# Julián Alonso

Julián Alonso Pintor (born 2 August 1977) is a Spanish-American former professional tennis player, who turned professional in 1995 and retired in 2003. He was known in tennis because of his powerful serve and Forehand compared with the Goran Ivanišević´s service. In 1997, playing against Ivanisevic (2nd seeded), in Long Island, beat him for first Top 10 victory en route to semifinal and in that match fired a 143 mph serve to become just third player (Philippoussis, Rusedski) to register a serve of at least 143. He is the founder of ELITE TENNIS TEAM focusing on junior development and also is coaching pro players Leylah Fernandez, Arantxa Rus as many others before like, Qinwen Zheng, Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Sabine Lisicki, Ajla Tomljanović, Varvara Lepchenko, Renata Zarazúa, Marco Cecchinato and Nicolas Almagro.
Married to Arantxa Vivanco and father of two children.

## Tennis career

Alonso was awarded the ATP Newcomer of the Year prize after winning his first ATP title in Santiago and finishing in the Top 30 in 1997. In the final of the tournament, he defeated Marcelo Ríos, World No. 1 ranking 6–1, 6–2 in 46 min. Previously, that same year, Tim Henman after being defeated by Alonso at "The Lipton" Key Biscayne (current Miami open) declared: "Julian will be the next number 1 in the World before Wimbledon"
After this promising start, however, his career is considered underwhelming; he only won one more title (Bologna, 1998) and retired in 2003 after half year playing only Challengers. He confessed that the decline of his career started with the relationship with Martina Hingis. The pressure of the media and his mother-in-law made Alonso's ranking and self-confidence fall. He reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 29 in June 1998 (after winning his second and final title). He used to play doubles in Davis Cup Spanish team with Joan Balcells during Manolo Santana captaincy, and several single matches.

## ATP career finals
### Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

* Legend
* Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
* ATP Masters Series (0–0)
* ATP Championship Series (0–0)
* ATP World Series (2–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (2–1)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
* Finals by setting
* Outdoors (2–1)
* Indoors (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Jul 1997 | Kitzbühel, Austria | World Series | Clay | Filip Dewulf | 6–7$^{(2–7)}$, 4–6, 1–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Nov 1997 | Santiago, Chile | World Series | Clay | Marcelo Ríos | 6–2, 6–1 |
| Win | 2–1 | Jun 1998 | Bologna, Italy | World Series | Clay | Karim Alami | 6–1, 6–4 |

### Doubles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

* Legend
* Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
* ATP Masters Series (0–0)
* ATP Championship Series (0–0)
* ATP World Series (2–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (1–0)
* Clay (1–1)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
* Finals by setting
* Outdoors (2–1)
* Indoors (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Sep 1997 | Marbella, Spain | World Series | Clay | Karim Alami | Alberto Berasategui Jordi Burillo | 4–6, 6–3, 6–0 |
| Loss | 1–1 | Nov 1997 | Santiago, Chile | World Series | Clay | Nicolás Lapentti | Hendrik Jan Davids Andrew Kratzmann | 6–7, 7–5, 4–6 |
| Win | 2–1 | Aug 1998 | Long Island, United States | International Series | Hard | Javier Sánchez | Brandon Coupe Dave Randall | 6–4, 6–4 |

## ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
### Singles: 4 (2–2)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (2–2)
* ITF Futures (0–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (2–2)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0-1 | May 1997 | Dresden, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Dick Norman | 4–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 1-1 | Jul 1997 | Venice, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Marcello Craca | 6–3, 6–7, 6–0 |
| Win | 2-1 | Jul 1997 | Contrexéville, France | Challenger | Clay | Andrea Gaudenzi | 6–4, 6–3 |
| Loss | 2-2 | Jul 2001 | Montauban, France | Challenger | Clay | Oliver Gross | 0–6, 1–4 ret. |

### Doubles: 6 (2–4)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (2–3)
* ITF Futures (0–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–1)
* Clay (2–3)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Aug 1996 | Alicante, Spain | Challenger | Clay | Emilio Sánchez | José Antonio Conde Nuno Marques | 4–6, 5–7 |
| Win | 1–1 | Jun 1998 | Zagreb, Croatia | Challenger | Clay | Mariano Puerta | Eduardo Nicolás Espin Germán Puentes Alcañiz | 6–1, 6–4 |
| Win | 2–1 | Jul 2000 | Venice, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Aleksandar Kitinov | Andrea Gaudenzi Diego Nargiso | 7–6$^{(7–3)}$, 7–5 |
| Loss | 2–2 | Jun 2001 | Weiden, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Hugo Armando | Petr Kovačka Pavel Kudrnáč | walkover |
| Loss | 2–3 | Jun 2001 | Andorra la Vella, Andorra | Challenger | Hard | Jairo Velasco | Denis Golovanov Tuomas Ketola | 3–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 2–4 | Apr 2007 | Spain F15, Reus | Futures | Clay | Gerard Granollers Pujol | David Marrero Pablo Santos González | 4–6, 4–6 |

## Performance timeline

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |

### Singles

| Tournament | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | SR | W–L | Win % |
| Grand Slam tournaments |||||||||
| Australian Open | A | 2R | 2R | 1R | Q1 | 0 / 3 | 2–3 | 40% |
| French Open | Q2 | 1R | 1R | Q1 | Q3 | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Wimbledon | A | 1R | 1R | A | A | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| US Open | 1R | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Win–loss | 0–1 | 1–4 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0 / 9 | 2–9 | 18% |
| ATP Tour Masters 1000 |||||||||
| Indian Wells | A | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Miami | 3R | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 2 | 2–2 | 50% |
| Monte Carlo | A | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Hamburg | A | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Rome | A | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Win–loss | 2–1 | 0–5 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 6 | 2–6 | 25% |

### Doubles

| Tournament | 1998 | 1999 | SR | W–L | Win % |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||
| Australian Open | 1R | 1R | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| French Open | QF | 1R | 0 / 2 | 3–2 | 60% |
| Wimbledon | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| US Open | 1R | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Win–loss | 3–3 | 0–2 | 0 / 5 | 3–5 | 38% |
| ATP Tour Masters 1000 ||||||
| Indian Wells | Q2 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Miami | 1R | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Monte Carlo | 2R | A | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Hamburg | 1R | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Rome | 1R | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Win–loss | 1–4 | 0–0 | 0 / 4 | 1–4 | 20% |