Pablo Carreño Busta (; born 12 July 1991) is a Spanish professional
tennis
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player. He has been
ranked as high as world No. 10 by the
ATP, which he first achieved on 11 September 2017. He also reached a best doubles ranking of No. 16 on 17 July 2017.
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He has won seven singles titles, including a
Masters 1000 title at the
Canadian Open, and four doubles titles on the
ATP Tour
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. Representing Spain, Carreño Busta has won an Olympic
bronze medal
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in men's singles at the
2020 Tokyo Olympics (defeating world No. 1
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Новак Ђоковић, Novak Đoković, separator=" / ", ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at N ...
en route) and was a member of the
Spanish team that won the
2019 Davis Cup.
Career
Juniors
Carreño Busta reached as high as No. 6 in the combined junior world rankings in February 2009.
2009–13: Early pro tour, Grand Slam debut
His first appearance in an
ATP Tour
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tournament was at the
2011 Barcelona Open, where he lost in the first round to
Benoît Paire
Benoît "Ben" Paire (; born 8 May 1989) is a French professional tennis player.
His best result in a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam has been reaching the fourth round, which he has achieved on four occasions. He has won three singles titles, ...
.
He has reached 18 singles finals competing in
ITF Futures
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tournaments; and won eleven of these: one in 2009,
one in 2010,
three in 2011,
and six in 2013.
He also won two
challenger titles from two finals in 2011, and at this point reached a career high singles ranking of no. 133.
He missed the majority of the 2012 season due to injury, and underwent surgery on his back later that year.
Carreño returned towards the latter stages of 2012, after five months of recovery, and played in four Futures tournaments to end the year, all in
Morocco
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, although he did not progress past the semi-final stage in any.
He ended the year with a singles ranking of No. 715.
After a strong start to the opening three months of 2013, winning 42 out of 43 matches on the ITF Circuit, Carreño Busta entered the qualification stage of the
2013 Grand Prix Hassan II
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in April, held in
Casablanca
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, Morocco.
He won his three qualifying matches, and then beat first seed and two-time
Grand Prix Hassan II
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champion,
Pablo Andújar, 6–4, 2–6, 6–3.
He lost in the following round to eventual runner-up,
Kevin Anderson.
Later on that month, Carreño Busta reached the semi-final stage of the
2013 Portugal Open, again progressing through the qualification rounds, before losing to
Stan Wawrinka
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka (; born 28 March 1985) is a Swiss professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), first achieved on 27 January 2014. Wawrinka has won 16 ATP T ...
in three sets.
Carreño Busta participated in his first ever Grand Slam tournament when he was a qualifier at the
2013 French Open. He won his three qualification matches, before losing to
Roger Federer
Roger Federer ( , ; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 3 ...
in straight sets in the opening round.
2016: Breakthrough, first ATP title, US Open doubles final, top 40
In April, Carreño Busta reached his second ATP final at
ATP Estoril after defeating
Benoît Paire
Benoît "Ben" Paire (; born 8 May 1989) is a French professional tennis player.
His best result in a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam has been reaching the fourth round, which he has achieved on four occasions. He has won three singles titles, ...
. He was defeated in the finals by compatriot
Nicolás Almagro
Nicolás Almagro Sánchez (; born 21 August 1985 in Murcia, Spain) is a Spanish former professional tennis player of Latin American descent. He reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 2008 French Open – Men's singles, 2008, 201 ...
. In August, he won his first ever ATP singles title at the
2016 Winston-Salem Open, defeating compatriot
Roberto Bautista Agut
Roberto Bautista Agut (; born 14 April 1988) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 9 by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP in singles, achieved on 4 November 2019. Bautista Agut ...
in the final. He entered the top 40 of the
ATP rankings
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for the first time as a result, becoming world No. 39.
2017: Grand Slam success, Top Ten & ATP Finals debut
After a quarterfinal appearance in
Sydney
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, Carreño Busta reached the third round of the Australian Open losing to
Denis Istomin. He also made the semifinals of the
doubles alongside
Guillermo García López. In
Buenos Aires
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, he lost to the eventual champion
Alexandr Dolgopolov
Alexandr Oleksandrovych Dolgopolov (born 7 November 1988), formerly known as Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr., is a Ukrainian retired professional tennis player. He changed his forename spelling to the current form in May 2010. Dolgopolov reached the qu ...
in straight sets in the semifinals. The following week, Carreño Busta reached his first
ATP 500 final at the
Rio Open
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, saving a match point against rising teen
Casper Ruud
Casper Ruud (; born 22 December 1998) is a Norwegian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in September 2022, making him t ...
en route before losing to
Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem (; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in March 2020. Thiem won 17 ATP Tour-level s ...
.
However, he won the
doubles title with
Pablo Cuevas
Pablo Gabriel Cuevas Urroz (; born January 1, 1986) is a Uruguayan tennis coach and a former professional player. Cuevas won the 2008 French Open – Men's doubles, 2008 French Open men's doubles title with Luis Horna, and was especially noted t ...
.
In
São Paulo
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, he fell to Cuevas, his doubles partner, the two-time defending and eventual champion in the semifinals.
At the
Indian Wells Open in March, Carreño Busta avenged his defeat to Cuevas, saving two match points in the process to advance to his first
ATP Masters 1000
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semifinal where he lost to world No. 3,
Stan Wawrinka
Stanislas "Stan" Wawrinka (; born 28 March 1985) is a Swiss professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), first achieved on 27 January 2014. Wawrinka has won 16 ATP T ...
, in straight sets. As a result, he rose to a new career high of world No. 19. He received a first round bye at the
Miami Open but was upset by
Federico Delbonis in the second. In
Spain
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's quarterfinal
Davis Cup
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tie against
Serbia
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, he lost both of his matches to
Viktor Troicki in singles and to Troicki and
Nenad Zimonjić
Nenad Zimonjić ( sr-Cyrl, Ненад Зимоњић, ; born 4 June 1976) is a Serbian former professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles.
He is an eight-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2008 and 2009 Wimbledon Ch ...
in doubles.
Carreño Busta began his clay-court season at the
Monte-Carlo Masters
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, where he lost to world No. 2
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Новак Ђоковић, Novak Đoković, separator=" / ", ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at N ...
, in three sets in the third round. He reached the same round in
Barcelona
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, losing to lucky loser
Yūichi Sugita
is a Japanese former professional tennis player. He has won one ATP singles title, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 36 on 9 October 2017.
Career
Juniors
As a junior Sugita compiled a win–loss record of 34–19 (and 26 ...
who had defeated
Tommy Robredo
Tomás Robredo Garcés (, ; 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 2006 Hamburg Masters – Singles, Hamburg M ...
and
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet (; born 18 June 1986) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, attained in July 2007. Gasquet won 16 singles ...
in the first two rounds. After early losses in
Madrid
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and
Rome
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, Carreño Busta played his maiden
Grand Slam quarterfinal at the
French Open
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, upsetting eleventh seed
Grigor Dimitrov
Grigor Dimitrov Dimitrov (, ; born 16 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, making him the highest-ranked Bulgari ...
in straight sets and fifth seed
Milos Raonic
Milos Raonic ( sr-Cyrl, Милош Раонић, Miloš Raonić, ; born December 27, 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP ...
in five sets en route. In his quarterfinal against compatriot
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for ...
, Carreño Busta was forced to retire at a set and 0–2 down due to injury.
At the
US Open he made his first Grand Slam semifinal without dropping a set, beating
Diego Schwartzman
Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (, ; born 16 August 1992) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He won four ATP Tour singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist ...
at the quarterfinal stage. He then lost to
Kevin Anderson in four sets. At the year-end
ATP Finals
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, he served as an Alternate in replacement of
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for ...
, who withdrew from playing his first round. Carreño Busta then went on lose to
Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem (; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in March 2020. Thiem won 17 ATP Tour-level s ...
and to eventual champion
Grigor Dimitrov
Grigor Dimitrov Dimitrov (, ; born 16 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, making him the highest-ranked Bulgari ...
. His year end ranking was No. 10.
2018: First Masters doubles final & second singles semifinal
At the
Australian Open
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, Carreño Busta defeated
Jason Kubler
Jason Murray Kubler ( ; born 19 May 1993) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP Tour, ATP singles ranking of No. 63 achieved on 24 April 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 27 achieved on 22 May 2023. Kubler's care ...
,
Gilles Simon
Gilles Simon (; born 27 December 1984) is a French former tennis player. He turned professional in 2002 and won fourteen singles titles on the ATP Tour, and attained a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 6, on 5 January 2009.
Personal li ...
, and
Gilles Müller
Gilles Müller (; born 9 May 1983) is a Luxembourgish former professional tennis player. He is a two-time major singles quarterfinalist, making him by far the most successful male tennis player in Luxembourgish history. Müller won two titles on ...
to advance to the fourth round, where he lost in a close four set match to eventual finalist
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić (; born 28 September 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 28 January 2018. Čilić has won 21 ATP Tour-level si ...
.
At the
Miami Masters
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, Carreño Busta was seeded 16th. He defeated
Denis Istomin,
Steve Johnson, 31st seed
Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona (; born 15 November 1983) is a Spaniards, Spanish tennis coach and a former professional player. He was ranked world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, achieved in April 2009, and w ...
, and sixth seed
Kevin Anderson, before losing to fourth seed
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player and the current world No. 3. He has won 24 ATP Tour titles in singles and two in doubles, and has been runner-up at three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, ma ...
in the semifinals.
Carreño Busta reached the semifinals of a second consecutive event at the
Barcelona Open. He defeated
Benoît Paire
Benoît "Ben" Paire (; born 8 May 1989) is a French professional tennis player.
His best result in a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam has been reaching the fourth round, which he has achieved on four occasions. He has won three singles titles, ...
,
Adrian Mannarino
Adrian Mannarino (born 29 June 1988) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 17, attained on 29 January 2024. He has won five ATP Tour singles titles, three on hardcourt and two on grass.
Te ...
, and upset second seed
Grigor Dimitrov
Grigor Dimitrov Dimitrov (, ; born 16 May 1991) is a Bulgarian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, making him the highest-ranked Bulgari ...
before losing to unseeded
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Stefanos Tsitsipas (, ; born 12 August 1998) is a Greek professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), first achieved in August 2021 – mak ...
in the semifinals. He then reached the semifinals of a third consecutive tournament at the
Estoril Open before losing to
Frances Tiafoe
Frances Tiafoe Jr. ( ; born January 20, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. He reached his career high at world No. 10 in singles on June 19, 2023, becoming the first Sierra Leonean American man to be ranked in the top 10 by the ...
. After suffering an opening round loss at the
Madrid Masters to
Borna Ćorić
Borna Ćorić (; born 14 November 1996) is a Croatian professional tennis player. On 5 November 2018, he reached his best singles ranking of world No. 12. In 2022, Ćorić became the lowest-ranked champion in ATP Tour Masters 1000, Masters 1000 h ...
, he followed up with a quarterfinal appearance at the
Rome Masters
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, losing to
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić (; born 28 September 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 28 January 2018. Čilić has won 21 ATP Tour-level si ...
. At the same tournament he reached his first Masters final in
doubles partnering
João Sousa
João Pedro Coelho Marinho de Sousa (born 30 March 1989), known as João Sousa (), is a Portuguese former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 28 on 16 May 2016 a ...
. In the third round of the
French Open
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, he was defeated by
Marco Cecchinato
Marco Cecchinato (; born 30 September 1992) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 16 reached on 25 February 2019. On 29 April 2018, he won his first ATP World Tour title at the 2018 Hunga ...
.
At
Wimbledon
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* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
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, Carreño Busta was upset in the first round by unseeded Moldovan
Radu Albot
Radu Albot (born 11 November 1989) is a Moldovan professional tennis player. He achieved a career high ranking of No. 39 on 5 August 2019, making him the highest ranked player from Moldova. He is the first player from Moldova to win ATP Tour t ...
.
At the
Cincinnati Masters
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, Carreño Busta made the quarterfinals where he was defeated again by
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić (; born 28 September 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 28 January 2018. Čilić has won 21 ATP Tour-level si ...
. He then reached the semifinals of the
Winston-Salem Open
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, defeating 16th seed
Peter Gojowczyk
Peter Gojowczyk ( ; born 15 July 1989) is a German former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 39 in June 2018. He won one ATP singles title and reached two more finals.
Tennis career 2012: Gran ...
and sixth seed
Chung Hyeon
Chung Hyeon (; ; born 19 May 1996) is a South Korean professional tennis player. He is the 2017 Next Gen Finals champion. As an unseeded player, he became the first Korean player to reach a Grand Slam semifinal at the 2018 Australian Open.
J ...
before losing to eighth seed
Steve Johnson. At the
US Open, Carreño Busta was upset by
João Sousa
João Pedro Coelho Marinho de Sousa (born 30 March 1989), known as João Sousa (), is a Portuguese former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 28 on 16 May 2016 a ...
in the second round. He suffered opening-round losses at both the Shanghai and Paris Masters.
2019: Fourth ATP title and Davis Cup champion
Carreño Busta opened his 2019 season at the
Auckland Open, facing
David Ferrer
David Ferrer Ern (; ; born 2 April 1982) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in July 2013. Ferrer won 27 ATP Tour singles titles, including a ...
, who retired just two games into the match. He was then defeated in a close three set match against
Jan-Lennard Struff
Jan-Lennard Struff (; born 25 April 1990) is a German professional tennis player. He reached his career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles and doubles rankings of world No. 21 on 19 June 2023 and on 22 October 2018 respectively. ...
.
At the
Australian Open
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, Carreño Busta was seeded 23rd. He defeated
Luca Vanni
Luca Vanni (born 4 June 1985) is an Italian former professional tennis player. He competed mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures, both in singles and doubles. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking, No. 100 on 11 May 2015, and his ...
,
Ilya Ivashka
Ilya Uladzimiravich Ivashka (; ; born 24 February 1994) is a Belarusian professional tennis player.
Ivashka has a career-high singles ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) of No. 40, achieved on 20 June 2022. He also has a car ...
, and 12th seed
Fabio Fognini
Fabio Fognini (; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 15 July 2019. Fognini's most successful surface is Clay court#Red clay, ...
to reach the fourth round, where he faced
Kei Nishikori
is a Japanese professional tennis player. He is the only Japanese man in the Open Era to have been ranked in the top five in singles, reaching his career-high ranking of world No. 4 in March 2015, and the second man in history to do so after ...
. Carreño Busta narrowly won the first two sets before losing a close third set tiebreak. Nishikori took the fourth, and the fifth eventually proceeded to a tiebreaker. Carreño Busta led the tiebreak until 8–5, when a late call from a linesperson sparked an argument between Carreño Busta and the umpire. Ultimately, Nishikori was awarded the point, and went on to win the next four points, winning the tiebreak 10–8. The match had lasted over five hours. After the match, Carreño Busta refused to shake the umpire's hand, and threw his bag onto the court before leaving the stadium amidst a booing crowd. In a post-match conference, he apologized for his outburst.
After missing much of the rest of the season due to injury, Carreño Busta won his fourth ATP title at the
Chengdu Open
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beating
Denis Shapovalov
Denis Viktorovich Shapovalov (born ) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, which he first achieved on September 21, 2020. Sh ...
in the semifinal and
Alexander Bublik
Alexander Stanislavovich Bublik (; born 17 June 1997) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 17, achieved on 6 May 2024 and a doubles ...
in the final. He was also part of the Spain team that won the
2019 Davis Cup.
2020: Inaugural ATP Cup finalist, second US Open semis, French Open quarters
Carreño Busta's first major of the year was the
Australian Open
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, where he lost his third round match to top-seeded
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal Parera (born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for ...
. Then much of the
2020 season was interrupted by the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Carreño Busta's season resumed at the
2020 US Open, where he defeated
Yasutaka Uchiyama
is a Japanese tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 78 on 4 November 2019 and doubles ranking of No. 102 on 20 August 2018. He is currently the No. 5 player from Japan.
C ...
in five sets in the first round, then
Mitchell Krueger
Mitchell Krueger (born January 12, 1994) is an American tennis player.
He has a career-high singles ranking by the ATP of world No. 135, achieved on July 18, 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 173, achieved on April 27, 2015.
Professional caree ...
and
Ričardas Berankis
Ričardas Berankis (; born June 21, 1990) is a Lithuanian professional tennis player. He is the first and only Lithuanian to enter the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP top 50 rankings, making him the highest ranked Lithuanian tennis play ...
in straight sets. In the fourth round, he faced world No. 1
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Новак Ђоковић, Novak Đoković, separator=" / ", ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at N ...
, who was unbeaten in 2020 before then. Carreño Busta was up a break, 6–5 in the first set, when Djokovic unintentionally hit a lineswoman in the throat with a ball. This defaulted Djokovic from the tournament, advancing Carreño Busta to the quarterfinals, where he defeated 12th seed
Denis Shapovalov
Denis Viktorovich Shapovalov (born ) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, which he first achieved on September 21, 2020. Sh ...
in five sets. He then lost to fifth seed
Alexander Zverev
Alexander "Sascha" Zverev (; born 20 April 1997) is a German professional tennis player and the current world No. 3. He has won 24 ATP Tour titles in singles and two in doubles, and has been runner-up at three Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, ma ...
in five sets in the semifinals despite being two sets up.
At the
French Open
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, Carreño Busta was seeded 17th and reached the quarterfinals after victories against 10th seed
Roberto Bautista Agut
Roberto Bautista Agut (; born 14 April 1988) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 9 by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP in singles, achieved on 4 November 2019. Bautista Agut ...
and
Daniel Altmaier
Daniel Altmaier (; born 12 September 1998) is a German professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 47, achieved on 2 October 2023. He is the current German No. 2.
Personal life
Altmaier's father Jurij is Ukr ...
. In a rematch of the US Open, he faced Djokovic, to whom he lost in four sets.
2021: 200th win, two ATP titles, Olympic bronze medalist
Carreño Busta won the first edition of the
Andalucía Open in Marbella, Spain as the top seed by defeating
Jaume Munar
Jaume Antoni Munar Clar (; ; born 5 May 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player. Munar has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 52 achieved on 20 May 2019 and a doubles ranking of No. 98 achieved on 21 April 2025. He is currently ...
6–1, 2–6, 6–4 in an all Spanish final. The win was also his 200th career win on the ATP Tour.
Carreño Busta won the biggest title of his career, and sixth title overall at
Hamburg
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, when he defeated
Filip Krajinović
Filip Krajinović (, ; born 27 February 1992) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26 on 23 April 2018. in straight sets in the final to win the title.
At the
Olympics
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, Carreño Busta beat
Tennys Sandgren
Tennys Loren Sandgren II ( ; born July 22, 1991) is an American former professional tennis player. He has achieved a career-high ATP singles ATP rankings, ranking of No. 41 on January 14, 2019. He played two years of college tennis at the Univer ...
,
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić (; born 28 September 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has been ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved on 28 January 2018. Čilić has won 21 ATP Tour-level si ...
,
Dominik Koepfer
Dominik Koepfer (born 29 April 1994), also spelled Köpfer, is a German professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 49 on 4 March 2024, and a doubles ranking of No. 69 on 24 June 2024. He played college ...
and world No. 2
Daniil Medvedev
Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev ( rus, Даниил Сергеевич Медведев, p=dənʲɪˈil sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 11 February 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ...
to reach the semifinals. There, he lost to 12th seed
Karen Khachanov
Karen Abgarovich Khachanov (, ; born 21 May 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 8 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in July 2019. Khachanov has won seve ...
in straight sets, but bounced back to defeat world No. 1
Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Новак Ђоковић, Novak Đoković, separator=" / ", ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players#Weeks at N ...
in three sets to claim the bronze medal.
At the
US Open, Carreño Busta was upset in the first round by American qualifier
Maxime Cressy, losing a two sets to love lead for the second consecutive year at the US Open and failing to convert four match points in the fifth set tiebreak.
2022: ATP Cup and home finalist, Maiden Masters title
Carreño Busta began his 2022 season representing Spain at the
ATP Cup
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. He went undefeated in singles in the group stage, recording victories over
Alejandro Tabilo
Alejandro Tabilo Álvarez (born 2 June 1997) is a Chilean professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the ATP as high as world No. 19 in singles, achieved on 1 July 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 108, attained on 6 January 2025. He is ...
of Chile,
Viktor Durasovic of Norway, and
Filip Krajinović
Filip Krajinović (, ; born 27 February 1992) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26 on 23 April 2018. of Serbia, as Spain advanced to the semifinals. In the semifinals against Poland, Carreño Busta defeated
Jan Zieliński
Jan Zieliński (Polish: ; born 16 November 1996) is a Polish professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has an ATP career-high doubles ranking of world No. 7, which he attained on 19 June 2023. His highest ranking in singles has b ...
to help Spain advance to the finals.
At the
Barcelona Open, he defeated second seed
Casper Ruud
Casper Ruud (; born 22 December 1998) is a Norwegian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in September 2022, making him t ...
in the quarterfinals after saving three match points, following another three setter win in the round of 16 against
Lorenzo Sonego
Lorenzo Sonego (; born 11 May 1995) is an Italian professional tennis player. Sonego has won four singles titles on the ATP Tour, and two doubles titles. He has a career high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ATP rankings, ranking o ...
in the same day. Then, Carreño Busta beat
Diego Schwartzman
Diego Sebastián Schwartzman (, ; born 16 August 1992) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He won four ATP Tour singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist ...
in straight sets, after the match was suspended early in the first set and moved to the next day for his first all Spanish final in Barcelona against
Carlos Alcaraz
Carlos Alcaraz Garfia (; born 5 May 2003) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), inc ...
. He lost in the final in straight sets against Alcaraz.
He lost in the first round in the
French Open
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and at
Wimbledon
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* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
Wimbledon may also refer to:
Places London
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to
Gilles Simon
Gilles Simon (; born 27 December 1984) is a French former tennis player. He turned professional in 2002 and won fourteen singles titles on the ATP Tour, and attained a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 6, on 5 January 2009.
Personal li ...
in five sets and to
Dušan Lajović
Dušan Lajović ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Лајовић; born 30 June 1990) is a Serbian professional tennis player. On 29 April 2019, he reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 23. On 21 September 2020, he peaked at No. 82 in the doubl ...
via retirement, respectively.
At the
Swedish Open
The Swedish Open is a professional tennis tournament held in Båstad, Sweden. It is played
on outdoor clay courts in July.
The men's event (sponsored by Skistar) is an ATP Tour 250 tournament on the ATP Tour.
The women's event (sponsored by ...
in Båstad, he reached the semifinals defeating Diego Schwartzman in straight sets conceding only one game in the entire match. He fell to the eventual champion
Francisco Cerundolo.
At the
Canadian Open, he reached the quarterfinals at this Masters for the first time, defeating 11th seed
Matteo Berrettini
Matteo Berrettini (; born 12 April 1996) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he achieved in January 2022, and world N ...
,
Holger Rune
Holger Vitus Nødskov Rune (; born 29 April 2003) is a Danish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), making him the highest-ranked Da ...
and seventh seed
Jannik Sinner
Jannik Sinner (born 16 August 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the ATP, the first Italian to reach the top ranking. Sinner has won 19 singles titles on the ATP Tour ...
. Next he reached his third semifinal at a Masters level defeating
Jack Draper. In the semifinals, he defeated Briton
Dan Evans to advance to his first career Masters 1000 final. He played eighth seed
Hubert Hurkacz
Hubert Hurkacz (; born 11 February 1997) is a Polish professional tennis player. He has been ATP rankings, ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, making him the highest-ranked Polish man in singl ...
in the final and won the title to become the first unseeded player to win this event in 20 years since
Guillermo Cañas
Guillermo "Willy" Ignacio Cañas (; born November 25, 1977) is an Argentine former professional tennis player and coach. He was ranked world No. 8 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in June 2005. Cañas wo ...
in 2002 and the first player ranked outside the Top 20 since a No. 43-ranked
Andrei Pavel
Andrei Pavel (born 27 January 1974) is a Romanian tennis coach and former professional tennis player.
He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 13 and won three titles, including the 2001 Canada Masters. He also reached a care ...
the year before in 2001.
At the US Open, Carreño Busta reached the fourth round after defeating
Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem (; born 3 September 1993) is an Austrian former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved in March 2020. Thiem won 17 ATP Tour-level s ...
,
Alexander Bublik
Alexander Stanislavovich Bublik (; born 17 June 1997) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 17, achieved on 6 May 2024 and a doubles ...
, and
Alex de Minaur
Alex de Minaur Román (born 17 February 1999) is an Australian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of No. 6 on 15 July 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 58 on 12 October ...
. In the fourth round, he lost to
Karen Khachanov
Karen Abgarovich Khachanov (, ; born 21 May 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 8 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in July 2019. Khachanov has won seve ...
in a five set match lasting more than 3 hours. He also reached the round of 16 at the
2022 Rolex Paris Masters where he lost to
Tommy Paul.
2023–25: Hiatus, surgery, back to ATP Tour & top 100
Carreño Busta started his 2023 season at the
Adelaide International 2. Seeded second, he lost in the second round to the eventual champion
Kwon Soon-woo
Kwon Soon-woo (; born 2 December 1997) is a South Korean professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 52 ranking by the ATP, achieved in November 2021 and a doubles ranking of world No. 224, attained in December 2022. ...
. Seeded 14th at the
Australian Open
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, he lost in a second round five-set thriller to
Benjamin Bonzi
Benjamin Bonzi (; born 9 June 1996) is a French professional tennis player. Bonzi has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 42 achieved on 6 February 2023. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 121 achieved on 19 Septem ...
.
In February, Carreño Busta competed at the
Rotterdam Open
The Rotterdam Open, also known as the ABN AMRO Open for sponsorship reasons, is a professional men's tennis tournament played on Tennis court#Indoor courts, indoor hard courts. It is part of the ATP Tour 500 series on the ATP Tour and has been held ...
. Seeded seventh, he was eliminated in the first round by
Richard Gasquet
Richard Gabriel Cyr Gasquet (; born 18 June 1986) is a French former professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as world No. 7 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP, attained in July 2007. Gasquet won 16 singles ...
in three sets. He had to take eight months off from tennis to recover from an elbow injury.
In October 2023, Carreño Busta returned to the Challenger tour at the
JC Ferrero Challenger and lost to compatriot
Pedro Martínez
Pedro Jaime Martínez (born October 25, 1971) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball starting pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to , for five teams—most notably the Boston Red Sox from to .
As of 2023, M ...
in the first round. He entered the
Málaga Open as a wildcard, defeating
Arthur Cazaux
Arthur Cazaux (; born 23 August 2002) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 63 achieved on 2 December 2024. He also has a career high doubles ranking of world No. 430, achieved on 1 Novembe ...
before losing to
Mattia Bellucci in the second round. In November, he underwent surgery for his elbow injury.
Following more than a six month hiatus, he entered for the main draw of the
2024 French Open using protected ranking in singles and doubles and also the
2024 Olympics
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in doubles with compatriot
Marcel Granollers
Marcel Granollers Pujol (; ; born 12 April 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 1 on 6 May 2024, becoming the second Spanish man to achieve the feat (after Emilio Sánchez Vicari ...
, where he reached the second round.
Also using protected ranking, ranked No. 796, he entered the
2024 National Bank Open, playing in his first Masters event since 2022, he recorded his first ATP win since January 2023, over
Fábián Marozsán. As a result he returned a couple of positions shy of the top 500 on 12 August 2024, climbing close to 290 positions in the rankings. Ranked No. 513, at the
2024 Cincinnati Open, with first back-to-back wins in two years, over 16th seed
Sebastian Korda
Sebastian Korda ( ; born July 5, 2000) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 15 achieved on August 12, 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 46 reached o ...
and
Max Purcell
Max Purcell (born 3 April 1998) is an Australian professional tennis player. He has reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 40 on 16 October 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 8 on 9 September 2024.
In doubles, he won his first Gran ...
, he reached the third round and returned to the top 300 in the singles rankings on 19 August 2024, climbing more than 200 positions.
Ranked No. 299, he received a main draw wildcard for the
2024 Winston-Salem Open and defeated qualifier
Omni Kumar, 13th seed
Alexander Shevchenko,
Aleksandar Vukic
Aleksandar Vukic ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Александар Вукић, Aleksandar Vukić, separator=" / ", ; born 6 April 1996) is an Australian professional tennis player.
He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 48 achieved on 14 Au ...
and qualifier
Learner Tien to reach his first ATP semifinal since 2022 in Montreal. As a result he moved up the rankings into the top 225 on 26 August 2024.
He returned to the top 150 at No. 149 on 3 February 2025.
At the
2025 Grand Prix Hassan II in Marrakech Carreño Busta recorded his first clay win since October 2022 over local wildcard
Younes Lalami Laaroussi. He returned to the top 100 on 14 April 2025 at world No. 99 prior to the
2025 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell where he received a wildcard.
Personal life
Carreño Busta was born in
Gijón
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to parents Alfonso Carreño Morrondo and María Antonia Busta Vallina and has two sisters, Lucía and Alicia. He married tax advisor Claudia Díaz Borrego in December 2021. He currently resides in
Barcelona
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.
In 2015, Carreño Busta joined the
Ferrero Tennis Academy in
Alicante
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to train with coach
Samuel López.
In December 2024, it was announced that he had split with coach López and the Ferrero Academy. In the beginning of the 2025 season, he started training at the TEC Carles Ferrer Salat in Barcelona with a new coach
Víctor López Morón.
Career statistics
Grand Slam tournament performance timelines
Singles
''Current through the
2025 French Open.''
Doubles
Grand Slam tournament finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
Summer Olympics
Singles: 1 (bronze medal)
ATP 1000 tournaments
Singles: 1 (1 title)
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Notes
References
External links
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Pablo Carreño Bustao
''TeniSpain.com''
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Sportspeople from Gijón
Spanish male tennis players
Tennis players from Barcelona
Living people
1991 births
Real Grupo de Cultura Covadonga sportsmen
Tennis players from Asturias
Olympic tennis players for Spain
Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Spain
Olympic medalists for Spain in tennis
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
21st-century Spanish sportsmen