# Franco Davín

Franco Davín (Spanish pronunciation:; born January 11, 1970) is a tennis coach and a former professional player from Argentina. Davín won three singles tournaments on the ATP Tour, and reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 30 in October 1990. Davín won his first ATP-tour match at 15 years, 1 month against Hans Gildemeister in Buenos Aires. He holds the Open Era record for being the youngest player to win a tour level main draw match.

## Career
### Juniors

Davín had an excellent junior career, reaching the US Open Boys' Singles final and winning the French Open Boys' Doubles (both in 1986).

### Pro tour

Turning professional in 1987, Davín's best slam performance was reaching the quarterfinals of the 1991 French Open, where he defeated experienced clay-courter Martín Jaite as well as Christian Bergström, Marián Vajda and Arnaud Boetsch en route before losing to Michael Stich.

## Coaching career

Davin coached fellow countryman Juan Martín del Potro until July 2015, and was the captain of the Argentine Davis Cup team. Under Davín's tutelage, Del Potro won the 2009 US Open, defeating Rafael Nadal in the semifinals and Roger Federer in the final en route to the championship title. Davín also coached Gastón Gaudio when he won the 2004 French Open winning against Guillermo Coria whom he coached also at one time. He coached Grigor Dimitrov in 2015–2016. After that he coached Fabio Fognini for three years 2016–2019, when he captured the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters title and reached a career-high ranking of World No. 9 in 2019. He then coached Kyle Edmund in 2020. From November 2020 until 2021, he coached Cristian Garín. In 2022–2023, he coached Brandon Nakashima on a part-time basis and WTA player and world No. 11 Veronika Kudermetova.

## Personal life

Davín resides in Key Biscayne with his wife Mariana, his daughter Juana, and his son Nacho.
In June 2020, Davín tested positive for COVID-19.

## Junior Grand Slam finals
### Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 1986 | US Open | Hard | Javier Sánchez | 2–6, 2–6 |

### Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 1987 | French Open | Clay | Guillermo Pérez Roldán | Jim Courier Jonathan Stark | 7–6, 4–6, 3–6 |

## ATP career finals
### Singles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runner-ups)

* 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 (3–6)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (3–6)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
* Finals by setting
* Outdoors (3–6)
* Indoors (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Nov 1986 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Grand Prix | Clay | Jay Berger | 3–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Jun 1989 | Bologna, Italy | Grand Prix | Clay | Javier Sánchez | 1–6, 0–6 |
| Win | 1–2 | Aug 1989 | St. Vincent, Italy | Grand Prix | Clay | Juan Aguilera | 6–2, 6–2 |
| Loss | 1–3 | Apr 1990 | Estoril, Portugal | World Series | Clay | Emilio Sánchez | 3–6, 1–6 |
| Win | 2–3 | Sep 1990 | Palermo, Italy | World Series | Clay | Juan Aguilera | 6–1, 6–1 |
| Loss | 2–4 | Oct 1990 | Athens, Greece | World Series | Clay | Mark Koevermans | 7–5, 4–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 2–5 | Aug 1992 | Prague, Czech Republic | World Series | Clay | Karel Nováček | 1–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 2–6 | Aug 1992 | Umag, Croatia | World Series | Clay | Thomas Muster | 1–6, 6–4, 4–6 |
| Win | 3–6 | Sep 1994 | Bucharest, Romania | World Series | Clay | Goran Ivanišević | 6–2, 6–4 |

## ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
### Singles: 6 (4–2)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (4–2)
* ITF Futures (0–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (4–2)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Apr 1990 | Oporto, Portugal | Challenger | Clay | Mark Koevermans | 3–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Apr 1992 | Parioli, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Francisco Roig | 6–1, 6–4 |
| Win | 2–1 | Jun 1992 | Turin, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Renzo Furlan | 7–6, 3–6, 6–1 |
| Win | 3–1 | Sep 1993 | Oporto, Portugal | Challenger | Clay | Gabriel Markus | 6–4, 6–3 |
| Win | 4–1 | Feb 1994 | Punta del Este, Uruguay | Challenger | Clay | Gérard Solvès | 6–2, 4–6, 6–0 |
| Loss | 4–2 | Mar 1994 | Agadir, Morocco | Challenger | Clay | Younes El Aynaoui | 3–6, 6–1, 3–6 |

### Doubles: 1 (0–1)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (0–1)
* ITF Futures (0–0)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (0–1)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Sep 1991 | Venice, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Marcelo Filippini | Jordi Arrese Francisco Roig | 3–6, 2–6 |

## Performance timeline

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

### Singles

| Tournament | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | SR | W–L | Win% |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| French Open | 3R | 1R | A | 3R | QF | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | Q3 | 0 / 7 | 8–7 | 53% |
| Wimbledon | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| US Open | A | A | A | 3R | A | 1R | A | 1R | A | A | 0 / 3 | 2–3 | 40% |
| Win–loss | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 4–2 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 10 | 10–10 | 50% |
| ATP Masters Series ||||||||||||||
| Miami | A | A | 1R | A | 2R | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Monte Carlo | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Rome | 1R | 1R | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 6 | 0–6 | 0% |
| Hamburg | 1R | A | 2R | QF | 2R | A | 1R | A | A | A | 0 / 5 | 5–5 | 50% |
| Win–loss | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 15 | 5–15 | 25% |