Diego Schwartzman, a former Top 10 player and fan favorite wherever he goes, is playing the last tournament of his professional career in front of his home crowd in Buenos Aires this week.
He’ll face Nicolas Jarry in the first round on Tuesday night.
Here are 10 things to know about the Argentine’s incredible career:
He captured the biggest title of his career at the ATP 500 clay-court event in Rio de Janeiro in 2018. He won a total of four ATP titles, the other three coming at ATP 250s—two on clay at Istanbul in 2016 and Buenos Aires in 2021, and one on hard courts in Los Cabos in 2019.
However, the biggest results of his career—his biggest final and his biggest semifinal—all came in a four-week span in 2020. He reached his first Masters 1000 final in Rome, falling to Novak Djokovic, and his first Grand Slam semifinal at Roland Garros, falling to Rafael Nadal.
He got the two biggest wins of his career by ranking in that four-week stretch, too. Having been 0-22 in his career against Top 5 players going into those four weeks, he stunned a No. 2-ranked Nadal in the quarterfinals of Rome, then a No. 3-ranked Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals of Roland Garros in a marathon five-setter.
He broke into the Top 10 after reaching the Roland Garros semifinals, rising to a career-high of No. 8. He’s one of just nine Argentine men to reach the Top 8 in ATP rankings history after Guillermo Vilas (career-high No. 2), Jose-Luis Clerc (No. 4), Alberto Mancini (No. 8), Guillermo Coria (No. 3), David Nalbandian (No. 3), Gaston Gaudio (No. 5), Guillermo Canas (No. 8) and Juan Martin del Potro (No. 3).
