Cristiano Testa

Cristiano Testa
Full name	Cristiano Testa
Country (sports)	Brazil
Born	23 September 1973 (age 51)
Plays	Left-handed
Prize money	$56,825
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 416 (26 August 1996)
Doubles
Career record	3–6
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 109 (17 January 2000)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2000)

Cristiano Testa (born 23 September 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil. He is also known as Testinha.

Biography

Testa, a left-handed player, represented Brazil's Junior Davis Cup team in 1989.

Turning professional in 1993, Testa competed mostly on tour as a doubles specialist. His best performance came at the 1996 Colombia Open where he made the semi-finals with Diego del Río. He made a total of 11 Challenger doubles finals, for three titles, in Medellín, Eisenach and Santiago. In 2000 he reached his highest doubles ranking of 109 in the world and earned a spot in the main draw of the 2000 Australian Open. He and partner Fernando Meligeni were beaten in the first round by eventual finalists Wayne Black and Andrew Kratzmann.^[1]

He now works as a junior tennis coach in Porto Alegre.^[2]

Challenger titles

Doubles: (3)

No.	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	1998	Medellín, Colombia	Clay	Adriano Ferreira	Juan-Camilo Gamboa Mauricio Hadad	3–6, 6–1, 6–2
2.	1998	Eisenach, Germany	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Rene Nicklisch Patrick Sommer	6–1, 6–3
3.	1999	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Antonio Prieto	Germán Puentes Álex López Morón	4–6, 6–4, 6–3

References

^ "Tennis - Australian Open (Melbourne)". The New Zealand Herald. 30 June 2000. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
^ "Título da Gedore Interclubes Infanto Juvenil de Tênis vai para a ALJ" (in Portuguese). Tênis Virtual. 4 December 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2017.

External links

Cristiano Testa at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Cristiano Testa at the International Tennis Federation

[1] "Tennis - Australian Open (Melbourne)". The New Zealand Herald. 30 June 2000. Retrieved 27 May 2017.

[2] "Título da Gedore Interclubes Infanto Juvenil de Tênis vai para a ALJ" (in Portuguese). Tênis Virtual. 4 December 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2017.

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