Guillermo Vilas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Guillermo Vilas

Argentine tennis player

Date of Birth: 17-Aug-1952

Place of Birth: Mar del Plata, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Profession: poet, tennis player

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Guillermo Vilas ([gi'?e?mo 'ßilas]; born 17 August 1952) is an Argentine former professional tennis player, No.
1 of the Grand Prix seasons in 1974, 1975 and 1977, who won four Grand Slam tournaments, one year-end Masters, nine Grand Prix Super Series titles and 62 total ATP titles.
World Tennis, Agence France-Presse and Livre d'or du tennis 1977 (Christian Collin-Bernard Ficot), among others rankings and publications, rated him as world No.
1 in 1977 (while others ranked Borg or Connors No.
1).
In the ATP computer rankings, he peaked at No.
2 in April 1975, a position that he held for a total of 83 weeks.
He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991, two years after his first retirement.Known for his prolific match play, especially on clay, he became the second man to win more than 900 matches in the Open Era, and his number of match-wins on clay (659) is by far the most of the era.
His peak was the 1977 season during which he won two major titles (both on clay), had two long match win streaks of 46 all-surface and 53 on clay, and finished with an Open Era record of match wins.
In 2016, The Daily Telegraph ranked him as the 3rd best male clay-court player of all time, behind Rafael Nadal and Björn Borg.
In 2018, Steve Tignor for Tennis Magazine (US) ranked him as the 16th greatest tennis player of the Open Era.