Manuel Orantes

This page provides a comprehensive overview of Manuel Orantes’s Grand Slam career. It combines key background information and career-level statistics with a complete, filterable list of his tournament results, showing how far he progressed in each Grand Slam event across his career.

Basics

Born	6 February 1949
Gender	Male
Nation	Spain
Era	Amateur Era and Open Era
Grand Slam careerCareer	1968-1981, 1983
Strengths	Baseline consistency Experience Variety
Less strong	Movement Serve

Grand Slam statistics

Tournaments	31
Best results Open Era	1 x champion 1 x finalist 2 x semifinalist
Best results Amateur Era	1 x quarterfinalist
Total matches	102
W/L-record	72-30 (71% won)
Compared with other men	In the Open Era #46 of 2307 With overlapping career #10 of 679 From Spain #5 of 112 Born in 1949 #1 of 29

During the Amateur Era, only top results (quarterfinals or better) from 1945 onwards are listed on this site. Therefore, the list below may not include all Amateur Era results.

Manuel Orantes – Grand Slam results (year, tournament, result, age)
Year	Tournament	Era	Result	Age
1983	French Open	Open Era	R64	34
1981	French Open	Open Era	R128	32
1980	French Open	Open Era	R16	31
1979	Wimbledon	Open Era	R64	30
1979	French Open	Open Era	R16	30
1978	US Open	Open Era	R128	29
1978	French Open	Open Era	Q	29
1977	US Open	Open Era	Q	28
1976	US Open	Open Era	Q	27
1976	French Open	Open Era	Q	27
1975	US Open	Open Era	W	26
1975	French Open	Open Era	R128	26
1974	US Open	Open Era	R64	25
1974	Wimbledon	Open Era	R16	25
1974	French Open	Open Era	F	25
1973	US Open	Open Era	R32	24
1973	French Open	Open Era	R64	24
1972	US Open	Open Era	R32	23
1972	Wimbledon	Open Era	S	23
1972	French Open	Open Era	S	23
1971	US Open	Open Era	Q	22
1971	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	22
1971	French Open	Open Era	R128	22
1970	Wimbledon	Open Era	R32	21
1970	French Open	Open Era	R16	21
1969	US Open	Open Era	R64	20
1969	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	20
1969	French Open	Open Era	R32	20
1968	Wimbledon	Open Era	R128	19
1968	French Open	Open Era	R128	19
1968	Australian Open	Amateur Era	Q	18

Manuel Orantes

Basics

Grand Slam statistics

Grand Slam results