Marco Chiudinelli

Marco Chiudinelli

Country	Switzerland
Residence	Füllinsdorf, Switzerland
Born	(1981-09-10) 10 September 1981 Basel, Switzerland
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2000
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,454,437
Singles
Career record	46–78
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 52 (22 February 2010)
Current ranking	No. 168 (23 September 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2010)
French Open	2R (2010)
Wimbledon	1R (2010)
US Open	3R (2006, 2009)
Doubles
Career record	21–39
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 118 (2 November 2009)
Current ranking	No. 549 (23 September 2013)
Last updated on: 9 November 2011.

Marco Chiudinelli (born 10 September 1981 in Basel, Switzerland) is a tennis player from Switzerland.^[1]

Biography

Marco is the only child of father Lorenzo Chiudinelli and mother Reni, (both information technology specialists). Marco grew up in Münchenstein in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. He attended schools in Münchenstein and Basel. Marco speaks German, (dialect Baseldytsch), English, and French. In his childhood, he met Roger Federer. The pair often played squash, table tennis, football, and tennis together. A region-wide top tennis group was formed when the pair was eight years old; despite playing for different clubs, they became members.^[2]

Career

Marco Chiudinelli turned professional in 2000. He has competed for the Switzerland Davis Cup team from 2005–2007 and in 2009 and 2012, winning four matches and losing five. His best performances at a Grand Slam were at the 2006 US Open and the 2009 US Open, where he reached the third round as a qualifier both times.

At the 2006 US Open as a qualifier, he defeated Feliciano López, 3–6, 6–3, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 in the second round. He then fell to 25th seed Richard Gasquet, 7–6, 6–3, 2–6, 7–6. At the 2009 US Open, he again reached the third round as a qualifier. He defeated Potito Starace, 7–6, 7–6, 6–0, and then defeated former top-10 player Mikhail Youzhny, 2–6, 7–6, 6–4, 6–3. He lost to eighth seed Nikolay Davydenko, 4–6, 5–7, 5–7.

Marco entered the 2009 PTT Thailand Open as a qualifier. He defeated German qualifier Florian Mayer in the first round, 6–3, 6–3, and followed that up with a second-round win over former world no. 1 Marat Safin, 6–3, 7–6. Chuidinelli lost a three-set match to top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals.

Chiudinelli reached the semifinals in Basel, his hometown tournament. He defeated eighth seed Philipp Kohlschreiber, 7–6, 3–6, 7–5. He defeated his countryman, qualifier Michael Lammer. He defeated Richard Gasquet, 6–1, 6–3, to reach the semifinals, before losing to compatriot and world no. 1 Roger Federer, 6–7, 3–6.

Chiudinelli qualified for the main draw of the 2010 Australian Open and reached the second round, taking a set off world no. 3 Novak Djokovic in a 6–3, 1–6, 1–6, 3–6 defeat. Two weeks later as a result of his play in 2009, he was awarded the Comeback Player of the Year Award in the 2009 ATP World Tour Awards.^[3]

At the 2010 French Open, Chiudinelli was accepted into the main draw by direct entry and beat Somdev Devvarman, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 to advance to the second round for the first time. There he lost 7–6, 6–7, 6–7, 4–6, to American John Isner in a match that extended over two days because of rain.

He also played the longest ATP doubles match ever, with Stanislas Wawrinka was defeated by Lukáš Rosol and Tomáš Berdych of the Czech Republic in 1st round 2013 Davis Cup 4–6, 7–5, 4–6, 7–6^(7–3), 22–24. The match was played on 2 February 2013, lasting 7 hours, 2 minutes. It was the second longest ATP match ever (singles and doubles combined).

ATP career titles

Doubles: 3 (1–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	17 July 2006	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Jean-Claude Scherrer	Jiří Novák Andrei Pavel	3–6, 1–6
Runner-up	2.	13 July 2009	Halle, Germany	Grass	Andreas Beck	Christopher Kas Philipp Kohlschreiber	3–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	2 August 2009	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Michael Lammer	Jaroslav Levinský Filip Polášek	7–5, 6–3

Performance timeline

References

External links

• Marco Chiudinelli at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Marco Chiudinelli at the International Tennis Federation
• Marco Chiudinelli at the Davis Cup

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Swiss male singles tennis players as of 27 January 2014 1. Stanislas Wawrinka (3 5) 2. Roger Federer (8 2) 3. Marco Chiudinelli (180 8) 4. Henri Laaksonen (231 1) 5. Yann Marti (310 13) 6. Sandro Ehrat (337 12 7. Michael Lammer (441 10) 8. Adrien Bossel (452 3) 9. Stéphane Bohli (471 2) 10. Alexander Ritschard (654 2)