Leandro Riedi (born 27 January 2002) is a

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player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 161 achieved on 28 November 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 224 achieved on 14 November 2022.

Junior career

As a junior, Riedi reached as high as World No. 6 in the combined singles and doubles

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ranking system, which he attained on 12 October 2020. Alongside

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partner

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he captured the 2020 Australian Open – Boys' doubles title by defeating Mikołaj Lorens and Kārlis Ozoliņš 6–7^(8–10), 7–5, 0–4in the championship match. He also reached the boys' singles final at the

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but came up just short being defeated by compatriot

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2–6, 4–6.

Professional career

2021: ATP debut

Riedi reached five finals on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour winning three and losing two. In May, he won the first senior level title of his career when he won the doubles draw of the M15

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tournament on clay courts in Spain, alongside

. In October, he claimed his first senior level title in singles winning the M15 Selva Gardena tournament on hard courts in Italy. Riedi made his ATP debut at the 2021 Swiss Open Gstaad receiving a wildcard in both the singles draw and the doubles draw partnering with Jakub Paul. He lost the singles in the first round against

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in straight sets. He won his maiden doubles match against

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and Max Schnur.

2022: Top 200 debut in singles & top 250 in doubles

In March, he reached his first singles and doubles finals on the

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both at the 2022 Challenger Città di Lugano, Switzerland. He also received wildcard for the

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for the singles and doubles partnering again with Jakub Paul. The pair reached the quarterfinals defeating second seeds

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and

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. In the same month, he also won the M25 tournament in Trimbach, Switzerland and in May another M25 in Notthingham, United Kingdom. In October, in doubles he won the Challenger tournament at Tiburon, CA, United States, alongside

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. In November, he won the 2022 HPP Open Challenger as a qualifier defeating

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and

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, moving 80 positions up in the rankings, finishing the year in the top 200 at No. 197 on 21 November 2022. A week earlier, he also reached the top 250 in doubles. The following week he won his next Challenger singles title in

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, Italy moving another 36 positions to No. 161 on 28 November 2022.https://www.atptour.com/en/news/riedi-watanuki-back-to-back-challenger-titles-november-2022

ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 8 (5–3)

Doubles: 11 (6–5)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

References

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* * 2002 births Living people Swiss male tennis players Australian Open (tennis) junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles Sportspeople from Thurgau {{Switzerland-tennis-bio-stub