Hady Habib

 ( 1998 Births ) 

Hady Habib (; born 21 August 1998) is an American-born Lebanese professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 159 achieved on 5 May 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 274 achieved on 23 December 2024. Habib won one ATP Challenger Tour singles and three doubles titles. He is currently the No. 1 player from Lebanon.

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Early life Habib was born in Houston to a Lebanese people father and an American Iranian mother. Habib is fluent in English language and Arabic.

At the age of six he moved to Beirut, Lebanon with his family and began playing tennis there at nine years old. Along with tennis, Habib also played basketball and competed in swimming competitions while based in Lebanon. As a 12 year old he returned to the United States in an attempt to further his tennis prospects and first based himself in southern California before settling in Florida at the IMG Academy.

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College In 2021, Habib graduated with a degree in Sports Management from Texas A&M University in College Station.

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Career

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2024: Historic Olympics debut & first Challenger title for Lebanon

Habib became the first Lebanese tennis player to compete at the Olympic Games when he took part in the Paris Games, losing in the singles first round on the event's opening day to second seed Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets. He also took part in the doubles event partnering Benjamin Hassan.

At the Challenger Temuco, Habib won his first ATP Challenger Tour singles title, becoming the first Lebanese player in history to win a Challenger trophy in singles.

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2025: Historic debut and first win at the Australian Open, top 200

Habib became the first Lebanese player, male or female, to qualify for the main draw of a Grand Slam in the Open Era, defeating Patrick Kypson, Tseng Chun-hsin and Clément Chidekh in the qualifying competition of the Australian Open. Ranked No. 219, he then defeated Bu Yunchaokete in the first round to become the first Lebanese player to win a match in the main draw of a Major. As a result he moved more than 50 positions up and reached the top 200 in the singles rankings at world No. 166 on 27 January 2025. Habib lost to Ugo Humbert in the second round.

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Performance timeline

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Singles

Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	2R	0 / 1	1–1
French Open	Q2	0 / 0	0–0
Wimbledon	Q2	0 / 0	0–0
US Open	Q1	0 / 0	0–0
Win–loss	1–1	0 / 1	0–1
ATP Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	Q1	0 / 0	0–0
Miami Open	Q1	0 / 0	0–0
Monte Carlo Masters	A	0 / 0	0–0
Madrid Open	A	0 / 0	0-0
Italian Open	A	0 / 0	0–0
Canadian Open	A	0 / 0	0–0
Cincinnati Open	A	0 / 0	0–0
Shanghai Masters	A	0 / 0	0–0
Paris Masters		0 / 0	0–0
Win–loss	0–0	0 / 0	0–0

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Davis Cup

Habib has represented Lebanon at the Davis Cup, where he has a win–loss record of 19–7 in singles and a 5–7 record in doubles. In 2015, Habib elected to begin representing Lebanon when he was selected to debut for the Lebanese Davis Cup team in their Asia/Oceania Group II semifinal tie against Sri Lanka.

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Group membership

World Group (0)

Group I (0–6)

Group II (7–2)

Group III (12–2)

Group IV (0)

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• 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.

Defeat	II	Singles	Sri Lanka	Harshana Godamanna	7–5, 6–3, 6–3
Victory	III	Doubles (with Giovani Samaha)		Harshana Godamanna Dineshkanthan Thangarajah	7–6(7–4), 2–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Victory	IV	Singles		Sharmal Dissanayake	7–5, 6–4, 4–6, 4–6, 6–3
Victory	I	Singles	Cambodia	Nysan Tan	6–2, 6–2
Victory	III	Doubles (with Jad Ballout)		Phalkun Mam Nysan Tan	6–4, 6–3
Victory	I	Singles	Singapore	Hao Yuan Ng	6–2, 6–2
Victory	I	Singles	Qatar	Mousa Shanan Zayed	6–1, 6–0
Victory	I	Singles	Syria	Amer Naow	6–2, 6–3
Victory	III	Doubles (with Jad Ballout)		Kareem Al Allaf Amer Naow	6–2, 6–3
Victory	I	Singles	Hong Kong	Anthony Jackie Tang	6–3, 6–2
Defeat	III	Doubles (with Jad Ballout)		Karan Rastogi Wong Chun-hun	3–6, 4–6
Victory	I	Singles	Turkmenistan	Georgiy Pochay	6–0, 6–1
Victory	I	Singles	United Arab Emirates	Omar Al-Awadhi	6–3, 7–5
Defeat	III	Doubles (with Jad Ballout)		Fahad Janahi Hamad Abbas Janahi	3–6, 5–7
Victory	I	Singles	Malaysia	Christian Didier Chin	6–2, 6–4
Victory	I	Singles	Qatar	Jabor Al-Mutawa	6–1, 6–1
Victory	I	Singles	Jordan	Hamzeh Al-Aswad	6–2, 6–0
Victory	II	Singles	Chinese Taipei	Lee Kuan-yi	6–4, 6–3
Victory	III	Doubles (with Giovani Samaha)		Chen Ti Yu Cheng-yu	6–1, 7–5
Victory	II	Singles	Hong Kong	Wong Chun-hun	6–4, 1–6, 6–4
Defeat	III	Doubles (with Giovani Samaha)		Wong Chun-hun Yeung Pak-long	2–6, 4–6
Victory	I	Singles	Thailand	Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul	4–6, 7–6(7–2), 5–3 ret.
Victory	V	Singles		Palaphoom Kovapitukted	6–3, 6–3
Defeat	I	Singles	Uzbekistan	Sanjar Fayziev	4–6, 4–6
Defeat	V	Singles		Jurabek Karimov	4–6, 6–1, 1–6
Defeat	II	Singles	Brazil	Felipe Meligeni Alves	1–6, 3–6
Defeat	III	Doubles (with Benjamin Hassan)		Marcelo Demoliner Rafael Matos	2–6, 6–3, 6–7(5–7)
Defeat	II	Singles	Switzerland	Henri Laaksonen	7–5, 3–6, 3–6
Defeat	III	Doubles (with Benjamin Hassan)		Marc-Andrea Hüsler Dominic Stricker	4–6, 6–7(3–7)

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ATP Challenger Tour finals

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Singles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

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ATP Challenger Tour (1–2)

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Loss	0–1		Santos, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Alejo Lingua Lavallén	6–4, 4–6, 3–6
Win	1–1		Temuco, Chile	Challenger	Hard	Camilo Ugo Carabelli	6–4, 6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–2)
Loss	1–2		Ostrava, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Zsombor Piros	3–6, 2–6

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Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

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ATP Challenger Tour (3–1)

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Hard (0–0)

Clay (3–1)

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Loss	0–1		Santos, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Trey Hilderbrand	Roy Stepanov Andrés Urrea	walkover
Win	1–1		Santa Fe, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Trey Hilderbrand	Ignacio Carou Facundo Mena	6–7(5–7), 6–2, 10–4
Win	2–1		Lima, Peru	Challenger	Clay	Trey Hilderbrand	Pedro Boscardin Dias Pedro Sakamoto	7–5, 6–3
Win	3–1	Jun 2024	Santa Cruz de la Sierra II, Bolivia	Challenger	Clay	Trey Hilderbrand	Finn Reynolds Matías Soto	3–6, 6–3, 10–7

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ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

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Singles: 17 (10 titles, 7 runner-ups)

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Hard (9–5)

Clay (1–2)

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Win	1–0		Tunisia F20, Djerba	Futures	Hard	Moez Echargui	7–6(8–6), 6–4
Loss	1–1		M15 Cancun, Mexico	WTT	Hard	Gerardo López Villaseñor	6–7(2–7), 4–6
Win	2–1		M15 Cairo, Egypt	WTT	Clay	Lorenzo Rottoli	6–3, 6–4
Win	3–1		M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	WTT	Hard	Lukas Krainer	6–2, 6–4
Loss	3–2		M15 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	WTT	Hard	Lý Hoàng Nam	2–6, 4–6
Win	4–2		M15 Doha, Qatar	WTT	Hard	Sasikumar Mukund	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
Win	5–2		M25 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	WTT	Hard	Lukáš Rosol	6–4, 6–4
Loss	5–3		M25 Kiseljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina	WTT	Clay	Joris De Loore	4–6, 7–5, 3–6
Loss	5–4		M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Jaime Faria	5–7, 4–6
Win	6–4		M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Adrien Gobat	6–2, 6–4
Win	7–4		M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Ryuki Matsuda	6–2, 6–3
Win	8–4		M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Coleman Wong	6–3, 6–3
Win	9–4		M25 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	WTT	Hard	Kris van Wyk	6–4, 6–4
Loss	9–5		M25 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Clément Tabur	6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Win	10–5		M25 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Robert Strombachs	6–4, 6–4
Loss	10–6		M25 Quinta do Lago, Portugal	WTT	Hard	Jaime Faria	7–6(8–6), 6–7(3–7), 1–6
Loss	10–7		M25 Pensacola, USA	WTT	Clay	Andrés Andrade	6–7(5–7), 5–7

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Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups)

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Hard (1–2)

Clay (1–2)

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Win	1–0		Sri Lanka F3, Colombo	Futures	Clay	Ankit Chopra	Chandril Sood Lakshit Sood	2–6, 7–5, 10–8
Loss	1–1		Tunisia F19, Djerba	Futures	Hard	José Fco. Vidal Azorín	Anis Ghorbel Vasko Mladenov	6–4, 6–7(7–9), 10–12
Loss	1–2		M15 Cairo, Egypt	WTT	Clay	José Fco. Vidal Azorín	Juan Bautista Otegui Juan Pablo Paz	4–6, 4–6
Loss	1–3		M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Mateo Martínez	Jeremy Beale Thomas Fancutt	4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win	2–3		M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Anis Ghorbel	Brian Bozemoj Jarno Jans	7–6(7–5), 1–6, 10–8
Loss	2–4		M15 Kursumlijska Banja	WTT	Clay	Rrezart Cungu	Juan Pablo Paz Oleksandr Ovcharenko	6–7(5–7), 4–6

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External links

• Hady Habib at Texas A&M University

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