Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (born 16 August 1992) is an Argentine professional tennis player of Jewish origin competing mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour, both in singles and doubles. He reached the semifinals of Istanbul in 2015 and won his first title there in 2016. Schwartzman is often recognized as the shortest player on the ATP tour.
Schwartzman reached a career-high ATP rankings of world No. 52 in singles in November 2016 and No. 69 in doubles in April 2015.[1]
Personal life
Schwartzman is Jewish,[2] and is the son of Ricardo and Silvana.[3] He was born and resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[3] He has two brothers and a sister.[4]
Career
2010–13
In 2010 he won the Bolivia F3 Futures (CL), in 2011 he won the Chile F14 Futures (CL).[5] In 2012, he won titles at the Peru F2 Futures (CL), Argentina F11 Futures (CL), Argentina F14 Futures (CL), Argentina F20 Futures (CL), Argentina F21 Futures (CL), Argentina F22 Futures (CL), and Buenos Aires Challenger (CL).[5] At the 2013 Australian Open, he lost in the final round of qualifying.
2014
Diego made his first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam event at the French Open, he came through qualifying before making it to the second round, where he lost to Roger Federer.[6] He lost in the first round of the US Open to Novak Djokovic.
In the ATP Challenger Wout, he won four titles at Aix-en-Provence, Prague, Campinas and San Juan. In the ATP Challenger Tour Finals, he won over João Souza, Simone Bolelli and Guilherme Clezar to claim the title.
2016
Diego won his first ever singles title at the 2016 Istanbul Open - an outdoor 250 clay court event. He impressively defeated established top player Grigor Dimitrov in the final, coming back to win 6-0 in the final set after losing the first set in a tie-break. Later, Dimitrov excuses his behavior during the match, after he smashed three rackets, which ultimately led to a warning, a point penalty and then another point penalty. The second and final point penalty came with Dimitrov down 5-0 and gave the game, set and match to Schwartzman.[7] In October he reached his second final at 250 level, in Antwerp. He will play Richard Gasquet in the final.
ATP career finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
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| Titles by Surface |
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| Hard (0–1) |
| Clay (1–0) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
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Doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)
| Winner – Legend |
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| Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) |
| ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) |
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) |
| ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) |
| ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–2) |
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| Titles by Surface |
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| Hard (0–0) |
| Clay (0–2) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
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Challenger finals (15)
Singles (15)
| Legend |
| ATP Challenger Tour Finals (1–0) |
| ATP Challengers Tour (7–7) |
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| Finals by Surface |
| Hard (0–0) |
| Clay (8–7) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
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| Outcome |
No. |
Date |
Tournament |
Surface |
Opponent |
Score |
| Winner |
1. |
28 October 2012 |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Clay |
 Guillaume Rufin |
6–1, 7–5 |
| Runner-up |
1. |
29 April 2013 |
Tunis, Tunisia |
Clay |
 Adrian Ungur |
6–4, 0-6, 2-6 |
| Runner-up |
2. |
24 June 2013 |
Marburg, Germany |
Clay |
 Andrey Golubev |
1-6, 3-6 |
| Runner-up |
3. |
7 September 2013 |
Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Clay |
 Aljaz Bedene |
3-6, 4-6 |
| Runner-up |
4. |
7 October 2013 |
San Juan, Argentina |
Clay |
 Guido Andreozzi |
7–6(7-4), 6-7(5-7) 0-6 |
| Runner-up |
5. |
28 October 2013 |
Montevideo, Uruguay |
Clay |
 Thomaz Bellucci |
4-6, 4-6 |
| Runner-up |
6. |
7 April 2014 |
Itajaí, Brazil |
Clay |
Facundo Argüello |
6-4 0-6 4-6 |
| Winner |
2. |
12 May 2014 |
Aix-en-Provence, France |
Clay |
 Andreas Beck |
6–7, 6-3, 6-2 |
| Winner |
3. |
10 August 2014 |
Prague, Czech Republic |
Clay |
Andre Ghem |
6–4, 7-5 |
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| Winner |
4. |
15 September 2014 |
Campinas, Brazil |
Clay |
Andre Ghem |
4-6, 6–4, 7-5 |
| Runner-up |
7. |
22 September 2014 |
Porto Alegre, Brazil |
Clay |
Carlos Berlocq |
4-6, 6–4, 0-6 |
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| Winner |
5. |
19 October 2014 |
San Juan, Argentina |
Clay |
João Souza |
7-6, 6-3 |
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| Winner |
6. |
23 November 2014 |
São Paulo, Brazil |
Clay (i) |
Guilherme Clezar |
6-2, 6-3 |
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| Winner |
7. |
11 September 2016 |
Barranquilla, Colombia |
Clay |
Rogério Dutra Silva |
6-4, 6-1 |
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| Winner |
8. |
19 November 2016 |
Montevideo, Uruguay |
Clay |
Rogério Dutra Silva |
6-4, 6-1 |
Grand Slam tournament singles performance timeline
Grand Slam tournament doubles performance timeline
See also
References
External links
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Grigor Dimitrov
Paolo Lorenzi
Juan Sebastián Cabal
Dudi Sela
