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His name is beginning to gain the recognition that his long career in the tennis elite deserves, since his case is unusual in the racket world for being one of the few athletes
who achieved his zenith at a relatively late age.
At 31 years old, Pablo Carreño Busta (Gijón, 1991)
has achieved everything a professional tennis player could wish for.
Winner of the last edition of the Masters 1,000, the Spaniard managed to enter the Top 10 of the world ranking in 2017.
In 2020, he won
a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics
after beating Novak Djokovic.
But beyond his professional successes,
Pablo Carreño is a lucky man on a personal and financial level.
In 2020, the player from Gijón became the
eighth
tennis player who earned the most money that year.
Entering 1.4 million euros in prizes.
An economic reward achieved after decades of effort to enter the Top 10 of the ATP ranking and after overcoming
a back injury that almost ended his career at the age of 20
.
Currently number 14 in the world ranking,
Carreño has earned more than 12 million on the tracks to date.
In addition, he is sponsored by highly relevant companies such as Joma Sport, Peugeot, Wilson Tenis or Isdin.
Since 2021, Pablo Carreño
has been married to a financial advisor named Claudia Díaz Borrego
.
A woman from Gijón who is passionate about the world of economics and business.
She trained at the CEREM International Business School and the Center for Financial Studies in Madrid,
she has several master's degrees related to finance
, tax law, accounting and business management.
Currently and after years of work experience, she works for the pharmaceutical company Ferrer de Barcelona as a tax administrator.
In Barcelona,
she lives with her husband and has built almost her entire career there.
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Love for Gijon
Pablo Carreño and Claudia Díaz were married
on December 11, 2021 in an intimate ceremony held in their native Gijón.
Both deeply rooted in their land, they preferred to have a private event
and a banquet with typical Asturian products
.
In the wedding photo shared by the tennis player on his Instagram, they received congratulations from athletes such as Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Ona Carbonell or Feliciano López.
It is one of the
few images of his personal life that the tennis player has on his social networks
, which he uses to publish snapshots of his tournaments, training sessions and trophies.
However, as a public person, there are several details that are known about his life beyond the networks (those on the court and social networks).
In Gijón, there are many people who have known Carreño since he was a child who trained at the Real Grupo de Cultura Covadonga,
a team from Gijón where he played his first rackets before joining
the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona at the age of 15 and becoming sixth in the combined junior world rankings
.
During his early years, the young man competed against his older sister Lucía
de el and had Juan Carlos Ferrero and David Ferrer as idols.
The tennis player Pablo Carreño in 2021GTRES
As for his family,
Carreño Busta is the son of the architect Alfonso Carreño
and the doctor María Antonia Busta.
The tennis player has two sisters:
Lucía, three years older than him, and Alicia.
While the first is an architect and became runner-up in paddle tennis in Asturias,
the second is a physiotherapist and pilates instructor.
Pablo Carreño would also like to study Physiotherapy or INEF in the future, when he retires from tennis.
Graduated in Technological Baccalaureate, he is also passionate about physics and architecture.
Vocations that also come from the family.
The tennis player Pablo Carreño with his wife, Claudia DíazGTRES
In his free time,
the man from Gijón likes to watch and practice cycling, travel with his girlfriend
and return to his native Gijón to meet up with his family, friends and watch Real Sporting de Gijón matches from the stands of the Municipal Stadium El Molinón-Enrique Castro
Quini
.
To which he goes as one more fan among the crowd.
Last 2021, the Spaniard was honored by the rojiblanco Second Division team due to his feat in Tokyo, where he achieved a bronze
defeating one of the best tennis players in the world: Novak Djokovic.
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