[1][2] The right-hander turned pro in 1988 and reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on September 11, 1995, when he became world No.

He is the only Colombian tennis player in history to have won an ATP Tour title in singles.

[2] Hadad had also been the last Colombian player in history to break into the top 100 in 1995 until Alejandro Falla did so in 2007.

[4] He has been credited with opening ground to the best generation of Colombian tennis players such as Alejandra Falla, Santiago Giraldo, Alejandro González, Robert Farah and Juan Sebastián Cabal.

1 Russian professional tennis player Maria Sharapova leading her to her first Wimbledon title in 2004 at the age of 17.