Daniel Gimeno Traver

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Daniel Gimeno Traver

Gimeno Traver at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Spain
Residence	Nules, Castellón, Spain
Born	(1985-08-07) 7 August 1985 (age 39) Valencia, Spain
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Jose Altur
Prize money	$3,186,839
Singles
Career record	97–173
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 48 (18 March 2013)
Current ranking	No. 182 (16 July 2018)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2013)
French Open	2R (2009, 2010, 2013, 2015)
Wimbledon	2R (2009)
US Open	3R (2010)
Doubles
Career record	42–82
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 63 (6 February 2012)
Current ranking	No. 1016 (28 May 2018)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2011)
French Open	3R (2013)
Wimbledon	1R (2013, 2015)
US Open	3R (2010)
Last updated on: 7 June 2018.

Daniel Gimeno Traver (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈnjel xiˈmeno tɾaˈβeɾ];^[1][2] born 7 August 1985) is a professional Spanish tennis player who turned pro in 2004, when he was eighteen years old. He reached the final of Casablanca in 2015 and has won 12 Challenger Tour events, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 48 in March 2013.

Daniel Gimeno Traver was born 7 August 1985 in Valencia, Spain. He is the son of Javier, a chemist, and Marisol, a nurse, and is the second of four brothers, Carlos, Miguel and Víctor being his siblings.

Gimeno Traver started playing tennis at the age of 2. He prefers to play on clay and is currently coached by Israel Sevilla.

As a junior, he won the European Championships in 2003 beating Marcos Baghdatis in Switzerland. Gimeno Traver won a further 5 junior titles, compiling a singles win–loss record of 51–10 and reaching as high as No. 4 in the junior world rankings in May 2003. He also beat Novak Djokovic on the way to a quarter-final place at Roland Garros, losing to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Junior Slam results:

Australian Open: -
French Open: QF (2003)
Wimbledon: 1R (2003)
US Open: 3R (2003)

Gimeno Traver reached ATP World Tour semifinals at Stuttgart and Gstaad in 2010, St. Petersburg in 2012 and Oeiras in 2014. His best Grand Slam performance was at the 2010 US Open, when he beat Jarkko Nieminen and Jérémy Chardy to reach the third round.

At the 2015 Grand Prix Hassan II, Gimeno Traver defeated seeded players Mikhail Kukushkin and Jiří Veselý to reach his first ATP 250 final, where he lost to Martin Kližan.

Gimeno Traver has coached Roberto Bautista Agut since the start of the 2022 season. With him, Bautista Agut has won 2 titles and reached a further 2 finals.

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2015	Grand Prix Hassan II, Morocco	250 Series	Clay	Martin Kližan	2–6, 2–6

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2011	Brasil Open, Brazil	250 Series	Clay	Pablo Andújar	Marcelo Melo Bruno Soares	6–7(4–7), 3–6
Win	1–1	Feb 2012	Chile Open, Chile	250 Series	Clay	Fred Gil	Pablo Andújar Carlos Berlocq	1–6, 7–5, [12–10]

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	9 August 2004	Cordenons	Clay	Daniel Köllerer	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
2.	12 May 2008	Aarhus	Clay	Éric Prodon	7–5, 7–5
3.	1 September 2008	Brașov	Clay	Alexander Flock	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
4.	14 September 2009	Banja Luka	Clay	Julian Reister	6–4, 6–1
5.	5 October 2009	Tarragona	Clay	Paolo Lorenzi	6–4, 6–0
6.	2 August 2010	Segovia	Hard	Adrian Mannarino	6–4, 7–6(7–2)
7.	11 September 2011	Sevilla	Clay	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	6–3, 6–3
8.	17 June 2012	Monza	Clay	Albert Montañés	6–2, 4–6, 6–4
9.	10 September 2012	Sevilla	Clay	Tommy Robredo	6–3, 6–2
10.	30 September 2012	Madrid	Clay	Jan-Lennard Struff	6–4, 6–2
11.	2 September 2013	Alphen aan den Rijn	Clay	Thomas Schoorel	6–2, 6–4
12.	10 September 2013	Sevilla	Clay	Stéphane Robert	6–4, 7–6(7–2)
13.	28 September 2014	Kenitra	Clay	Albert Ramos	6–3, 6–4
14.	1 February 2015	Bucaramanga	Clay	Gastão Elias	6–3, 1–6, 7–5

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	5 September 2005	Brașov	Clay	Daniel Elsner	5–7, 2–6
2.	5 November 2007	Guayaquil	Clay	Nicolás Lapentti	3–6, 7–6(6), 5–7
3.	10 March 2008	Tanger	Clay	Marcel Granollers	4–6, 4–6
4.	15 September 2008	Banja Luka	Clay	Ilija Bozoljac	4–6, 4–6
5.	12 October 2009	Asunción	Clay	Ramón Delgado	6–7(2–7), 6–1, 3–6
6.	5 July 2010	San Benedetto	Clay	Carlos Berlocq	3–6, 6–4, 4–6
7.	2 October 2011	Madrid	Clay	Jérémy Chardy	1–6, 7–5, 6–7(3–7)
8.	12 August 2012	Cordenons	Clay	Paolo Lorenzi	6–7(5–7), 3–6
9.	21 August 2016	Cordenons	Clay	Taro Daniel	3–6, 4–6
10.	1 October 2017	Rome	Clay	Filip Krajinović	4–6, 3–6
11.	22 April 2018	Tunis	Clay	Guido Andreozzi	2–6, 0–3 ret.

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	1 May 2006	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Iván Navarro	Bart Beks Martijn van Haasteren	6–2, 7–5
2.	5 May 2008	Telde, Spain	Clay	Daniel Muñoz	Miguel Ángel López José Antonio Sánchez	6–3, 6–1
3.	29 September 2012	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Iván Navarro	Colin Ebelthite Jaroslav Pospíšil	6–2, 4–6, [10–7]

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
1.	15 August 2005	Cordenons, Italy	Clay	Melle van Gemerden	Daniel Köllerer Oliver Marach	WEA (no winner)
2.	13 October 2008	Montevideo, Uruguay	Clay	Rubén Ramírez	Franco Ferreiro Flávio Saretta	3–6, 2–6
3.	19 September 2009	Florianópolis, Brazil	Clay	Pere Riba	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	1–6, 4–6
4.	20 August 2011	San Sebastián, Spain	Clay	Israel Sevilla	Stefano Ianni Simone Vagnozzi	3–6, 4–6
5.	1 October 2011	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Morgan Phillips	David Marrero Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	4–6, 7–6(10–8), [9–11]
6.	10 June 2012	Caltanissetta, Italy	Clay	Iván Navarro	Marcel Felder Antonio Veić	7–5, 6–7(5–7), [6–10]

Current till 2018 Wimbledon Championships.

• He has a 3–20 (.130) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

#	Player	Rank	Tournament	Surface	Rd	Score
2010
1.	Nikolay Davydenko	6	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	2R	7–6(9–7), 2–6, 6–1
2011
2.	Jürgen Melzer	8	Madrid, Spain	Clay	2R	7–6(10–8), 6–3
2013
3.	Richard Gasquet	9	Madrid, Spain	Clay	2R	7–5, 3–6, 6–4

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Daniel Gimeno-Traver.

• Daniel Gimeno Traver at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Daniel Gimeno Traver at the International Tennis Federation
• Gimeno Traver recent match results Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• Gimeno Traver World ranking history
• Daniel Gimeno Traver at AS.com (in Spanish)