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Carles ("Carlos") Costa Masferrer (born April 22 1968 , in Barcelona , Spain ) is a former professional Tennis player from Spain. He was among the game's leading Clay Court players in the early- 1990s .

Costa turned professional in 1988 . He won his first top-level singles title in March 1992 at Estoril . His second came just a month later in Barcelona. Costa was also runner-up at the 1992 Italian Open , and reached the fourth round at that year's French Open and US Open . In May 1992, he reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 10.

1993 saw Costa win two more titles at Hilversum and Buenos Aires , and again reach the French Open fourth round.

Costa won another two singles titles in 1994 , at Estoril and San Marino .

During his career, Costa won six top-level singles titles and five doubles titles. His career prize-money totalled US$3,134,189. Costa retired from the professional tour in 1999 .

Currently Costa works for IMG and is the agent for Rafael Nadal . On April 23 he played in the Merrill Lynch Tour Of Champions event in Barcelona and lost to Sergi Bruguera in the final.


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