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Mar 30, 1989 Guimarães, Braga District, Portugal 35 years old
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João Sousa - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About João Sousa
- João Pedro Coelho Marinho de Sousa (born 30 March 1989), known as João Sousa (Portuguese pronunciation: ['?w?~w~ 'so(w)z?]), is a Portuguese professional tennis player, who is ranked 69th in the world by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), as of 1 July 2019.
- A top-100 player since July 2013 and with three ATP World Tour singles titles, Sousa is regarded as the best Portuguese tennis player of all time.
- He is nicknamed Conquistador (Portuguese for "Conqueror") for sharing his birthplace with Afonso I of Portugal, the country's first king.
- Sousa is coached by former player Frederico Marques and practices at the BTT Tennis Academy in Barcelona. Sousa began playing tennis at the age of seven.
- After winning national youth titles, he decided at the age of fifteen to invest in his career by moving to Barcelona.
- After an unimpressive junior career, Sousa turned professional in 2008 and won his first singles tournament in 2009.
- He started playing in the ATP Challenger Tour in 2008, winning his first tournament at this level in 2011.
- Sousa debuted in the top-level ATP World Tour in 2008, and rose to prominence at the 2013 Malaysian Open, where he became the first Portuguese player to win a World Tour-level singles tournament.Sousa holds several Portuguese men's tennis records.
- In October 2013, he ranked 49th in the world after his victory at the Malaysian Open, becoming the first Portuguese player to break into the singles top 50.
- In November 2015, Sousa reached a career-high and Portuguese-best ranking of world No.
- 33, following his second ATP World Tour singles title at the Valencia Open.
- In May 2016, he improved his personal ranking best, becoming the first Portuguese player to enter the top 30, as a result of reaching his first Masters 1000 quarter-finals in Madrid.
- In 2014, he was the first Portuguese player to compete exclusively at the ATP World Tour in a single season; the first to be seeded in a Grand Slam tournament (2014 US Open); and the second to reach the quarterfinals in a Grand Slam event (2015 US Open doubles).
- Sousa is the fourth Portuguese player to reach the singles top 100, and the second to do so in both singles and doubles rankings, after Nuno Marques.
- He is also the Portuguese player with the largest career prize money, and the most wins at Grand Slam singles tournaments.
