Pablo Carreño

Pablo Carreño

Country (sports)	Spain
Residence	Barcelona, Spain
Born	(1991-07-12) 12 July 1991 Gijón, Asturias, Spain
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2009
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,453,404
Singles
Career record	36–61 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 49 (5 January 2015)
Current ranking	No. 64 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2014, 2015, 2016)
French Open	2R (2015)
Wimbledon	1R (2014, 2015)
US Open	3R (2014)
Doubles
Career record	23–35 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 82 (8 February 2016)
Current ranking	No. 82 (8 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2014, 2016)
French Open	2R (2015)
Wimbledon	1R (2015)
US Open	1R (2014, 2015)
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Pablo Carreño Busta (born 12 July 1991) is a Spanish professional tennis player.^[1][2][3]

Career

Juniors

Carreño reached as high as No. 6 in the combined junior world rankings in February 2009.^[4]

Junior Slam results:

Australian Open: 1R (2009)
French Open: 2R (2009)
Wimbledon: -
US Open: 1R (2008)

Pro tour

His first appearance in an ATP tour tournament was in Barcelona in 2011, where he lost in the first round to Benoît Paire.^[5]

He has reached 18 singles finals competing in ITF Futures tournaments; and won eleven of these: one in 2009,^[6] one in 2010,^[7][8] three in 2011,^[9][10][11] and six in 2013.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17]} He also won two challenger titles from two finals in 2011, and at this point reached a career high singles ranking of no. 133.^[5] He missed the majority of the 2012 season due to injury, and underwent surgery on his back later that year.^[18] Carreño returned to action towards the latter stages of 2012, after five months of recovery, and played in four Futures tournaments to end the year, all of which were in Morocco, although he did not progress past the semi-final stage in any of the four.^[19] He ended the year with a singles ranking of no. 715.^[19]

After a strong start to the opening three months of 2013, winning 42 out of 43 matches on the ITF Circuit, Carreño entered the qualification stage of the 2013 Grand Prix Hassan II in April, held in Casablanca, Morocco.^[5] He won his three qualifying matches, and then proceeded to beat first seed and two-time Grand Prix Hassan II champion, Pablo Andújar, 6–4, 2–6, 6–3.^[20] He lost in the following round to eventual runner-up, Kevin Anderson.^[21] Later on that month, Carreño reached the semi-final stage of the 2013 Portugal Open, again progressing through the qualification rounds, before ultimately losing to Stanislas Wawrinka in three sets.^[22]

Carreño 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 in straight sets in the opening round.^[23]

He currently resides in Barcelona.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	6 February 2016	Ecuador Open, Quito, Ecuador	Clay	Guillermo Durán	Thomaz Bellucci Marcelo Demoliner	7–5, 6–4

Challenger & Futures singles finals

Wins (21)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	27 June 2009	Melilla F22 ITF FU	Hard	Andoni Vivanco-Guzmán	6–4, 6–4
2.	11 April 2010	Madrid F11 ITF FU	Hard	Kārlis Lejnieks	7–5, 6–7(5-7), 6–3
3.	23 January 2011	Mallorca F2 ITF FU	Clay	Pedro Clar-Roselló	2–6, 6–2, 6–3
4.	13 February 2011	Murcia F5 ITF FU	Clay	Pablo Santos	1–0, ret.
5.	29 May 2011	Alessandria CH ATP CH +H	Clay	Roberto Bautista-Agut	3–6, 6–3, 7–5
6.	13 August 2011	Irun F28 ITF FU	Clay	Martín Alund	6-4, 6–7(4-7), 6–4
7.	4 September 2011	Città di Como CH ATP CH +H	Clay	Andreas Beck	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
8.	27 January 2013	Turkey F3 ITF FU	Hard	Toni Androić	6–3, 6–2
9.	10 February 2013	Spain F1 ITF FU	Clay	Alessio di Mauro	6–1, 6–1
10.	17 February 2013	Spain F2 ITF FU	Clay	Taro Daniel	6–3, 5–7, 6–1
11.	24 February 2013	Spain F3 ITF FU	Clay	Roberto Carballés Baena	6–7(7–9), 6–3, 6–3
12.	2 March 2013	Spain F4 ITF FU	Clay	Roberto Carballés Baena	6–1, 6–0
13.	17 March 2013	Spain F6 ITF FU	Clay	Jordi Samper Montaña	2–6, 6–1, 7–6
14.	24 March 2013	Spain F7 ITF FU	Carpet	Roberto Carballés Baena	6–3, 6–7, 6–3
15.	22 June 2013	Tanger CH ATP CH +H	Clay	Mikhail Kukushkin	6–2, 4–1 ret.
16.	4 August 2013	El Espinar CH ATP CH +H	Hard	Albano Olivetti	6–4, 7–6(7–2)
17.	18 August 2013	Cordenons CH ATP CH +H	Hard	Grégoire Burquier	6–4, 6–4
18.	1 September 2013	Città di Como CH ATP CH +H	Clay	Dominic Thiem	6–2, 5–7, 6–0
19.	15 June 2014	Città di Caltanissetta CH ATP CH +H	Clay	Facundo Bagnis	4–6, 6–4, 6–1
20.	21 June 2014	Mohammedia CH ATP CH	Clay	Daniel Muñoz de la Nava	7–6(7–2), 2–6, 6–2
21.	14 September 2014	Seville CH ATP CH +H	Clay	Taro Daniel	6–4, 6–1

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

References

External links

• Pablo Carreño at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Pablo Carreño at the International Tennis Federation
• TeniSpain Profile

Awards
Preceded by Marinko Matosevic	ATP Most Improved Player 2013	Succeeded by Roberto Bautista Agut

Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Spanish male singles tennis players as 1 Feb 2016 1. Rafael Nadal (5 ) 2. David Ferrer (6 2) 3. Roberto Bautista Agut (18 3) 4. Feliciano López (22 3) 5. Guillermo García-López (27 ) 6. Tommy Robredo (42 1) 7. Fernando Verdasco (45 2) 8. Albert Ramos-Viñolas (61 6) 9. Pablo Andújar (62 3) 10. Pablo Carreño Busta (68 1)

Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Spanish male doubles tennis players as of 19 October 2015 1. Marc López (28 1) 2. Marcel Granollers (32 2) 3. David Marrero (34 3) 4. Feliciano López (41 2) 5. Guillermo García-López (77 5) 6. Fernando Verdasco (82 2) 7. Pablo Carreño Busta (84 1) 8. Pablo Andújar (92 1) 9. Rafael Nadal (95 3) 10. Nicolás Almagro (133 1)