Hazem Naw (born 1 January 2000) is a Syrian tennis player. Naw has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 299 achieved in October 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 722 achieved in November 2024. He is currently the No. 1 Syrian player.
Naw represents Syria at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 23–7.
Career After a short junior career, Naw began to play ITF events in both the singles and doubles draw. In August 2021, he received a wildcard into the doubles draw of the Platzmann-Sauerland Open, a Challenger event in Germany which he played alongside former top-100 player Dustin Brown.
2024: Historic first ATP Challenger win for Syria Naw made history as the first Syrian tennis player to record a win in a singles Challenger main draw with his victory over Billy Harris at the 2024 Koblenz Open, having qualified for the main draw.
Personal life
Naw is the younger brother of fellow tennis player Amer Naow.
Due to the Syrian Civil War, Naw was forced out of Aleppo and moved to Beirut, Lebanon before playing tennis for local leagues in Germany.
ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals
Singles: 8 (4–4) Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)ITF World Tennis Tour (4–4)Finals by surfaceHard (2–1)Clay (2–3)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0M15, MonastirWorld Tennis TourHard Sebastian Gima5–7, 7–6(7–5), 7–6(9–7)Loss1–1M15, Kish IslandWorld Tennis TourClay Dan Alexandru Tomescu6–7(6–8), 4–6Loss1–2M15, Kish IslandWorld Tennis TourClay Denis Klok6–3, 1–6, 3–6Win2–2M15, TrierWorld Tennis TourClay Tom Gentzsch6–4, 6–2Win3–2M15, Alcalá de HenaresWorld Tennis TourHard Daniel Mérida6–4, 6–1Loss3–3M15, MadridWorld Tennis TourHard Alastair Gray1–6, 7–6(7–5), 2–6Win4–3M15, Kish IslandWorld Tennis TourClay Oleg Prihodko6–0, 6–4Loss4–4M15, MetzingenWorld Tennis TourClay Florian Broska5–7, 2–6
Doubles: 7 (5–2) Legend (doubles)ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)ITF World Tennis Tour (5–2)Finals by surfaceHard (2–1)Clay (3–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0M15, HuyWorld Tennis TourClay John Sperle Jonathan Binding Mark Whitehouse6–3, 7–5Win2–0M15, SozopolWorld Tennis TourHard Yann Wójcik Yan Bondarevskiy Nicholas David Ionel6–4, 5–7, [10–6]Loss2–1M15, ValldoreixWorld Tennis TourClay Franco Emanuel Egea Álvaro López San Martín Daniel Rincón3–6, 2–6Loss2–2M15, VaasaWorld Tennis TourHard Robert Strombachs Eero Vasa Iiro Vasa3–6, 4–6Win3–2M15, ÜberlingenWorld Tennis TourClay Taym Al Azmeh Jakob Schnaitter Mark Wallner7–5, 3–6, [10–7]Win4–2M15, KamenWorld Tennis TourClay Taym Al Azmeh Jasper Camehn Moritz Kudernatsch1–6, 7–5, [10–5]Win5–2M15, MonastirWorld Tennis TourHard Taym Al Azmeh Maxence Bertimon Leo Deflandre7–6(7–4), 6–4
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