Marco Chiudinelli

Marco Chiudinelli

Country	Switzerland
Residence	Füllinsdorf, Switzerland
Born	September 10, 1981 (1981-09-10) (age 30) Basel, Switzerland
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2000
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$1,260,901
Singles
Career record	41–66
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 52 (February 22, 2010)
Current ranking	No. 196 (November 7, 2011)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2R (2010)
French Open	2R (2010)
Wimbledon	1R (2010)
US Open	3R (2006, 2009)
Doubles
Career record	21-35
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 118 (November 2, 2009)
Last updated on: November 9, 2011.

Marco Chiudinelli (born September 10, 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 visited schools in Münchenstein and Basel. Marco speaks German, (dialect Baseldytsch), English and French. In his younger childhood days, he met Roger Federer. The pair often played Squash, Table Tennis, Soccer 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, winning four matches and losing four. His best performances at Grand Slams 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(2), 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(2). At the 2009 US Open, he again reached the third round as a qualifier. He defeated Potito Starace 7-6(3), 7-6(2), 6-0 and then defeated former top ten player Mikhail Youzhny 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-4, 6-3. He lost to 8th seed Nikolay Davydenko 6-4, 7-5, 7-5.

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(4). Chuidinelli lost a three-set match to top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals.

Chiudinelli reached the semifinals of Basel in his hometown tournament. He defeated 8 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6(5), 3-6, 7-5. He defeated his countryman qualifier Michael Lammer. He defeated Richard Gasquet 6-1, 6-3 to reach the semis before losing to compatriot and World No. 1 Roger Federer 6-7 (7-9) 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 6-7, 7-6, 7-6, 6-4 to American John Isner in a match that was extended over two days because of rain.

ATP Career titles

Doubles: 3 (1-2)

Legend (pre/post 2009) Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) Tennis Masters Cup / ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP Masters Series / ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP International Series Gold / ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP International Series / ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–0)

Finals by Surface Hard (0–0) Clay (1–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	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

Tournament	Career	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Australian Open	1–2	A	A	A	A	1R	A	A	2R
French Open	1–1	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R
Wimbledon	0–1	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R
US Open	5–3	A	A	A	3R	A	A	3R	2R
Grand Slam Win-Loss	7–7	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	3–4
Overall Win-Loss	37–57	0–1	4–7	2–3	4–2	2–3	4–2	10–13	13–24

References

1. ^ "Marco Chiudinelli - Tennis - Yahoo! Sports". Yahoo! Sports. 2008. pp. 1. http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/players/886. Retrieved 2008-03-13. "Switzerland" 
2. ^ Stauffer (2007), p. 8.
3. ^ http://www.atpworldtour.com/Fans/Fan-Favorite/Fan-Favourite.aspx

External links

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

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Name	Chiudinelli, Marco
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Date of birth	September 10, 1981
Place of birth	Basel, Switzerland
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