Thiago Moura Monteiro (; born 31 May 1994) is a Brazilian professional
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cov ...
player.
Monteiro has a career high
ATP singles ranking of world No. 61 achieved on 17 October 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 144 achieved on 31 January 2022. He is currently the No. 1 Brazilian tennis player.
On the
ITF Junior Circuit, Monteiro peaked in the rankings at No. 2 on 2 February 2012, with his biggest junior singles title being the Grade A, Copa Gerdau in
Porto Alegre
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, Brazil in 2011.
In his first ATP match, as a wildcard ranked world No. 338 in the
ATP 500 Rio de Janeiro in February 2016, Monteiro upset No. 9
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the first round. In the second round, Monteiro lost to eventual champion
Pablo Cuevas.
In his next tournament, the
ATP 250 São Paulo, Monteiro won two matches (against former World No. 9
Nicolás Almagro
Nicolás Almagro Sánchez (; born 21 August 1985 in Murcia, Spain) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 2008, 2010 and 2012 (losing each time to Rafael Nadal, the eventual ...
, and
Daniel Muñoz de la Nava), losing again to eventual champion Cuevas in the quarterfinals.
On May 8, 2016, Monteiro won his first
ATP Challenger title in
Aix-en-Provence
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, France. He defeated
Carlos Berlocq
Carlos Alberto Berlocq (; born February 3, 1983) is an Argentine retired professional tennis player nicknamed ''Charly'', ''Panther'' and ''Warlocq''. His favourite surface was clay and he was last coached by Walter Grinovero. Berlocq's career ...
in the final.
Early and personal life
Thiago Moura Monteiro was born on May 31, 1994, in
Fortaleza,
Ceará
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, Brazil. Thiago has three sisters (Letícia, Jéssica and Flávia) and an older brother, Fáber Monteiro, who works as a real estate broker. His mother Fátima Monteiro is retired since he was a child. Monteiro is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
Thiago's first introduction to tennis happened when he first saw his brother watching
Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten (; born 10 September 1976) is a Brazilian former world No. 1 tennis player. He won the French Open singles title three times ( 1997, 2000, and 2001), and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000. During his career he ...
on TV, being eight years old. Monteiro trained football at an academy near where his brother used to play tennis. He played it for the first time when his football class was cancelled and his brother called him to ''hit the ball''. Thiago soon started training and disputing local tournaments: in early 2004 he won his first tournament, being only nine years old.
Thiago would leave his hometown, Fortaleza, in late 2008 to enter the Larri Passos Academy in
Balneário Camboriú to improve his game. Thiago says that if he had not made that change, he would probably be a football player.
Now as a professional player, Thiago uses his spare time to enjoy movies and spend it with friends and family. He attends college online. He dated fellow Brazilian tennis player
Beatriz Haddad Maia
Beatriz Haddad Maia (born 30 May 1996) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. On 22 August 2022, she reached a career-high in the WTA rankings in singles at No. 15. Haddad Maia has won two singles and four doubles titles on the WTA Tour, on ...
for several years.
Junior career
Thiago Monteiro had a successful junior career, winning many tournaments. Monteiro peaked in the
ITF Junior Circuit rankings at No. 2 on 2 February 2012. He ended his junior career with a 77–31 win record on singles and 47–32 on doubles.
In 2004, being 10 years old, Thiago won the Paraíba Tour Tournament.
In 2005, Monteiro won the Fortaleza Cup, by beating Evandro Alencar in straight sets on the final and in 2006, he captured the first of three titles at the Banana Bowl, at the category u12.
2008 was a very successful year for Monteiro, both in singles and in doubles. He won the South-America Tournament of Nations, the Torneio Brasileirão, the Guanabara Open de Tênis (4th and 5th stage), all singles tournaments; and the 1st and 2nd stage of Torneio Nacional Rota-do-Sol (both in singles and doubles).
Monteiro also conquered his second Banana Bowl title, category u14. Later that year, Thiago was awarded with Troféu Jornalista Flávio Ponte, at the category Personalidade Esportiva do Ano (''Sports Personality of the Year'').
To focus on his tennis career, Thiago moved from his hometown in
Fortaleza, to
Balneário Camboriú, in
Santa Catarina. This change led Thiago to conquer multiple titles in 2009: Copa Claro (3rd stage) and Credicard MasterCard Junior Cup (2nd and 3rd stage), in singles tournaments, and the doubles titles at XIV Goodyear Junior Cup and the Eddie Herr Tennis Championship. Monteiro was also runner-up at the G1 tournament, Orange Bowl, playing in the singles draw. This same year, he won his first points on the
ATP rankings
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by playing two Futures' events, in doubles category.
Starting 2010, Thiago was the number one in both
CBT and
COSAT ranking. He won his third and final title at the 40th edition of the Banana Bowl, this time at the u16 category and also made his debut on the ATP Singles Rankings, with his participations on a Future in his birthplace, in
Fortaleza. In 2011, Thiago started the year winning the Grade A, Copa Gerdau in
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre (, , Brazilian ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of 1,488,252 inhabitants (2020) makes it the twelfth most populous city in the country and the center of Brazil's fif ...
, one of the most important tournaments on the
ITF Junior Circuit. Being 17 years old, Monteiro also won three other clay tournaments: Asuncion Bowl, Astrid Bowl and the Offenbach Tournament. In this last one, he defeated Matias Sborowitz on the final in straight sets.
Thiago didn't achieve much success in singles Grand Slams as a junior: his best results were reaching the third round at the
Wimbledon Championships
The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, All England Club in ...
in 2011 and at the 2012
French Open
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. He had a better run at doubles: reaching the quarterfinals of the
Australian Open
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and the semifinals at the
French Open
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, both in 2012. Monteiro's last match as a junior was at the
2012 US Open.
Professional career
2011–2013: Early career
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In late 2011, Thiago won his first professional title, the Bahia Open, a Future tournament with US$10,000 in money prize. He battled past his training partner Alexandre Schnitman, winning in close, straight sets. This win led Thiago to receive a wildcard entry on the main draw of
Aberto de São Paulo
The Aberto de São Paulo is a defunct tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It was held annually at the Villa-Lobos State Park, Parque Villa Lobos in São Paulo, Brazil, since 2001.
All the Bra ...
, but he was eliminated on first round by compatriot
André Ghem
André Swytka Ghem (born 29 May 1982) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking in July 2015, when he became the World No. 118.
Career
Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Ghem became the World No. 181 in ...
.
2012 was the last junior year for Monteiro. He played in all junior's Grand Slams except Wimbledon, and also focused on Futures and Challengers tournaments. Monteiro managed to qualify at
2012 Aberto de Florianópolis,
in late February, but he was eliminated in the first round by
Thiago Alves. In late May, Thiago won his second Futures title, this time on clay, in
Bauru
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. The final was a thrilling three-hour victory over
Leonardo Kirche
Leonardo Kirche (born 4 January 1985) is a Brazilian tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He has played one match for the Brazil Davis Cup team
The Brazil national tennis team represents Brazil in Davis Cup tennis competition an ...
, with Monteiro winning despite losing the first set. The Brazilian was runner-up on two other Futures played in Brazil: at
São José do Rio Preto
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in August and at
Porto Alegre
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in October. Thiago ended the year with a career ranking of 439, after starting the year at the position 701.
Entering 2013 as the first year that Thiago would play a full season as a senior professional, he was invited a second time to enter
Aberto de São Paulo
The Aberto de São Paulo is a defunct tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was part of the ATP Challenger Tour. It was held annually at the Villa-Lobos State Park, Parque Villa Lobos in São Paulo, Brazil, since 2001.
All the Bra ...
main draw, but couldn't make the first round again, losing to countryman
Guilherme Clezar
Guilherme Sarti Clezar (pronounced ''Clézar''; born 31 December 1992), is a professional tennis player from Brazil. He played in several ATP 250 events, including the 2011 Brasil Open. Clezar plays mainly in ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challe ...
in straight sets. Monteiro later played on consecutive Futures events in United States, without much success.
He tried to break through the qualifiers of
Brasil Open
The Brasil Open was a tennis tournament held annually in São Paulo, Brazil. It was part of the ATP Tour 250 series, and was one of the main events in the Brazilian tennis calendar alongside ATP Tour 500 Rio Open. Since 2004, it was a part of th ...
a month later, but lost to
Thiago Alves in the first round. In March, Thiago did a very successful run in Turkey: he won two back-to-back Futures, with 15 consecutive victories over two weeks. His first title there was against Czech
Jan Minar, winning in straight sets. A week later, he defeated the Dominican
José Hernández also in straight sets. He also won his first Futures title in doubles, partnering Maximiliano Estévez, from
Argentina
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, defeating in the finals the partnership of Kirill Dmitriev and
Yaraslav Shyla
Yaraslav Iharavich Shyla ( be, Яраслаў Ігаравіч Шыла; russian: Ярослав Игоревич Шило; born 5 March 1993 in Minsk) is a Belarusian tennis player.
Shyla has a career high ATP singles ranking of 306 achieved on ...
in the super tiebreak.
Thiago would also reach the finals of another Futures event, this time at Netherlands, in June, but he couldn't win his 5th title. He lost in final to
Bjorn Fratangelo in three sets. Thiago broke through multiple Challenger qualifiers later in the year, including
Sport 1 Open in Netherlands, the
Poznań Open
The Poznań Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour. It has been held annually at the Park Tenisowy Olimpia in Poznań, Pola ...
in Poland, the
Oberstaufen Cup
The Oberstaufen Cup is a defunct professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It has been part of the Association of Tennis Professionals
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is the governing body of the men's pr ...
in Germany, and the
Uruguay Open. His best results were the quarterfinals in Germany and Netherlands, a performance he also achieved in
IS Open and
Aberto Rio Preto, but he didn't need to play the qualifiers in the latters.
In doubles, Thiago reached the finals of
Tetra Pak Tennis Cup partnering
Thiago Alves, but they lost in straight sets against the
Argentinian
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team of
Guido Andreozzi
Guido Andreozzi (; ; born 5 August 1991) is an Argentine professional tennis player of Italian descent. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. His career-high rankings are World No. 70 in sin ...
and
Máximo González
Máximo González Mereira (; born July 20, 1983, in Tandil) is an Argentine professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 58, achieved in July 2009 and his career-high doubles ranking is World No. 22 achieved on 22 Apr ...
. He also reached the semifinals of
IS Open and
Aberto Rio Preto, partnering
Thiago Alves in the first and
Rogério Dutra Silva
Rogério Dutra da Silva (; born February 3, 1984) is a former Brazilian professional tennis player.
Dutra Silva had a career high ATP singles ranking of 63 achieved on July 24, 2017 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 84 achieved on Febru ...
in the latter,
achieving his career high in the doubles ranking: 449th. He ended in the 276th position, in singles ranking.
2014–2015: Injuries, Second doubles title
Thiago's year started only in late February, due to an injury on his left knee.
He attempted to qualify to
Brasil Open
The Brasil Open was a tennis tournament held annually in São Paulo, Brazil. It was part of the ATP Tour 250 series, and was one of the main events in the Brazilian tennis calendar alongside ATP Tour 500 Rio Open. Since 2004, it was a part of th ...
, but lost in the second round to
Dušan Lajović in straight sets. In March, Thiago qualified to
Visit Panamá Cup, defeating
Alexander Zverev on its way, but Monteiro lost in the first round. Thiago's 5th Futures title came in late June, in Netherlands, where he defeated
Boy Westerhof in three sets. Thiago was not able to repeat his runs in the
Challenger Tour as he did in 2013, and his ranked dropped down to 563th by the end of the year.
In doubles, Thiago reached the finals of two Futures (one in Netherlands, one in
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...
), but wasn't able to win his 2nd title in either.
Trying to recover his positions in the
ATP rankings
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, Thiago tried to break through multiple qualifiers of
ATP World Tour
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tournaments. He attempted to do so in clay events, reaching the final qualifying round in the
Argentina Open
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and the
U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships
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The tournament began in 1910 when the ...
, losing respectively to
Facundo Bagnis
Facundo Bagnis (; born 27 February 1990) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won 1 ATP doubles event at Stuttgart and 16 Challengers in singles, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 55 in November 2016.
Tennis care ...
and
Rogério Dutra Silva
Rogério Dutra da Silva (; born February 3, 1984) is a former Brazilian professional tennis player.
Dutra Silva had a career high ATP singles ranking of 63 achieved on July 24, 2017 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 84 achieved on Febru ...
. While his run on qualifiers wasn't much successful on the ATP World Tour, Thiago had better success at the
ATP Challenger Tour
The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP T ...
. Over the year, Thiago entered 11 qualifier draws, breaking through 5 of them.
Monteiro's also played his last Futures event to date, playing two weeks in Georgia
in both singles and doubles. Partnering the Italian
Marco Bortolotti
Marco Bortolotti (born 21 January 1991) is an Italian tennis player.
Bortolotti has a career high doubles ranking of 103 achieved on 22 August 2022. He also has a career high ATP singles ranking of 355 achieved on 25 April 2016.
Bortolotti has ...
, the left-hander won his 2nd Futures title by defeating the Russian partnership of Victor Badula and Ivan Kalinin in straight sets.
Almost a month later, playing in the qualifiers of
Poprad-Tatry ATP Challenger Tour
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, Thiago badly injured his left knee, while holding a match point against
Czech
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Places
* Czech, ...
Robin Stanek and was forced to retire. He stayed away from the courts during three months, returning in the
Campeonato Internacional de Tênis de Campinas
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qualifiers. Monteiro's lost in the final qualifying round to Tiago Lopes in three sets. The Brazilian best run at a Challenger event was in November, at the
Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil, passing through the qualifiers and reaching the quarter-finals, where he had to retire against the eventual runner-up,
Guido Pella
Guido Pella (; born 17 May 1990) is an inactive Argentine professional tennis player. In August 2019, Pella reached his career best world No. 20 in singles. In July 2019, he peaked at No. 55 in doubles.
Personal life
His father, Carlos, taught ...
. Thiago ended in the 470th position at the singles ranking.
2016: ATP World Tour and top 100 debut, Maiden Challenger Title
Starting the year at the 463rd position, Thiago started strong, qualifying to
Torneo de Mendoza main draw and reaching the quarterfinals, where Monteiro lost to eventual champion
Gerald Melzer
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He is the younger brother of top ...
in straight sets. The left-hander received a wildcard invite to
Vivo Tennis Cup main draw, where he reached the semifinals of a Challenger event for the first time, losing again to the 'would-be' champion of the tournament, this time to
Facundo Bagnis
Facundo Bagnis (; born 27 February 1990) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won 1 ATP doubles event at Stuttgart and 16 Challengers in singles, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 55 in November 2016.
Tennis care ...
. This performance led him to receive a wildcard into
Rio Open
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main draw where he would face
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the 3rd seed and world number 9th at the time. Thiago (ranked 338th) stunned Tsonga in three sets, to set a meeting with
Pablo Cuevas. Monteiro lost in straight sets and his opponent went on to win the tournament, defeating
Guido Pella
Guido Pella (; born 17 May 1990) is an inactive Argentine professional tennis player. In August 2019, Pella reached his career best world No. 20 in singles. In July 2019, he peaked at No. 55 in doubles.
Personal life
His father, Carlos, taught ...
in the final. The surprise performance led Monteiro to receive a second wildcard, this time to play into
Brasil Open
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main draw. Thiago started strong, defeating two Spaniards (
Nicolás Almagro
Nicolás Almagro Sánchez (; born 21 August 1985 in Murcia, Spain) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 2008, 2010 and 2012 (losing each time to Rafael Nadal, the eventual ...
in the first round and
Daniel Muñoz de la Nava in the second) to reach the third round and set another battle against Pablo Cuevas. This time, Thiago triumphed in the first set, but Cuevas turned the game and won the match. Cuevas also won this tournament, beating
Pablo Carreño Busta
Pablo Carreño Busta (; born 12 July 1991) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 11 September 2017. He also reached a best ...
in the final.
After rising 98 positions in the rankings, Thiago returned to play on Challenger events, this time all over America. Playing in four tournaments, he reached the semifinals in two of them. The first one was the
Challenger ATP Cachantún Cup
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, where he lost to countryman
Rogério Dutra Silva
Rogério Dutra da Silva (; born February 3, 1984) is a former Brazilian professional tennis player.
Dutra Silva had a career high ATP singles ranking of 63 achieved on July 24, 2017 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 84 achieved on Febru ...
, in March. The other semifinal was his second Challenger event in Brazil in 2016, the
São Paulo Challenger de Tênis
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Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis r ...
, where seeded third, he lost to
Gonzalo Lama
Gonzalo Andrés Lama Feliu (; born 27 April 1993 in Santiago de Chile, Santiago) is a Chilean tennis player. He has won two Challengers (Cali and São Paulo), along with fourteen futures, twelve in singles and two in doubles. He has defeated top ...
in three sets.
Returning to Europe, Thiago entered the
Open du Pays d'Aix draw unseeded, and with a strong performance, he conquered the title by beating
Carlos Berlocq
Carlos Alberto Berlocq (; born February 3, 1983) is an Argentine retired professional tennis player nicknamed ''Charly'', ''Panther'' and ''Warlocq''. His favourite surface was clay and he was last coached by Walter Grinovero. Berlocq's career ...
in the final.
Thiago played
two
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other
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tournaments without the same success, before entering the
French Open
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qualifying draw as the 30th seed. Monteiro was beaten in straight sets by
Ruben Bemelmans
Ruben Bemelmans (; born 14 January 1988) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP ranking of world No. 84 in singles, achieved on 28 September 2015, and world No. 128 in doubles, achieved on 1 October 2012. Beme ...
. A week later, Monteiro had a rematch with Bemelmans in first round of the
Franken Challenge
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, defeating him in straight sets. Thiago later lost in the quarterfinals to
Tobias Kamke
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. Playing in another clay tournament in France, Monteiro reached a second Challenger final, this time at the
Open Sopra Steria de Lyon
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Past finals
Singles
Doubles
References
Official ATP Tour webs ...
. Seeded 5th, he faced another Belgian this time,
Steve Darcis
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Steve Darcis was born in ...
. The left-hander took the first set, but the Belgian grew in the match, turning it in three sets.
Before attempting to qualify for his second
Grand Slam
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Grand Slam or Grand slam may also refer to:
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, Monteiro played at the
Internationaux de Tennis de Blois
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The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of inter ...
, but withdrew from the second round match against
Miljan Zekić
Miljan Zekić ( sr-Cyrl, Миљан Зекић, ; born 12 July 1988) is a Serbian tennis player.
Career
Zekić made his ATP main draw debut in doubles with compatriot David Savić as a wildcard pair at the 2011 Serbia Open, losing in the first ...
, citing a back injury. At the
Wimbledon Championships
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qualifying, Thiago was eliminated again in the first round, this time to
Julian Reister
Julian Reister (; born 2 April 1986) is a German retired professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 83, achieved in November 2013. Reister reached the quarterfinals of Buenos Aires in 2013 as a qualifier.
Career 2 ...
. To improve his position in the ATP rankings, Thiago attempted and qualified for the
German Open main draw. The Brazilian won three matches against three
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players (two in the qualifiers, and
Mischa Zverev in the main draw), to set a third match against
Pablo Cuevas. Cuevas delivered Monteiro's third loss in the ATP World Tour, but this time he did not win the tournament, being runner-up instead. Thiago qualified for a consecutive appearance in the World Tour, this time at
Swiss Open Gstaad. Monteiro was defeated by
Robin Haase
Robin Haase (; born 6 April 1987) is a Dutch professional tennis player.
He reached his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 33 in July 2012, and has won two singles titles, at the Austrian Open in both 2011 and 2012. Haase also reac ...
in the third round. The Brazilian defeated
Antoine Bellier in the first round and the second seed, and top 30
Gilles Simon
Gilles Simon (; born 27 December 1984) is a French former professional tennis player. He had a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 6 attained on 5 January 2009. He turned professional in 2002 and won 14 singles titles on the ATP Tour.
...
in the second round.
Attempting to break into the top 100, Monteiro entered as the top seed in the
BB&T Atlanta Open qualifiers. He breezed past American
Trent Bryde
Trent Bryde (born 24 August 1999) is an American tennis player.
Early life
Bryde, the son of Bruce and Kathi Bryde, is from Atlanta, Georgia. He attended and played collegiate tennis at the University of Georgia where he majored in consumer econ ...
, winning in straight sets and recording a
bagel
A bagel ( yi, בײגל, translit=beygl; pl, bajgiel; also spelled beigel) is a bread roll originating in the Jewish communities of Poland. It is traditionally shaped by hand into a roughly hand-sized ring from yeasted wheat dough that is first ...
, but lost to
Christopher Eubanks
Christopher Eubanks (born May 5, 1996) is an American professional tennis player. He played college tennis for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. There, he was a two-time All-American and twice named ACC Player of the Year.
Early life and backgr ...
in straight sets, at the final round. However,
Rajeev Ram
Rajeev Ram ( ; born March 18, 1984) is an American professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
Ram is a five-time major champion, having won the 2020 Australian Open, the 2021 US Open, and the 2022 US Open in men's d ...
withdrew from the tournament, and Monteiro was awarded with a
lucky loser
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entry into the main draw. Unfortunately for Thiago, he didn't have the same luck during the first round match, against
Tim Smyczek
Timothy Smyczek ( ; ; born December 30, 1987) is an American former professional tennis player. He made three quarterfinals on the main tour as well as the semi-finals of Newport in 2018. Additionally he won seven Challenger titles. He achieved ...
. Monteiro had the opportunity to serve for the match at 5–4 during the second set, but Smyczek denied his chances and won the match in three sets. Thiago also did his debut in doubles in Atlanta, playing with
Yoshihito Nishioka
is a Japanese tennis player. He has won two ATP Tour singles titles and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 36 on 7 November 2022.
He is currently the No. 1 Japanese player.
Career
Junior career
As a junior, he compiled a ...
, but they lost at the super tiebreak against American partnership of Zack Kennedy and Christopher Eubanks.
A week later, Thiago entered directly into the main draw of an ATP event for the first time, the
Los Cabos Open
The Los Cabos Open is a professional men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour. It is held annually in August in Los Cabos, Baja California ...
; but lost in the first round to
Dušan Lajović in straight sets.
Thiago finally broke the Top 100 milestone after winning in the first round of the
Western & Southern Open qualifiers against veteran
Ivan Dodig
Ivan Dodig (; born 2 January 1985) is a Croatian professional tennis player who primarily specialises in doubles.
He is a six-time Grand Slam champion, having won men's doubles titles at the 2015 French Open with Marcelo Melo, and the 2021 Au ...
in straight sets. However, Thiago failed to qualify as he lost in the final round to
Jiří Veselý
Jiří Veselý (; born 10 July 1993) is a Czech professional tennis player.
He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 35 on 27 April 2015. He is currently the No. 2 Czech tennis player in singles, as he lost his previous ...
in three sets. The win also won Monteiro the second spot in the Brazilian Top 10 singles, for the first time in his career. Later at the end of August, Thiago tried to qualify at the
US Open, but for the third time in the qualifiers, he lost at the first round. After the US Open, Thiago was invited for the first time to play in the
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ...
. He entered the team to play against
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
, opening the rubbers against
David Goffin
David Goffin (; born 7 December 1990) is a Belgian professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 7. He is currently the Belgian No. 1, and the first Belgian man to be ranked in the top 10. Goffin has won six ATP titles ...
. Monteiro lost in straight sets, and Brazil finished the series 0–4. Following his unsuccessful run at the Davis Cup, Thiago entered the
Campeonato Internacional de Tenis de Santos
The Campeonato Internacional de Tenis de Santos (formerly known as Santos Brasil Tennis Open) is a tennis List of tennis tournaments, tournament held in Santos, São Paulo, Santos, Brazil since 2011. The event is part of the ATP Challenger Tour an ...
as the 2nd seed. He went on to his third Challenger final, losing in straight sets to
Renzo Olivo
Renzo Olivo (; born 15 March 1992) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He has a career-high singles ranking of World No. 78 achieved on 9 January ...
. Thiago ended his year with other two quarterfinals (
Campinas
Campinas (, ''Plains'' or ''Meadows'') is a Brazilian municipality in São Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region. According to the 2020 estimate, the city's population is 1,213,792, making it the fourteenth most populous Brazilian ...
and
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
) and a semifinal (
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
) appearance at Challenger events.
2017: Grand Slam debut
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Thiago started his year at
Chennai Open
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
, losing in the 1R to
Daniil Medvedev
Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev (russian: Даниил Сергеевич Медведев; born 11 February 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 7 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and was ...
. A week later, he entered the
Sydney International qualifiers draw, passed through it, but he came short again in the first round, losing to
Daniel Evans. Ranked 83rd, Thiago's ranking was enough for him to enter the
Australian Open
The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. The tournament is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events held each year, preceding the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. Th ...
main draw directly. He set a rematch against
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, but couldn't reproduce the tennis from their first match, losing in four sets. Entering the
Ecuador Open
The Ecuador Open is a men's professional golf tournament held in Ecuador. The tournament was re-inaugurated as an event on the PGA Tour Latinoamérica in 2014 and the inaugural winner was Tyler McCumber
Mark Tyler McCumber (born April 4, 1991) ...
, Monteiro's performance was disappointing; he lost another one in the 1R, this time to
Giovanni Lapentti
Giovanni Lapentti Gómez (; born 25 January 1983) is retired Ecuadorian tennis player. His brother is Nicolás Lapentti, another professional tennis player, while a third brother, Leonardo, has also been active at the lower levels of professiona ...
. He also entered the doubles draw there, playing with
Thomaz Bellucci
Thomaz Cocchiarali Bellucci (born 30 December 1987, in Tietê) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 21 in July 2010.
Bellucci used a string of ATP Challenger Tour victories early i ...
, but they came short in the first round as well. Playing in Argentinian soil, Monteiro passed the 1R, defeating ex-top 10
Tommy Robredo
Tomás Robredo Garcés, known as Tommy Robredo (, ; born 1 May 1982), is a Spanish former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world No. 5, which he reached in August 2006 as a result of winning the Hamburg Masters ea ...
en route to the quarterfinals of the
Argentina Open
The ATP Buenos Aires ( es, Abierto de Buenos Aires, ) originally known as the Argentina International Championships and established in 1927 is an annual tennis event for male tennis players held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The tournament is an A ...
, losing then to local player
Carlos Berlocq
Carlos Alberto Berlocq (; born February 3, 1983) is an Argentine retired professional tennis player nicknamed ''Charly'', ''Panther'' and ''Warlocq''. His favourite surface was clay and he was last coached by Walter Grinovero. Berlocq's career ...
in three sets. Monteiro made a consecutive quarterfinal appearance, this time at
Rio Open
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, beating
Gastão Elias
Gastão José Ministro Elias (; born 24 November 1990) is a Portuguese professional tennis player, who competes on the ATP World Tour. He became the fifth Portuguese tennis player to break into the top 100 of the Association of Tennis Profession ...
and compatriot
Thomaz Bellucci
Thomaz Cocchiarali Bellucci (born 30 December 1987, in Tietê) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 21 in July 2010.
Bellucci used a string of ATP Challenger Tour victories early i ...
before losing to
Casper Ruud
Casper Ruud (born 22 December 1998) is a Norwegian professional tennis player. Ruud has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2, achieved on 12 September 2022, making him the highest-ranked Norwegian tennis player in history. He has won nine ...
. Entering another home tournament, the
Brasil Open
The Brasil Open was a tennis tournament held annually in São Paulo, Brazil. It was part of the ATP Tour 250 series, and was one of the main events in the Brazilian tennis calendar alongside ATP Tour 500 Rio Open. Since 2004, it was a part of th ...
, Thiago lost for the second time in a row to Carlos Berlocq. Some weeks later, in his
Masters 1000
The ATP Masters 1000 tournaments (previously known as ATP Masters Series) is an annual series of nine tennis tournaments featuring the top-ranked players on the ATP Tour. The series' events have been held in Europe and North America since the ...
main draw debut at
Indian Wells Masters
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, Monteiro lost in a close match to
Martin Kližan
Martin Kližan (; born 11 July 1989) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. The winner of the 2006 French Open boys' singles title, Kližan turned pro in 2007 and had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 24, achieved on 27 April 2 ...
, losing a set point in the first set tiebreak and six break point opportunities overall. In another close match, Monteiro was also eliminated in the first round of the
Miami Open, this time by
Viktor Troicki
Viktor Troicki ( sr-Cyrl, Виктор Троицки, ; born 10 February 1986) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. He won his first ATP singles title at the 2010 Kremlin Cup, and his second and third ATP singles titles at the 2015 a ...
in three sets.
Following the first two Masters of the season, Monteiro played two singles rubbers for his country at the
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ...
, winning both to help Brazil win 5–0 against
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
, classifying his country to the World Group Play-offs. Starting the spring clay court season, he entered the
U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships
The U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships is an annual ATP Tour tennis tournament that started in 1910. It is the last remaining ATP World Tour-level tournament in the United States to be played on clay courts.
The tournament began in 1910 when the ...
main draw. At the maroon clay courts, Thiago defeated seventh seed
Donald Young in straight sets, but lost in three to
Ernesto Escobedo
Ernesto "Neto" Escobedo III ( ; , born July 4, 1996) is a Mexican-American professional tennis player who has won four ATP Challenger titles.
Personal life
Escobedo began playing tennis at the age of 4. His father Ernesto Jr. briefly played prof ...
. At the
Barcelona Open There are two sporting events named the Barcelona Open:
* Barcelona Open (golf)
* Barcelona Open (tennis)
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