Nick Hardt

Nick Hardt (born 20 September 2000) is a Dominican professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 180 achieved on 29 July 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 282 achieved on 24 August 2023. He is currently the No. 1 Dominican player.^[1]

Nick Hardt

Hardt at the 2023 French Open
Country (sports)	Dominican Republic
Residence	Sosúa, Dominican Republic
Born	(2000-09-20) 20 September 2000 (age 24) Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two handed-backhand)
Prize money	$301,881
Singles
Career record	4–6 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 179 (12 August 2024)
Current ranking	No. 229 (3 March 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2023, 2025)
French Open	Q2 (2023)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2024)
US Open	Q1 (2024)
Doubles
Career record	2–6 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 282 (24 August 2023)
Current ranking	No. 341 (20 May 2024)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	5–10
Medal record Men's tennis Representing the  Dominican Republic Pan American Games 2023 Santiago Doubles
Last updated on: 5 March 2025.

Hardt represents the Dominican Republic in the Davis Cup.^[2]

Junior career

Hardt was ranked No. 16 in the world junior rankings by the ITF on 5 March 2018.^[3]

In 2016, he won the XXV Copa Merengue tournament in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, becoming the youngest Dominican to win the title at 15 years of age.^[4]

In 2017, he reached the quarterfinals of the Eddie Herr Junior Championships ITF tournament where he lost to eventual champion, Bulgarian Adrian Andreev.^[5]

In 2018, he reached the quarterfinals of the 2018 French Open Junior Championships and the third round in the 2018 U.S. Open Junior Championships. Hardt also reached the finals of the 2018 Porto Alegre Junior Championships losing to the No. 1 ranked junior in the world Sebastián Báez in the finals.^[3]

Professional career

2017: Davis Cup debut

Hardt was first nominated to the team for the 2017 Davis Cup and faced Chilean tennis player Nicolás Jarry in his first match.^{[citation needed]}

2022: Maiden Challenger final, top 205 debut

He reached his maiden Challenger final at the 2022 JC Ferrero Challenger Open. As a result he moved more than 35 positions up to a new career-high in the top 250 on 10 October 2022. Two months later, he reached a career-high of No. 201 on 22 December 2022. ^[6]

2024: Maiden Challenger title, ATP debut and first win, top 200

Ranked No. 301, he won his maiden Challenger title as an alternate at the Sánchez-Casal Mapfre Cup in Barcelona defeating wildcard and second seed Bernabe Zapata Miralles. He was only the second Challenger champion from the Dominican Republic. As a result he raised 70 positions up in the rankings to return to the top 230.^[7][8][6]

Ranked No. 229, he qualified for the ATP 500 tournament at the Barcelona Open making his ATP debut, having entered the qualifying competition as an alternate. There, he earned his first ATP Tour win, defeating wildcard Martin Landaluce in three sets, becoming the first Dominican player to win an ATP tour-level match since Víctor Estrella Burgos in 2018 Quito.^[9] As a result of his win, he moved 25 positions up close to his career-high.^[10] He lost to 13th seed Tomás Martín Etcheverry in the second round.^[11]

On 20 May 2024, he made into the top 200 in the singles rankings after reaching the semifinals at the 2024 Internazionali di Tennis Francavilla al Mare Challenger in Italy.^[6]

ATP Challenger and Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 18 (12–6)

Legend (singles) ATP Challenger Tour (1–1) Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (11–5)

Finals by surface Hard (3–3) Clay (9–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Dec 2018	Dominican Republic F3, Santo Domingo	Futures	Hard	Alejandro Tabilo	7–5, 6–3
Win	2–0	Jul 2019	M15 Saarlouis, Germany	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Fabrizio Ornago	6–0, 6–4
Loss	2–1	Dec 2019	M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Peter Bertran	6–4, 1–6, 4–6
Win	3–1	Dec 2020	M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Oliver Crawford	6–4, 6–0
Win	4–1	May 2021	M15 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Alexander Erler	6–0, 7–6(9–7)
Win	5–1	May 2021	M15 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Nicolas Moreno de Alboran	2–6, 7–5, 6–1
Win	6–1	Jul 2021	M25 Belgrade, Serbia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Daniel Cukierman	3–6, 6–3, 6–3
Loss	6–2	Jul 2021	M25 Marburg, Germany	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Louis Wessels	6–4, 5–7, 6–7(5–7)
Win	7–2	Jul 2021	M25 Dénia, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Calvin Hemery	7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–4)
Loss	7–3	Feb 2022	M25 Santo Domingo, Domican Republic	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Wu Tung-lin	5–7, 3–6
Win	8–3	May 2022	M25 La Nucia, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Laurent Lokoli	6–0, 6–4
Win	9–3	Jul 2022	M25 Dénia, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Mariano Navone	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Loss	9–4	Aug 2022	M25 Wetzlar, Germany	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Rudolf Molleker	6–7(3–7), 1–6
Loss	9–5	Oct 2022	Alicante, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Lukáš Klein	3–6, 4–6
Win	10–5	Dec 2022	M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Liam Draxl	6–4, 6–3
Win	11–5	Feb 2024	M25 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Clement Tabur	6–1, 6–4
Loss	11–6	Feb 2024	M25 Antalya, Turkey	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Daniel Mérida	6–1, 5–7, 3–6
Win	12–6	Apr 2024	Barcelona, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Bernabé Zapata Miralles	6–4, 3–6, 6–2

Doubles: 8 (6–2)

Legend (doubles) ATP Challenger Tour (0–0) Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (6–2)

Finals by surface Hard (4–2) Clay (2–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Dec 2017	Dominican Republic F3, Santo Domingo	Futures	Hard	José Olivares	Bernardo Saraiva Sem Verbeek	3–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Aug 2019	M15 Brussels, Belgium	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Luca Gelhardt	Jesper de Jong Alec Deckers	6–4, 6–4
Win	2–1	Aug 2019	M15 Eupen, Belgium	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Michael Geerts	Genaro Alberto Olivieri Gonzalo Villanueva	6–7(10–12), 6–2, [10–3]
Win	3–1	Dec 2019	M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Maksim Tikhomirov	Alex Blumenberg João Hinsching	6–2, 6–3
Loss	3–2	Sep 2020	M15 Sintra, Portugal	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Savriyan Danilov	Fabian Fallert Nicolas Moreno de Alboran	6–7(4–7), 4–6
Win	4–2	Dec 2020	M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Shintaro Mochizuki	Gonzalo Lama Antonio Cayetano March	6–3, 6–3
Win	5–2	Dec 2020	M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Shintaro Mochizuki	Nick Chappell Keegan Smith	4–6, 7–6(7–2), [10–5]
Win	6–2	Feb 2021	M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Nicolas Moreno de Alboran	Arnaud Bovy Aidan McHugh	6–3, 6–4

Davis Cup

Participations: (5–10)

Group membership World Group (0–0) Qualifying Round (0–0) WG play-off (0–0) Group I (1–4) Group II (4–6) Group III (0–0) Group IV (0–0)

Matches by surface Hard (5–6) Clay (0–4) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Matches by type Singles (3–4) Doubles (2–6)

• indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

Rubber outcome	No.	Rubber	Match type (partner if any)	Opponent nation	Opponent player(s)	Score
0–5; 3–5 February 2017; Centro De Tenis Parque Del Este, Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic; Americas Zone Group I first round; hard surface
Defeat	1	V	Singles	Chile	Nicolás Jarry	3–6, 3–6
2–3; 2–3 February 2018; Club Deportivo Naco, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Americas Zone Group I first round; hard surface
Defeat	2	III	Doubles (with José Olivares)	Brazil	Marcelo Demoliner / Marcelo Melo	3–6, 4–6
4–0; 6–7 April 2018; Centro De Tenis Parque Del Este, Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic; Americas Zone Group I second round; hard surface
Victory	3	III	Doubles (with José Olivares)	Barbados	Xavier Lawrence / Kaipo Marshall	6–3, 6–1
1–3; 14–15 September 2019; Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club, Montevideo, Uruguay; Americas Zone Group I first round; clay surface
Defeat	4	III	Doubles (with Víctor Estrella Burgos)	Uruguay	Martín Cuevas / Pablo Cuevas	4–6, 3–6
1–3; 6-7 March 2020; Club de Tenis Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; World Group I Play-off first round; clay surface
Defeat	5	III	Doubles (with Roberto Cid Subervi)	Bolivia	Hugo Dellien / Federico Zeballos	3–6, 2–6
2–3; 17-18 September 2021; Cité Nationale Sportive El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia; World Group II first round; hard surface
Victory	6	I	Singles	Tunisia	Malek Jaziri	4–6, 6–1, 6–5 ret.
Defeat	7	III	Doubles (with Roberto Cid Subervi)		Aziz Dougaz / Aziz Ouakaa	4–6, 6–7(3–7)
Defeat	8	V	Singles		Aziz Dougaz	3–6, 4–6
3–0; 4-5 March 2022; Centro Nacional De Tenis Parque Del Este, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; World Group II play-off; hard surface
Victory	9	I	Singles	Vietnam	Trịnh Linh Giang	6–1, 6–4
Victory	10	III	Doubles (with Peter Bertran)		Lê Quốc Khánh / Lý Hoàng Nam	6–7(7–9), 6–4, 6–1
2–3; 16-17 September 2022; National Tennis Centre, Jūrmala, Latvia; World Group II first round; hard (indoor) surface
Defeat	11	II	Singles	Latvia	Kārlis Ozoliņš	3–6, 4–6
Defeat	12	III	Doubles (with Víctor Estrella Burgos)		Kārlis Ozoliņš / Robert Strombachs	3–6, 6–4, 3–6
Victory	13	IV	Singles (dead rubber)		Daniels Tens	6–2, 6–2
0–4; 4-5 February 2023; Monte Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France; World Group II play-off; clay surface
Defeat	14	II	Singles	Monaco	Lucas Catarina	3–6, 4–6
Defeat	15	III	Doubles (with Roberto Cid Subervi)		Romain Arneodo / Hugo Nys	6–7(1–7), 3–6