Nicolas Moreno de Alboran

Nicolas Moreno de Alboran

Moreno de Alboran at the 2023 Cary Challenger
Country (sports)	United States
Residence	Madrid, Spain
Born	(1997-07-14) 14 July 1997 New York City, United States
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2019
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	UC Santa Barbara
Coach	Glenn Kuma-Mintah
Prize money	US $740,223
Singles
Career record	6–11
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 109 (November 18, 2024)
Current ranking	No. 109 (November 18, 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (2023, 2024)
French Open	1R (2024)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2022)
US Open	1R (2023)
Doubles
Career record	0–1
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 311 (November 11, 2024)
Current ranking	No. 312 (November 18, 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
US Open	1R (2023)
Last updated on: 20 November 2024.

Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (Spanish: Nicolás Moreno de Alborán; born 14 July 1997) is an American tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 109 and a doubles ranking of No. 311, both achieved in November 2024. Moreno de Alboran has won three ATP Challenger singles titles.

Career

2018-2019: College years

Moreno de Alboran played collegiate tennis for University of California, Santa Barbara, and he made sporadic appearances on the ITF circuit.

2019-2021: Turned professional

He turned professional in 2019, and following a period of inactivity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, he progressed to regular appearances on the ATP Challenger Tour during the second half of the 2021 season.

2022-2023: First Challenger title, ATP, Major and top 125 debuts

He won his first Challenger title at the 2022 Braga Open in Portugal.

He reached the top 200 at world No. 188 on 20 February 2023, following a third Challenger final at the Chennai Open where he lost to Max Purcell. He reached the top 150 on 12 June 2023 following his second Challenger title at the 2023 Tyler Tennis Championships.

Ranked No. 131, he made his Grand Slam debut at the 2023 US Open after qualifying. He also qualified for the 2023 Sofia Open, making his ATP debut, entering the main draw as lucky loser but lost to Jurij Rodionov.

2024: First ATP wins & quarterfinals, Masters & top 110 debuts

Moreno Alboran qualified for the 2024 Dallas Open defeating Denis Kudla in the last round of qualifying. He also qualified for the next tournament, the 2024 Delray Beach Open defeating top seed Flavio Cobolli in the last qualifying round. He won his first main draw ATP match over compatriot Aleksandar Kovacevic. He qualified for the 2024 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells making his Masters debut.

At the beginning of the clay court season he also qualified for the 2024 Grand Prix Hassan II and defeated fifth seed Facundo Díaz Acosta and David Goffin to reach his first ATP quarterfinal of his career.

He qualified into the main draw of the Italian Open making his debut at his first Masters on clay. He also qualified for the main draw at the 2024 Geneva Open and defeated again fellow qualifier David Goffin.

Moreno Alboran earned the USTA's reciprocal wildcard for the 2024 French Open after winning the men's Roland Garros Wild Card Challenge, where he made his debut at this Major.

He qualified for the main draw 2024 Swiss Open Gstaad but lost to Yannick Hanfmann. He received a wildcard for the main draw at the 2024 Generali Open Kitzbühel and defeated qualifier Andrea Collarini in the first round and fellow wildcard Lukas Neumayer in the second to reach his second career quarterfinal.

Following his third title at the 2024 Matsuyama Challenger, Moreno Alboran finished the season ranked at a career-high singles ranking of world No. 109 on 18 November 2024.

Personal

Moreno de Alboran, a Spanish-American, was born in New York City. He moved to London as a teenager, where he attended Ibstock Place School in Roehampton, finishing in 2015. He trained at Dukes Meadows in Chiswick and represented Spain in junior events, then switched to the United States. He also played rugby and soccer while growing up.

Moreno de Alboran was a collegiate tennis player for UC Santa Barbara, where he was highly successful and ranked among the top 10 college players in the country during his senior year. He studied Environmental Science.

ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 15 (6 titles, 9 runner-ups)

Legend ATP Challenger Tour (3–4) ITF WTT (3–5)

Finals by surface Hard (3–6) Clay (3–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2022	Challenger ATP de Salinas Diario Expreso, Ecuador	Challenger	Hard	Emilio Gómez	7–6(7–2), 6–7(4–7), 5–7
Win	1–1	Sep 2022	Braga Open, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Matheus Pucinelli de Almeida	6–2, 6–4
Loss	1–2	Feb 2023	Chennai Open Challenger, India	Challenger	Hard	Max Purcell	7–5, 6–7(2–7), 4–6
Win	2–2	Jun 2023	Tyler Tennis Championships, USA	Challenger	Hard	Mikhail Kukushkin	6–7(8–10), 7–6(7–0), 6–4
Loss	2–3	Aug 2023	Cary Challenger, USA	Challenger	Hard	Adam Walton	4–6, 6–3, 5–7
Loss	2–4	Sep 2024	JC Ferrero Challenger Open, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Kamil Majchrzak	4–6, 2–6
Win	3–4	Nov 2024	Matsuyama Challenger, Japan	Challenger	Hard	Alex Bolt	7–6(7–4), 6–2

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2019	M15 Cancún, Mexico	WTT	Hard	Nicolás Mejía	2–6, 5–7
Loss	0–2	Oct 2019	M15 Tabarka, Tunisia	WTT	Clay	Ignacio Monzón	3–6, 1–6
Loss	0–3	Jan 2021	M15 Cairo, Egypt	WTT	Clay	Gonzalo Lama	0–6, 0–6
Loss	0–4	May 2021	M15 Antalya, Turkey	WTT	Clay	Nick Hardt	6–2, 5–7, 1–6
Win	1–4	May 2021	M15 Antalya, Turkey	WTT	Clay	Giovanni Fonio	7–5, 6–4
Win	2–4	Jun 2021	M25 Klosters, Switzerland	WTT	Clay	Francesco Forti	6–4, 6–3
Win	3–4	Jul 2021	M25 Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal	WTT	Hard	Zane Khan	1–0 ret.
Loss	3–5	Sep 2022	M25 Madrid, Spain	WTT	Hard	Lukas Neumayer	4–6, 1–6

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

Legend ATP Challenger Tour (1–2) ITF WTT (3–0)

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

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2023	Little Rock Challenger, USA	Challenger	Hard	Alexis Galarneau	Nam Ji-sung Artem Sitak	4–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Jul 2024	Ion Țiriac Challenger, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Javier Barranco Cosano	Karol Drzewiecki Piotr Matuszewski	3–6, 6–1, [17–15]
Loss	1–2	Nov 2024	Matsuyama Challenger, Japan	Challenger	Hard	Rubin Statham	Seita Watanabe Takeru Yuzuki	4–6, 3–6

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2020	M15 Faro, Portugal	WTT	Hard	Fabian Fallert	Michał Dembek Gonçalo Falcão	6–3, 6–4
Win	2–0	Sep 2020	M15 Sintra, Portugal	WTT	Hard	Fabian Fallert	Savriyan Danilov Nick Hardt	7–6(7–4), 6–4
Win	3–0	Jun 2021	M25 Klosters, Switzerland	WTT	Clay	Fabian Fallert	Leandro Riedi Dominic Stricker	4–6, 7–6(7–1), [10–6]

External links

• Nicolas Moreno de Alboran at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Nicolas Moreno de Alboran at the International Tennis Federation