Ayed Zatar

Ayed Farid Zatar Cordero (born 29 March 1996) is a Paraguayan male tennis player.

He represents Paraguay at the Davis Cup, where he has a singles W/L record of 9–7, and a doubles W/L of 6–3. He also won a bronze medal in the mixed doubles event at the 2017 Bolivarian Games.

Early years Zatar was born to Shukri Zatar Yambay and Alba Cordero Rivas on 29 March 1996 in Asunción, the oldest of five children. He began training in tennis at the age of five.

In 2012, he travelled to the United States to compete at the Orange Bowl 16 and under tournament in Plantation, Florida. He was ranked number one nationally in the 16- and 18-year-old age groups, and ranked as high as number 156 in the ITF junior rankings. He finished the year off with a singles win against Charlotte in the C-USA Championship finals. In his junior year, he teamed with Valentino Caratini to win the ITA Oracle Cup Doubles Super Bowl as well as the NAIA men's doubles national championship. He then finished his senior season ranked number one in the final 2019 Oracle/ITA national doubles rankings alongside Federico Bonacia. Zatar earned NAIA All-American second-team honors in the final two years of his college career.

He earned his diploma in December 2019.

Professional career Zatar won a bronze medal at the 2017 Bolivarian Games in Santa Marta, Colombia, teaming with Camila Giangreco Campiz in the mixed doubles event. That year he was named best male tennis player at the Tigo Sports awards show in Asunción.

Davis Cup He made his Davis Cup debut in 2015 in the Americas Zone Group III, defeating José Gilbert Gómez in straight sets in their first-round tie against Panama. He went undefeated in group play, winning all four of his matches, before beating Rowland Phillips in three sets in their victory over Jamaica in the promotion playoffs. In the 2016 Davis Cup Americas Zone Group II he went 2–2 overall against Venezuela and Puerto Rico, defeating the latter to avoid relegation. In 2017, he won only one of his four singles matches, defeating Haydn Lewis in straight sets while suffering two losses in doubles play with Brítez. Paraguay was relegated to Group III.

In 2018, during their opening day tie against Panama, he defeated Walner Espinoza in three sets before teaming with Diego Galeano to beat Jorge Daniel Chévez and Luis Alejandro Espinoza Bares in doubles. He won all five of his matches in group play before they fell to Honduras in the promotional playoffs, where Zatar lost in straight sets to Jaime Bendeck. In 2019 they faced group favorites Mexico in the quarterfinals in his hometown of Asunción. Although he and Juan Borna upset Santiago González and Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela in the doubles rubber, Zatar lost both of his singles matches and Paraguay would lose the tie 1–4. At the 2020 Davis Cup World Group II play-offs Paraguay defeated Sri Lanka 4–0 to qualify for World Group II. Zatar played the doubles rubber with Juan Borba, defeating Yasitha de Silva and Sharmal Dissanayake.

Participations: (15–10)

Group membershipWorld Group (0–0)Qualifying Round (0–0)WG play-off (1–0)Group I (0–0)Group II (4–9)Group III (10–1)Group IV (0–0)Matches by surfaceHard (5–6)Clay (10–4)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Matches by typeSingles (9–7)Doubles (6–3) 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.