Best resultLast 162018, 2020
ALL PLAYERS
Diego Schwartzman
ARG34 yrs5' 7" (1.70 m)
Best ATP ranking No. 8
Only 1.70 m tall, yet a Roland-Garros semi-finalist and world No. 8.
- Plays
- Right-handed, two-handed backhand
Figures as of 30 September 2026.
Profile & career
A clay-court fighter who reached the top 10.
Now retired, Diego Schwartzman is the best Argentine player of his generation after Juan Martín del Potro. Small by tennis standards, he was a formidable clay-court specialist, a semi-finalist at Roland-Garros in 2020 and a pillar of the early years of the UTS, which he played on the Mouratoglou Academy courts in 2021 and again in 2023.
He enjoyed the best years of his career in the late 2010s and early 2020s. In the autumn of 2020, a season reshaped by Covid-19, he beat Rafael Nadal on his way to his only Masters 1000 final in Rome, lost to Novak Djokovic, then reached the Roland-Garros semi-finals. In October 2020 he climbed to world No. 8, his career-best ranking, which earned him a place at the ATP Finals.
Did you know?Nicknamed "El Peque", he is one of the few players under 1.75 m to have competed at the very top of world tennis.
GRAND SLAMS
Diego & the Grand Slams.
A Roland-Garros semi-final and a US Open quarter-final at the peak of his career.
Best resultLast 162018, 2020
Best resultSemi-final2020
Best result3rd round2019, 2021
Best resultQuarter-final2017CAREER
Titles, year by year.
Diego Schwartzman did not stand out as a junior: his best ITF ranking was 217th and he played only one junior Grand Slam, losing in the first round of qualifying. He won a few Futures tournaments before starting his professional career in 2010. The turning point came in Istanbul in 2016, where he won his first ATP title against Grigor Dimitrov. He went on to win four ATP titles, three of them on clay: Istanbul in 2016, Rio de Janeiro in 2018 against Fernando Verdasco and Buenos Aires in 2021 against Francisco Cerúndolo, with a single hard-court title in Los Cabos in 2019 against Taylor Fritz. He also lost ten other finals, including the 2020 Rome Masters 1000 against Novak Djokovic. In Grand Slams, he lost his Roland-Garros semi-final to Rafael Nadal in 2020 and his US Open quarter-final to Pablo Carreño Busta in 2017. He played his last match at home in Buenos Aires at the beginning of 2025.
ATP titles
- 2016
Istanbul
- 2018
Rio de Janeiro
- 2019
Los Cabos
- 2021
Buenos Aires
STATISTICS & RECORDS
Proof that height is not everything.
13
Top-10 wins
Victories against players ranked in the world's top 10.
4
ATP titles
Three of them on clay: Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.
VIDEO
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Benoît Paire and Diego Schwartzman show crazy football skills at UTS
GAME & EQUIPMENT
How Diego plays.
His game
Because of his height, Diego Schwartzman always had to cope with a relatively weak serve. But his consistency and explosive speed made him one of the best at forcing opponents to play the extra shot. An exceptional returner at his peak, he made 15% fewer errors than his opponents on the forehand and 30% fewer on the backhand in rallies, which allowed him to take sets off Rafael Nadal at Roland-Garros.
Train in the gear of the Academy: rackets, apparel and accessories.
SHOP MOURATOGLOUOFF THE COURT
Personal life & interests.
Fairly discreet about his private life, Diego Schwartzman has been engaged to Eugenia De Martino since 2024, and the couple regularly share their lifestyle on social media. Football is, by his own admission, his number one sport: he watched the 2022 World Cup final in the streets of Buenos Aires with the Argentine crowds, and did not miss the chance to take a selfie with Lionel Messi at the Washington tournament in 2023.
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ATP
FranceBenoît PaireBest ATP ranking No. 18
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BulgariaGrigor DimitrovBest ATP ranking No. 3
ATP
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ATP
FranceUgo HumbertBest ATP ranking No. 13
WTA
Czech RepublicBrenda FruhvirtovaBest WTA ranking No. 87
WTA
Czech RepublicLinda FruhvirtovaBest WTA ranking No. 49
ATP
AustraliaAlexei PopyrinBest ATP ranking No. 23
ATP
DenmarkHolger RuneBest ATP ranking No. 4
WTA
United StatesCoco GauffBest WTA ranking No. 2
ATP
GreeceStefanos TsitsipasBest ATP ranking No. 3
RISING STAR
United StatesClervie NgounoueWinner Wimbledon Junior 2023 + Winner 40K Dallas 2024
RISING STAR
United StatesCarel NgounoueJ200 Lithuania 2024 Final
RISING STAR
NetherlandsThijs BoogaardWinner ITF U18 J100 Stavanger / J200 Villinger-Schwenningen
RISING STAR
JapanReita YamanakaWinner U14 ( Vanersborg / Montenegro / Barcelona)
RISING STAR
EstoniaElizaveta AnikinaWinner U12 ( TCBB / Auray / Le Passage / Villeneuve-Loubet )
WTA
United StatesSerena WilliamsBest WTA ranking No. 1
WTA
JapanNaomi OsakaBest WTA ranking No. 1
WTA
FranceAravane RezaïBest WTA ranking No. 15
ATP
CyprusMarcos BaghdatisBest ATP ranking No. 8
WTA
RomaniaSimona HalepBest WTA ranking No. 1
WTA
RussiaAnastasia PavlyuchenkovaBest WTA ranking No. 11
ATP
RussiaDaniil MedvedevBest ATP ranking No. 1
WTA
SpainPaula BadosaBest WTA ranking No. 2
ATP
United KingdomCameron NorrieBest ATP ranking No. 8
ATP
United KingdomAndy MurrayBest ATP ranking No. 1
WTA
FranceAlizé CornetBest WTA ranking No. 11
ATP
FranceJérémy ChardyBest ATP ranking No. 25
WTA
BelgiumYanina WickmayerBest WTA ranking No. 12
RISING STAR
RussiaNikita BerdinWinner U14 ( Vanersborg / Montenegro / Barcelona)
RISING STAR
BrazilVictoria BarrosSemi-final W15 ITF Monastir 2024
RISING STAR
SlovakiaLaura MasarykovaRising star
ATP
GermanyAlexander ZverevBest ATP ranking No. 2
ATP
SwitzerlandStan WawrinkaBest ATP ranking No. 3
WTA
UkraineMarta KostyukBest WTA ranking No. 16
ATP
SerbiaNovak DjokovicBest ATP ranking No. 1
ATP
United StatesBen SheltonBest ATP ranking No. 4ON COURT
Train where Diego trained.
The same courts, coaches and methodology, on the French Riviera: camps for juniors and adults, all year round.
