Roberto Argüello
| Country (sports) |
 Argentina
|
|---|---|
| Residence | Buenos Aires |
| Born |
12 May 1963 Rosario, Argentina |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Plays | Ambidextrous |
| Prize money | $241,299 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 61–84 |
| Career titles | 1 |
| Highest ranking | No. 38 (16 Apr 1984) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| French Open | 2R (1985) |
| US Open | 1R (1984, 1985) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 10–26 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 109 (26 Nov 1984) |
Roberto Argüello (born 12 May 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.
Argüello was an ambidextrous player, capable of using right-handed shots for balls to his right and left-handed stokes for balls to the left of him. He however favoured a two-handed forehand and backhand.
The Argentine was the 1977 Junior Orange Bowl champion and four years later won the Under-18s Orange Bowl.
In 1982, the year of the Falklands War, he left tennis in order to serve with the Argentine Army. He played just one tournament that season, the Buenos Aires Open in February.
Argüello returned to the Grand Prix tennis circuit in 1983 and made an immediate impression, winning the Venice Open, as a qualifier. The 20-year-old defeated top seed Eliot Teltscher in the opening round and secured the tournament with a win over Jimmy Brown in the final. This made him just the fourth qualifier to ever win a Grand Prix title.
Also in 1983, Argüello upset world number seven José Luis Clerc to make the quarter-finals in Indianapolis and made another quarter-final appearances at Bordeaux.
Argüello attained his career best ranking, 38th in the world, in 1984, after making the semi-finals at Nice. He was also a semi-finalist in Palermo.
In 1985 he had his most consistent year on tour, reaching the quarter-finals of five tournaments, Buenos Aires, Nice, Bari, Palermo and Geneva. Another notables performances that season included beating world number six Anders Järryd in Hamburg and defeating Yannick Noah in Barcelona, when the Frenchman was also sixth in the world.
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