# Mohammad Ghareeb

Mohammed Ghareeb (born July 22, 1980) is a tennis player from Kuwait. He plays right-handed with a single-handed backhand.

## Career

Unranked in singles as of February 2018, with a career-high ranking of No. 336 in 2006. In August 2016, Al Ghareeb was Kuwait's second ranked tennis player.
He played a competitive match against world No. 1 Roger Federer in the second round of the 2006 Dubai Tennis Championships, though he lost in straight sets. Ranked No. 488 at the time of the match, Ghareeb was expected to offer little resistance to Federer, but in a surprisingly competitive match, Al Ghareeb led 5–3 in the first set, and 3–2 in the second, before succumbing 7–6, 6–4. According to Federer, Al Ghareeb was "definitely the better player and I think only my experience helped me get through."
Al Ghareeb did not make a significant breakthrough at a top-level event, though in the 2007 Dubai Tennis Championships he won a set from Top 10 player Tomáš Berdych before losing 3–6, 6–3, 6–2.
Al Ghareeb again received a wild-card to Dubai in 2008, losing 6–4, 6–0 in the first round to the fifth seed Nikolay Davydenko. Once again, he received a wild card in 2009, losing 7–5, 4–6, 4–6 in the first round to third seed Gilles Simon. Simon praised his opponent's play and expressed surprise at his low ranking, saying that Al Ghareeb "has a strange ranking, 400 or so, with his game, it's just unbelievable."
In 2007, he led the Kuwaiti team in its most successful Davis Cup season, reaching the Asia/Oceania Group II final with victories over Iran and Indonesia, before losing the division championship match to the Philippines in a 0–5 sweep. As of February 2018, Ghareeb had a 67–31 record in Davis Cup play for Kuwait (50-13 in singles), and was its longest-standing member.

## ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
### Singles: 10 (5–5)

* ATP Challenger (0–0)
* ITF Futures (5–5)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Apr 2003 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Ivo Klec | 6–3, 4–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 0–2 | Apr 2005 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Florin Mergea | 6–4, 3–6, 5–7 |
| Loss | 0–3 | May 2007 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Robert Smeets | 3–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 0–4 | Jun 2007 | Koszalin, Poland | Futures | Clay | Dawid Olejniczak | 6–7$^{(5–7)}$, 6–2, 4–6 |
| Loss | 0–5 | Mar 2008 | Gurgaon, India | Futures | Hard | Nathan Thompson | 2–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 1–5 | May 2008 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Johan Örtegren | 6–0 ret. |
| Win | 2–5 | May 2009 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Malek Jaziri | 6–4, 6–4 |
| Win | 3–5 | May 2009 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Malek Jaziri | 6–3, 7–6$^{7–3}$ |
| Win | 4–5 | Sep 2012 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Chen Ti | 5–7, 7–6$^{8–6}$, 6–2 |
| Win | 5–5 | Sep 2013 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Saketh Myneni | 6–4, 6–1 |

### Doubles: 19 (12–7)

* ATP Challenger (2–1)
* ITF Futures (10–6)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Win | 1–0 | Jun 2001 | Marrakech, Morocco | Futures | Clay | Jalal Chafai | Kane Dewhurst David McNamara | 7–5, 4–6, 7–6$^{(10–8)}$ |
| Win | 2–0 | Nov 2004 | Bangkok, Thailand | Futures | Hard | Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya | Minh Le Hiroyasu Sato | 2–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
| Win | 3–0 | Dec 2005 | Menzah, Tunisia | Futures | Hard | Walid Jallali | Pawel Dilaj Robert Godlewski | 6–2, 6–4 |
| Loss | 3–1 | May 2006 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Ravi-Shankar Pathanjali | Ralph Grambow Philipp Marx | 6–4, 6–7$^{(5–7)}$, 3–6 |
| Loss | 3–2 | May 2007 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Greg Jones | Aisam Qureshi Purav Raja | 6–2, 5–7, 2–6 |
| Win | 4–2 | Jun 2007 | Kraków, Poland | Futures | Clay | Kalle Flygt | Johan Brunström Robert Gustafsson | 6–4, 6–7$^{(6–8)}$, 6–4 |
| Win | 5–2 | Jun 2007 | Koszalin, Poland | Futures | Clay | Johan Brunström | Mateusz Kowalczyk Grzegorz Panfil | 6–3, 6–7$^{(5–7)}$, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$ |
| Win | 6–2 | Jun 2007 | Oslo, Norway | Futures | Clay | Ervin Eleskovic | Fabio Colangelo Francesco Zacchia | 7–6$^{(7–5)}$, 6–4 |
| Win | 7–2 | Jul 2007 | Togliatti, Russia | Challenger | Hard | Johan Brunström | Ivan Cerović Pierrick Ysern | 7–6$^{(7–4)}$, 4–6, [13–11] |
| Win | 8–2 | Aug 2007 | Tampere, Finland | Challenger | Hard | Johan Brunström | Jukka Kohtamäki Mika Purho | 6–2, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$ |
| Loss | 8–3 | May 2008 | New Delhi, India | Challenger | Hard | Illya Marchenko | Colin Ebelthite Sam Groth | 6–2, 6–7$^{(5–7)}$, [8–10] |
| Win | 9–2 | May 2008 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Johan Örtegren | Rohan Gajjar Ken Skupski | 6–4, 3–6, [10–7] |
| Loss | 9–3 | Jul 2007 | Modena, Italy | Futures | Clay | Stéphane Robert | Guillermo Hormazábal Hans Podlipnik-Castillo | 3–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 10–3 | Nov 2008 | Kish Island, Iran | Futures | Clay | Benjamin Balleret | Mattia Livraghi Marco Simoni | 6–1, 6–2 |
| Loss | 10–4 | Nov 2008 | Kish Island, Iran | Futures | Clay | Benjamin Balleret | Alexander Satschko Marc-Andre Stratling | 2–6, 6–1, [4–10] |
| Win | 11–4 | Sep 2012 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Mikhail Vasiliev | Alessandro Bega Jan Blecha | 3–6, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$, [10–7] |
| Loss | 11–5 | Oct 2012 | Meshref, Kuwait | Futures | Hard | Mikhail Vasiliev | Lewis Burton Ruan Roelofse | 6–7$^{(5–7)}$, 6–7$^{(2–7)}$ |
| Loss | 11–6 | Oct 2012 | Doha, Qatar | Futures | Hard | Benjamin Balleret | Marko Danis Marek Semjan | 5–7, 6–7$^{(2–7)}$ |
| Win | 12–6 | Aug 2014 | Innsbruck, Austria | Futures | Clay | Abdullah Maqdes | Andrea Basso Alessandro Ceppellini | 6–0, 6–3 |
| Loss | 12–7 | Jun 2015 | Jounieh, Lebanon | Futures | Clay | Abdullah Maqdes | Ivo Klec Adrian Sikora | 4–6, 7–6$^{(7–5)}$, [6–10] |