Luiz Mattar

Luiz Mattar

Country (sports)	Brazil
Residence	São Paulo, Brazil
Born	(1963-08-18) August 18, 1963 (age 62) São Paulo, Brazil
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	1985
Retired	1995
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,484,394
Singles
Career record	191–178
Career titles	7 5 Challenger, 0 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 29 (1 May 1989)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (1991, 1993)
French Open	3R (1986)
Wimbledon	2R (1991)
US Open	3R (1990, 1991)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (1988, 1992)
Doubles
Career record	104–111
Career titles	5 3 Challenger, 0 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 55 (7 January 1991)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (1993)
French Open	3R (1986, 1990, 1993)
Wimbledon	1R (1987, 1990, 1991)
US Open	2R (1986, 1990, 1991)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	2R (1988)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French Open	2R (1990)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	SF (1992)
Last updated on: 25 December 2023.

Luiz Mattar (born August 18, 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Brazil.

He played on the professional tour from 1985 to 1995, during which time he won seven top-level singles titles and five tour doubles titles. Mattar's career-high rankings were World No. 29 in singles (in 1989) and World No. 55 in doubles (in 1991). His career prize money totalled $1,493,136.

With seven ATP singles titles in tournaments of the Association of Professional Tennis Players, he is the second Brazilian tennis player, after Gustavo Kuerten, with more ATP titles in his career. He also led the Brazilian Davis Cup team to their best result in history back in 1992 defeating Germany and Italy and reaching the semi-final of the World Group in the 1992 Davis Cup. This feat has only been matched by Gustavo Kuerten who led the Brazilian team again to the semi-final in 2000.

He started his professional career only at the age of 22, unlike most tennis players who started their careers at 18 or earlier, after dropping out in his last year of engineering at Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo. ^[1]

He was trained by Paulo Cleto from the beginning to the end of his career. He even said that he couldn't see himself training with another coach. He is considered by several sports analysts, tennis critics and former tennis players as one of the ten greatest Brazilian tennis players of the Open Era. ^[2]

Mattar is the son of textile businessman Fuad Mattar and is of Lebanese descent. ^[3] After retiring from tennis he became an entrepreneur and is the founder of TIVIT, one of Brazil's largest information technology service providers. ^[1]

ATP career finals

Singles: 11 (7 wins, 4 runner-ups)

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0) ATP Championship Series (0–0) ATP World Series (7–4)

Finals by surface Hard (2–4) Clay (3–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (2–0)

Finals by setting Outdoors (5–4) Indoors (2–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jan 1987	Guarujá, Brazil	Grand Prix	Hard	Cássio Motta	6–3, 5–7, 6–2
Loss	1–1	Nov 1987	São Paulo, Brazil	Grand Prix	Hard	Jaime Yzaga	2–6, 6–4, 2–6
Loss	1–2	Nov 1987	Itaparica, Brazil	Grand Prix	Hard	Andre Agassi	6–7, 2–6
Win	2–2	Jan 1988	Guarujá, Brazil	Grand Prix	Clay	Eliot Teltscher	6–3, 6–3
Win	3–2	Feb 1989	Guarujá, Brazil	Grand Prix	Clay	Jimmy Brown	7–6, 6–4
Win	4–2	Apr 1989	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Grand Prix	Carpet	Martín Jaite	6–4, 5–7, 6–4
Loss	4–3	Feb 1990	Guarujá, Brazil	World Series	Hard	Martín Jaite	6–3, 4–6, 3–6
Win	5–3	Apr 1990	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	World Series	Carpet	Andrew Sznajder	6–4, 6–4
Win	6–3	Nov 1992	São Paulo, Brazil	World Series	Hard	Jaime Oncins	6–1, 6–4
Loss	6–4	Feb 1994	Scottsdale, USA	World Series	Hard	Andre Agassi	4–6, 3–6
Win	7–4	May 1994	Coral Springs, USA	World Series	Clay	Jamie Morgan	6–4, 3–6, 6–3

Doubles (5 wins, 6 losses)

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

Titles by surface Hard (2) Grass (0) Clay (3) Carpet (0)

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jan 1987	Guarujá, Brazil	Hard	Cássio Motta	Martin Hipp Tore Meinecke	7–6, 6–1
Win	2–0	Sep 1987	Geneva, Switzerland	Clay	Ricardo Acioly	Mansour Bahrami Diego Pérez	3–6, 6–4, 6–2
Loss	2–1	Feb 1990	Guarujá, Brazil	Hard	Cássio Motta	Javier Frana Gustavo Luza	6–7, 6–7
Loss	2–2	Jun 1990	Florence, Italy	Clay	Diego Pérez	Sergi Bruguera Horacio de la Peña	6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Loss	2–3	Oct 1990	São Paulo, Brazil	Carpet	Mark Koevermans	Shelby Cannon Alfonso Mora	7–6, 3–6, 6–7
Win	3–3	Dec 1990	Wellington, New Zealand	Hard	Nicolás Pereira	John Letts Jaime Oncins	4–6, 7–6, 6–2
Loss	3–4	Apr 1991	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Gustavo Luza Cássio Motta	0–6, 5–7
Loss	3–5	May 1991	Bologna, Italy	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Luke Jensen Laurie Warder	4–6, 6–7
Loss	3–6	Apr 1992	Tampa, USA	Clay	Andrei Olhovskiy	Mike Briggs Trevor Kronemann	6–7, 7–6, 4–6
Win	4–6	Jun 1992	Florence, Italy	Clay	Marcelo Filippini	Royce Deppe Brent Haygarth	6–4, 6–7, 6–4
Win	5–6	Oct 1994	Montevideo, Uruguay	Clay	Marcelo Filippini	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	7–6, 6–4

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 9 (5–4)

Legend ATP Challenger (5–4) ITF Futures (0–0)

Finals by surface Hard (4–0) Clay (1–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 1989	São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Pedro Rebolledo	3–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Aug 1989	Brasília, Brazil	Challenger	Carpet	Mario Tabares	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–2	Nov 1989	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Francisco Roig	6–4, 6–3
Win	2–2	Nov 1990	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Luis-Enrique Herrera	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Win	3–2	Mar 1992	Zaragoza, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Tomas Carbonell	7–5, 3–6, 6–2
Loss	3–3	Apr 1992	Birmingham, United States	Challenger	Clay	Mikael Pernfors	6–7, 4–6
Win	4–3	Oct 1992	Recife, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Jaime Oncins	7–6, 5–7, 7–5
Win	5–3	Nov 1992	São Luís, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Maurice Ruah	6–4, 6–4
Loss	5–4	Jul 1993	Campinas, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Fernando Meligeni	4–6, 2–6

Doubles: 8 (3–5)

Legend ATP Challenger (3–5) ITF Futures (0–0)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (2–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 1989	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Dacio Campos	Charles Beckman Shelby Cannon	3–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Dec 1989	São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Cassio Motta	Juan-Antonio Pino-Perez Mario Tabares	7–5, 6–2
Loss	1–2	Aug 1990	Brasília, Brazil	Challenger	Carpet	Fernando Roese	Jaime Oncins Andrew Sznajder	5–7, 6–3, 6–7
Win	2–2	Oct 1991	São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Juan-Ignacio Garat Marcelo Saliola	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2–3	Oct 1992	Recife, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Jaime Oncins	Sebastien Lareau Daniel Nestor	7–5, 4–6, 6–7
Win	3–3	Nov 1992	São Luís, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Jaime Oncins	Maurice Ruah Mario Tabares	6–3, 7–5
Loss	3–4	Sep 1993	Natal, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Stephen Noteboom Jack Waite	6–4, 0–6, 3–6
Loss	3–5	Nov 1993	São Luís, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Jaime Oncins	Otavio Della Marcelo Saliola	7–6, 3–6, 6–7

Performance timelines

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	2R	A	1R	0 / 3	2–3	40%
French Open	A	3R	2R	2R	2R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	A	0 / 9	6–9	40%
Wimbledon	Q3	A	1R	A	A	1R	2R	1R	A	A	A	0 / 4	1–4	20%
US Open	A	1R	A	1R	1R	3R	3R	1R	2R	A	A	0 / 7	5–7	42%
Win–loss	0–0	2–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	3–3	4–4	0–3	2–3	0–1	0–1	0 / 23	14–23	38%
National Representation
Olympic Games	Not Held			1R	Not Held			1R	Not Held			0 / 2	0–2	0%
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	2R	A	2R	A	A	0 / 4	2–4	33%
Miami	A	A	2R	2R	1R	A	1R	A	1R	1R	1R	0 / 7	2–7	22%
Monte Carlo	A	A	1R	1R	A	1R	1R	A	1R	A	A	0 / 5	0–5	0%
Hamburg	A	A	1R	A	A	3R	2R	A	1R	A	A	0 / 4	3–4	43%
Rome	A	A	2R	A	1R	2R	1R	A	2R	A	A	0 / 5	3–5	38%
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	A	0 / 2	0–2	0%
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A	0 / 1	1–1	50%
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	2–4	1–3	0–3	3–3	2–5	0–0	3–7	0–2	0–1	0 / 28	11–28	28%

Doubles

Tournament	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
French Open	A	3R	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	1R	3R	A	0 / 8	6–8	43%
Wimbledon	Q3	A	1R	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	0 / 3	0–3	0%
US Open	A	2R	A	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	A	A	0 / 6	3–6	33%
Win–loss	0–0	3–2	0–2	0–2	0–2	3–3	1–3	0–2	2–2	0–0	0 / 18	9–18	33%
National Representation
Olympic Games	Not Held			2R	Not Held			1R	NH		0 / 2	1–2	33%
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	QF	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	0 / 2	2–2	50%
Miami	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	1R	1R	0 / 3	0–3	0%
Monte Carlo	A	A	2R	A	A	1R	1R	A	Q2	A	0 / 3	1–3	25%
Hamburg	A	A	QF	A	A	2R	1R	A	QF	A	0 / 4	5–4	56%
Rome	A	1R	1R	A	QF	2R	2R	A	2R	A	0 / 6	5–6	45%
Canada	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–loss	0–0	0–1	5–4	0–0	2–1	2–3	1–5	0–0	3–3	0–1	0 / 18	13–18	42%

References

1. "From an Olympic athlete to a R $ 2.5 billion business owner: the story of Luiz Mattar". revistapegn.globo.com. 26 August 2022.
2. "Os dez maiores tenistas brasileiros da Era Aberta". Esporte Final. Archived from the original on January 6, 2016.
3. "A dream at 81". istoedinheiro.com.br. 2006.

External links

• Luiz Mattar at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Luiz Mattar at the International Tennis Federation
• Luiz Mattar at the Davis Cup