Hady Habib

Habib was born in Houston to a Lebanese father and an American Iranian mother.^[4] Habib is fluent in English and Arabic.^[5]

At the age of six he moved to Beirut, Lebanon with his family and began playing tennis there at nine years old.^[6] Along with tennis, Habib also played basketball and competed in swimming competitions while based in Lebanon.^[7] As a 12 year old he returned to the United States in an attempt to further his tennis prospects and first based himself in southern California before settling in Florida at the IMG Academy.^[8]

In 2021, Habib graduated with a degree in Sports Management from Texas A&M University in College Station.^[5][9]

Habib became the first Lebanese tennis player to compete at the Olympics when he took part in the Paris Games,^[10] losing in the singles first round on the event's opening day to second seed Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets.^[11][12] He also took part in the doubles event partnering Benjamin Hassan.^[13]

At the Challenger Temuco, Habib won his first ATP Challenger Tour singles title, becoming the first Lebanese player in history to win a Challenger trophy in singles.^[14][15][16]

Habib became the first Lebanese player, male or female, to qualify for the main draw of a Grand Slam in the Open Era, defeating Patrick Kypson, Tseng Chun-hsin and Clément Chidekh in the qualifying competition of the Australian Open.^[17][18][19] Ranked No. 219, he then defeated Bu Yunchaokete in the first round to become the first Lebanese player to win a match in the main draw of a Major. As a result he moved more than 50 positions up and reached the top 200 in the singles rankings at world No. 166 on 27 January 2025.^[20][21] Habib lost to Ugo Humbert in the second round.^[22]

Habib has represented Lebanon at the Davis Cup,^[9] where he has a win–loss record of 19–7 in singles and a 5–7 record in doubles.^[23] In 2015, Habib elected to begin representing Lebanon when he was selected to debut for the Lebanese Davis Cup team in their Asia/Oceania Group II semifinal tie against Sri Lanka.^[24]

• indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

Rubber outcome	Rubber	Match type (partner if any)	Opponent nation	Opponent player(s)	Score
2–3; 17–19 July 2015; Sri Lanka Tennis Association Complex, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Group II Asia/Oceania play-offs; clay surface
Defeat	II	Singles	Sri Lanka	Harshana Godamanna	7–5, 6–3, 6–3
Victory	III	Doubles (with Giovani Samaha)		Harshana Godamanna Dineshkanthan Thangarajah	7–6(7–4), 2–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Victory	IV	Singles		Sharmal Dissanayake	7–5, 6–4, 4–6, 4–6, 6–3
3–0; 11 July 2016; Enghelab Sports Complex, Tehran, Iran; Group III Asia/Oceania first round; clay surface
Victory	I	Singles	Cambodia	Nysan Tan	6–2, 6–2
Victory	III	Doubles (with Jad Ballout)		Phalkun Mam Nysan Tan	6–4, 6–3
3–0; 13 July 2016; Enghelab Sports Complex, Tehran, Iran; Group III Asia/Oceania first round; clay surface
Victory	I	Singles	Singapore	Hao Yuan Ng	6–2, 6–2
3–0; 14 July 2016; Enghelab Sports Complex, Tehran, Iran; Group III Asia/Oceania first round; clay surface
Victory	I	Singles	Qatar	Mousa Shanan Zayed	6–1, 6–0
3–0; 15 July 2016; Enghelab Sports Complex, Tehran, Iran; Group III Asia/Oceania first round; clay surface
Victory	I	Singles	Syria	Amer Naow	6–2, 6–3
Victory	III	Doubles (with Jad Ballout)		Kareem Al Allaf Amer Naow	6–2, 6–3
1–2; 16 July 2016; Enghelab Sports Complex, Tehran, Iran; Group III Asia/Oceania play-offs; clay surface
Victory	I	Singles	Hong Kong	Anthony Jackie Tang	6–3, 6–2
Defeat	III	Doubles (with Jad Ballout)		Karan Rastogi Wong Chun-hun	3–6, 4–6
2–1; 17 July 2017; Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Group III Asia/Oceania first round; clay surface
Victory	I	Singles	Turkmenistan	Georgiy Pochay	6–0, 6–1
2–1; 18 July 2017; Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Group III Asia/Oceania first round; clay surface
Victory	I	Singles	United Arab Emirates	Omar Al-Awadhi	6–3, 7–5
Defeat	III	Doubles (with Jad Ballout)		Fahad Janahi Hamad Abbas Janahi	3–6, 5–7
2–1; 19 July 2017; Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Group III Asia/Oceania first round; clay surface
Victory	I	Singles	Malaysia	Christian Didier Chin	6–2, 6–4
3–0; 20 July 2017; Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Group III Asia/Oceania first round; clay surface
Victory	I	Singles	Qatar	Jabor Al-Mutawa	6–1, 6–1
2–0; 22 July 2017; Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Group III Asia/Oceania play-offs; clay surface
Victory	I	Singles	Jordan	Hamzeh Al-Aswad	6–2, 6–0
3–2; 3–4 February 2018; Taadod Sports Academy, Beirut, Lebanon; Group II Asia/Oceania first round; hard (indoor) surface
Victory	II	Singles	Chinese Taipei	Lee Kuan-yi	6–4, 6–3
Victory	III	Doubles (with Giovani Samaha)		Chen Ti Yu Cheng-yu	6–1, 7–5
3–1; 7–8 April 2018; Notre Dame University – Louaize, Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon; Group II Asia/Oceania second round; hard surface
Victory	II	Singles	Hong Kong	Wong Chun-hun	6–4, 1–6, 6–4
Defeat	III	Doubles (with Giovani Samaha)		Wong Chun-hun Yeung Pak-long	2–6, 4–6
3–2; 15–16 September 2018; The National Tennis Development Center, Nonthaburi, Thailand; Group II Asia/Oceania third round; hard surface
Victory	I	Singles	Thailand	Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul	4–6, 7–6(7–2), 5–3 ret.
Victory	V	Singles		Palaphoom Kovapitukted	6–3, 6–3
2–3; 13–14 September 2019; Automobile and Touring Club of Lebanon, Jounieh, Lebanon; Group I Asia/Oceania; clay surface
Defeat	I	Singles	Uzbekistan	Sanjar Fayziev	4–6, 4–6
Defeat	V	Singles		Jurabek Karimov	4–6, 6–1, 1–6
0–4; 18–19 September 2021; Automobile and Touring Club of Lebanon, Jounieh, Lebanon; World Group I; clay surface
Defeat	II	Singles	Brazil	Felipe Meligeni Alves	1–6, 3–6
Defeat	III	Doubles (with Benjamin Hassan)		Marcelo Demoliner Rafael Matos	2–6, 6–3, 6–7(5–7)
1–3; 4–5 March 2022; Jan Group Arena, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland; World Group I qualifying round; hard (indoor) surface
Defeat	II	Singles	Switzerland	Henri Laaksonen	7–5, 3–6, 3–6
Defeat	III	Doubles (with Benjamin Hassan)		Marc-Andrea Hüsler Dominic Stricker	4–6, 6–7(3–7)