Diego Junqueira is a professional tennis player who plays left-handed (with a double-handed backhand) from
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. His career high rank was #68, achieved on March 9, 2009.
Junior career
Diego "Chuky" Junqueira did not appear to have much of a juniors career, according to available ITF results, which show only one top-level tournament for him, in which he qualified and lost first round in Argentina in 1998.
2008
During late February to early April, Junqueira had good success at the Challenger level,
reaching the semifinal in Chile (losing to #140
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), the final in Ecuador (beating #155
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along the way), and the semifinal in France (beating #105 Boris Pashanski and #192
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), to get himself back into the top-200 for the first time in almost 2 years.
In May, he won a Challenger in Italy, beating #206
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, #162
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, #97
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, #153
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, and #149
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, those last 4 being the #6, #1, #5,
and #4 seeds in the tournament. He then beat #102
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in the qualifying round to make the main draw of the
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.
2009
In the
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, he lost to
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in a four set match 6–7(5) 7–6(3) 6–3 6–4 in the first round.
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