Juan Gisbert Sr.

Full name	Juan Gisbert Ortiga
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	445-304
Career titles	12
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)
Medal record Summer Universiade 1967 Tokyo Doubles Mediterranean Games 1971 İzmir Doubles 1967 Tunis Singles 1967 Tunis Doubles 1971 İzmir Singles

Juan Gisbert Sr. (born 5 April 1942) is a retired Spanish amateur and professional tennis player from the 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked world No. 14 in 1967.

He won one ATP singles title (plus several others) and reached the finals at the Australian Championships in 1968 and Cincinnati in 1971.

In June 1965 he won the Conde de Godo Championships (currently Barcelona Open) in Barcelona on clay at the Réal Tennis Club defeating Manuel Santana, Rafael Osuna, and Martin Mulligan in best-of -five set matches.

Gisbert won the 1971 ATP Bavarian International Tennis Championships at Munich on clay defeating Mulligan, Christian Kuhnke, and Péter Szőke in the final.

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (0–1)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1968	Australian Championships	Grass	Bill Bowrey	7–5, 2–6, 9–7, 6–4

Grand Slam tournament performance timeline

Open era career finals

Singles (1 title, 6 runner-ups)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	1968	Australian Championships, Melbourne	Grass	Bill Bowrey	5–7, 6–2, 7–9, 4–6
Loss	2.	1971	Cincinnati, U.S.	Clay	Stan Smith	6–7, 3–6
Loss	3.	1972	New York City	Carpet (i)	Stan Smith	6–4, 5–7, 4–6, 1–6
Loss	4.	1974	Tokyo WCT, Japan	Hard	Rod Laver	7–5, 2–6, 0–6
Loss	5.	1974	Cedar Grove, U.S.	Clay	Ilie Năstase	4–6, 6–7
Win	1.	1975	Shreveport, U.S.	Clay	Wojtek Fibak	6–3, 5–7, 6–1
Loss	6.	1975	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Ilie Năstase	1–6, 5–7, 2–6

Doubles (21 titles, 17 runner-ups)

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

External links

• Juan Gisbert Sr. at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Juan Gisbert Sr. at the International Tennis Federation
• Juan Gisbert Sr. at the Davis Cup