Juan Gisbert, Sr.

Juan Gisbert, Sr.

Country (sports)	Spain
Residence	Barcelona, Spain
Born	(1942-04-05) 5 April 1942 Barcelona, Spain
Turned pro	1968 (amateur tour from 1962)
Retired	1976
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Singles
Career record	174–132 (Open era)
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 14 (1967, World's Top 20)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	F (1968)
French Open	4R (1966)
Wimbledon	2R (1963, 1972)
US Open	2R (1974)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	QF (1968, demonstration)
Doubles
Career record	218–71 (Open era)
Career titles	21
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (1968)
French Open	SF (1975, 1976)
Wimbledon	QF (1972)
US Open	3R (1975)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	W (1975)
Olympic Games	F (1968, demonstration)

Juan Gisbert, Sr.

Medal record
Tennis
Representing Spain
Summer Universiade
	1967 Tokyo	Doubles

Juan Gisbert, Sr. (born 5 April 1942, in Barcelona, Spain) was an amateur and professional tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s.

He won one ATP singles title (plus at least three others before the Open era) and reached the finals at the Australian Championships in 1968 and Cincinnati in 1971.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1968	Australian Championships	Grass	William Bowrey	7–5, 2–6, 9–7, 6–4

Career highlights

Open era singles titles (1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	1968	Australian Championships, Melbourne	Grass	Bill Bowrey	5–7, 6–2, 7–9, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	1971	Cincinnati, U.S.	Clay	Stan Smith	6–7, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	1972	New York City	Indoor	Stan Smith	6–4, 5–7, 4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	4.	1974	Tokyo WCT, Japan		Rod Laver	7–5, 2–6, 0–6
Runner-up	5.	1974	Cedar Grove, U.S.		Ilie Năstase	4–6, 6–7
Winner	1.	1975	Shreveport, U.S.		Wojtek Fibak	6–3, 5–7, 6–1
Runner-up	6.	1975	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Ilie Năstase	1–6, 5–7, 2–6

Open era doubles titles (21)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	1971	New York, U.S.	Indoor	Manuel Orantes	Jimmy Connors Haroon Rahim	7–6, 6–2
Winner	2.	1971	Salisbury, U.S.	Hard (i)	Manuel Orantes	Clark Graebner Thomaz Koch	6–3, 4–6, 7–6
Winner	3.	1971	Barcelona WCT, Spain	Clay	Željko Franulović	Cliff Drysdale Andrés Gimeno	7–6, 6–2, 7–6
Runner-up	1.	1972	Salisbury, U.S.	Hard (i)	Vladimír Zedník	Andrés Gimeno Manuel Orantes	4–6, 3–6
Winner	4.	1972	Brussels, Belgium	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Patricio Cornejo Jaime Fillol	9–7, 6–3
Winner	5.	1972	Eastbourne, England	Grass	Manuel Orantes	Nicholas Kalogeropoulos Andrew Pattison	8–6, 6–2
Winner	6.	1972	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Frew McMillan Ilie Năstase	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	1972	Paris Indoor, France	Hard (i)	Andrés Gimeno	Pierre Barthès François Jauffret	3–6, 2–6
Winner	7.	1973	Roanoke, U.S.	Hard	Jimmy Connors	Ian Fletcher Butch Seewagen	6–0, 7–6
Runner-up	3.	1973	Omaha, U.S.	Hard (i)	Jimmy Connors	William Brown Mike Estep	DEF
Runner-up	4.	1973	Des Moines, U.S.	Hard (i)	Ion Ţiriac	Jiří Hřebec Jan Kukal	6–4, 6–7, 1–6
Runner-up	5.	1973	Salisbury, U.S.	Hard (i)	Jürgen Fassbender	Clark Graebner Ilie Năstase	6–2, 4–6, 3–6
Winner	8.	1973	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Mike Estep Ion Ţiriac	6–4, 7–6
Winner	9.	1973	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Ilie Năstase	Georges Goven Patrick Proisy	6–2, 6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	6.	1973	Florence, Italy	Clay	Ilie Năstase	Paolo Bertolucci Adriano Panatta	3–6, 4–6
Winner	10.	1973	Paris, France	Hard (i)	Ilie Năstase	Arthur Ashe Roscoe Tanner	6–2, 4–6, 7–5
Runner-up	7.	1974	Tokyo WCT, Japan		Roger Taylor	Raymond Moore Onny Parun	6–4, 2–6, 4–6
Winner	11.	1974	Bournemouth, England	Clay	Ilie Năstase	Corrado Barazzutti Paolo Bertolucci	6–4, 6–2, 6–0
Runner-up	8.	1974	Rome, Italy	Clay	Ilie Năstase	Brian Gottfried Raúl Ramírez	3–6, 2–6, 3–6
Winner	12.	1974	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Ilie Năstase	Manuel Orantes Guillermo Vilas	3–6, 6–0, 6–2
Runner-up	9.	1975	Roanoke, U.S.	Hard (i)	Ion Ţiriac	Vitas Gerulaitis Sandy Mayer	6–7, 6–1, 3–6
Winner	13.	1975	Boca Raton, U.S.	Hard	Clark Graebner	Jürgen Fassbender Ion Ţiriac	6–2, 6–1
Winner	14.	1975	Shreveport, U.S.		William Brown	János Benyik Róbert Machán	6–4, 6–4
Winner	15.	1975	Bournemouth, UK	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Syd Ball Dick Crealy	8–6, 6–3
Winner	16.	1975	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Wojtek Fibak Jan Kodeš	6–3, 7–6
Runner-up	10.	1975	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Björn Borg Ove Nils Bengtson	6–7, 5–7
Winner	17.	1975	Indianapolis, U.S.	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Wojtek Fibak Hans-Jürgen Pohmann	7–5, 6–0
Runner-up	11.	1975	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Jan Kodeš Ilie Năstase	6–7, 6–4, 7–9
Winner	18.	1975	Tehran, Iran	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Bob Hewitt Frew McMillan	7–5, 6–7, 6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	12.	1975	Tokyo, Japan	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Brian Gottfried Raúl Ramírez	6–7, 4–6
Winner	19.	1975	Calcutta, India	Hard Court	Manuel Orantes	Anand Amritraj Vijay Amritraj	1–6, 6–4, 6–3
Winner	20.	1976	Valencia, Spain	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Corrado Barazzutti Antonio Zugarelli
Winner	21.	1976	Munich, Germany	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Jürgen Fassbender Hans-Jürgen Pohmann	1–6, 6–3, 6–2, 2–3, ret.
Runner-up	13.	1976	Bournemouth, England	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Wojtek Fibak Fred McNair	6–4, 5–7, 5–7
Runner-up	14.	1976	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Wojtek Fibak	Fred McNair Sherwood Stewart	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	15.	1976	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Manuel Orantes	Bob Hewitt Raúl Ramírez	2–6, 1–6
Runner-up	16.	1976	Tehran, Iran	Clay	Manuel Orantes	Wojtek Fibak Raúl Ramírez	5–7, 1–6
Runner-up	17.	1976	Johannesburg WCT, South Africa	Hard	Stan Smith	Brian Gottfried Sherwood Stewart	6–1, 1–6, 2–6, 6–7