Juan Pino

Juan Antonio Pino Pérez (born 3 July 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Cuba.

Juan Pino
Full nameJuan Antonio Pino Pérez
Country (sports) Cuba
Born (1965-07-03) 3 July 1965
Pinar del Río, Cuba
Height185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$31,225
Singles
Career record11–14
Highest rankingNo. 199 (3 February 1997)
Doubles
Career record0-4
Highest rankingNo. 170 (11 June 1990)
Bronze medal – third place1987 IndianapolisMixed
Bronze medal – third place1991 HavanaSingles
Bronze medal – third place1991 HavanaDoubles
Bronze medal – third place1991 HavanaTeam
Bronze medal – third place1995 Mar del PlataMixed

Biography

Pino, who comes from Pinar del Río in western Cuba, began playing tennis at the age of 10 and trained in Havana.[1]

A right handed player, Pino holds the record for most matches won for the Cuba Davis Cup team, a total of 34, in a career spanning 12-years from 1987 to 1999.[2]

His 26 ties for Cuba includes World Group participation in 1993, which was Cuba's first ever appearance in the main competition, having qualified through the expulsion of the Yugoslav team due to the Bosnian War. Cuba's debut World Group fixture came against Sweden in Kalmar and Pino was picked to play Stefan Edberg in the first rubber. Pino was beaten comfortably by Edberg and also lost a dead rubber to Nicklas Kulti, as Sweden won all matches in the tie. The Cubans then travelled to Saint Petersburg for a relegation play-off against Russia, in which they were again soundly defeated by the more experienced team. Pino lost his two singles matches, to Andrei Cherkasov and Yevgeny Kafelnikov.[3]

In addition to his Davis Cup career, Pino also represented Cuba regularly at the Pan American Games. He won five medals at three separate games, three of which came at the 1991 Pan American Games in the Cuban capital.[4]

During his professional career he made the main draw of four Grand Prix/ATP tour tournaments, all as a doubles player. He twice reached singles finals on the Challenger tour, the first in 1989 where he was runner-up to Daniel Orsanic in Goiania and the other a loss to Roberto Jabali at Bogota in 1996, during which he had an opening round win over Franco Squillari. His one Challenger title came in doubles, the Viña del Mar tournament in 1991, with regular doubles partner Mario Tabares.

Challenger titles

Doubles: (1)
No. Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
1. 1991 Viña del Mar, Chile Clay Cuba Mario Tabares Argentina Gabriel Markus
Argentina Francisco Yunis		 6–2, 7–5

References
  1. Ramírez, Roberto (16 April 2014). "Entrevista a Juan Antonio Pino Pérez". JIT (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  2. "Davis Cup - Teams - Cuba". daviscup.com. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  3. "Sports Roundup". The Des Moines Register. 27 September 1993. p. 10. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  4. Olderr, Steven (April 29, 2003). The Pan American Games: A Statistical History. McFarland. ISBN 9780786443369.
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