Steven Diez

Steven Diez

Country (sports)	Canada
Residence	Barcelona and Marbella, Spain
Born	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	David Cañudas-Fernández	6–1, 6–4
Winner	2.	May 9, 2010	Futures	Spain F15, Balaguer	Clay	David Estruch	6–2, 6–1
Winner	3.	April 30, 2011	Futures	Brazil F11, Aracaju	Clay (i)	Roman Vogeli	6–1, 6–2
Runner–up	1.	July 24, 2011	Futures	Canada F3, Mississauga	Hard	Zhe Li	2–6, 3–6
Winner	4.	October 30, 2011	Futures	Spain F39, Vilafranca	Clay	Jordi Samper-Montana	3–6, 6–2, 6–4
Winner	5.	November 6, 2011	Futures	Spain F41, Madrid	Clay	Matthew Pierot	6–0, 6–2
Runner–up	2.	January 29, 2012	Futures	Turkey F3, Antalya	Hard	Dimitar Kutrovsky	3–6, 0–6
Winner	6.	February 26, 2012	Futures	Spain F3, Murcia	Clay	Pedro Sousa	2–6, 6–4, 6–3
Runner–up	3.	May 13, 2012	Futures	Spain F11, Lleida	Clay	Sergio Gutiérrez Ferrol	6–3, 1–6, 5–7
Winner	7.	May 27, 2012	Futures	Poland F1, Sobota	Clay	Andriej Kapaś	7–6^(7–4), 6–3
Winner	8.	October 13, 2012	Futures	Algeria F1, Annaba	Clay	Gerald Melzer	6–2, 6–3
Winner	9.	October 20, 2012	Futures	Algeria F2, Annaba	Clay	Alexander Slabinsky	4–6, 6–4, 6–1
Winner	10.	October 26, 2012	Futures	Algeria F3, Alger	Clay	Francesco Picco	6–1, 4–6, 6–2
Runner–up	4.	May 19, 2013	Futures	Spain F14, Valldoreix	Clay	Taro Daniel	3–6, 2–6
Winner	11.	June 9, 2013	Futures	Spain F16, Barcelona	Hard	Jose Checa-Calvo	6–1, 6–2
Winner	12.	June 16, 2013	Futures	Spain F17, Martos	Hard	Ramkumar Ramanathan	7–5, 6–7^(4–7), 6–4
Runner–up	5.	January 4, 2014	Challenger	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard	Alejandro Falla	2–6, 2–6
Winner	13.	August 29, 2015	Futures	Switzerland F4, Sion	Clay	Federico Coria	5–7, 7–5, 6–1
Winner	14.	October 10, 2015	Futures	Spain F32, Sant Cugat del Vallès	Clay	Marcos Giraldi Requena	6–1, 6–0
Runner–up	6.	October 25, 2015	Futures	Greece F8, Heraklion	Hard	Václav Šafránek	6–7^(8–10), 4–6
Winner	15.	November 1, 2015	Futures	Greece F9, Heraklion	Hard	Stefanos Tsitsipas	6–2, 6–0
Runner–up	7.	January 31, 2016	Futures	Spain F1, Castelldefels	Clay	Gerard Granollers	3–6, 1–6
Winner	16.	February 7, 2016	Futures	Spain F2, Peguera	Clay	Paweł Ciaś	4–6, 6–2, 7–6^(9–7)
Winner	17.	February 21, 2016	Futures	Spain F4, Murcia	Clay	Alex De Minaur	6–3, 6–4
Winner	18.	March 6, 2016	Futures	Spain F6, Tarragona	Clay	Gerard Granollers	5–7, 6–1, 6–0
Runner–up	8.	March 19, 2016	Futures	Morocco F2, Beni Mellal	Clay	Lamine Ouahab	2–6, 6–4, 2–6
Runner–up	9.	April 3, 2016	Futures	Spain F7, Madrid	Hard	Akira Santillan	4–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Runner–up	10.	June 12, 2016	Challenger	Moscow, Russia	Clay	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	Fernando Vicente	Agustín Boje-Ordóñez Pablo Martin-Adalia	6–3, 6–4
2.	April 16, 2011	Futures	Brazil F9, Santa Maria	Clay	Roman Vogeli	Daniel-Alejandro Lopez Martín Ríos-Benítez	7–6^(7–5), 6–3
3.	April 30, 2011	Futures	Brazil F11, Aracaju	Clay (i)	Roman Vogeli	Mauricio Doria-Medina Daniel-Alejandro Lopez	6–1, 7–6^(7–0)
4.	October 2, 2011	Futures	Spain F35, Seville	Clay	Fernando Vicente	Axel Álvarez Llamas Ricardo Ojeda Lara	6–2, 6–1
5.	October 23, 2011	Futures	Spain F38, Sabadell	Clay	João Sousa	Miguel Ángel López Jaén Gabriel Trujillo-Soler	6–3, 3–6, [10–7]
6.	October 20, 2012	Futures	Algeria F2, Annaba	Hard	Marc Giner	Francesc Montanes-Roca Ronald Slobodchikov	6–4, 6–2
7.	March 23, 2013	Futures	Croatia F5, Rovinj	Clay	Tomislav Brkić	Nikolaus Moser Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	6–2, 6–2

References

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

External links

• Steven Diez at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Steven Diez at the International Tennis Federation
• Steven Diez at the Davis Cup