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Daniel Orsanic (, ; born 11 June 1968) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. He was captain of the Argentina Davis Cup team that won the country's first title in 2016.

Playing career

Orsanic was a left-hander with a double handed backhand. He was primarily a doubles specialist with his best tournament results in singles reaching three quarterfinals in 1993 at Buenos Aires and twice in 1994 at Birmingham, Alabama and Båstad.

In doubles Orsanic won eight titles and was a finalist on seven occasions all of these performances were on clay. 1998 was his most successful year with two titles at Majorca and Kitzbühel and a finalist in Palermo, Mexico City, and Gstaad. His last title came in 2001 Palermo with Spaniard Tomás Carbonell. Orsanic retired as a player at the end of the 2003 season. He is of Croatian descent.

Coaching career

Orsanic was the former coach to Peruvian Luis Horna. He was also the team captain for Argentina when they won the 2007 World Team Cup in Düsseldorf. Orsanic was the former coach of José Acasuso, they separated before Roland Garros. He is now working with the Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 15 (8 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters 1000 Series (0–0)
ATP 500 Series (1–0)
ATP 250 Series (7–7)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (8–7)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (8–7)
Indoors (0–0)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Aug 1993	San Marino, San Marino	World Series	Clay	Olli Rahnasto	Juan Garat Roberto Saad	6–4, 1–6, 6–3
Win	2–0	Aug 1994	Hilversum, Netherlands	World Series	Clay	Jan Siemerink	David Adams Andrei Olhovskiy	6–4, 6–2
Loss	2–1	Sep 1997	Bucharest, Romania	World Series	Clay	Hendrik Jan Davids	Luis Lobo Javier Sánchez	5–7, 5–7
Loss	2–2	Oct 1997	Palermo, Italy	World Series	Clay	Hendrik Jan Davids	Andrew Kratzmann Libor Pimek	6–3, 3–6, 6–7
Win	3–2	Oct 1997	Mexico City, Mexico	World Series	Clay	Nicolás Lapentti	Luis Herrera Mariano Sánchez	4–6, 6–3, 7–6
Loss	3–3	Jul 1998	Gstaad, Switzerland	International Series	Clay	Cyril Suk	Gustavo Kuerten Fernando Meligeni	4–6, 5–7
Win	4–3	Aug 1998	Kitzbühel, Austria	International Series	Clay	Tom Kempers	Joshua Eagle Mark Kratzmann	6–3, 6–4
Win	5–3	Oct 1998	Majorca, Spain	World Series	Clay	Pablo Albano	Jiří Novák David Rikl	7–6, 6–3
Loss	5–4	Oct 1998	Palermo, Italy	World Series	Clay	Pablo Albano	Donald Johnson Francisco Montana	4–6, 6–7
Loss	5–5	Oct 1998	Mexico City, Mexico	International Series	Clay	David Roditi	Jiří Novák David Rikl	4–6, 2–6
Win	6–5	May 1999	Munich, Germany	World Series	Clay	Mariano Puerta	Massimo Bertolini Cristian Brandi	7–6, 3–6, 7–6
Win	7–5	Jul 1999	Stuttgart, Germany	Championship Series	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Aleksandar Kitinov Jack Waite	6–2, 6–1
Loss	7–6	May 2001	Munich, Germany	International Series	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Petr Luxa Radek Štěpánek	7–5, 2–6, 6–7
Loss	7–7	May 2001	Sankt Pölten, Austria	International Series	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Petr Pála David Rikl	3–6, 7–5, 5–7
Win	8–7	Sep 2001	Palermo, Italy	International Series	Clay	Tomás Carbonell	Enzo Artoni Emilio Benfele Álvarez	6–2, 2–6, 6–2

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 4 (2–2)

Legend
ATP Challenger (2–2)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (2–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Goiânia, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Juan-Antonio Pino-Perez	6–1, 3–6, 6–3
Loss	1–1	Geneva, Switzerland	Challenger	Clay	Roberto Argüello	3–6, 0–6
Loss	1–2	Pembroke Pines, United States	Challenger	Clay	Leonardo Lavalle	4–6, 6–7
Win	2–2	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Challenger	Clay	Andrei Cherkasov	4–6, 6–2, 7–5

Doubles: 22 (10–12)

Legend
ATP Challenger (10–12)
ITF Futures (0–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–5)
Clay (10–7)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Campos do Jordão, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Stefan Dallwitz	Nelson Aerts Fernando Roese	3–6, 6–7
Win	1–1	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Mauricio Hadad	Scott Patridge Kenny Thorne	6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Loss	1–2	Cervia, Italy	Challenger	Clay	João Cunha-Silva	Christian Miniussi Diego Pérez	3–6, 4–6
Loss	1–3	Parioli, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Luis Lobo	Shelby Cannon Greg Van Emburgh	6–7, 4–6
Loss	1–4	Salerno, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Gabriel Markus	Andrew Kratzmann Roger Rasheed	4–6, 3–6
Win	2–4	Neu Ulm, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Gustavo Luza	Bruce Derlin Steve Guy	6–3, 6–2
Loss	2–5	Cali, Colombia	Challenger	Clay	Mario Tabares	Michael Geserer Fabio Silberberg	4–6, 4–6
Win	3–5	Geneva, Switzerland	Challenger	Clay	Luis Lobo	Brett Dickinson Glenn Wilson	1–6, 7–6, 6–4
Loss	3–6	Salinas, Ecuador	Challenger	Hard	Laurence Tieleman	Juan Carlos Bianchi Claude N'Goran	5–7, 4–6
Loss	3–7	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Claude N'Goran	Francisco Montana Jack Waite	2–6, 3–6
Win	4–7	Punta del Este, Uruguay	Challenger	Clay	Martín Rodríguez	Nelson Aerts Fernando Meligeni	6–2, 6–4
Loss	4–8	Paget, Bermuda	Challenger	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Javier Frana Mark Knowles	3–6, 7–6, 3–6
Win	5–8	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Challenger	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	David Škoch Fernon Wibier	6–0, 6–4
Win	6–8	Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Tom Kempers	Cristian Brandi Filippo Messori	6–3, 7–5
Win	7–8	Palmer, Puerto Rico	Challenger	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	Sebastián Prieto Mariano Hood	7–5, 3–6, 6–3
Win	8–8	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Diego del Río	Pablo Albano Luis Lobo	6–4, 4–6, 6–1
Loss	8–9	Laguna Hills, United States	Challenger	Hard	Pablo Albano	Paul Goldstein Brian Macphie	6–3, 4–6, 5–7
Loss	8–10	Salinas, Ecuador	Challenger	Hard	Lucas Arnold Ker	Sebastián Prieto Mariano Hood	2–6, 6–7
Win	9–10	São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Jaime Oncins	Sebastián Prieto Mariano Hood	6–2, 6–2
Loss	9–11	Montevideo, Uruguay	Challenger	Clay	Diego del Río	Pablo Albano Martín García	2–6, 3–6
Win	10–11	Brasília, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Luis Lobo	Daniel Melo Alexandre Simoni	walkover
Loss	10–12	Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina	Challenger	Clay	Juan Pablo Guzmán	Jaroslav Levinský Yuri Schukin	6–7(5–7), 5–7

Performance timelines

Singles

Tournament	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
French Open	A	1R	Q2	Q2	Q3	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
Wimbledon	1R	Q1	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 2	0–2
US Open	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	0 / 0	0–0
Win–loss	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 4	0–4
ATP Masters Series
Miami	A	A	A	A	1R	A	Q1	0 / 1	0–1
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0 / 1	0–1

Doubles

Tournament

W–L

Win %

Grand Slam tournaments

Australian Open

0 / 5

0–5

French Open

0 / 7

9–7

Wimbledon

0 / 5

1–5

US Open

0 / 5

3–5

Win–loss

0–0

0–1

4–2

0–4

1–3

6–4

2–4

0–3

0 / 22

13–22

Year-End Championships

ATP Finals

Did not qualify

DNQ

0 / 1

1–2

ATP Masters Series

Indian Wells

0 / 3

0–3

Miami

0 / 7

5–7

Monte Carlo

0 / 5

4–5

Hamburg

0 / 3

4–3

Rome

0 / 4

2–4

Canada

0 / 1

0–1

Stuttgart

0 / 0

0–0

Paris

0 / 1

1–1

Win–loss

0–0

1–1

0–0

0–1

5–5

0–4

3–5

7–6

0–2

0 / 24

16–24

Mixed doubles

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	0 / 4	1–4
French Open	3R	A	A	2R	3R	1R	A	A	0 / 4	3–4
Wimbledon	A	A	2R	1R	A	1R	A	2R	0 / 4	2–4
US Open	A	A	A	1R	2R	A	A	A	0 / 2	1–2
Win–loss	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–4	2–3	1–3	0–1	1–1	0 / 14	7–14

Wikipedia / Daniel Orsanic

Playing career

Coaching career

ATP career finals

Doubles: 15 (8 titles, 7 runner-ups)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 4 (2–2)

Doubles: 22 (10–12)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

Mixed doubles

References

External links