Daniel Orsanic

Daniel Orsanic
Singles
Country (sports)	Argentina
Residence	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Born	(1968-06-11) 11 June 1968 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	1989
Retired	2003
Prize money	US$ 1,000,200
Career record	14–31
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 107 (15 November 1993)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (1994)
French Open	1R (1992)
Wimbledon	1R (1991, 1993)
Doubles
Career record	145–170
Career titles	8
Highest ranking	No. 24 (11 May 1998)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)
French Open	SF (1997, 2000)
Wimbledon	2R (2001)
US Open	3R (2000)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Wimbledon	2R (1997, 2002)

Daniel Orsanic (born 11 June 1968) is a former professional male tennis player from Argentina who is retired from professional tennis and currently is the captain of the Argentina Davis Cup team.

Playing career

Orsanic was a left-hander with a double handed backhand. He was primarily a doubles specialist with his best tournament results in singles reaching three quarterfinals in 1993 at Buenos Aires and twice in 1994 at Birmingham, Alabama and Båstad.

In doubles Orsanic won eight titles and was a finalist on seven occasions all of these performances were on clay. 1998 was his most successful year with two titles at Majorca and Kitzbühel and a finalist in Palermo, Mexico City, and Gstaad. His last title came in 2001 Palermo with Spaniard Tomás Carbonell. Orsanic retired as an active player at the end of the 2003 season.

Coaching career

Orsanic was the former coach to Peruvian Luis Horna.^[1] He was also the team captain for Argentina when they won the 2007 World Team Cup in Düsseldorf. Orsanic was the former coach of José Acasuso, they separated before Roland Garros.^[2] He is now working with the Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas.

Doubles titles (8)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	1993	San Marino	Clay	Olli Rahnasto	Juan Garat Roberto Saad	6–4, 1–6, 6–3
Winner	2.	1994	Hilversum, Netherlands	Clay	Jan Siemerink	David Adams Andrei Olhovskiy	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	1.	1997	Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Hendrik Jan Davids	Luis Lobo Javier Sánchez	5–7, 5–7
Runner-up	2.	1997	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Hendrik Jan Davids	Andrew Kratzmann Libor Pimek	6–3, 3–6, 6–7
Winner	3.	1997	Mexico City, Mexico	Clay	Nicolás Lapentti	Luis Herrera Mariano Sánchez	4–6, 6–3, 7–6
Runner-up	3.	1998	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Cyril Suk	Gustavo Kuerten Fernando Meligeni	4–6, 5–7
Winner	4.	1998	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Tom Kempers	Joshua Eagle Mark Kratzmann	6–3, 6–4
Winner	5.	1998	Majorca, Spain	Clay	Pablo Albano	Jiří Novák David Rikl	7–6, 6–3
Runner-up	4.	1998	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Pablo Albano	Donald Johnson Francisco Montana	4–6, 6–7
Runner-up	5.	1998	Mexico City, Mexico	Clay	David Roditi	Jiří Novák David Rikl	4–6, 2–6
Winner	6.	1999	Munich, Germany	Clay	Mariano Puerta	Massimo Bertolini Cristian Brandi	7–6, 3–6, 7–6
Winner	7.	1999	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Aleksandar Kitinov Jack Waite	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	2001	Munich, Germany	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Petr Luxa Radek Štěpánek	7–5, 2–6, 6–7
Runner-up	7.	2001	Sankt Pölten, Austria	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Petr Pála David Rikl	3–6, 7–5, 5–7
Winner	8.	2001	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Tomás Carbonell	Enzo Artoni Emilio Benfele Álvarez	6–2, 2–6, 6–2

References

↑ "Old Luis Horna profile" (in French). Sports Voila. 28 May 2008.
↑ "Coria vuelve a Roland Garros" (in Spanish). La Nación. 28 May 2008.

External links

Daniel Orsanic at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Daniel Orsanic at the International Tennis Federation
Daniel Orsanic at the Davis Cup

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