Nick Hardt (born 20 September 2000) is a Dominican professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 177 achieved on 26 August 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 282 achieved on 24 August 2023. He is currently the No. 1 Dominican player.
Hardt represents the Dominican Republic in the Davis Cup.
Hardt won the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games singles and nations cup golden medal and bronze in doubles with Roberto Cid. He also won golden medals at home during the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games in singles and nations cup.
Junior career Hardt was ranked No. 16 in the world junior rankings by the ITF on 5 March 2018.
In 2016, he won the XXV Copa Merengue tournament in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, becoming the youngest Dominican to win the title at 15 years of age.
In 2017, he reached the quarterfinals of the Eddie Herr Junior Championships ITF tournament where he lost to eventual champion, Bulgarian Adrian Andreev.
In 2018, he reached the quarterfinals of the 2018 French Open Junior Championships and the third round in the 2018 U.S. Open Junior Championships. Hardt also reached the finals of the 2018 Porto Alegre Junior Championships losing to the No. 1 ranked junior in the world Sebastián Báez in the finals.
Professional career 2017: Davis Cup debut Hardt was first nominated to the team for the 2017 Davis Cup and faced Chilean tennis player Nicolás Jarry in his first match.
2022: Maiden Challenger final, top 205 debut He reached his maiden Challenger final at the 2022 JC Ferrero Challenger Open. As a result, he moved more than 35 positions up to a new career-high in the top 250 on 10 October 2022. Two months later, he reached a career-high of No. 201 on 22 December 2022.
2024: Maiden Challenger title, ATP debut and first win, top 200 Ranked No. 301, he won his maiden Challenger title as an alternate at the Sánchez-Casal Mapfre Cup in Barcelona defeating wildcard and second seed Bernabe Zapata Miralles. He was only the second Challenger champion from the Dominican Republic. As a result, he raised 70 positions up in the rankings to return to the top 230.
Ranked No. 229, he qualified for the ATP 500 tournament at the Barcelona Open making his ATP debut, having entered the qualifying competition as an alternate. There, he earned his first ATP Tour win, defeating wildcard Martin Landaluce in three sets, becoming the first Dominican player to win an ATP tour-level match since Víctor Estrella Burgos in 2018 Quito. As a result of his win, he moved 25 positions up close to his career-high. He lost to 13th seed Tomás Martín Etcheverry in the second round.
On 20 May 2024, he made into the top 200 in the singles rankings after reaching the semifinals at the 2024 Internazionali di Tennis Francavilla al Mare Challenger in Italy.https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/h0a4/rankings-history?year=all
ATP Challenger and Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour finals
Singles: 25 (17–8) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (2–1)Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (15–7)Finals by surfaceHard (3–5)Clay (14–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Dominican Republic F3, Santo DomingoFuturesHard Alejandro Tabilo7–5, 6–3Win2–0M15 Saarlouis, GermanyWorld Tennis TourClay Fabrizio Ornago6–0, 6–4Loss2–1M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicWorld Tennis TourHard Peter Bertran6–4, 1–6, 4–6Win3–1M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicWorld Tennis TourHard Oliver Crawford6–4, 6–0Win4–1M15 Antalya, TurkeyWorld Tennis TourClay Alexander Erler6–0, 7–6(9–7)Win5–1M15 Antalya, TurkeyWorld Tennis TourClay Nicolas Moreno de Alboran2–6, 7–5, 6–1Win6–1M25 Belgrade, SerbiaWorld Tennis TourClay Daniel Cukierman3–6, 6–3, 6–3Loss6–2M25 Marburg, GermanyWorld Tennis TourClay Louis Wessels6–4, 5–7, 6–7(5–7)Win7–2M25 Dénia, SpainWorld Tennis TourClay Calvin Hemery7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–4)Loss7–3M25 Santo Domingo, Domican RepublicWorld Tennis TourHard Wu Tung-lin5–7, 3–6Win8–3M25 La Nucia, SpainWorld Tennis TourClay Laurent Lokoli 6–0, 6–4Win9–3M25 Dénia, SpainWorld Tennis TourClay Mariano Navone 3–6, 6–3, 6–2Loss9–4M25 Wetzlar, GermanyWorld Tennis TourClay Rudolf Molleker6–7(3–7), 1–6Loss9–5Alicante, SpainChallengerHard Lukáš Klein3–6, 4–6Win10–5M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicWorld Tennis TourHard Liam Draxl6–4, 6–3Win11–5M25 Antalya, TurkeyWorld Tennis TourClay Clement Tabur6–1, 6–4Loss11–6M25 Antalya, TurkeyWorld Tennis TourClay Daniel Mérida6–1, 5–7, 3–6Loss11–7M25 Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicWorld Tennis TourHard Thai-Son Kwiatkowski4–6, 4–6Win12–7Barcelona, SpainChallengerClay Bernabé Zapata Miralles6–4, 3–6, 6–2Win13–7M25 Sabadell, SpainWorld Tennis TourClay Lorenzo Giustino6–4, 3–6, 6–2Loss13–8M15 San José, Costa RicaWorld Tennis TourHard Blaise Bicknell2–6, 4–6Win14–8M15 Orange Park, United StatesWorld Tennis TourClay Andreja Petrovic1–6, 6–1, 6–4Win15–8M25 Pensacola, United StatesWorld Tennis TourClay Ryan Colby2–6, 6–1, 6–3Win16–8M25 Cuiabá, BrazilWorld Tennis TourClay Carlos María Zárate6–2, 6–2Win17–8Asunción, ParaguayChallengerClay Juan Estévez7–6(7–0), 4–6, 6–2
Doubles: 8 (6–2) Legend (doubles)ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)Futures/ITF World Tennis Tour (6–2)Finals by surfaceHard (4–2)Clay (2–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDate Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents ScoreLoss0–1Dominican Republic F3, Santo DomingoFutures Hard José Olivares Bernardo Saraiva Sem Verbeek 3–6, 4–6Win1–1M15 Brussels, BelgiumWorld Tennis Tour Clay Luca Gelhardt Jesper de Jong Alec Deckers 6–4, 6–4Win2–1M15 Eupen, BelgiumWorld Tennis Tour Clay Michael Geerts Genaro Alberto Olivieri Gonzalo Villanueva 6–7(10–12), 6–2, [10–3]Win3–1M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicWorld Tennis Tour Hard Maksim Tikhomirov Alex Blumenberg João Hinsching 6–2, 6–3Loss3–2M15 Sintra, PortugalWorld Tennis Tour Hard Savriyan Danilov Fabian Fallert Nicolas Moreno de Alboran 6–7(4–7), 4–6Win4–2M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicWorld Tennis Tour Hard Shintaro Mochizuki Gonzalo Lama Antonio Cayetano March 6–3, 6–3Win5–2M15 Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicWorld Tennis Tour Hard Shintaro Mochizuki Nick Chappell Keegan Smith 4–6, 7–6(7–2), [10–5]Win6–2M15 Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptWorld Tennis Tour Hard Nicolas Moreno de Alboran Arnaud Bovy Aidan McHugh 6–3, 6–4
Davis Cup
Participations: (7–10)
Group membershipWorld Group (0–0)Qualifying Round (0–0)WG play-off (0–0)Group I (1–4)Group II (6–6)Group III (0–0)Group IV (0–0)Matches by surfaceHard (7–6)Clay (0–4)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Matches by typeSingles (4–4)Doubles (3–6) 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.
Rubber outcomeNo.RubberMatch type (partner if any)Opponent nationOpponent player(s)Score0–5; 3–5 February 2017; Centro De Tenis Parque Del Este, Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic; Americas Zone Group I first round; hard surfaceDefeat1VSingles ChileNicolás Jarry3–6, 3–62–3; 2–3 February 2018; Club Deportivo Naco, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Americas Zone Group I first round; hard surfaceDefeat2IIIDoubles (with José Olivares) BrazilMarcelo Demoliner / Marcelo Melo3–6, 4–64–0; 6–7 April 2018; Centro De Tenis Parque Del Este, Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic; Americas Zone Group I second round; hard surfaceVictory3IIIDoubles (with José Olivares) BarbadosXavier Lawrence / Kaipo Marshall6–3, 6–11–3; 14–15 September 2019; Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club, Montevideo, Uruguay; Americas Zone Group I first round; clay surfaceDefeat4IIIDoubles (with Víctor Estrella Burgos) UruguayMartín Cuevas / Pablo Cuevas4–6, 3–61–3; 6-7 March 2020; Club de Tenis Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; World Group I Play-off first round; clay surfaceDefeat5IIIDoubles (with Roberto Cid Subervi) BoliviaHugo Dellien / Federico Zeballos3–6, 2–62–3; 17-18 September 2021; Cité Nationale Sportive El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia; World Group II first round; hard surfaceVictory6ISingles TunisiaMalek Jaziri4–6, 6–1, 6–5 ret.Defeat7IIIDoubles (with Roberto Cid Subervi)Aziz Dougaz / Aziz Ouakaa4–6, 6–7(3–7)Defeat8VSinglesAziz Dougaz3–6, 4–63–0; 4-5 March 2022; Centro Nacional de Tenis, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; World Group II play-off; hard surfaceVictory9ISingles VietnamTrịnh Linh Giang6–1, 6–4Victory10IIIDoubles (with Peter Bertran)Lê Quốc Khánh / Lý Hoàng Nam6–7(7–9), 6–4, 6–12–3; 16-17 September 2022; National Tennis Centre, Jūrmala, Latvia; World Group II first round; hard (indoor) surfaceDefeat11IISingles LatviaKārlis Ozoliņš3–6, 4–6Defeat12IIIDoubles (with Víctor Estrella Burgos)Kārlis Ozoliņš / Robert Strombachs3–6, 6–4, 3–6Victory13IVSingles (dead rubber)Daniels Tens6–2, 6–20–4; 4-5 February 2023; Monte Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France; World Group II play-off; clay surfaceDefeat14IISingles MonacoLucas Catarina3–6, 4–6Defeat15IIIDoubles (with Roberto Cid Subervi)Romain Arneodo / Hugo Nys6–7(1–7), 3–63–1; 6-7 February 2026; Centro Nacional de Tenis, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; World Group II play-off; hard surfaceVictory16IISingles LatviaRobert Strombachs7–5, 6–7(2–7), 6–2Victory17IIIDoubles (with Peter Bertran)Kārlis Ozoliņš / Robert Strombachs6–4, 7–6(7–2)
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