Hazem Naw

Hazem Naw
Country (sports)	Syria
Born	1 January 2000 (age 24); Aleppo, Syria
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$34,654
Singles
Career record	6–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 367 (15 February 2024)
Current ranking	No. 367 (15 February 2024)
Doubles
Career record	2–2 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 753 (20 June 2022)
Current ranking	No. 1122 (8 January 2024)
	Last updated on: 14 January 2024.

Hazem Naw (born 1 January 2000) is a Syrian tennis player.

Naw has a career high ATP singles ranking of 469 achieved on 11 December 2023. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 753 achieved on 20 June 2022.^[1]

Naw represents Syria at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 8–3.

Due to the Syrian Civil War, Naw was forced out of Aleppo and moved to Beirut, Lebanon,^[2] but now plays tennis for local leagues in Germany.^[3]

After a short junior career, Naw began to play ITF events in both the singles and doubles draw. In August 2021, he received a wildcard into the doubles draw of the 2021 Platzmann-Sauerland Open, a Challenger event in Germany which he played alongside former top-100 player Dustin Brown. He made history as the first Syrian tennis player to record a win in a singles Challenger main draw with his victory over Billy Harris at the 2024 Koblenz Open.^[4]

Naw is the younger brother of fellow tennis player Amer Naow.

Challenger and World Tennis Tour finals edit

Singles: 7 (4–3) edit

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF World Tennis Tour (4–3)

Finals by surface
Hard (2–1)
Clay (2–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jan 2022	M15, Monastir	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Sebastian Gima	5–7, 7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(9–7)
Loss	1–1	Mar 2023	M15, Kish Island	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Dan Alexandru Tomescu	6–7^(6–8), 4–6
Loss	1–2	Mar 2023	M15, Kish Island	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Denis Klok	6–3, 1–6, 3–6
Win	2–2	Aug 2023	M15, Trier	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Tom Gentzsch	6–4, 6–2
Win	3–2	Nov 2023	M15, Alcalá de Henares	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Daniel Mérida	6–4, 6–1
Loss	3–3	Dec 2023	M15, Madrid	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Alastair Gray	1–6, 7–6^(7–5), 2–6
Win	4–3	Jan 2024	M15, Kish Island	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Oleg Prihodko	6–0, 6–4

Doubles: 5 (3–2) edit

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF World Tennis Tour (3–2)

Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (2–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Aug 2021	M15, Huy	World Tennis Tour	Clay	John Sperle	Jonathan Binding Mark Whitehouse	6–3, 7–5
Win	2–0	Oct 2021	M15, Sozopol	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Yann Wójcik	Yan Bondarevskiy Nicholas David Ionel	6–4, 5–7, [10–6]
Loss	2–1	May 2022	M15, Valldoreix	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Franco Emanuel Egea	Álvaro López San Martín Daniel Rincón	3–6, 2–6
Loss	2–2	Jun 2022	M15, Vaasa	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Robert Strombachs	Eero Vasa Iiro Vasa	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–2	Aug 2023	M15, Überlingen	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Taym Al Azmeh	Jakob Schnaitter Mark Wallner	7–5, 3–6, [10–7]