Federico Coria (born 9 March 1992) is an Argentine professional
tennis
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player. He has a career-high
ATP singles ranking of world No. 49, achieved on 13 February 2023 and a doubles ranking of No. 238, achieved on 22 November 2021.
Coria has won six
ATP Challenger
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singles titles and one in doubles.
Professional career
2019–20: Maiden Challenger title, major & top 100 debuts
In 2019, he won his maiden title in
Savannah
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at the Challenger tour level.
In 2020, on his Grand Slam debut at the
US Open, Coria reached the second round, where he won his first match at a Major after the retirement of
Jason Jung in the fifth set. He made his top 100 debut at a career-high of World No. 98 on 21 September 2020.
He also reached the third round of a Grand Slam at the
2020 French Open on his debut at this Major, where he defeated
Benoît Paire
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His best result in a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam has been reaching the fourth round, which he has achieved on four occasions. He has won three singles titles, ...
in the second round before losing to
Jannik Sinner
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in straight sets.
2021: Olympic Games, Challenger Tour success, first ATP final
In June 2021, he won his second challenger title at the
2021 Czech Open in
Prostějov
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, defeating
Alex Molčan
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. He reached two more Challengers finals in Milan and Salzburg. As a result, he reached a career-high of World No. 77 in singles on 12 July 2021.
He reached his first ATP tour final at the
2021 Swedish Open, where he lost to
Casper Ruud
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. He raised to a new career-high of No. 61 on 23 August 2021.
He represented
Argentina
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at the
2020 Summer Olympics
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, but lost in the tight opening round to
Mikhail Kukushkin.
2023–24: ATP final, top 50, fifth consecutive season in Top 100
In February 2023, he reached his second ATP final at the
2023 Córdoba Open defeating No. 2 seed
Francisco Cerúndolo and the defending champion, No. 3 seed Spaniard
Albert Ramos Vinolas en route. He lost in three sets to the No. 4 seed
Sebastián Báez
Sebastián Báez (; born 28 December 2000) is an Argentine professional tennis player.
He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 18, achieved on 24 June 2024 and a doubles ranking of world No. 189, achieved on 29 July 2024. Báez ha ...
in the final. As a result, he moved into the top 50 at world No. 49 on 13 February 2023.
In February 2024, he reached the
Córdoba Open semifinals for the third time defeating third seed
Tomas Martin Etcheverry. The following week using
special exempt (SE) status, he reached back-to-back semifinals at another home tournament from the Golden swing, the
2024 Argentina Open defeating second seed
Cameron Norrie
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, his fourth top-20 win and fifth seed Sebastián Báez.
On 13 November 2024, he participated in the men's doubles event in the
Uruguay Open, partnering former football player
Diego Forlán
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. The pair was defeated in the first round by the No. 4 seeds from
Bolivia
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,
Boris Arias and
Federico Zeballos.
At the end of November, he reached the singles semifinals of
2024 Maia Challenger in
Portugal
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, where he lost to an eventual champion
Damir Džumhur
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, which enabled him of finishing five seasons in a row inside the Top 100 in the
ATP rankings
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.
Personal life
Federico is the younger brother of
Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria (born 13 January 1982), nicknamed ''El Mago'' (''The Magician'' in Spanish), is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP world No. 3 Singles (ten ...
.
In June 2018, Coria was fined $10,000 and banned for eight months on anti-corruption charges for failing to report a match-fixing attempt in 2015 and for not cooperating with the subsequent investigation.
Coria also runs his own personal YouTube channel where he documents about his travels in tournaments.
Performance timeline
''Current through the
2025 French Open.''
ATP Tour finals
Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)
ATP Challenger Tour finals
Singles: 15 (6 titles, 9 runner-ups)
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
ITF Futures finals
Singles: 20 (9 titles, 11 runner-ups)
Doubles: 21 (6 titles, 15 runner-ups)
References
External links
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1992 births
Living people
Argentine male tennis players
Tennis controversies
Match fixing in tennis
Olympic tennis players for Argentina
Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Tennis players from Rosario, Santa Fe
21st-century Argentine sportsmen