Gimeno Traver started playing tennis at the age of 2. He prefers to play on clay and is currently coached by Israel Sevilla.
Juniors As a junior, he won the European Championships in 2003 beating
Marcos Baghdatis in Switzerland. Gimeno Traver won a further 5 junior titles, compiling a singles win–loss record of 51–10 and reaching as high as No. 4 in the junior world rankings in May 2003. He also beat
Novak Djokovic on the way to a quarter-final place at
Roland Garros, losing to
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Junior Slam results: Australian Open: - French Open: QF (
2003) Wimbledon: 1R (
2003) US Open: 3R (
2003)
Pro tour Gimeno Traver reached ATP World Tour semifinals at
Stuttgart and
Gstaad in 2010,
St. Petersburg in 2012 and
Oeiras in 2014. His best Grand Slam performance was at the
2010 US Open, when he beat
Jarkko Nieminen and
Jérémy Chardy to reach the third round. At the
2015 Grand Prix Hassan II, Gimeno Traver defeated seeded players
Mikhail Kukushkin and
Jiří Veselý to reach his first ATP 250 final, where he lost to
Martin Kližan.
Coaching Gimeno Traver has coached
Roberto Bautista Agut since the start of the
2022 season. With him, Bautista Agut has won 2 titles and reached a further 2 finals. == ATP career finals ==