Thiago Seyboth Wild

Thiago Seyboth Wild

Seyboth Wild at the 2018 Rio Open
Country (sports)	Brazil
Residence	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Born	(2000-03-10) 10 March 2000 (age 21) Marechal Cândido Rondon, Brazil
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2018
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	João Zwetsch[1]
Prize money	US$354,600
Singles
Career record	8–13 (38.1% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches)
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 106 (14 September 2020)
Current ranking	No. 124 (8 March 2021)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2020, 2021, 2022)
French Open	Q1 (2020, 2021)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2021)
US Open	1R (2020)
Doubles
Career record	0–2 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 393 (10 February 2020)
Current ranking	No. 578 (8 March 2021)
Last updated on: 10 March 2021.

Thiago Seyboth Wild (Brazilian Portuguese: [tʃiˈaɡu ˈzajbɨtʃ ˈviwdʒ];^[2] born 10 March 2000) is a Brazilian tennis player. He won 2018 US Open junior singles title. He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 106 on September 14, 2020 and a career high ITF junior ranking of No. 8 on January 22, 2018. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 393 achieved on February 10, 2020.

Seyboth Wild made his ATP main draw debut at the 2018 Brasil Open after receiving a wildcard into the singles main draw.

He won his first Challenger title at Guayaquil defeating Bolivian Hugo Dellien on November 3, 2019.

At just 19 years old, he won his first ATP Tour title in Santiago defeating Norwegian Casper Ruud on 1 March 2020. By winning this title he became the youngest Brazilian ever to win an ATP title. He also became the first player on the ATP Tour born in or beyond the year 2000 to win a non-exhibition ATP title.

Career[]

2018: Junior Grand Slam title[]

Wild became the second Brazilian to win a junior Grand Slam (US Open) on September 9, joining Tiago Fernandes. He also made the junior semifinal at the Roland Garros, and at the doubles of US Open and French Open.

2019: First Challenger title[]

In November 2019, at the age of 19, he won his first Challenger in Guayaquil, entering the top 300 in the world for the first time. With the title, he jumped to the 235th place in the world ranking, and became the third best tennis player in Brazil at the moment, behind only Thiago Monteiro and João Menezes.

2020: Wildcards and first ATP 250 title[]

In February 2020, he received wildcard to participate in the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro, where he defeated the Spaniard top 100 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in three sets (5–7, 7–6 ^(7–3) and 7–5) in the first round, in the longest match in the history of the tournament (3 hours and 49 minutes). In the next round, he faced world number 32 Borna Ćorić, losing in the third set tiebreak. With this result, he entered the world top 200 for the first time on February 24, moving to 182nd position in the ranking.

In the following week, invited as a wildcard to the ATP 250 in Santiago, the Wild had his best campaign: he defeated Facundo Bagnis, Juan Ignacio Londero (world No. 63) and in the quarterfinals, the top seed of the tournament, and champion of the Rio Open, the Chilean Cristian Garín, ranking No. 18, who retired after losing the first set in a tiebreak. In the semifinals he defeated Renzo Olivo in straight sets becoming the youngest Brazilian to reach a final at this level, surpassing the achievements of former world number 1 Gustavo Kuerten, then aged 20, and of Jaime Oncins and Thomaz Bellucci, at 21 years old. He also became the first Brazilian to compete in an ATP level final since Bellucci was runner-up in Houston in April 2017. In the final, he defeated Norwegian Casper Ruud (ranked No. 38 and champion of the Argentina Open two weeks before), in three sets, becoming champion at 19 years old, surpassing Kuerten, who won his first ATP title at the age of 20. Wild is also the youngest tennis player to win a title in the Latin American clay court since Rafael Nadal won Acapulco in 2005, at the age of 18. Wild climbed up 69 positions, reaching a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 113, becoming the second-highest ranked tennis player in Brazil.^[3][4]

In March, Seyboth Wild became the first professional tennis player to announce a diagnosis of COVID-19.^[5] He was investigated for an alleged breach of quarantine prior to receiving the test results.^[6]

After the season was paralyzed for a few months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in September, Wild goes to the strong Challenger in Aix-en-Provence, France, with the participation of four top 100 players and a prize of 125 points to the champion (the biggest among Challengers), and reaches the final.^[7]

2021[]

In September 2021, it was announced that Brazilian authorities were investigating allegations of domestic violence perpetrated by Seyboth Wild against his ex-girlfriend.^[8]

ATP career finals[]

Singles: 1 (1 title)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2020	Chile Open, Chile	250 Series	Clay	Casper Ruud	7–5, 4–6, 6–3

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour Finals[]

Singles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runners-up)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Oct 2017	Turkey F39, Antalya	Futures	Clay	Jordi Samper-Montaña	6–0, 4–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Nov 2017	Turkey F42, Antalya	Futures	Clay	Riccardo Bonadio	6–4, 6–4
Win	2–1	Apr 2018	Brazil F1, São José do Rio Preto	Futures	Clay	Camilo Ugo Carabelli	7–6(7–5), 6–3
Loss	2–2	May 2018	Brazil F4, Curitiba	Futures	Clay	João Lucas Reis da Silva	7–6(7–1), 3–6, 2–6
Win	3–2	Jun 2019	France M25, Montauban	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Hugo Gaston	6–4, 6–2
Win	4–2	Nov 2019	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Hugo Dellien	6–4, 6–0
Loss	4–3	Sep 2020	Aix-en-Provence, France	Challenger	Clay	Oscar Otte	2–6, 7–6(7–4), 4–6

Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner up)[]

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Nov 2017	Turkey F42, Antalya	Futures	Clay	Diego Hidalgo	Koray Kırcı Takashi Saito	6–2, 6–3
Win	2–0	May 2018	Brazil F3, Brasília	Futures	Clay	Tomás Martín Etcheverry	Oscar José Gutierrez Igor Marcondes	6–7(1–7), 7–6(7–3), [11–9]
Loss	2–1	Jun 2019	France M25, Montauban	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Dan Added	Alejandro Gomez Junior Alexander Ore	2–6, 2–6
Win	3–1	Jul 2019	France M25, Ajaccio	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Yanais Laurent	Fabian Fallert Hendrik Jebens	6–4, 1–6, [10–8]
Loss	3–2	Nov 2019	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Pedro Sakamoto	Ariel Behar Gonzalo Escobar	6–7(4–7), 6–7(5–7)

Junior Grand Slam finals[]

Singles: 1 (1 title)[]

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	2018	US Open	Hard	Lorenzo Musetti	6–1, 2–6, 6–2

Record against top 10 players[]

Seyboth Wild'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
Number 6 ranked players
Gael Monfils	0–1	0%	0–0	0–1	0–0	Lost (5–7, 4–6) at 2021 Lyon
Number 8 ranked players
Casper Ruud	1–0	100%	0–0	1–0	0–0	Won (7–5, 4–6, 6–3) at 2020 Santiago
Total	1–1	50%	0–0 ( – )	1–1 (50%)	0–0 ( – )	* Statistics correct as of 23 October 2021.

References[]

External links[]

• Thiago Seyboth Wild at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Thiago Seyboth Wild at the International Tennis Federation