Juan Ignacio Chela life and biography

Juan Ignacio Chela is a professional male tennis player from Argentina. Like most Argentine players he is comfortable on Clay courts and owns all six of his career titles on the surface. He was born at Ciudad Evita, Provincia de Buenos Aires.

On August 9, 2004, he reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 15.
Chela (The Torino) was involved in a controversy during a third-round loss to Lleyton Hewitt in the Australian Open in 2005, when he attempted to spit at Hewitt.
As part of the Argentine team for the Davis Cup, he holds a record of 6 victories and 4 losses, the most important of his victories in April 2006, giving Argentina the third point to beat defending champions Croatia in quarterfinals.

In May 2007, he appeared in the quarterfinals of his 6th different Masters event at Rome, also his personal best showing at Rome, with wins over Marc Gicquel, Igor Andreev, and World No. 3 Andy Roddick, the latter one being Chela's best ever victory since defeating #3 Yevgeny Kafelnikov in round 2 of Mallorca in May 2000.
In 2010, Chela won the US Men's Clay Court Championship in Houston, beating Sam Querrey 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 for his first ATP Tour Level Championship in over three years. After he beat Rajeev Ram in straight sets, Chela won a controversial three-set second-round match in which fellow countryman Eduardo Schwank was fined for his use of tactics when injured. Chela then beat defending champion Lleyton Hewitt and another Argentine Horacio Zeballos in straight sets to reach the final. Also in 2010, Chela won the BCR Open Romania in singles (defeating Pablo Andujar in the final 7-5, 6-1) and doubles (along Lukasz Kubot). The singles title was his sixth career ATP World Tour victory.

His trainer and fitness coach (and also a close friend) is Fernando Aguirre.

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