Alberto Mancini

Alberto César Mancini (born 20 May 1969) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. He turned professional in 1987. In 1988, he won his first top-level singles title at Bologna, and his first tour doubles title at St. Vincent.

Mancini won the two most significant titles of his career in 1989. In April that year he won the Monte Carlo Open, defeating Boris Becker in the final 7–5, 2–6, 7–6, 7–5. In May he won the Italian Open, beating Andre Agassi in the final 6–3, 4–6, 2–6, 7–6, 6–1, saving match point in the fourth set. Both events were part of the Grand Prix Championship Series. Mancini also reached the quarter-finals of the 1989 French Open, his career-best performance at a Grand Slam event. He defeated Simon Youl, Martín Jaite, Paul Haarhuis and Jakob Hlasek before losing to Stefan Edberg.

Mancini reached the final of the Italian Open again in 1991, but was forced to retire during the final against Emilio Sánchez with the score at 6–3, 6–1, 3–0. The last major final of Mancini's career was at the Lipton International players Championships in Florida in 1992, where he lost to Michael Chang 7–5, 7–5.

During his career, Mancini won three top-level singles titles and four tour doubles titles. His career-high rankings were World No. 8 in singles and No. 79 in doubles (both in 1989). His career prize-money totalled $1,543,120. Mancini, a competitor at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, retired from the professional tour in 1994.

In February 2003, Mancini became the coach of Guillermo Coria. Under Mancini's guidance, Coria won the tournaments at 2003 Hamburg, 2003 Stuttgart, 2003 Kitzbühel, 2003 Sopot and 2003 Basel, as well as reaching the final of 2003 Monte Carlo, the semi finals of the 2003 French Open, and the quarter finals of the 2003 US Open. Coria finished 2003 as world number 5. Despite these successes, Coria surprisingly decided to part ways with Mancini in February 2004, soon after an upset first round loss at the 2004 Australian Open.

Mancini went on to become captain of the Argentina Davis Cup team, and led Argentina to the Davis Cup final in both 2006 and 2008. However, Argentina lost both finals. Mancini resigned his position as captain of the team after losing in Argentina to Spain in the 2008 Davis Cup final.

Singles (3 titles, 5 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Date	Opponent in final	Score in final
Winner	1.	6 June 1988	Bologna, Italy	Clay	Emilio Sánchez	7–5, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	2.	24 April 1989	Monte Carlo Masters, Monaco	Clay	Boris Becker	7–5, 2–6, 7–6(7–4), 7–5
Winner	3.	15 May 1989	Rome Masters, Italy	Clay	Andre Agassi	6–3, 4–6, 2–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–1
Runner-up	1.	13 May 1991	Rome, Italy	Clay	Emilio Sánchez	3–6, 1–6, 0–3, retired
Runner-up	2.	8 July 1991	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Magnus Gustafsson	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	3.	15 July 1991	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Michael Stich	6–1, 6–7(9–11), 4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	13 March 1992	Miami, United States	Hard	Michael Chang	5–7, 5–7
Runner-up	5.	20 July 1992	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Pete Sampras	3–6, 5–7, 3–6

Doubles titles (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	7 August 1988	Saint-Vincent, Italy	Clay	Christian Miniussi	Paolo Canè Balázs Taróczy	6–4 5–7 6–3
2.	10 July 1989	Boston, United States	Clay	Andrés Gómez	Todd Nelson Phillip Williamson	7–6 6–2
3.	11 September 1989	Geneva, Switzerland	Clay	Andrés Gómez	Mansour Bahrami Guillermo Pérez Roldán	6–3 7–5
4.	16 April 1990	Nice, France	Clay	Yannick Noah	Marcelo Filippini Horst Skoff	6–4 7–6