Gustavo Kuerten
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Brazilian tennis player
Why Is Gustavo Kuerten Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten is a Brazilian former world No. 1 tennis player. He won the French Open singles title three times , and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000. During his career he won 20 singles and 8 doubles titles.Kuerten suffered many problems with injuries which resulted in his non-attendances at many tournaments in 2002 and between 2004 and 2008. After two hip surgeries and a few failed attempted comebacks, he retired from top-level tennis in May 2008. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2012.In 2016, Kuerten was asked to be a torch bearer for the Rio Olympics.
