Rodrigo Pacheco Méndez (born 25 April 2005) is a Mexican professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 196 achieved on 22 September 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 132 achieved on 2 March 2026. He is currently the No. 1 singles player from Mexico.
Pacheco Méndez reached an ITF junior combined ranking of No. 1 on 29 May 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: Juniors: French Open doubles champion, world No. 1
Pacheco Méndez 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 Mexico City. He reached a career high junior ranking of No. 1 on 29 May 2023. Rodrigo Pacheco won the Junior 2023 French Open in doubles.
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 Aleksandar Vukic in straight sets with two tiebreaks. He again received a wildcard for the main draw of the 2024 Abierto Mexicano Telcel but lost to the No. 55 ranked Serbian Dušan Lajović.
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 Michael Mmoh and Nicolás Mejía.
In May, ranked No. 585, he won the biggest title of his career defeating Bernard Tomic 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 Aleksandar Vukic 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 Casper Ruud 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.
Performance timeline
Singles Tournament20252026SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAQ10 / 00–0French OpenQ1A0 / 00–0WimbledonAA0 / 00–0US OpenQ20 / 00–0Win–loss0–00–00 / 00–0ATP 1000 tournamentsIndian Wells OpenAA0 / 00–0Miami OpenAA0 / 00–0Monte-Carlo MastersAA0 / 00–0Madrid OpenAA0 / 00-0Italian OpenAA0 / 00–0Canadian OpenA0 / 00–0Cincinnati OpenA0 / 00–0Shanghai MastersA0 / 00–0Paris MastersA0 / 00–0Win–loss0–00–00 / 00–0
ATP Challenger Tour finals Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) LegendATP Challenger Tour (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Phan Thiết Challenger IV, VietnamChallengerHard Ilia Simakin7–6(7–4), 4–6, 3–6 Doubles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups) LegendATP Challenger Tour (3–2)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Yucatán Open, MexicoChallengerClay Kilian Feldbausch George Goldhoff Trey Hilderbrand6–4, 6–2Win2–0Uruguay Open, UruguayChallengerClay Facundo Mena Gonzalo Escobar Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela3–6, 6–3, [11–9]Win3–0Challenger de Guayaquil, EcuadorChallengerClay Alex Hernández Lucio Ratti Victor Hugo Remondy Pagotto7–5, 6–3Loss3–1Soma Bay Open, EgyptChallengerHard Alex Hernández Erik Grevelius Adam Heinonen2–6, 3–6Loss3–2Banorte Tennis Open, MexicoChallengerClay Facundo Mena Jake Delaney Tristan Schoolkate4–6, 6–7(2–7)
ITF World Tennis Tour finals
Singles: 6 (3 titles, 3 runner-ups) LegendITF WTT (3–3)Finals by surfaceHard (3–3)Clay (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0M15 Belém, BrazilWTTHard Gilbert Klier Jr.6–1, 6–0Win2–0M25 Xalapa, MexicoWTTHard Bernard Tomic6–7(1–7), 7–5, 6–4Loss2–1M15 Villahermosa, MexicoWTTHard Ernesto Escobedo3–6, 5–7Loss2–2M15 Guatemala City, GuatemalaWTTHard Evan Zhu3–6, 6–4, 4–6Win3–2M15 Morelia, MexicoWTTHard Jacob Brumm7–5, 6–1Loss3–3M25 Xalapa, MexicoWTTHard Mees Röttgering4–6, 3–6
Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups) LegendITF WTT (1–2)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1M15 Villahermosa, MexicoWTTHard Alex Hernández Noah Schachter Herbert Jody Maginley4–6, 4–6Win1–1M15 Antalya, TurkiyeWTTClay Kilian Feldbausch Vít Kalina Nikita Mashtakov3–6, 6–2, [10–5]Loss1–2M15 Antalya, TurkiyeWTTClay Alex Hernández Gökberk Sarıtaş Mert Naci Türker6–3, 6–7(4–7), [10–12]
Junior Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 1 (title) ResultYearTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin2023French OpenClay Yaroslav Demin Lorenzo Sciahbasi Gabriele Vulpitta6–2, 6–3
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