Carlos Taberner
Spanish tennis player
Carlos Taberner Segarra (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos taβeɾˈneɾ]; born 8 August 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player.
Taberner has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 85 achieved on 23 May 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 337 achieved on 18 September 2017. He has reached 18 career ITF singles finals, with a record of 9 wins and 9 losses, including six Challengers.
He has won the 2020 Iași Open, the 2021 Antalya Challenger II, the 2021 Open du Pays d'Aix, the 2021 Lošinj Open, the 2022 Challenger di Roseto degli Abruzzi, the 2023 Schwaben Open. Additionally, he has reached seven career ITF doubles finals with a record of 4 wins and 3 losses which includes one ATP Challenger doubles title at the 2017 San Benedetto Tennis Cup.
Professional career
2018: ATP and Grand Slam debut
Taberner made his ATP Tour debut at the 2018 Open Sud de France in Marseilles where he advanced through 2 qualifying matches to reach the main draw. In qualifying, he defeated Benjamin Bonzi 6–2, 6–4 and Marco Trungelliti 4–6, 6–2, 6–4, where he then won his first round match against Norbert Gombos in two tie-breakers 7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–1). His run would end in the second round, as he was defeated by Lucas Pouille in straight sets 1–6, 2–6.
He made his Grand Slam debut in the main draw at the 2018 French Open as a qualifier where he lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas.
2021: Challenger tour success, top 100 & Masters debut & first win
He also qualified for the 2021 French Open where he lost to Roman Safiullin.
He won his third Challenger title at the 2021 Open du Pays d'Aix defeating Manuel Guinard. As a result, he reached a career-high ranking of World No. 113 on 21 June 2021.
He entered the main draw as a direct entry for the first time at the 2021 US Open (tennis) on his debut at this Major. He also entered directly into the main draw for his second Masters 1000 of the season and in his career at the 2021 BNP Paribas Open and made it to the second round, recording his first win at this level by defeating fellow Spaniard Jaume Munar.
In October he won his fourth Challenger at the 2021 Lošinj Open and made his debut in the top 100 at World No. 93 on 25 October 2021.
2022: Second ATP 500 win, Top 85 debut
He made his debut at the 2022 Australian Open losing to Dominik Koepfer.
He earned his first and second ATP wins of the season at the 2022 Córdoba Open against 5th seeded Argentinian Federico Delbonis and at the 2022 Chile Open against another Argentine Juan Manuel Cerundolo.
At the 2022 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell he earned as a qualifier his second ATP 500 (after the Hamburg European Open in 2021) and biggest win thus far in the season where he bagelled Sebastian Korda in the second set.[2] He lost to Félix Auger-Aliassime.[3] He reached the top 85 on 23 May 2022.
He made also his debut at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships where he lost to 15th seed Reilly Opelka.
2023-2024: Out of top 400
In February 2023, he made the main draw as lucky loser in Santiago, Chile after the withdrawal of Bernabé Zapata Miralles. In August, he won his sixth Challenger at the 2023 Schwaben Open in Augsburg, Germany.[4]
He dropped out of the top 400 on 18 March 2024. The following month, he qualified for the main draw at the 2024 Țiriac Open having entered the qualifying competition as an alternate.
Challenger and Futures Finals
Singles: 18 (9–9)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | Feb 2016 | Spain F3, Paguera | Futures | Clay |  Casper Ruud | 6–2, 6–7(11–13), 0–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | May 2016 | Spain F13, Valldoreix | Futures | Clay |  Albert Alcaraz Ivorra | 2–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 0–3 | May 2016 | Tunisia F20, Hammamet, Tunisia | Futures | Clay |  Cristian Garín | 3–6, 6–7(1–7) |
| Win | 1–3 | Jun 2016 | Romania F7, Bucharest | Futures | Clay |  Mariano Kestelboim | 6–1, 5–7, 6–4 |
| Win | 2–3 | Jul 2016 | Spain F22, Denia | Futures | Clay | Jaume Munar | 4–6, 7–5, 7–5 |
| Loss | 2–4 | Jul 2016 | Spain F23, Xàtiva | Futures | Clay | Pedro Martínez | 6–2, 1–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 2–5 | Oct 2016 | Spain F35, La Vall d'Uixo | Futures | Clay |  Ivan Gakhov | 2–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 3–5 | Nov 2016 | Tunisia F33, Hammamet, Tunisia | Futures | Clay |  Gonçalo Oliveira | 6–4, 7–5 |
| Loss | 3–6 | Jul 2017 | Spain F20, Getxo | Futures | Clay | Bernabé Zapata Miralles | 3–6, 6–3, 3–6 |
| Loss | 3–7 | Sep 2017 | Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Challenger | Clay |  Maximilian Marterer | 1–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 3–8 | Sep 2017 | Sibiu, Romania | Challenger | Clay | Cedrik-Marcel Stebe | 3–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 4–8 | Sep 2020 | Iași, Romania | Challenger | Clay |  Mathias Bourgue | 6–4, 7–6(7–4) |
| Loss | 4–9 | Nov 2020 | Maia, Portugal | Challenger | Clay | Pedro Sousa | 0–6, 7–5, 2–6 |
| Win | 5–9 | Feb 2021 | Antalya, Turkey | Challenger | Clay | Jaume Munar | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Win | 6–9 | Jun 2021 | Aix-en-Provence, France | Challenger | Clay | Manuel Guinard | 6–2, 6–2 |
| Win | 7–9 | Oct 2021 | Lošinj, Croatia | Challenger | Clay |  Marco Cecchinato | w/o |
| Win | 8–9 | Mar 2022 | Roseto degli Abruzzi, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Nuno Borges | 6–2, 6–3 |
| Win | 9–9 | Aug 2023 | Augsburg, Germany | Challenger | Clay | Oriol Roca Batalla | 6–4, 6–4 |
Doubles: 7 (4–3)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Win | 1–0 | Nov 2015 | Turkey F47, Antalya | Futures | Clay |  Kento Yamada |  Romano Frantzen Alban Meuffels | 6–2, 6–2 |
| Loss | 1–1 | Feb 2016 | Spain F2, Paguera | Futures | Clay | Kento Yamada |  Tomislav Brkić  Kamil Majchrzak | 3–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Feb 2016 | Spain F5, Cartagena | Futures | Clay | Kento Yamada |  Vasile Antonescu Alexandru Jecan | 4–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 1–3 | May 2016 | Tunisia F19, Hammamet | Futures | Clay | Kento Yamada | Cristóbal Saavedra Corvalán  Marcel Felder | 3–6, 0–6 |
| Win | 2–3 | Jul 2016 | Spain F22, Denia | Futures | Clay | Marc Giner | Sergio Martos Gornés Adria Mas Mascolo | 6–3, 6–1 |
| Win | 3–3 | Oct 2016 | Spain F35, Vall D'uxo | Futures | Clay | Ivan Gakhov | Javier Barranco Cosano Raúl Brancaccio | 7–6(7–2), 3–6, [10–7] |
| Win | 4–3 | Jul 2017 | San Benedetto, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Pol Toledo Bagué | Flavio Cipolla Adrian Ungur | 7–5, 6–4 |
Performance timeline
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
Singles
| Tournament | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | SR | W–L | Win % |
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| Grand Slam tournaments | |||||||||
| Australian Open | A | Q2 | A | Q1 | Q2 | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| French Open | A | 1R | A | Q2 | 1R | 1R | 0 / 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Wimbledon | A | A | A | NH | Q2 | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| US Open | A | A | A | A | 1R | Q2 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0 / 6 | 0–6 | 0% |
| ATP Tour Masters 1000 | |||||||||
| Indian Wells Masters | A | A | A | NH | 2R | A | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Miami Open | A | A | A | NH | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Monte-Carlo Masters | A | A | A | NH | A | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Madrid Open | Q1 | A | A | NH | 1R | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Italian Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Canadian Open | A | A | A | NH | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Cincinnati Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Shanghai Masters | A | A | A | NH | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||
| Paris Masters | A | A | A | A | Q1 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | 33% |
| Career statistics | |||||||||
| Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Career total: 0 | ||
| Finals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Career total: 0 | ||
| Overall win–loss | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 6–8 | 5–11 | 0 / 23 | 13–23 | 36% |
| Year-end ranking | 185 | 283 | 190 | 143 | 101 | 168 | $1,048,793 | ||
Record against top 10 players
Taberner's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface. Only ATP Tour main draw matches are considered:
| Player | Record | Win % | Hard | Clay | Grass | Last Match |
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| Number 3 ranked players | ||||||
 Stefanos Tsitsipas | 0–1 | 0% | – | 0–1 | – | Lost (5–7, 7–6(7–5), 4–6, 3–6) at 2018 French Open |
| Number 5 ranked players | ||||||
| Andrey Rublev | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | – | – | Lost (3–6, 4–6) at 2021 Indian Wells |
| Number 6 ranked players | ||||||
 Félix Auger-Aliassime | 0–2 | 0% | – | 0–2 | – | Lost (6–1, 2–6, 2–6) at 2022 Estoril |
| Number 7 ranked players | ||||||
| Fernando Verdasco | 1–0 | 100% | – | 1–0 | – | Won (4–6, 6–1, 6–4) at 2020 Córdoba |
| Number 9 ranked players | ||||||
| Fabio Fognini | 0–1 | 0% | – | 0–1 | – | Lost (6–7(4–7), 6–2, 3–6) at 2021 Madrid |
| Number 10 ranked players | ||||||
| Pablo Carreño Busta | 0–1 | 0% | – | 0–1 | – | Lost (5–7, 3–6) at 2021 Hamburg |
| Lucas Pouille | 0–1 | 0% | 0–1 | – | – | Lost (1–6, 2–6) at 2018 Montpellier |
| Total | 1–7 | 12.5% | 0–2 (0%) | 1–5 (17%) | 0–0 ( – ) | * Statistics correct as of 1 May 2022[update] |
References
- ^ ATP Profile
- ^ "Sebastian Korda crashes out of Barcelona against Taberner". 19 April 2022.
- ^ "Felix Auger-Aliassime Fends off Carlos Taberner Threat in Barcelona".
- ^ Lima Challenger 2023 Finalatptour.com Archived 2023-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Carlos Taberner at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Carlos Taberner at the International Tennis Federation
