Camilo Ugo Carabelli (born 17 June 1999) is an Argentine professional tennis player, who competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour.
He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 87, achieved on 10 February 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 232, achieved on 21 March 2022.[1]
Ugo Carabelli has won eight Challenger singles titles.
At the 2022 French Open Ugo Carabelli qualified to make his major main draw debut.[2] He defeated former top-15, world No. 39 Aslan Karatsev in five sets with a fifth set 10 points tiebreak, the first ever match in the French Open main draw since the new tiebreak rule was implemented,[3] in a 4 hours 17 minutes match for his first Grand Slam win.[4][5][6] As a result, he made his top 150 debut in the rankings.
Following his third title at the 2022 Lima Challenger where he was the runner-up in 2021, he reached the top 100 at world No. 96 on 15 August 2022.[7]
2023-2025: ATP 500 semifinal as lucky loser, top 75
Ranked No. 134, he also entered the 2024 Argentina Open main draw as a qualifier and defeated Juan Pablo Varillas in the first round, his second ATP win, to setup a meeting with top seed and world No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz.[8]
He was ranked world No. 104 on 18 November 2024[9] and finished the season inside the top 100 at No. 97 on 2 December 2024.
At the 2025 Rio Open where he entered the main draw as a lucky loser, he defeated Damir Dzumhur to reach an ATP 500 quarterfinal for the first time.[10] Ugo Carabelli became the eight lucky loser to make an ATP 500 level semifinal since the series' introduction (2009), defeating lucky loser Jaime Faria, and moved to world No. 69 in the singles rankings on 24 February 2024. The match between him and Faria marked only the second LL vs LL quarterfinal in ATP Tour history (since 1990) after LL Max Purcell defeated LL Andreas Seppi in 2021 Eastbourne.[11][12] He lost to defending champion Sebastián Báez in three sets.[13]