Marcin Matkowski

Marcin Matkowski

Country	Poland
Residence	Szczecin, Poland
Born	(1981-01-15) 15 January 1981 Barlinek, Poland
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$2,930,831
Singles
Career record	3–3
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 647 (11 September 2000)
Doubles
Career record	357–287
Career titles	16
Highest ranking	No. 7 (9 July 2012)
Current ranking	No. 27 (17 November 2014)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2006)
French Open	QF (2010, 2013)
Wimbledon	3R (2013, 2014)
US Open	F (2011)
Other Doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	F (2011)
Olympic Games	QF (2008)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	SF (2013)
French Open	QF (2006, 2010)
Wimbledon	QF (2007, 2013)
US Open	F (2012)
Last updated on: 20 November 2014.

Marcin Matkowski (born 15 January 1981 in Barlinek) is a right-handed Polish professional tennis player whose speciality is in doubles. His current partner is Mariusz Fyrstenberg; they have been playing together since 2003. He occasionally plays mixed doubles with Caroline Wozniacki.

Matkowski and Fyrstenberg qualified as the eighth and final contenders in the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup. This was mainly because of their reaching the semifinals at the Australian Open. In 2011, they reached the US Open men's doubles final and the final at the year-end championships. They have participated in the year-end championships six times to date.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2011	US Open	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Jürgen Melzer Philipp Petzschner	2-6, 2-6

Mixed doubles: 1 (0–1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2012	US Open	Hard	Květa Peschke	Ekaterina Makarova Bruno Soares	7–6(10–8), 1–6, [10–12]

Year-End Championships finals

Doubles: 1 (0-1)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2011	London	Hard (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Max Mirnyi Daniel Nestor	5–7, 3–6

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 7 (2–5)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2007	Madrid	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Winner	2008	Madrid	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Mahesh Bhupathi Mark Knowles	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	2009	Shanghai	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Julien Benneteau Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	2-6, 4-6
Runner-up	2010	Shanghai	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Jürgen Melzer Leander Paes	5–7, 6–4, [5–10]
Winner	2012	Madrid	Clay (blue)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	2013	Miami	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Jean-Julien Rojer	4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	2014	Paris	Hard (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–7(5–7), 7–5, [6–10]

ATP career finals

Doubles: 40 (16 titles, 24 runners-up)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	28 July 2003	Orange Warsaw Open, Sopot, Poland (1)	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	6–4, 6–7(7–9), 6–3
Winner	2.	23 February 2004	Brasil Open, Costa do Sauipe, Brazil	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Tomas Behrend Leoš Friedl	6–2, 6–2
Winner	3.	1 August 2005	Orange Warsaw Open, Sopot, Poland (2)	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Lucas Arnold Ker Sebastián Prieto	7–6(9–7), 6–4
Runner-up	1.	26 September 2005	Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, Palermo, Italy	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Martín García Mariano Hood	2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	20 February 2006	Brasil Open, Costa do Sauipe, Brazil	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner	1–6, 6–4, [3–10]
Runner-up	3.	24 April 2006	Torneo Godó, Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	2–6, 7–6(7–4), [5–10]
Runner-up	4.	21 August 2006	Pilot Pen Tennis, New Haven, United States	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	3–6, 3–6
Winner	4.	11 September 2006	BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Martín García Luis Horna	6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–5), [10–8]
Runner-up	5.	25 September 2006	Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, Palermo, Italy	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Martín García Luis Horna	6–7(1–7), 6–7(2–7)
Runner-up	6.	24 October 2006	Davidoff Swiss Indoors, Basel, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6–4, 4–6, [8–10]
Winner	5.	30 July 2007	Orange Warsaw Open, Sopot, Poland (3)	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Martín García Sebastián Prieto	6–1, 6–1
Runner-up	7.	19 August 2007	Pilot Pen Tennis, New Haven, United States	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Mahesh Bhupathi Nenad Zimonjić	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	8.	1 October 2007	Open de Moselle, Metz, France	Hard (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Arnaud Clément Michaël Llodra	1–6, 4–6
Winner	6.	7 October 2007	Erste Bank Open, Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Christopher Kas Tomas Behrend	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	9.	15 October 2007	Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain	Hard (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Runner-up	10.	28 April 2008	Barcelona Open, Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 2–6
Winner	7.	9 June 2008	Orange Warsaw Open, Warsaw, Poland (4)	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Nikolay Davydenko Yuri Schukin	6–0, 3–6, [10–4]
Runner-up	11.	8 September 2008	BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Nicolas Devilder Paul-Henri Mathieu	6–7(4–7), 7–6(11–9), [20–22]
Runner-up	12.	29 September 2008	Open de Moselle, Metz, France	Hard (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Arnaud Clément Michaël Llodra	7–5, 3–6, [8–10]
Winner	8.	12 October 2008	Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain	Hard (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Mahesh Bhupathi Mark Knowles	6–4, 6–2
Winner	9.	19 June 2009	AEGON International, Eastbourne, United Kingdom (1)	Grass	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Travis Parrott Filip Polášek	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	13.	9 August 2009	Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Washington, United States	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Martin Damm Robert Lindstedt	5–7, 6–7(3–7)
Winner	10.	28 September 2009	Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Igor Kunitsyn Jaroslav Levinský	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	14.	12 October 2009	Shanghai ATP Masters 1000, Shanghai, China	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Julien Benneteau Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	2–6, 4–6
Winner	11.	18 June 2010	AEGON International, Eastbourne, United Kingdom (2)	Grass	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Colin Fleming Ken Skupski	6–3, 5–7, [10–8]
Runner-up	15.	3 October 2010	Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	František Čermák Michal Mertiňák	6–7(3–7), 6–7(5–7)
Runner-up	16.	10 October 2010	China Open, Beijing, China	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	1–6, 6–7(5–7)
Runner-up	17.	17 October 2010	Shanghai ATP Masters 1000, Shanghai, China	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Jürgen Melzer Leander Paes	5–7, 6–4, [5–10]
Runner-up	18.	31 October 2010	Erste Bank Open, Vienna, Austria	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	5–7, 6–3, [5–10]
Runner-up	19.	10 September 2011	US Open, New York, United States	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Jürgen Melzer Philipp Petzschner	2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	20.	27 November 2011	ATP World Tour Finals, London, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Max Mirnyi Daniel Nestor	5–7, 3–6
Runner-up	21.	3 March 2012	Dubai Tennis Championships, Dubai, UAE	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Mahesh Bhupathi Rohan Bopanna	4–6, 6–3, [5–10]
Winner	12.	29 April 2012	Barcelona Open, Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Marcel Granollers Marc López	2–6, 7–6(9–7), [10–8]
Winner	13.	14 May 2012	Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain	Clay (blue)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	22.	30 March 2013	Miami Masters, Miami, United States	Hard	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Jean-Julien Rojer	4–6, 1–6
Winner	14.	21 July 2013	International German Open, Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	3-6, 6-1, [10-8]
Runner-up	23.	27 April 2014	BRD Năstase Țiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecău	4-6, 4-6
Winner	15.	21 September 2014	Moselle Open, Metz, France	Hard (i)	Mariusz Fyrstenberg	Marin Draganja Henri Kontinen	6–7(3–7), 6–3, [10–8]
Winner	16.	27 September 2014	Proton Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Hard (i)	Leander Paes	Jamie Murray John Peers	3–6, 7–6(7–5), [10–5]
Runner-up	24.	2 November 2014	BNP Paribas Masters, Paris, France	Hard (i)	Jürgen Melzer	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–7(5–7), 7–5, [6–10]

Performance timeline

Doubles

Key

Won tournament; or reached Final; Semifinal; Quarter-final; Round 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a Round Robin stage; lost in Qualification Round; absent from tournament event; played in a Davis Cup Zonal Group (with its number indication) or Play-off; won a bronze, silver (F or S) or gold medal at the Olympics; a downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament (Not a Masters Series); or a tournament that was Not Held in a given year.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.

External links

• Marcin Matkowski at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• bio – file interview with Marcin Matkowski

Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Polish male doubles tennis players as of 2 February 2015 1. Marcin Matkowski (26 2) 2. Łukasz Kubot (45 27) 3. Mariusz Fyrstenberg (56 5) 4. Tomasz Bednarek (84 7) 5. Mateusz Kowalczyk (125 15) 6. Michał Przysiężny (154 3) 7. Błażej Koniusz (173 10) 8. Andriej Kapaś (210 11) 9. Marcin Gawron (415 34) 10. Piotr Gadomski (440 4)

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