
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 1971 İzmir Doubles
Silver medal – second place 1967 Tunis Singles
Silver medal – second place 1967 Tunis Doubles
Silver medal – second place 1971 İzmir Singles

Juan Gisbert Sr. (born 5 April 1942) is a retired Spanish amateur and professional tennis player from the 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked world No. 14 in 1967.

He won one ATP singles title (plus several others) and reached the finals at the Australian Championships in 1968 and Cincinnati in 1971.

In June 1965 he won the Conde de Godo Championships (currently Barcelona Open) in Barcelona on clay at the Réal Tennis Club defeating Manuel Santana, Rafael Osuna, and Martin Mulligan in best-of -five set matches.

Gisbert won the 1971 ATP Bavarian International Tennis Championships at Munich on clay defeating Mulligan, Christian Kuhnke, and Péter Szőke in the final.

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Result Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Loss 1968 Australian Championships Grass Australia Bill Bowrey 7–5, 2–6, 9–7, 6–4

Grand Slam tournament performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 SR
Australian Open A A A QF A A F A A A A A A A A 0 / 2
French Open 1R A A 1R 4R A 1R A 2R 1R 2R A 1R 1R A 0 / 9
Wimbledon 1R 2R A 1R A A A A A A 2R A A A A 0 / 4
US Open A A A A A A A A A A A A 2R 1R 1R 0 / 3
Strike rate 0 / 2 0 / 1 0 / 0 0 / 3 0 / 1 0 / 0 0 / 2 0 / 0 0 / 1 0 / 1 0 / 2 0 / 0 0 / 2 0 / 2 0 / 1 0 / 18

Open era career finals

Singles (1 title, 6 runner-ups)

Result No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 1. 1968 Australian Championships, Melbourne Grass Australia Bill Bowrey 5–7, 6–2, 7–9, 4–6
Loss 2. 1971 Cincinnati, U.S. Clay United States Stan Smith 6–7, 3–6
Loss 3. 1972 New York City Carpet (i) United States Stan Smith 6–4, 5–7, 4–6, 1–6
Loss 4. 1974 Tokyo WCT, Japan Hard Australia Rod Laver 7–5, 2–6, 0–6
Loss 5. 1974 Cedar Grove, U.S. Clay Romania Ilie Năstase 4–6, 6–7
Win 1. 1975 Shreveport, U.S. Clay Poland Wojtek Fibak 6–3, 5–7, 6–1
Loss 6. 1975 Barcelona, Spain Clay Romania Ilie Năstase 1–6, 5–7, 2–6

Doubles (21 titles, 17 runner-ups)

Result No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1. 1971 New York, U.S. Carpet (i) Spain Manuel Orantes United States Jimmy Connors
Pakistan Haroon Rahim
7–6, 6–2
Win 2. 1971 Salisbury, U.S. Carpet (i) Spain Manuel Orantes United States Clark Graebner
Brazil Thomaz Koch
6–3, 4–6, 7–6
Win 3. 1971 Barcelona WCT, Spain Clay Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Željko Franulović South Africa Cliff Drysdale
Spain Andrés Gimeno
7–6, 6–2, 7–6
Loss 1. 1972 Salisbury, U.S. Carpet (i) Czechoslovakia Vladimír Zedník Spain Andrés Gimeno
Spain Manuel Orantes
4–6, 3–6
Win 4. 1972 Brussels, Belgium Clay Spain Manuel Orantes Chile Patricio Cornejo
Chile Jaime Fillol
9–7, 6–3
Win 5. 1972 Eastbourne, England Grass Spain Manuel Orantes Greece Nicholas Kalogeropoulos
Rhodesia Andrew Pattison
8–6, 6–2
Win 6. 1972 Barcelona, Spain Clay Spain Manuel Orantes South Africa Frew McMillan
Romania Ilie Năstase
6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Loss 2. 1972 Paris Indoor, France Hard (i) Spain Andrés Gimeno France Pierre Barthès
France François Jauffret
3–6, 2–6
Win 7. 1973 Roanoke, U.S. Carpet (i) United States Jimmy Connors Australia Ian Fletcher
United States Butch Seewagen
6–0, 7–6
Loss 3. 1973 Omaha, U.S. Carpet (i) United States Jimmy Connors United States William Brown
United States Mike Estep
DEF
Loss 4. 1973 Des Moines, U.S. Carpet (i) Romania Ion Țiriac Czechoslovakia Jiří Hřebec
Czechoslovakia Jan Kukal
6–4, 6–7, 1–6
Loss 5. 1973 Salisbury, U.S. Carpet (i) West Germany Jürgen Fassbender United States Clark Graebner
Romania Ilie Năstase
6–2, 4–6, 3–6
Win 8. 1973 Barcelona, Spain Clay Spain Manuel Orantes United States Mike Estep
Romania Ion Țiriac
6–4, 7–6
Win 9. 1973 Monte Carlo, Monaco Clay Romania Ilie Năstase France Georges Goven
France Patrick Proisy
6–2, 6–2, 6–2
Loss 6. 1973 Florence, Italy Clay Romania Ilie Năstase Italy Paolo Bertolucci
Italy Adriano Panatta
3–6, 4–6
Win 10. 1973 Paris, France Hard (i) Romania Ilie Năstase United States Arthur Ashe
United States Roscoe Tanner
6–2, 4–6, 7–5
Loss 7. 1974 Tokyo WCT, Japan Hard United Kingdom Roger Taylor South Africa Raymond Moore
New Zealand Onny Parun
6–4, 2–6, 4–6
Win 11. 1974 Bournemouth, England Clay Romania Ilie Năstase Italy Corrado Barazzutti
Italy Paolo Bertolucci
6–4, 6–2, 6–0
Loss 8. 1974 Rome, Italy Clay Romania Ilie Năstase United States Brian Gottfried
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
3–6, 2–6, 3–6
Win 12. 1974 Barcelona, Spain Clay Romania Ilie Năstase Spain Manuel Orantes
Argentina Guillermo Vilas
3–6, 6–0, 6–2
Loss 9. 1975 Roanoke, U.S. Carpet (i) Romania Ion Țiriac United States Vitas Gerulaitis
United States Sandy Mayer
6–7, 6–1, 3–6
Win 13. 1975 Boca Raton, U.S. Hard United States Clark Graebner West Germany Jürgen Fassbender
Romania Ion Țiriac
6–2, 6–1
Win 14. 1975 Shreveport, U.S. United States William Brown Hungary János Benyik
Hungary Róbert Machán
6–4, 6–4
Win 15. 1975 Bournemouth, UK Clay Spain Manuel Orantes Australia Syd Ball
Australia Dick Crealy
8–6, 6–3
Win 16. 1975 Hamburg, West Germany Clay Spain Manuel Orantes Poland Wojtek Fibak
Czechoslovakia Jan Kodeš
6–3, 7–6
Loss 10. 1975 Båstad, Sweden Clay Spain Manuel Orantes Sweden Björn Borg
Sweden Ove Nils Bengtson
6–7, 5–7
Win 17. 1975 Indianapolis, U.S. Clay Spain Manuel Orantes Poland Wojtek Fibak
West Germany Hans-Jürgen Pohmann
7–5, 6–0
Loss 11. 1975 Madrid, Spain Clay Spain Manuel Orantes Czechoslovakia Jan Kodeš
Romania Ilie Năstase
6–7, 6–4, 7–9
Win 18. 1975 Tehran, Iran Clay Spain Manuel Orantes South Africa Bob Hewitt
South Africa Frew McMillan
7–5, 6–7, 6–1, 6–4
Loss 12. 1975 Tokyo, Japan Clay Spain Manuel Orantes United States Brian Gottfried
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
6–7, 4–6
Win 19. 1975 Calcutta, India Carpet (i) Spain Manuel Orantes India Anand Amritraj
India Vijay Amritraj
1–6, 6–4, 6–3
Win 20. 1976 Valencia, Spain Clay Spain Manuel Orantes Italy Corrado Barazzutti
Italy Antonio Zugarelli
Win 21. 1976 Munich, West Germany Clay Spain Manuel Orantes West Germany Jürgen Fassbender
West Germany Hans-Jürgen Pohmann
1–6, 6–3, 6–2, 2–3, ret.
Loss 13. 1976 Bournemouth, England Clay Spain Manuel Orantes Poland Wojtek Fibak
United States Fred McNair
6–4, 5–7, 5–7
Loss 14. 1976 Båstad, Sweden Clay Poland Wojtek Fibak United States Fred McNair
United States Sherwood Stewart
3–6, 4–6
Loss 15. 1976 Montreal, Canada Hard Spain Manuel Orantes South Africa Bob Hewitt
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
2–6, 1–6
Loss 16. 1976 Tehran, Iran Clay Spain Manuel Orantes Poland Wojtek Fibak
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
5–7, 1–6
Loss 17. 1976 Johannesburg, South Africa Hard United States Stan Smith United States Brian Gottfried
United States Sherwood Stewart
6–1, 1–6, 2–6, 6–7