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Ernesto " Neto" Escobedo III ( ; , born 4 July 1996) is a Mexican-American former professional tennis player who has a career high singles ranking of No. 67 achieved on 17 July 2017 and a doubles ranking of No. 296 achieved on 16 May 2022.
He won his first career ATP match at the Aegon Open in Nottingham against top 100 player Diego Schwartzman shortly before turning 20 years old. The next month, he won his first Challenger title at Lexington over fellow up-and-coming American Frances Tiafoe. With this victory, he also won the 2016 US Open Wild Card Challenge to earn a wildcard into the main draw of the final Grand Slam of the year. Escobedo put this wildcard to good use by defeating Lukáš Lacko in the first round to crack the Top 200 for the first time and record his first career Grand Slam match win.
Towards the end of the season, Escobedo returned to Monterrey where he had made the semifinals the previous year, and defended his points by winning the title over Denis Kudla.
The following month, he was awarded a wildcard into the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, an ATP 500 event in Acapulco. At this tournament, he again won first round match over fellow American Stefan Kozlov.
In March, Escobedo was able to qualify for his first Masters event at the 2017 Miami Open, where he upset No. 43 Dan Evans to break through into the top 100 of the ATP rankings. To start the clay court season, Escobedo played at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston and reached his first career ATP quarterfinal and semifinal, climbing to a then career-high ranking of No. 73 with this success. His tournament was highlighted by a quarterfinal win over No. 2 seed and fellow American John Isner.
Escobedo was part of the NextGen players that included many fellow Americans such as Frances Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz who were considered the best young prospects to become the next generation of tennis stars.
In March 2021, Escobedo qualified for the 2021 Miami Open and defeated Paolo Lorenzi in the first round before losing to 16th seed Dušan Lajović.
He received a wildcard for the qualifying draw of the 2023 Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco but lost to Brandon Holt.
He received wildcards for the main draw of the 2024 Los Cabos Open and for the 2024 Abierto Mexicano Telcel.
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| ATP Challenger Tour (4–2) |
| Hard (4–1) |
| Clay (0–1) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
| Loss | 0–1 | São Paulo, Brazil | Challenger | Clay | Gonzalo Lama | 2–6, 2–6 | |
| Win | 1–1 | Lexington, USA | Challenger | Hard | Frances Tiafoe | 6–2, 6–7(6–8), 7–6(7–3) | |
| Loss | 1–2 | Cary, USA | Challenger | Hard | James McGee | 6–1, 1–6, 4–6 | |
| Win | 2–2 | Monterrey, Mexico | Challenger | Hard | Denis Kudla | 6–4, 6–4 | |
| Win | 3–2 | Granby, Canada | Challenger | Hard | Yasutaka Uchiyama | 7–6(7–5), 6–4 | |
| Win | 4–2 | Bendigo, Australia | Challenger | Hard | Enzo Couacaud | 5–7, 6–3, 7–5 |
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| ATP Challenger Tour (1–0) |
| Win | 1–0 | Little Rock, USA | Challenger | Hard | Nicolás Barrientos | Christopher Eubanks Roberto Quiroz | 4–6, 6–3, 10–5 |
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| ITF Futures/WTT (2–5) |
| Hard (2–5) |
| Clay (0–0) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (0–0) |
| Loss | 0–1 | USA F24, Costa Mesa | Futures | Hard | Haythem Abid | 1–6, 6–4, 5–7 | |
| Loss | 0–2 | Mexico F19, Mérida | Futures | Hard | Nicolas Meister | 7–6(7–4), 1–6, 6–7(7–9) | |
| Loss | 0–3 | Mexico F4, Córdoba | Futures | Hard | Darian King | 5–7, 7–5, 4–6 | |
| Loss | 0–4 | USA F16B, Charlottesville | Futures | Hard | Tennys Sandgren | 4–6, 4–6 | |
| Loss | 0–5 | USA F27, Costa Mesa | Futures | Hard | Ryan Shane | 4–6, 3–6 | |
| Win | 1–5 | M25 Xalapa, Mexico | WTT | Hard | Aidan Mayo | 6–3, 6–4 | |
| Win | 2–5 | M15 Villahermosa, Mexico | WTT | Hard | Rodrigo Pacheco Méndez | 6–3, 7–5 |
| Grand Slam tournaments | ||||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | 2R | Q3 | Q1 | Q2 | Q1 | 1R | 1R | 0 / 3 | 1–3 | ||
| French Open | A | A | A | 1R | Q1 | A | A | Q2 | Q2 | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | ||
| Wimbledon | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | NH | Q1 | Q1 | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | ||
| US Open | Q3 | A | 2R | 1R | Q2 | 1R | 2R | 2R | Q1 | A | 0 / 5 | 3–5 | ||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 / 10 | 4–10 | ||
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 | ||||||||||||||
| Indian Wells Masters | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | 2R | A | NH | 2R | A | A | 0 / 2 | 2–2 | ||
| Miami Open | A | A | A | 2R | Q2 | A | NH | 2R | A | A | 0 / 2 | 2–2 | ||
| Madrid Open | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | NH | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | ||
| Italian Open | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | ||
| Canadian Open | A | A | A | 2R | A | A | NH | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | ||
| Cincinnati Masters | A | A | A | Q1 | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | ||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–4 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 7 | 5–7 | ||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||||||
| Tournaments | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Career total: 39 | ||
| Overall win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–4 | 9–15 | 3–8 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 5–4 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–4 | 0 / 39 | 20–41 | |
| Year-end ranking | 538 | 393 | 141 | 120 | 187 | 224 | 198 | 165 | 226 | 405 | 460 | $1,586,166 | ||
| Wins | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | |||||||
| 1. | Jack Sock | 10 | Mexican Open, Mexico | Hard | 1R | 7–5, 7–6(7–3) | 123 |
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