Carlos Alberto Berlocq (born March 2 , 1983 in
Chascomus) is an Argentine professional male tennis
player. He is nicknamed Charly. Berlocq's favourite
surface is clay and he is currently coached by Jorge
Gerosi.
Berlocq started playing tennis at the age of four
and has had his success on the ATP Futures and
Challenger circuits. In 2004 he made six consecutive
finals in the Futures events, winning three of them,
two finals each in Argentina, France and Slovenia.
He also made his first Challenger final in Manta,
Ecuador losing to Giovanni Lapentti and then won
another Futures title in Argentina.
At the end of 2005 Berlocq finished inside the top
100 for the first time on the back of strong form on
the Challenger circuit where he went 44-20 in
singles and won two Challenger titles in Turin
defeating Alessio di Mauro and in Cordenons
defeating Jerome Haehnel. Berlocq also qualified for
his first ATP main event in Stuttgart losing to
Razvan Sabau and also played doubles in Bucharest
with Mariano Puerta.
Berlocq struggled to adapt his level from the
Futures and Challengers to the ATP main level events
and has to date achieved only limited success on the
ATP, however his first win was significant. In the
ATP Masters Series event in Miami Berlocq defeated
the much-hyped American junior and wildcard entrant
Donald Young 6-0; 6-0. Both Berlocq and Young had
never won a match on the ATP and this win was
achieved on hardcourt which is not Berlocq's
favoured surface.
After defeating Young, then Berlocq played American
James Blake and lost this match 6-0 6-0, therefore
creating an unusual achievement of winning his first
ATP-level match 6-0 6-0 and then losing by the same
scoreline in the next round.
Berlocq has managed to win two consecutive matches
for the first time on the ATP to make the quarter
finals in Sopot after defeating Philipp
Kohlschreiber and Lukas Dlouhy.
On May 29, 2007, Berlocq upset the number thirty
seed Julien Benneteau in four sets, 6-7, 7-5, 6-2,
6-3 at the 2007 French Open. Berlocq won his first
ever grasscourt match in Den Bosch against former
world number 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero in 3 sets.
