Diego Hartfield Explained

Diego Hartfield (born 31 January 1981), nicknamed 'El Gato Hartfield' (Hartfield the Cat in Spanish) is a stockbroker and a former tennis player on the ATP Tour from Argentina.

Career

2000 : Diego began his pro career by playing Futures in South America.

2001 : He reached his first career Futures final in Mendoza (Argentina), was three times Doubles finalist at Futures, and won one title in Asunción (Paraguay)

2002 : He won his first career Futures Singles title in Viña del Mar (Chile) and reached the final in Santa Cruz (Bolivia). He won two Doubles titles in Bolivia at the Cochabamba and Santa Cruz Futures and reached the final in La Paz (Bolivia).

2003 : Diego won the Futures title in Viña del Mar, for the second time. He reached the Singles finals in Uruguay and Buenos Aires. He won a Futures doubles title in Santiago de Chile and reached three finals in Argentina, Uruguay and Slovenia.

2004 : He won a Futures title at Santiago de Chile and three Futures doubles titles in San Salvador, Netherlands (Alkmaar) and France (Blois).

2005 : He reached his first career Challenger Singles final in Buenos Aires and in Doubles in Nashville (USA). He won a Futures title in Córdoba (Argentina), reached the Futures Singles final in Colombia, but won the title in Doubles.

2006 : He won three Challenger titles in Atlanta (USA), Tunica Resorts (USA), Bogotá (Colombia) and entered the Top 125 for the first time. He played his first Gran Slam in Roland Garros as a qualifier and entered the main draw, but lost vs. world No. 1 Roger Federer after a hard battle.

2007 : He reached the final of the São Paulo Challenger and advanced to his first ATP SF in his hometown of Buenos Aires. He reached the semis at the Prague and San Marino Challengers. He was Doubles finalist at the Challenger in Andrézieux (France) and Singles finalist in Bogotá (Colombia).In Roland Garros, he defeated Ginepri in five sets in the first round before losing to Ferrer in the second round. For the first time, he reached a QF indoor in Lyon (France).Always improving his ranking, he finished in the Top 100 for the first time.

2008 : He reached the Singles Challenger final in Milano (Italy) and Scheveningen (the Netherlands) and the Doubles final at the Bordeaux Challenger (France).

2009 : During a practice at the Copa Petrobras Challenger in Buenos Aires, Diego twisted his knee and tore its ligaments. The same accident happened to his other knee at the Copa Telmex in Buenos Aires. After two surgeries that took him away from the courts until September, he made a short comeback at Futures in Adrogué (Argentina). He's training hard to be back on tour during Spring 2010.

2010: Hartfield announces his retirement from professional tennis.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 16 (7–9)

Legend ATP Challenger (3–4) ITF Futures (4–5)

Finals by surface Hard (0–1) Clay (7–8) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1		Argentina F4, Mendoza	Futures	Clay	Guillermo Carry	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Loss	0–2		Bolivia F3, Santa Cruz	Futures	Clay	Cristian Villagrán	4–6, 4–6
Win	1–2		Chile F5, Viña del Mar	Futures	Clay	Marko Neunteibl	6–7(4–7), 6–0, 6–3
Loss	1–3		Argentina F3, Buenos Aires	Futures	Clay	Carlos Berlocq	6–3, 3–6, 1–6
Win	2–3		Chile F5, Santiago	Futures	Clay	Brian Dabul	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2–4		Uruguay F1, Montevideo	Futures	Clay	Edgardo Massa	6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Win	3–4		Chile F3, Santiago	Futures	Clay	Marko Neunteibl	6–3, 6–7(7–9), 6–2
Loss	3–5		Colombia F4, Pereira	Futures	Clay	Bruno Soares	2–6, 7–6(7–3), 3–6
Win	4–5		Argentina F5, Córdoba	Futures	Clay	Rodolfo Daruich	6–7(4–7), 6–1, 6–4
Loss	4–6		Buenos Aires, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Carlos Berlocq	5–7, 6–3, 4–6
Win	5–6		Atlanta, United States	Challenger	Clay	Frank Dancevic	7–5, 6–0
Win	6–6		Tunica Resorts, United States	Challenger	Clay	Mardy Fish	6–4, 6–4
Win	7–6		Bogotá, Colombia	Challenger	Clay	Daniel Köllerer	6–3, 7–5
Loss	7–7		São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Guillermo Cañas	3–6, 4–6
Loss	7–8		Milan, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Teymuraz Gabashvili	4–6, 6–4, 4–6
Loss	7–9		Scheveningen, Netherlands	Challenger	Clay	Jesse Huta Galung	3–6, 4–6

Doubles: 19 (10–9)

Legend ATP Challenger (2–2) ITF Futures (8–7)

Finals by surface Hard (0–2) Clay (10–7) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1		Argentina F5, Córdoba	Futures	Clay	Ignacio González King	Mariano Delfino Patricio Rudi	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Loss	0–2		Argentina F7, Buenos Aires	Futures	Clay	Juan Pablo Guzmán	Daniel Caracciolo Martín Vassallo Argüello	6–3, 2–6, 2–6
Win	1–2		Paraguay F1, Asunción	Futures	Clay	Matias O'Neille	Sebastián Decoud Sebastian Uriarte	6–3, 4–6, 7–6(9–7)
Loss	1–3		Bolivia F1, La Paz	Futures	Clay	Ignacio González King	Casey Smith Martin Stringari	3–6, 5–7
Win	2–3		Bolivia F2, Cochabamba	Futures	Clay	Ignacio González King	Casey Smith Martin Stringari	7–5, 3–6, 6–1
Win	3–3		Bolivia F3, Santa Cruz	Futures	Clay	Ignacio González King	Sebastián Decoud Juan-Felipe Yáñez	7–5, 6–2
Loss	3–4		Slovenia F1, Kranj	Futures	Clay	Ignacio González King	Ivan Cerović Aleksander Slovic	6–7(1–7), 7–6(8–6), 4–6
Win	4–4		Chile F4, Santiago	Futures	Clay	Patricio Rudi	Diego Junqueira Edgardo Massa	6–2, 2–6, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	4–5		Argentina F4, Mendoza	Futures	Clay	Damián Patriarca	Brian Dabul Diego Moyano	6–7(4–7), 4–6
Loss	4–6		Uruguay F1, Montevideo	Futures	Clay	Sebastián Decoud	Gustavo Marcaccio Patricio Rudi	4–6, 4–6
Win	5–6		El Salvador F1, San Salvador	Futures	Clay	Gustavo Marcaccio	Lucas Engel Márcio Torres	6–0, 6–2
Loss	5–7		Colombia F1, Cali	Futures	Clay	Damián Patriarca	Michael Quintero Aguilar Carlos Salamanca	5–7, 4–6
Win	6–7		France F8, Blois	Futures	Clay	Brian Dabul	Steve Darcis Stefan Wauters	7–5, 6–4
Win	7–7		Netherlands F1, Alkmaar	Futures	Clay	Cristian Villagrán	Jun Kato Jean-Julien Rojer	6–2, 6–3
Win	8–7		Colombia F4, Pereira	Futures	Clay	Daniel Garza	Pablo González Bruno Soares	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–1)
Loss	8–8		Nashville, United States	Challenger	Hard	Santiago González	Ilija Bozoljac Brian Wilson	6–7(6–8), 4–6
Win	9–8		Bogotá, Colombia	Challenger	Clay	Martín García	Fred Gil Dick Norman	6–4, 3–6, [10–5]
Loss	9–9		Andrézieux, France	Challenger	Hard	José Acasuso	Martín García SebastiaPrieto	3–6, 1–6
Win	10–9		Bordeaux, France	Challenger	Clay	Sergio Roitman	Tomasz Bednarek Dušan Vemić	6–4, 6–4

Performance timeline

Singles

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Tournament	2005	2006	2007	2008	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q1	Q1	A	1R	0 / 1	0–1
French Open	A	1R	2R	Q2	0 / 2	1–2
Wimbledon	Q2	Q3	1R	A	0 / 1	0–1
US Open	Q1	Q1	1R	Q3	0 / 1	0–1
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–1	1–3	0–1	0 / 5	1–5
ATP Tour Masters 1000
bgcolor=efefef align=left	Indian Wells	A	Q1	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
bgcolor=efefef align=left	Miami	A	A	A	Q2	0 / 0	0–0
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 0	0–0