Pablo Carreño Busta

Juniors

Carreño Busta reached as high as No. 6 in the combined junior world rankings in February 2009.^[3]

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.^[4]

He has reached 18 singles finals competing in ITF Futures tournaments; and won eleven of these: one in 2009,^[5] one in 2010,^[6][7] three in 2011,^[8][9][10] and six in 2013.^{[11][12][13][14][15][16]} He also won two challenger titles from two finals in 2011, and at this point reached a career high singles ranking of no. 133.^[4] He missed the majority of the 2012 season due to injury, and underwent surgery on his back later that year.^[17] 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.^[18] He ended the year with a singles ranking of No. 715.^[18]

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 in April, held in Casablanca, Morocco.^[4] 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.^[19] He lost in the following round to eventual runner-up, Kevin Anderson.^[20] Later on that month, Carreño Busta 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.^[21]

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 in straight sets in the opening round.^[22]

2016: Breakthrough and first ATP singles titles

In April, Carreño Busta reached his second ATP final at ATP Estoril after defeating Benoît Paire. He was defeated in the finals by compatriot Nicolás Almagro. In August, he won his first ever ATP singles title at the Winston-Salem Open, defeating compatriot Roberto Bautista Agut in the final. This meant he also entered the top 40 of the ATP Rankings for the first time at world No. 39.

2017: Strong Grand Slam results, Top 10 & ATP Finals debut

After a quarterfinal appearance in Sydney, Carreño Busta reached the third round of the Australian Open losing to Denis Istomin.^[23] He also made the semifinals of the doubles alongside Guillermo García López.^[24] In Buenos Aires, he lost to the eventual champion Alexandr Dolgopolov in straight sets in the semifinals.^[25] The following week, Carreño Busta reached his first ATP 500 final at the Rio Open, saving a match point against rising teen Casper Ruud en route^[26] before losing to Dominic Thiem.^[27] However, he won the doubles title with Pablo Cuevas.^[27] In Brasil, he fell to Cuevas, his doubles partner, the two-time defending and eventual champion in the semifinals.^[28]

At the BNP Paribas 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 semifinal^[29] where he lost to world No. 3 Stan Wawrinka in straight sets.^[30] 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's quarterfinal Davis Cup tie against Serbia, he lost both of his matches to Viktor Troicki in singles and to Troicki and Nenad Zimonjić in doubles.

Carreño Busta began his clay season at the Monte-Carlo Masters, where he lost to world No. 2 Novak Djokovic in three sets in the third round.^[31] He reached the same round in Barcelona, losing to lucky loser Yuichi Sugita who had defeated Tommy Robredo and Richard Gasquet in the first two rounds.^[32] After early losses in Madrid and Rome, Carreño Busta played his maiden grand slam quarterfinal at the French Open, upsetting eleventh seed Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets^[33] and fifth seed Milos Raonic in five sets en route.^[34] At the US Open he made his first grand slam semifinal without dropping a set, beating Diego Schwartzman at the quarterfinal stage.^[35]. He then got a chance to serve as an Alternate for the 2017 ATP Finals. He played in replacement of Rafael Nadal after he withdrew from playing his first round. He then went on lose to Dominic Thiem in 3 sets and to the eventual champion Grigor Dimitrov. His year end ranking was No.10.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2016	US Open	Hard	Guillermo García-López	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	2–6, 3–6

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2018	Rome	Clay	João Sousa	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–3, 4–6, [4–10]

Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runners-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2016	Brasil Open, Brazil	250 Series	Clay	Pablo Cuevas	6–7(4–7), 3–6
Loss	0–2	May 2016	Estoril Open, Portugal	250 Series	Clay	Nicolás Almagro	7–6(8–6), 6–7(5–7), 3–6
Win	1–2	Aug 2016	Winston-Salem Open, United States	250 Series	Hard	Roberto Bautista Agut	6–7(6–8), 7–6(7–1), 6–4
Win	2–2	Oct 2016	Kremlin Cup, Russia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Fabio Fognini	4–6, 6–3, 6–2
Loss	2–3	Feb 2017	Rio Open, Brazil	500 Series	Clay	Dominic Thiem	5–7, 4–6
Win	3–3	May 2017	Estoril Open, Portugal	250 Series	Clay	Gilles Müller	6–2, 7–6(7–5)

Doubles: 8 (3 titles, 5 runners-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Feb 2016	Ecuador Open, Ecuador	250 Series	Clay	Guillermo Durán	Thomaz Bellucci Marcelo Demoliner	7–5, 6–4
Loss	1–1	Feb 2016	Rio Open, Brazil	500 Series	Clay	David Marrero	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–7(5–7), 1–6
Loss	1–2	Feb 2016	Brasil Open, Brazil	250 Series	Clay	David Marrero	Julio Peralta Horacio Zeballos	6–4, 1–6, [5–10]
Loss	1–3	Sep 2016	US Open, United States	Grand Slam	Hard	Guillermo García-López	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	2–6, 3–6
Loss	1–4	Oct 2016	Chengdu Open, China	250 Series	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	6–7(2–7), 5–7
Win	2–4	Oct 2016	China Open, China	500 Series	Hard	Rafael Nadal	Jack Sock Bernard Tomic	6–7(6–8), 6–2, [10–8]
Win	3–4	Feb 2017	Rio Open, Brazil	500 Series	Hard	Pablo Cuevas	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–4, 5–7, [10–8]
Loss	3–5	May 2018	Italian Open, Italy	Masters 1000	Clay	João Sousa	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	6–3, 4–6, [4–10]

Wins (23)

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.	9 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
22.	21 June 2015	Perugia CH ATP CH +H	Clay	Matteo Viola	6–2, 6–2
23.	19 July 2015	Poznań CH ATP CH +H	Clay	Radu Albot	6–4, 6–4

Singles

Doubles

Profiles

• Pablo Carreño Busta at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Pablo Carreño Busta at the International Tennis Federation
• Pablo Carreño Busta at the International Tennis Federation – Junior profile
• Pablo Carreño Busta at the Davis Cup
• Pablo Carreño Busta on TeniSpain.com
• Pablo Carreño Busta on IMDb

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