Rodrigo Pacheco Méndez (born 25 April 2005) is a Mexican professional

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player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 224, achieved on 31 March 2025 and a career high doubles ranking of No. 404, also achieved on 3 March 2025. He is currently the No. 1 Mexican player. He was the year-end ITF junior world No. 1 in 2023.

Career

2022: Turned Pro, ATP debut

Pacheco reached the quarterfinals of the Junior Australian Open and the Junior French Open in 2022. Pacheco made his ATP debut at the 2022 Los Cabos Open in the main singles draw.

2023: Junior World No. 1

He received a wildcard for the main draw of the 2023 Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco. He also received a wildcard for the inaugural 2023 edition of the Challenger in

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. He reached a career high junior ranking of No. 1 on 29 May 2023.

2024-2025: First ATP quarterfinal, Top 250 debut

For a third consecutive year, he received a wildcard for the main draw of the 2024 Los Cabos Open where he lost in the first round to the No. 72 ranked Australian

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in straight sets with two tiebreaks. He again received a wildcard for the main draw of the

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but lost to the No. 55 ranked Serbian Dusan Lajovic. On 22 April 2024, he reached the top 600 at world No. 589, following a quarterfinal showing at the 2024 GNP Seguros Tennis Open Challenger in Acapulco with wins over second seed

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. In May, ranked No. 585, he won the biggest title of his career defeating

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in the final of the M25 Xalapa in Mexico. He reached the top 500 on 20 May 2024, climbing more than 120 positions up in the rankings, following another final showing as a wildcard, at the M15 Villahermosa also in Mexico. Ranked No. 356, Pacheco received a main draw wildcard for the ATP 500 2025 Abierto Mexicano Telcel, where he defeated world No. 66

recording the biggest win of his career. He became the youngest Mexican man to win an ATP Tour match since 1996 ( Alejandro Hernandez in Santiago). Next Pacheco Mendez reached his first ATP Tour quarterfinal and first at the 500-level after getting a walkover from second seed

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and moved 124 positions up in the rankings into the top 250 on 3 March 2025. Pacheco Mendez became the first Mexican tour-level quarterfinalist since 1998, when Hernandez reached the last eight on Mexico City’s clay courts.

ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

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