Tico Carrero
| Full name | Alberto Carrero Tellado | ||||||||
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| Country (sports) |  Puerto Rico | ||||||||
| Born | September 4, 1948 Santurce, Puerto Rico | ||||||||
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| US Open | 3R (1966) | ||||||||
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Alberto "Tico" Carrero Tellado (born September 4, 1948) is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player.[1][2]
Carrero, a native of San Juan, represented Puerto Rico in the demonstration event at the 1968 Summer Olympics and was a quarter-finalist in doubles. He also represented the territory at the 1963 Pan American Games and 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games, earning a doubles silver medal in the latter.[3]
From 1968 to 1971 he played collegiate tennis while studying civil engineering at Rice University.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Santurce premia a sus ídolos deportivos". WAPA-TV (in Spanish). November 21, 2008.
- ^ "Owls in the Pros". riceowls.com. May 5, 2020.
- ^ a b "Salón de la Fama del Tenis Puertorriqueño". prtenis.com (in Spanish).
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- Puerto Rican male tennis players
- Rice Owls men's tennis players
- Tennis players at the 1963 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games competitors for Puerto Rico
- Competitors at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Puerto Rico
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in tennis
- Tennis players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Santurce, Puerto Rico
- 20th-century American sportsmen