Diego Schwartzman

2010–13

In 2010 at the age of 17 he won the Bolivia F3 Futures (CL), and in 2011 he won the Chile F14 Futures (CL).^[17] In 2012, Schwartzman won titles at the Peru F2 Futures (CL), Argentina F11 Futures (CL), Argentina F14 Futures (CL), Argentina F20 Futures (CL), Argentina F21 Futures (CL), Argentina F22 Futures (CL), and Buenos Aires Challenger (CL).^[18] At the 2013 Australian Open, he lost in the final round of qualifying.^[19]

2014: four Challenger titles

Schwartzman made his first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam event at the 2014 French Open; he came through qualifying before making it to the second round, where he lost to Roger Federer.^[20] He lost in the first round of the 2014 US Open to Novak Djokovic.^[19]

In the ATP Challenger Tour, he won four titles at Aix-en-Provence, Prague, Campinas, and San Juan. In the ATP Challenger Tour Finals, he won over João Souza, Simone Bolelli, and Guilherme Clezar to claim the title. At the end of 2014 he was ranked # 61 in the world.^[17]

2015: Istanbul Open semifinals

Diego Schwartzman (2015)

Schwartzman's best result of the season came at the 2015 Istanbul Open, where he reached the semifinals, beating former top-ten player Jürgen Melzer along the way. In the semis he faced tennis legend Roger Federer. Schwartzman won the first set decisively, before ultimately falling 7-5 in the final set.^[19] He was also part of the Argentine Davis Cup Team, which reached the semifinals in 2015.^[21]

2016: Istanbul Open championship

Diego Schwartzman (2016)

Schwartzman won his first-ever singles title at the 2016 Istanbul Open - an outdoor 250 clay court event. He impressively defeated established top player Grigor Dimitrov in the final, coming back to win 6-0 in the final set after losing the first set in a tie-break. Later, Dimitrov apologized for his behavior during the match, after he smashed three rackets, which ultimately led to a warning, a point penalty, and then another point penalty. The second and final point penalty came with Dimitrov down 5-0 and gave the game, set, and match to Schwartzman.^[22]

In October Schwartzman reached his second final at the 250 level, in Antwerp. He lost to Richard Gasquet 6-7, 1-6 in the final.^[19]

2017: US Open quarterfinals

Schwartzman reached the 3rd round at the 2017 French Open, where he faced Novak Djokovic. He had a 2-1 set lead, but eventually Djokovic won in five sets.^[23]

In the 2017 Canadian Open the 25-year-old saved four match points to pull off a remarkable 4-6, 7-6(7), 7-5 upset of No. 3 seed Dominic Thiem (No. 7 in the world), his first-ever win over a top-10 player.^[24] As of mid-August 2017, he was leading the ATP tour in winning percentage in return games at 36 per cent (192/532), with Nadal in second place and Djokovic in fourth place.^[8]

On September 1, he defeated world No. 7, and 5th seed, Marin Cilic in the third round at the 2017 US Open to equal the biggest win of his career. On September 3, he beat world No. 20, and 16th seed, Lucas Pouille in the fourth round to reach his first career major quarterfinal. At 5' 7" (170 cm), Schwartzman was the shortest Grand Slam quarterfinalist since Jaime Yzaga (5' 7" at the 1994 US Open).^[25] Schwartzman said: "It’s not just for the big guys here."^[26]

Schwartzman’s 2017 season proved to be the best of his career to that point. He finished the year ranked world No. 25, in addition to making his first major quarterfinal; he also made two quarterfinals at the Masters 1000 level. He won 39 singles matches and earned $1,536,000 over the course of the season, easily besting his previous records of 17 match wins and $441,000 in the 2016 season.^[27] Finally, he scored his first win over a top-10 player, and then just two weeks later he racked up a second top-10 win.

2018: Second ATP title, top-20 ranking & second Grand Slam quarterfinal

In his first 17 Grand Slam tournaments, Schwartzman had only reached the 3rd round one time. However, at the 2018 Australian Open, he advanced to the 4th round, where he played world No. 1 Rafael Nadal. For the first time in his career, Schwartzman made the second week at a major for the second consecutive time, following his quarterfinal showing at the 2017 US Open. Despite going into the match with an 0-3 head-to-head record, 0-7 in sets, Schwartzman took the second set tiebreak 7-4 before eventually going down in 4 sets. By virtue of his performance, he reached a new career-high singles ranking of No. 24 on 29 January 2018.^[28]

He then went on to capture the title at the 2018 Rio Open, a clay ATP 500 level tournament, defeating Fernando Verdasco 6-2, 6-3. The Rio Open marked the biggest title of Schwartzman's career thus far. He reached a new career-high singles ranking of No. 15 on April 2, 2018, and was the first Jewish male player to break into the singles top 20 since Brad Gilbert was fourth in 1990.^[19][29][16] At the 2018 French Open, Schwartzman made it into his second Grand Slam quarterfinal. He didn't drop a set on his run to the 4th round where he faced 6th seed Kevin Anderson and managed to win in just under four hours, after coming back from two sets to love down for the first time in his career. In the quarterfinals he became the first man to take a set off 10-time champion Rafael Nadal since 2015, winning the first set 6-4 before finally falling in 4 sets.^[30] His quarterfinal showing marked his 3rd consecutive grand slam where he made it to the second week of competition.

Schwartzman participated in only two grass court events in 2018 they included Eastbourne International and Wimbledon. Although Schwartzman was the #1 seed at Eastbourne, he fell in the first round to Mirza Bašić in three sets. At Wimbledon, Schwartzman got his first career grass win by defeating Mirza Bašić in straight sets before falling in the 2nd round to Jiří Veselý.

Schwartzman managed to reach the quarter-finals of the German Open, but fell to the eventual finalists, Leonardo Mayer in three sets.

Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runners-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	May 2016	Istanbul Open, Turkey	250 Series	Clay	Grigor Dimitrov	6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–4), 6–0
Loss	1–1	Oct 2016	European Open, Belgium	250 Series	Hard (i)	Richard Gasquet	6–7(4–7), 1–6
Loss	1–2	Oct 2017	European Open, Belgium	250 Series	Hard (i)	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	3–6, 5–7
Win	2–2	Feb 2018	Rio Open, Brazil	500 Series	Clay	Fernando Verdasco	6–2, 6–3

Doubles: 2 (2 runners-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2015	Brasil Open, Brazil	250 Series	Clay	Paolo Lorenzi	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	4–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	May 2016	Istanbul Open, Turkey	250 Series	Clay	Andrés Molteni	Flavio Cipolla Dudi Sela	3–6, 7–5, [7–10]

Singles (15)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	28 October 2012	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Guillaume Rufin	6–1, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	29 April 2013	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Adrian Ungur	6–4, 0–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2.	24 June 2013	Marburg, Germany	Clay	Andrey Golubev	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	3.	7 September 2013	Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Aljaž Bedene	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	7 October 2013	San Juan, Argentina	Clay	Guido Andreozzi	7–6(7–4), 6–7(5–7) 0–6
Runner-up	5.	28 October 2013	Montevideo, Uruguay	Clay	Thomaz Bellucci	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	7 April 2014	Itajaí, Brazil	Clay	Facundo Argüello	6–4, 0–6, 4–6
Winner	2.	12 May 2014	Aix-en-Provence, France	Clay	Andreas Beck	6–7, 6–3, 6–2
Winner	3.	10 August 2014	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Andre Ghem	6–4, 7–5
Winner	4.	15 September 2014	Campinas, Brazil	Clay	Andre Ghem	4–6, 6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	7.	22 September 2014	Porto Alegre, Brazil	Clay	Carlos Berlocq	4–6, 6–4, 0–6
Winner	5.	19 October 2014	San Juan, Argentina	Clay	João Souza	7–6, 6–3
Winner	6.	23 November 2014	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay (i)	Guilherme Clezar	6–2, 6–3
Winner	7.	11 September 2016	Barranquilla, Colombia	Clay	Rogério Dutra Silva	6–4, 6–1
Winner	8.	19 November 2016	Montevideo, Uruguay	Clay	Rogério Dutra Silva	6–4, 6–1