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Sergio Roitman

Sergio Andres Roitman (born 16 May 1979), nicknamed 'Motoneta' (Shotgun in Spanish) is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina.

He achieved a career-high rankings of world No. 62 in singles in October 2007, and world No. 45 in doubles in September 2008.

He won several Challenger and Futures singles titles in his career. In addition, Roitman won two ATP doubles titles – at Amsterdam in 2000, and Umag in 2001.

Roitman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is Jewish. Roitman, along with Dudi Sela, Diego Schwartzman, and Camila Giorgi was one of a number of recent Jewish tennis players ranked in the top 100.

His father (Hugo) is an executive salesman for a plastic enterprise company, and his mother (Lidia) is a retired financial adviser. He has an older brother who teaches tennis, named Ivan.

Roitman studied classical piano between the ages of 6 and 12, but chose tennis instead. At the age of 17, he was at a Hermética concert and was shot in the stomach with a rubber bullet. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, English and Italian.

Roitman began playing tennis at age 10 and turned professional in 1996.

Between 1998 and 2000 Roitman won seven futures singles titles, all of them in South America on clay. On 2000-07-23 he won the ATP doubles title with fellow countryman Andrés Schneiter in Amsterdam in his debut at that level.

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