Gabriel Diallo

Canadian tennis player

Gabriel Diallo
Singles
Diallo at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Canada
Born	(2001-09-24) 24 September 2001 (age 22) Montreal, Canada
Height	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
Turned pro	2023
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	University of Kentucky
Coach	Martin Laurendeau
Prize money	$340,368^[1]
Career record	5–8 (ATP Tour and Grand Slam matches)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 129 (26 February 2024)
Current ranking	No. 154 (22 April 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2024)
French Open	Q1 (2023)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2023)
US Open	Q1 (2023)
Doubles
Career record	0–1
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 321 (8 January 2024)^[1]
Current ranking	No. 350 (26 February 2024)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	W (2022) Record: 4–3 (57.1%)
Last updated on: 27 January 2024.

Gabriel Diallo (born 24 September 2001) is a Canadian tennis player.

Diallo has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 129, achieved on 26 February 2024. He played college tennis at the University of Kentucky.^[2]^[3]

Early life

Diallo was born in Montreal, Canada to a Guinean father and Ukrainian mother.^[4]

Career

2022: Maiden Challenger title, ATP & top 250 debut, Davis Cup champion

In August, he made his ATP debut in the qualifying competition as a wildcard at the 2022 National Bank Open in Montreal where he defeated James Duckworth in the first round.^[5]

Participating in a tournament also with a wildcard entry, Diallo won 5 consecutive matches to claim his maiden title at the 2022 Granby Challenger in only his fourth main-draw Challenger-level tournament. The 20-year-old was the youngest Canadian champion on the Challenger Tour since Félix Auger-Aliassime won the Tashkent Challenger in 2018. As a result, he rose to a career-high No. 335 in the ATP Rankings. ^[6] He finished the year at a career-high ranking of No. 224 on 21 November 2022.

2023: Top 150 debut

After reaching the semifinals at the Challenger in Busan, South Korea where he lost to top seed Max Purcell, he made his top 150 debut at world No. 146 on 22 May 2023. He defeated Liam Broady and top seed Dan Evans of Great Britain at the 2023 Surbiton Trophy.

Diallo defeated again Dan Evans to win his first ever tour level match at the 2023 National Bank Open in Toronto.^[7] He followed up his showing in Toronto by winning the doubles title at the Winnipeg Challenger, partnering Leandro Riedi.

At the Davis Cup Finals group stage, Diallo recorded a shock upset victory over world No. 18 Lorenzo Musetti, winning in straight sets to give Canada the victory over Italy.^[8]

He won his second Challenger title at the 2023 Slovak Open and reached the top 130 on 16 October 2023.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 7 (4–3)

Legend
ATP Challenger (2–1)
ITF Futures (2–2)

Finals by surface
Hard (4–3)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2021	M15 Champaign, USA	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Jason Kubler	2–6, 1–6
Loss	0–2	Nov 2021	M15 East Lansing, USA	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Raymond Sarmiento	6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Win	1–2	Jun 2022	M25 East Lansing, USA	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Andres Martin	6–3, 7–6^(7–4)
Win	2–2	Aug 2022	Granby, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Shang Juncheng	7–5, 7–6^(7–5)
Loss	2–3	Oct 2022	Fairfield, USA	Challenger	Hard	Michael Mmoh	3–6, 2–6
Win	3–3	Mar 2023	M25 Montreal, Canada	World Tennis Tour	Hard (i)	Henri Squire	7–6^(7–5), 6–3
Win	4–3	Oct 2023	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Hard (i)	Joris De Loore	6–0, 7–5

Doubles: 1 (1–1)

Legend
ATP Challenger (1–0)
ITF Futures (0–1)

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

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2019	M15 East Lansing, USA	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Millen Hurrion	Jacob Dunbar David Fox	4–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Win	1–1	Aug 2023	Winnipeg, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Leandro Riedi	Taha Baadi Juan Carlos Aguilar	6-2, 6-3

National and international representation

Team competitions finals: 1 (1 title)

Finals by tournament
Davis Cup (1–0)
Laver Cup (0–0)
ATP Cup (0–0)

Finals by team
Canada (1–0)
World (0–0)

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partners	Opponents	Score
Win	Nov 2022	Davis Cup, Málaga	Hard (i)	Denis Shapovalov Vasek Pospisil Alexis Galarneau Félix Auger-Aliassime	Alex de Minaur Jordan Thompson Thanasi Kokkinakis Max Purcell Matthew Ebden	2–0

References

^ ^a ^b Gabriel Diallo at the Association of Tennis Professionals
^ "Gabriel Diallo, Liam Draxl Named ITA All-Americans for Singles". UK Athletics. 8 June 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
^ "Gabriel Diallo". UK Athletics. 31 August 2019.
^ "Gabriel Diallo, un Canadien d'origine guinéenne présent dans l'ATP".
^ "Gabriel Diallo's rock-star moment in Montreal". opencourt.ca. 7 August 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
^ "Four First-Time ATP Challenger Tour Champions Crowned Last Week | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.
^ "Canadian Gabriel Diallo, 21, Stuns Red-Hot Daniel Evans in Toronto | ATP Tour | Tennis".
^ "Canada's Galarneau, Diallo notch upset victories, beat Italy in Davis Cup". Sportsnet. 13 September 2023.