Flávio Saretta

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Flávio Saretta Filho (born June 28, 1980) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1998.

Tennis career

Saretta has won one ATP Tour doubles title, the 2004 Croatia Open Umag with José Acasuso, defeating Czech players Jaroslav Levinský and David Škoch in the final.

In 2004 he competed in the Tennis Olympic Tournament in both the singles and doubles tournaments. He was eliminated by Andy Roddick in the singles tournament round of 64 and, playing together with André Sá, he reached the doubles tournament round of 16, where he was eliminated by Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett, from Zimbabwe.

He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on September 15, 2003, when he became the number 44 of the world, capping what would be the best season of his professional career. He had his best results in all 4 of the Grand Slam tournaments, reaching the Round of 16 at Roland Garros. His clay court prowess was also evident when he was successful in defending his crown at the Bermuda Challenger tournament in April.

During the Hamburg Masters in 2006, Saretta scored one of his biggest wins against the Russian former World No. 1 Marat Safin, 5–7, 6–0, 6–4.

Flávio Saretta won the Rio Pan-American Games 2007, after saving 2 match-points at semi and at final against, respectively, Eduardo Schwank and Adrián García. In the end of 2007 Saretta had one of the biggest injuries of his entire career and he is out of the circuit since then.

In 2009, Saretta announced that he will stop playing professionally because he is tired of "fighting against the pain" of his injuries. He had an unsuccessful comeback in 2014, losing all his matches that year in three tournaments played in Brazilian soil.

In 2015 Saretta became a tennis commentator for BandSports, a Brazilian sports cable channel.

Titles (12)

Singles (7)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (7)

Titles by surface Hard (4) Grass (0) Clay (3) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	January 1, 2001	São Paulo, Brazil	Hard	Template:Flagicon Guillermo Coria	7–6(7), 6–2
2.	September 4, 2001	Curitiba, Brazil	Clay	Template:Flagicon Luis Horna	7–6(3), 6–1
3.	April 15, 2002	Bermuda, Bermuda	Clay	Template:Flagicon Vince Spadea	6–3, 7–5
4.	December 30, 2002	São Paulo, Brazil	Hard	Template:Flagicon Andres Dellatorre	7–6(5), 6–3
5.	April 14, 2003	Bermuda, Bermuda	Clay	Template:Flagicon Nicolás Massú	6–1, 6–4
6.	August 8, 2005	Gramado, Brazil	Hard	Template:Flagicon Jacob Adaktusson	6–1, 6–3
7.	January 2, 2006	São Paulo, Brazil	Hard	Template:Flagicon Thiago Alves	7–6(2), 6–3

Doubles (5)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (1) Challengers (4)

Titles by surface Hard (1) Grass (0) Clay (4) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	September 2, 2001	Campinas, Brazil	Clay	Template:Flagicon Edgardo Massa	Template:Flagicon Adriano Ferreira Template:Flagicon Antonio Prieto	1–6, 7–6(5), 6–4
2.	July 19, 2004	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Template:Flagicon José Acasuso	Template:Flagicon Jaroslav Levinský Template:Flagicon David Škoch	4–6, 6–2, 6–4
3.	January 8, 2006	São Paulo, Brazil	Hard	Template:Flagicon Thiago Alves	Template:Flagicon Lucas Engel Template:Flagicon André Ghem	7–6(10), 6–3
4.	November 12, 2006	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Template:Flagicon André Ghem	Template:Flagicon Tomas Behrend Template:Flagicon Marcel Granollers	6–1, 6–4
5.	October 19, 2008	Montevideo, Uruguay	Clay	Template:Flagicon Franco Ferreiro	Template:Flagicon Daniel Gimeno Traver Template:Flagicon Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	6–3, 6–2

Runners-up (14)

Singles (6)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (6)

Finals by surface Hard (1) Grass (0) Clay (5) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	July 30, 2001	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Hard	Template:Flagicon Eric Taino	5–7, 6–1, 6–2
2.	April 4, 2005	Mexico City, Mexico	Clay	Template:Flagicon Florent Serra	6–1, 6–4
3.	June 6, 2005	Lugano, Switzerland	Clay	Template:Flagicon Albert Montañés	7–5, 6–7(4), 7–6(5)
4.	November 7, 2005	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Template:Flagicon Marcos Daniel	6–2, 1–6, 6–0
5.	November 13, 2006	Asunción, Paraguay	Clay	Template:Flagicon Guillermo Cañas	6–4, 6–1
6.	March 12, 2007	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Template:Flagicon Santiago Giraldo	7–6(4), 6–2

Doubles (8)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (8)

Finals by surface Hard (2) Grass (0) Clay (6) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	October 9, 2000	Guadalajara, Mexico	Clay	Template:Flagicon Fernando Meligeni	Template:Flagicon Hugo Armando Template:Flagicon Alexander Waske	7–6(4), 4–6, 7–6(7)
2.	January 1, 2001	São Paulo, Brazil	Hard	Template:Flagicon Cedric Kauffmann	Template:Flagicon Noam Okun Template:Flagicon André Sá	6–4, 1–6, 6–4
3.	March 12, 2001	Salinas, Ecuador	Hard	Template:Flagicon Daniel Melo	Template:Flagicon Luis Horna Template:Flagicon David Nalbandian	6–4, 0–6, 6–1
4.	July 9, 2001	Campinas, Brazil	Clay	Template:Flagicon José de Armas	Template:Flagicon Edgardo Massa Template:Flagicon Leonardo Olguín	6–7(6), 6–2, 7–5
5.	April 4, 2005	Mexico City, Mexico	Clay	Template:Flagicon Marcos Daniel	Template:Flagicon Lukáš Dlouhý Template:Flagicon Pavel Šnobel	5–7, 6–4, 6–3
6.	July 3, 2007	Turin, Italy	Clay	Template:Flagicon Pablo Andújar	Template:Flagicon Pablo Cuevas Template:Flagicon Horacio Zeballos	6–3, 6–1
7.	September 8, 2008	Seville, Spain	Clay	Template:Flagicon Rogério Dutra da Silva	Template:Flagicon David Marrero Template:Flagicon Pablo Santos	2–6, 6–2, [10–8]
8.	March 9, 2009	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Template:Flagicon Rogério Dutra da Silva	Template:Flagicon Sebastián Prieto Template:Flagicon Horacio Zeballos	7–6(2), 6–2

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