Nicolás Massú

Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried, nicknamed El Vampiro, is a Chilean tennis coach and former professional player, born on 10 October 1979. He was a world number nine in singles and won six singles titles, and he reached the final of the 2003 Madrid Masters. At the 2004 Athens Olympics he won both the singles and the doubles gold medals, the first two Olympic gold medals in Chile's history and a double that no other man has achieved at one Games since Olympic tennis returned in 1988. He represented Chile at the Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008. He was introduced to tennis by his grandfather at five, trained at the Valle Dorado academy and later at the Nick Bollettieri Academy in Florida, and won the 1997 junior boys' doubles at Wimbledon and the US Open. He later coached Dominic Thiem from 2019 to 2023.