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Jimy Szymanski
Country (sports)	Venezuela
Residence	Caracas, Venezuela
Born	September 15, 1975 (age 48); Caracas, Venezuela
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	1994
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$194,839
Singles
Career record	7–31 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ; 2 Challenger, 6 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 160 (15 November 1999)
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	Q2 (2000)
Wimbledon	Q3 (1994, 2001)
US Open	1R {1996, 1997}
Doubles
Career record	8–12 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0 ; 2 Challenger, 2 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 187 (19 June 2000)
Other doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	2R (2000)
Medal record
Men's Tennis
Representing Venezuela
Pan American Games
	Last updated on: 1 November 2021.

Jimy Szymanski

Venezuelan tennis player

Jimy Szymanski Ottaviano (born September 15, 1975, in Caracas) is a former tennis player from Venezuela.

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He reached his highest junior world ranking of no. 1 in the world in summer 1993. He reached finals in Wimbledon Juniors 1993 and won the Italian Junior world championship in Bonfiglio Milano in 1993. He won the Junior Orange Bowl in doubles in 1993 and finished no. 3 in the juniors world ranking in 1993.

He turned professional in 1994 and reached his highest singles ATP ranking on November 15, 1999, at no. 160.

He played in the ATP tour for more than 10 years and had wins over Fernando González, Nicolás Lapentti, James Blake, Félix Mantilla, Olivier Rochus, Goran Ivanišević, Nicolás Pereira, Horst Skoff, Nuno Marques, Franco Squillari, Jaime Oncins, and Sébastien Lareau.

Szymanski represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and in 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney.

As a coach, he worked with Milagros Sequera, Maria Kirilenko, Nadia Petrova, and was Davis Cup captain and Fed Cup captain for his native country.

He is president of STA TENNIS LLC, a company that manages tennis facilities in South Florida.

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Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jun 1996	Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Nuno Marques	2–6, 6–3, 6–3
Win	2–0	Mar 1998	Philippines F1, Manila	Futures	Hard	Richard Brostowicz	6–2, 6–1
Win	3–0	Mar 1998	Philippines F2, Manila	Futures	Hard	Solon Peppas	6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–1	Oct 1999	Tulsa, United States	Challenger	Hard	André Sá	2–6, 6–7
Loss	3–2	Oct 1999	Dallas, United States	Challenger	Hard	André Sá	5–7, 6–4, 4–6
Loss	3–3	Jun 2000	Espinho, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Tommy Robredo	4–6, 2–6
Win	4–3	Oct 2000	Tulsa, United States	Challenger	Hard	Raemon Sluiter	7–6^(7–5), 6–7^(5–7), 7–6^(7–3)
Loss	4–4	Aug 2003	USA F24, Kenosha	Futures	Hard	Raven Klaasen	3–6, 3–6
Loss	4–5	Sep 2003	USA F25, Claremont	Futures	Hard	Glenn Weiner	3–6, 1–6
Win	5–5	Sep 2003	USA F26, Costa Mesa	Futures	Hard	Aleksander Vlaski	6–4, 7–6^(7–3)
Win	6–5	Sep 2003	USA F27, Ojai	Futures	Hard	Aleksander Vlaski	7–5, 6–4
Win	7–5	Oct 2003	USA F27A, Laguna Niguel	Futures	Hard	Robert Yim	6–2, 6–4
Win	8–5	Jul 2005	Venezuela F2, Caracas	Futures	Hard	Dejan Cvetkovic	6–7^(5–7), 6–4, 6–2
Loss	8–6	Aug 2006	Venezuela F3, Valencia	Futures	Hard	Miguel Gallardo Valles	3–6, 3–6

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 1996	Oporto, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Bernardo Mota	Nuno Marques Emanuel Couto	7–6, 3–6, 5–7
Loss	0–2	May 1997	Dresden, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Cecil Mamiit	Mark Merklein Jeff Salzenstein	6–7, 1–6
Loss	0–3	Oct 1997	Lima, Peru	Challenger	Clay	Kris Goossens	Mariano Hood Sebastián Prieto	2–6, 1–6
Loss	0–4	Sep 1998	Santa Cruz, Bolivia	Challenger	Clay	Kepler Orellana	Marcelo Charpentier Andrés Schneiter	2–6, 3–6
Loss	0–5	Sep 1998	Quito, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Kepler Orellana	Adriano Ferreira Óscar Ortiz	3–6, 4–6
Win	1–5	Jul 1999	Granby, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Kevin Kim	Harel Levy Lior Mor	4–6, 6–1, 6–4
Loss	1–6	Dec 1999	Caracas, Venezuela	Challenger	Clay	José de Armas	Gastón Etlis Martín Rodríguez	4–6, 3–6
Loss	1–7	Jan 2000	USA F2, Altamonte Springs	Futures	Hard	Óscar Ortiz	Jonathan Erlich Harel Levy	3–6, 4–6
Win	2–7	Apr 2000	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	José de Armas	Jocelyn Robichaud Michael Sell	5–7, 6–4, 6–2
Loss	2–8	Aug 2004	Manta, Ecuador	Challenger	Hard	Eric Nunez	Marcos Daniel Santiago González	6–3, 2–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Loss	2–9	Jul 2006	Venezuela F1C, Caracas	Futures	Hard	Jhonnatan Medina-Álvarez	Alejandro Kon Damian Listingart	walkover
Win	3–9	Oct 2007	Venezuela F5, Caracas	Futures	Hard	José de Armas	Piero Luisi Roberto Maytín	6–7^(5–7), 7–6^(8–6), [10–1]
Win	4–9	Nov 2007	Venezuela F7, Caracas	Futures	Hard	José de Armas	Miguel Cicenia Luis David Martínez	7–6^(9–7), 7–6^(7–4)

Tournament	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
French Open	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	Q2	Q1	0 / 0	0–0	–
Wimbledon	Q3	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	Q3	0 / 0	0–0	–
US Open	A	Q1	1R	1R	A	Q2	Q1	A	0 / 2	0–2	0%
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 2	0–2	0%
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Miami	A	A	Q1	Q1	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 0	0–0	–

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Jimy Szymanski

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 14 (8–6)

Doubles: 13 (4–9)

Performance timeline

Singles

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