Steven Diez

Steven Diez
Country (sports)  Canada
Residence Barcelona and Marbella, Spain
Born (1991-03-17) March 17, 1991
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Plays Right-handed
Prize money $272,199
Singles
Career record 1–5 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles 0
Highest ranking No. 162 (September 12, 2016)
Current ranking No. 162 (September 12, 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Q2 (2013)
French Open Q1 (2013, 2014)
Wimbledon Q2 (2013)
US Open Q3 (2016)
Doubles
Career record 0–0 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles 0
Highest ranking No. 334 (November 14, 2011)
Current ranking No. 591 (September 12, 2016)
Last updated on: September 12, 2016.

Steven Diez (born March 17, 1991) is a Canadian and former Spanish professional tennis player. Raised primarily in and competing for Spain early in his career, he has since gone on to represent the country of his birth, Canada, in the Davis Cup.[1]

Tennis career

2007

Diez competed in the main draw of two senior level ITF Futures tournaments in the autumn, losing both times in the first round. In his first match, at Spain F39 in late October, he fell to World No. 422 Carles Poch-Gradin, 1-6, 0-6. He fared much better a month later taking a set off World No. 425 Juan Albert Viloca-Puig before losing 6-4, 2-6, 1-6.

2008

Diez won his first tour match in his third tournament of the year, Spain F11. He won his first ever doubles match too, partnering Ignacio Morente-Gemas to the second round of Spain F13. He then won two matches partnering Javier Valenzuela-Gonzalez to reach the semi-finals of Spain F14. The same pairing reached the semis in their next tournament too, in July, at Spain F26.

In late April he competed in qualifying for an ATP World Tour event, the 2008 Torneo Godó, losing in the first round to Marc López. In July in consecutively played Futures he won his first round match, but he failed, in singles, to reach the second round in his last five events of the year. Partnering Valenzuela-Gonzalez, he reached the second round in more events than not during this same stretch. He finished the year ranked World No. 1190 in singles and No. 1274 in doubles.

2009

In his third main draw for the year Diez had a break through in reaching the semi-finals of Spain F5. Two weeks later he reached his first career final, in doubles partnering Jose Checa-Calvo at Spain F7. In June, he competed in his first main draw in an ATP Challenger, as a wild card entrant at the 2009 Open Diputación Ciudad de Pozoblanco, and reached the quarter-finals, where he lost to eventual runner-up, Thiago Alves.

The following week Diez captured his first tour title, that of Spain F23 in singles, defeating David Canudas-Fernandez in the final. His singles wins stopped there as he won only one further tour main draw main for the remainder of the year while losing 8. In doubles however Diez continued to do well not losing in the first round for the year aside from his very first tourney. He finished the year ranked World No. 571 in singles and No. 893 in doubles.

2010

Diez did not win a singles main draw match in his first five events of the year leading into a call-up of sorts by Tennis Canada to represent the country of this birth in Davis Cup. Diez was recruited for his clay court ability as Canada faced Colombia on red clay in Bogota. Despite breaking the serve in the first game of the match, Diez went down to World No. 93 Santiago Giraldo in straight sets as Canada lost the tie, 1-4.

In April, Diez finally won a main draw singles match, at Spain F11. He reached the second round in three consecutive events before taking his second title of this career, Spain F15 in May. He then reached the semi-finals in two of his next three events. As one of the top-ranked Canadians, Diez received wild cards into events in Canada this summer. After losing in the first round of the 2010 Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby, he qualified for the main draw of the 2010 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, but lost in three close sets to Alex Kuznetsov in the first round. He managed to win a set from Michael Russell before falling in the first round of qualifying for the 2010 Rogers Cup in Toronto in early August.

After reaching the semi-finals of Spain F30 the week after the Rogers Cup, and losing in the first round of Belgium F3 the following week, Diez was off from match play until last week, where, as the No. 6 seed at Canada F4, he reached the semi-finals. En route he won his quarter-final match over No. 2 seed Brendan Evans, 3-6, 6-1, 3-0 retired. In doubles, he and partner Nikolai Haessig, a top Canadian junior, lost in the first round.

The following week Diez was upset in the first round of Canada F5, as the No. 4 seed, to World No. 792 Phillip Simmonds , 2-6, 3-6. He and partner Haessig reached the semi-finals in doubles however. This result saw Steven's doubles ranking reach a new career high the following week, of World No. 769. After two weeks off, he played three consecutive Futures events in Spain, reaching the second round in Spain F37 in Sabadell, the quarter-finals at Spain F38 in Sant Cugat, and losing in the first round of Spain F39 in Vilafranca del Penedes. In doubles, he and partner Abraham Gonzalez-Jimenez reached the second round of Spain F37 and lost in the first round of Spain F38. They did not compete at Spain F39.

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 28 (18 titles, 10 runners-up)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (0–2)
ITF Futures (18–8)
Result No. Date Category Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner 1. July 19, 2009 Futures Spain F23, Elche Clay Spain David Cañudas-Fernández 6–1, 6–4
Winner 2. May 9, 2010 Futures Spain F15, Balaguer Clay Spain David Estruch 6–2, 6–1
Winner 3. April 30, 2011 Futures Brazil F11, Aracaju Clay (i) Czech Republic Roman Vogeli 6–1, 6–2
Runner–up 1. July 24, 2011 Futures Canada F3, Mississauga Hard China Zhe Li 2–6, 3–6
Winner 4. October 30, 2011 Futures Spain F39, Vilafranca Clay Spain Jordi Samper-Montana 3–6, 6–2, 6–4
Winner 5. November 6, 2011 Futures Spain F41, Madrid Clay Netherlands Matthew Pierot 6–0, 6–2
Runner–up 2. January 29, 2012 Futures Turkey F3, Antalya Hard Bulgaria Dimitar Kutrovsky 3–6, 0–6
Winner 6. February 26, 2012 Futures Spain F3, Murcia Clay Portugal Pedro Sousa 2–6, 6–4, 6–3
Runner–up 3. May 13, 2012 Futures Spain F11, Lleida Clay Spain Sergio Gutiérrez Ferrol 6–3, 1–6, 5–7
Winner 7. May 27, 2012 Futures Poland F1, Sobota Clay Poland Andriej Kapaś 7–6(7–4), 6–3
Winner 8. October 13, 2012 Futures Algeria F1, Annaba Clay Austria Gerald Melzer 6–2, 6–3
Winner 9. October 20, 2012 Futures Algeria F2, Annaba Clay United Kingdom Alexander Slabinsky 4–6, 6–4, 6–1
Winner 10. October 26, 2012 Futures Algeria F3, Alger Clay Italy Francesco Picco 6–1, 4–6, 6–2
Runner–up 4. May 19, 2013 Futures Spain F14, Valldoreix Clay Japan Taro Daniel 3–6, 2–6
Winner 11. June 9, 2013 Futures Spain F16, Barcelona Hard Spain Jose Checa-Calvo 6–1, 6–2
Winner 12. June 16, 2013 Futures Spain F17, Martos Hard India Ramkumar Ramanathan 7–5, 6–7(4–7), 6–4
Runner–up 5. January 4, 2014 Challenger Nouméa, New Caledonia Hard Colombia Alejandro Falla 2–6, 2–6
Winner 13. August 29, 2015 Futures Switzerland F4, Sion Clay Argentina Federico Coria 5–7, 7–5, 6–1
Winner 14. October 10, 2015 Futures Spain F32, Sant Cugat del Vallès Clay Spain Marcos Giraldi Requena 6–1, 6–0
Runner–up 6. October 25, 2015 Futures Greece F8, Heraklion Hard Czech Republic Václav Šafránek 6–7(8–10), 4–6
Winner 15. November 1, 2015 Futures Greece F9, Heraklion Hard Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas 6–2, 6–0
Runner–up 7. January 31, 2016 Futures Spain F1, Castelldefels Clay Spain Gerard Granollers 3–6, 1–6
Winner 16. February 7, 2016 Futures Spain F2, Peguera Clay Poland Paweł Ciaś 4–6, 6–2, 7–6(9–7)
Winner 17. February 21, 2016 Futures Spain F4, Murcia Clay Australia Alex De Minaur 6–3, 6–4
Winner 18. March 6, 2016 Futures Spain F6, Tarragona Clay Spain Gerard Granollers 5–7, 6–1, 6–0
Runner–up 8. March 19, 2016 Futures Morocco F2, Beni Mellal Clay Morocco Lamine Ouahab 2–6, 6–4, 2–6
Runner–up 9. April 3, 2016 Futures Spain F7, Madrid Hard Japan Akira Santillan 4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Runner–up 10. June 12, 2016 Challenger Moscow, Russia Clay Kazakhstan Mikhail Kukushkin 3–6, 3–6

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures doubles titles (7)

Legend
ATP Challenger Tour (0)
ITF Futures (7)
No. Date Category Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
1. March 6, 2011 Futures Portugal F1, Faro Hard Spain Fernando Vicente Spain Agustín Boje-Ordóñez
Spain Pablo Martin-Adalia		 6–3, 6–4
2. April 16, 2011 Futures Brazil F9, Santa Maria Clay Czech Republic Roman Vogeli Paraguay Daniel-Alejandro Lopez
Argentina Martín Ríos-Benítez		 7–6(7–5), 6–3
3. April 30, 2011 Futures Brazil F11, Aracaju Clay (i) Czech Republic Roman Vogeli Bolivia Mauricio Doria-Medina
Paraguay Daniel-Alejandro Lopez		 6–1, 7–6(7–0)
4. October 2, 2011 Futures Spain F35, Seville Clay Spain Fernando Vicente Spain Axel Álvarez Llamas
Spain Ricardo Ojeda Lara		 6–2, 6–1
5. October 23, 2011 Futures Spain F38, Sabadell Clay Portugal João Sousa Spain Miguel Ángel López Jaén
Spain Gabriel Trujillo-Soler		 6–3, 3–6, [10–7]
6. October 20, 2012 Futures Algeria F2, Annaba Hard Spain Marc Giner Spain Francesc Montanes-Roca
Russia Ronald Slobodchikov 		6–4, 6–2
7. March 23, 2013 Futures Croatia F5, Rovinj Clay Bosnia and Herzegovina Tomislav Brkić Austria Nikolaus Moser
Austria Tristan-Samuel Weissborn		 6–2, 6–2

References

  1. ↑ Vancouver Sun: Steven Diez, raised in Spain, now Canada's Davis Cup clay court ace
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