Pino, who comes from Pinar del Río in western Cuba, began playing tennis at the age of 10 and trained in Havana.

[1] A right handed player, Pino holds the record for most matches won for the Cuba Davis Cup team, a total of 34, in a career spanning 12-years from 1987 to 1999.

Cuba's debut World Group fixture came against Sweden in Kalmar and Pino was picked to play Stefan Edberg in the first rubber.

Pino was beaten comfortably by Edberg and also lost a dead rubber to Nicklas Kulti, as Sweden won all matches in the tie.

He twice reached singles finals on the Challenger tour, the first in 1989 where he was runner-up to Daniel Orsanic in Goiania and the other a loss to Roberto Jabali at Bogota in 1996, during which he had an opening round win over Franco Squillari.