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Orlando Luz

Orlando Moraes Luz (born 8 February 1998) is a Brazilian tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 72 achieved on 12 August 2024 and a singles ranking of No. 272 achieved on 16 August 2021.

Juniors

Luz along with compatriot Marcelo Zormann won the 2014 Wimbledon boys' doubles title after defeating Stefan Kozlov and Andrey Rublev 6–4, 3–6, 8–6 in the final.

At the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics held in Nanjing China, seeded second, Luz won the silver medal in singles, falling to Kamil Majchrzak of Poland in the final. Additionally, he and Marcelo Zormann teamed up to win the gold medal in doubles, defeating the Russian duo of Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov 7–5, 3–6, [10–3] in the final (also seeded 2nd).

He and Chung Yun-seong lost to Yishai Oliel of Israel and Patrik Rikl of the Czech Republic in the final of the 2016 French Open Boys' Doubles tournament, 6–3, 6–4.[1]

Professional career

Luz made his ATP debut on 6 March 2017, when he was given a wildcard to the first round of the Brasil Open where he was defeated by Gastão Elias.[2]

At the 2020 Rio Open, Luz alongside Rafael Matos defeated the 2019 Wimbledon and 2019 US Open champions, and ATP doubles World No. 1, Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah 6–1, 4–6, [10–8].[3]

He made his Grand Slam debut at the 2024 French Open as an alternate pair partnering Marcelo Zormann.

ATP Tour finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 22 (9–13)

Doubles: 58 (39–19)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Olympic medal matches

Singles

Doubles

References

  1. ^ "Oliel wins first junior tennis grand slam title".
  2. ^ "Orlando Luz perde para Gastão Elias e cai na estreia do Brasil Open". Gazeta Press/ESPN.
  3. ^ "Orlandinho e Matos eliminam favoritos Cabal e Farah – Rio Open". rioopen.com (in Brazilian Portuguese).

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