Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (; born July 14, 1997) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 107 achieved on January 6, 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 301, reached on June 30, 2025.
Moreno de Alboran plays mostly on the ATP Challenger Tour, where he has won three titles in singles and one in doubles.
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 February 20, 2023, following a third Challenger final at the Chennai Open where he lost to Max Purcell. He reached the top 150 on June 12, 2023, following his second Challenger title at the 2023 Tyler Tennis Championships.
Ranked No. 131, he made his Grand Slam tournament 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.
Moreno de Alboran 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 a final at the Villena Open where he lost to Kamil Majchrzak and his third title in Matsuyama, he finished the season ranked at a career-high singles ranking of world No. 109 on 18 November 2024.
Personal life 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.
Performance timeline
Singles Tournament202120222023202420252026Win % Grand SlamsAustralian OpenAAQ1Q1AQ10 / 00–0French OpenAAQ31RQ2Q10 / 10–1WimbledonAQ3Q1Q2AQ10 / 00–0US OpenQ1A1RQ1A0 / 10–1Win–loss0–00–00–10–10–00–00 / 20–2ATP Masters 1000Indian Wells MastersAAA1RA0 / 10–1Miami OpenAAQ1AA0 / 00–0Monte Carlo MastersAAAAA0 / 00–0Madrid OpenAAAAQ10 / 00-0Italian OpenAAA1R1R0 / 20–2Canadian OpenAAAAA0 / 00–0Cincinnati MastersAAAAA0 / 00–0Shanghai MastersNH AAA0 / 00–0Paris MastersAAAAA0 / 00–0Win–loss0–00–00–00–20–10–00 / 30–3
ATP Challenger and ITF Tour finals
Singles: 15 (6 titles, 9 runner-ups) LegendATP Challenger Tour (3–4)ITF WTT (3–5)Finals by surfaceHard (3–6)Clay (3–3)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Challenger ATP de Salinas Diario Expreso, EcuadorChallengerHard Emilio Gómez7–6(7–2), 6–7(4–7), 5–7Win1–1Braga Open, PortugalChallengerClay Matheus Pucinelli de Almeida6–2, 6–4Loss1–2Chennai Open Challenger, IndiaChallengerHard Max Purcell7–5, 6–7(2–7), 4–6Win2–2Tyler Tennis Championships, USChallengerHard Mikhail Kukushkin6–7(8–10), 7–6(7–0), 6–4Loss2–3Cary Challenger, USChallengerHard Adam Walton4–6, 6–3, 5–7Loss2–4Villena Open, SpainChallengerHard Kamil Majchrzak4–6, 2–6Win3–4Matsuyama Challenger, JapanChallengerHard Alex Bolt7–6(7–4), 6–2
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1M15 Cancún, MexicoWTTHard Nicolás Mejía2–6, 5–7Loss0–2M15 Tabarka, TunisiaWTTClay Ignacio Monzón3–6, 1–6Loss0–3M15 Cairo, EgyptWTTClay Gonzalo Lama0–6, 0–6Loss0–4M15 Antalya, TurkeyWTTClay Nick Hardt6–2, 5–7, 1–6Win1–4M15 Antalya, TurkeyWTTClay Giovanni Fonio7–5, 6–4Win2–4M25 Klosters, SwitzerlandWTTClay Francesco Forti6–4, 6–3Win3–4M25 Idanha-a-Nova, PortugalWTTHard Zane Khan1–0 ret.Loss3–5M25 Madrid, SpainWTTHard Lukas Neumayer4–6, 1–6
Doubles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner-ups) LegendATP Challenger Tour (1–2)ITF WTT (5–1)Finals by surfaceHard (4–2)Clay (2–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Little Rock Challenger, USChallengerHard Alexis Galarneau Nam Ji-sung Artem Sitak4–6, 4–6Win1–1Ion Țiriac Challenger, RomaniaChallengerClay Javier Barranco Cosano Karol Drzewiecki Piotr Matuszewski3–6, 6–1, [17–15]Loss1–2Matsuyama Challenger, JapanChallengerHard Rubin Statham Seita Watanabe Takeru Yuzuki4–6, 3–6
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0M15 São Brás de Alportel, PortugalWTTHard Simon Freund Francisco Cabral Luke Johnson5–7, 6–4, [10–7]Loss1–1M15 Tabarka, TunisiaWTTClay Boris Butulija Ignacio Monzón Fermín TentidefaultedWin2–1M15 Faro, PortugalWTTHard Fabian Fallert Michał Dembek Gonçalo Falcão6–3, 6–4Win3–1M15 Sintra, PortugalWTTHard Fabian Fallert Savriyan Danilov Nick Hardt7–6(7–4), 6–4Win4–1M15 Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptWTTHard Nick Hardt Arnaud Bovy Aidan McHugh6–3, 6–4Win5–1M25 Klosters, SwitzerlandWTTClay Fabian Fallert Leandro Riedi Dominic Stricker4–6, 7–6(7–1), [10–6]
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