Diego Hartfield (born 31 January 1981), nicknamed 'El Gato Hartfield' (Hartfield the Cat in Spanish) is an Argentine politician and former tennis player on the ATP Tour from Argentina.

Career

2000 : Diego began his pro career by playing Futures in South America.

2001 : He reached his first career Futures final in Mendoza (Argentina), was three times Doubles finalist at Futures, and won one title in Asunción (Paraguay)

2002 : He won his first career Futures Singles title in Viña del Mar (Chile) and reached the final in Santa Cruz (Bolivia). He won two Doubles titles in Bolivia at the Cochabamba and Santa Cruz Futures and reached the final in La Paz (Bolivia).

2003 : Diego won the Futures title in Viña del Mar, for the second time. He reached the Singles finals in Uruguay and Buenos Aires. He won a Futures doubles title in Santiago de Chile and reached three finals in Argentina, Uruguay and Slovenia.

2004 : He won a Futures title at Santiago de Chile and three Futures doubles titles in San Salvador, Netherlands (Alkmaar) and France (Blois).

2005 : He reached his first career Challenger Singles final in Buenos Aires and in Doubles in Nashville (USA). He won a Futures title in Córdoba (Argentina), reached the Futures Singles final in Colombia, but won the title in Doubles.

2006 : He won three Challenger titles in Atlanta (USA), Tunica Resorts (USA), Bogotá (Colombia) and entered the Top 125 for the first time. He played his first Gran Slam in Roland Garros as a qualifier and entered the main draw, but lost vs. world No. 1 Roger Federer after a hard battle.

2007 : He reached the final of the São Paulo Challenger and advanced to his first ATP SF in his hometown of Buenos Aires. He reached the semis at the Prague and San Marino Challengers. He was Doubles finalist at the Challenger in Andrézieux (France) and Singles finalist in Bogotá (Colombia). In Roland Garros, he defeated Ginepri in five sets in the first round before losing to Ferrer in the second round. For the first time, he reached a QF indoor in Lyon (France). Always improving his ranking, he finished in the Top 100 for the first time.

2008 : He reached the Singles Challenger final in Milano (Italy) and Scheveningen (the Netherlands) and the Doubles final at the Bordeaux Challenger (France).

2009 : During a practice at the Copa Petrobras Challenger in Buenos Aires, Diego twisted his knee and tore its ligaments. The same accident happened to his other knee at the Copa Telmex in Buenos Aires. After two surgeries that took him away from the courts until September, he made a short comeback at Futures in Adrogué (Argentina). He's training hard to be back on tour during Spring 2010.

2010: Hartfield announces his retirement from professional tennis.

Political career Hartfield ran as the lead candidate for the La Libertad Avanza party in the 2025 Misiones provincial election. LLA came in second and Hartfield became the first of 5 deputes from the LLA slate that were elected to the provincial chamber.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 16 (7–9) LegendATP Challenger (3–4)ITF Futures (4–5)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (7–8)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Argentina F4, MendozaFuturesClay Guillermo Carry6–7(5–7), 3–6Loss0–2Bolivia F3, Santa CruzFuturesClay Cristian Villagrán4–6, 4–6Win1–2Chile F5, Viña del MarFuturesClay Marko Neunteibl6–7(4–7), 6–0, 6–3Loss1–3Argentina F3, Buenos AiresFuturesClay Carlos Berlocq6–3, 3–6, 1–6Win2–3Chile F5, SantiagoFuturesClay Brian Dabul6–4, 6–4Loss2–4Uruguay F1, MontevideoFuturesClay Edgardo Massa6–4, 3–6, 4–6Win3–4Chile F3, SantiagoFuturesClay Marko Neunteibl6–3, 6–7(7–9), 6–2Loss3–5Colombia F4, PereiraFuturesClay Bruno Soares2–6, 7–6(7–3), 3–6Win4–5Argentina F5, CórdobaFuturesClay Rodolfo Daruich6–7(4–7), 6–1, 6–4Loss4–6Buenos Aires, ArgentinaChallengerClay Carlos Berlocq5–7, 6–3, 4–6Win5–6Atlanta, United StatesChallengerClay Frank Dancevic7–5, 6–0Win6–6Tunica Resorts, United StatesChallengerClay Mardy Fish6–4, 6–4Win7–6Bogotá, ColombiaChallengerClay Daniel Köllerer6–3, 7–5Loss7–7São Paulo, BrazilChallengerHard Guillermo Cañas3–6, 4–6Loss7–8Milan, ItalyChallengerClay Teymuraz Gabashvili4–6, 6–4, 4–6Loss7–9Scheveningen, NetherlandsChallengerClay Jesse Huta Galung3–6, 4–6

Doubles: 19 (10–9) LegendATP Challenger (2–2)ITF Futures (8–7)Finals by surfaceHard (0–2)Clay (10–7)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Argentina F5, CórdobaFuturesClay Ignacio González King Mariano Delfino Patricio Rudi6–7(5–7), 3–6Loss0–2Argentina F7, Buenos AiresFuturesClay Juan Pablo Guzmán Daniel Caracciolo Martín Vassallo Argüello6–3, 2–6, 2–6Win1–2Paraguay F1, AsunciónFuturesClay Matias O'Neille Sebastián Decoud Sebastian Uriarte6–3, 4–6, 7–6(9–7)Loss1–3Bolivia F1, La PazFuturesClay Ignacio González King Casey Smith Martin Stringari3–6, 5–7Win2–3Bolivia F2, CochabambaFuturesClay Ignacio González King Casey Smith Martin Stringari7–5, 3–6, 6–1Win3–3Bolivia F3, Santa CruzFuturesClay Ignacio González King Sebastián Decoud Juan-Felipe Yáñez7–5, 6–2Loss3–4Slovenia F1, KranjFuturesClay Ignacio González King Ivan Cerović Aleksander Slovic6–7(1–7), 7–6(8–6), 4–6Win4–4Chile F4, SantiagoFuturesClay Patricio Rudi Diego Junqueira Edgardo Massa6–2, 2–6, 7–6(7–4)Loss4–5Argentina F4, MendozaFuturesClay Damián Patriarca Brian Dabul Diego Moyano6–7(4–7), 4–6Loss4–6Uruguay F1, MontevideoFuturesClay Sebastián Decoud Gustavo Marcaccio Patricio Rudi4–6, 4–6Win5–6El Salvador F1, San SalvadorFuturesClay Gustavo Marcaccio Lucas Engel Márcio Torres6–0, 6–2Loss5–7Colombia F1, CaliFuturesClay Damián Patriarca Michael Quintero Aguilar Carlos Salamanca5–7, 4–6Win6–7France F8, BloisFuturesClay Brian Dabul Steve Darcis Stefan Wauters7–5, 6–4Win7–7Netherlands F1, AlkmaarFuturesClay Cristian Villagrán Jun Kato Jean-Julien Rojer6–2, 6–3Win8–7Colombia F4, PereiraFuturesClay Daniel Garza Pablo González Bruno Soares7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–1)Loss8–8Nashville, United StatesChallengerHard Santiago González Ilija Bozoljac Brian Wilson6–7(6–8), 4–6Win9–8Bogotá, ColombiaChallengerClay Martín García Fred Gil Dick Norman6–4, 3–6, [10–5]Loss9–9Andrézieux, FranceChallengerHard José Acasuso Martín García SebastiaPrieto3–6, 1–6Win10–9Bordeaux, FranceChallengerClay Sergio Roitman Tomasz Bednarek Dušan Vemić6–4, 6–4

Performance timeline

Singles Tournament2005200620072008SRW–LWin%Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenQ1Q1A1R0 / 10–1French OpenA1R2RQ20 / 21–2WimbledonQ2Q31RA0 / 10–1US OpenQ1Q11RQ30 / 10–1Win–loss0–00–11–30–10 / 51–5ATP Tour Masters 1000Indian WellsAQ1AA0 / 00–0MiamiAAAQ20 / 00–0Win–loss0–00–00–00–00 / 00–0

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