In 1999, when he was 16, he played his first tournaments with the pros on the ITF Future Tour and the higher endowment ATP Challenger Tour . On the former, he won his first of 20 double titles a year later. He made his debut for the Mexican Davis Cup team in 2001 in the game against Argentina . He lost both his singles to Gastón Gaudio and the doubles game. Shortly afterwards it premiered on the ATP World Tour . In Acapulco he received a wild card for the double field. He lost the opening game on the side of González. While he subsequently won other titles on the Future Tour, he only managed one semi-finals on the Challenger Tour. He finished 2002 in singles in the top 500 and in doubles in the top 300.
Echagaray had his first success at Challenger level in 2004 in León . He won the doubles competition with Miguel Gallardo Valles and thus made it into the top 200 for the first time. In June he finished 162nd, his best value in the world rankings . However, he could not hold this position and he ranked 300th in the following period. In 2005 he reached his first individual final on the Challenger Tour in Puebla . A year later he was in two more finals, making it into the top 200 singles for the first time. Echagaray competed at the French Open 2007 in qualification, where he failed in the first round. At the US Open , he survived the qualification - he beat u. a. the top 100 player Robin Haase - and was in his first main field of a Grand Slam tournament. There he met Mardy Fish , then number 40 in the world, against whom he lost in three straight sets. He reached his career high in singles with the 156th place this year.
At the beginning of the 2008 season , Echagaray caused a stir in Dallas . In the tie-break of the third set with match point against himself, a foot error was given on his second serve , which he lost his opening game against Jesse Witten . In April he won his only individual title in León . In doubles he moved into the second round in Acapulco in 2009 , on the Challenger Tour he did not get past the semi-finals. In the Davis Cup he won his two singles in the game against Jamaica . At the end of the year Echagaray ended his active career as a tennis player. He became team principal of the Mexican Fed Cup team in 2016 .
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