Marin Čilić

Marin Čilić

Country	Croatia
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco
Born	(1988-09-28) 28 September 1988 Međugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Height	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	87 kg (13.7 st; 190 lb)
Turned pro	2005
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$5,867,891
Singles
Career record	236–136
Career titles	9
Highest ranking	No. 9 (22 February 2010)
Current ranking	No. 12 (20 May 2013)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	SF (2010)
French Open	4R (2009, 2010)
Wimbledon	4R (2008, 2012)
US Open	QF (2009, 2012)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	2R (2008, 2012)
Doubles
Career record	15–19
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 233 (22 March 2009)
Last updated on: September 6, 2012.

Marin Čilić (born 28 September 1988) is a professional Croatian tennis player. His career-high ATP singles ranking is World No. 9, achieved on 22 February 2010. Čilić first came to international prominence by defeating then World No. 2 Andy Murray in the fourth round of the 2009 US Open. He followed this by reaching the semifinals of the 2010 Australian Open, where he was defeated by Murray. Čilić developed his career at a young age; his potential was realized by local hometown coaches who saw him play and encouraged his move to Zagreb for further training. He was soon befriended by his fellow countryman Goran Ivanišević who introduced him to current coach Bob Brett. He went on to turn professional in 2005.

Personal life

Čilić was born and grew up in Međugorje, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was raised Roman Catholic. His father Zdenko was determined that his sons—Marin and older brothers Vinko and Goran—would have the opportunities he lacked in playing sports. When the first tennis courts in the town were built in 1991, Marin and his friends were amongst the first to play on them. At the recommendation of Goran Ivanišević, Čilić moved in 2004 to San Remo, Italy at the age of 15 to work with Ivanišević's former coach Bob Brett.

Čilić is known to support Italian Serie A side A.C. Milan.

Tennis career

Junior circuit (2004–2005)

Marin began playing on the junior ITF circuit in Spring 2004. At the start he played on clay courts, winning the La Vie Junior Cup Villach in singles and the Dutch Junior Open in doubles. He then qualified for the 2004 US Open, where he lost in the second round to Sam Querrey. In 2005, he won the French Open title in Boy's singles, beating Andy Murray in the semi-final and Antal van der Duim in the final. He finished 2005 ranked number two behind American Donald Young. While on the junior circuit, he won six tournaments in singles and four in doubles with his Canadian partner, Greg Kates.

Before representing Croatia, he represented Bosnia and Herzegovina, his country of origin, as a junior with partner Zachary Rosen.

ATP Tour 2004–2007

In 2004, he played one Futures event (Croatia F1), at which he reached the second round; he finished the year tied at No. 1463 on the rankings of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP Tour). He played seven Futures tournaments in 2005, winning one, the Croatia F3 event; two Challenger tournaments, in Zagreb and Geneva; and one ATP International Series tournament, on Croatia Open Umag, where he lost in the opening round. He finished the year ranked No. 587.

In 2006, he played three Futures, winning the Croatia F1 and Croatia F2 events. He also played in nine challengers, nine International Series events (reaching the semis at Gstaad), and two Davis Cup ties, against Austria and Argentina. By the end of the year, he was ranked No.170.

In 2007, he won the first and second professional tournaments of his career: the Casablanca Challenger (in April) and the Rijeka Challenger (in May). In June, at the Queen's Club tournament in London, he beat Tim Henman in the first round, after trailing 2–4 in the final set, and reached the quarterfinals, where he fell to Andy Roddick. After that performance, he reached a new career-high ranking of No. 101 on 18 June 2007.

In the World Group playoffs in the first round of the 2007 Davis Cup, he beat Benjamin Becker from Germany. Croatia went on to lose to Germany in the best-out-of-five round robin format of singles and doubles.

2008

In 2008, he reached the semifinals in the Chennai Open, in both singles and doubles. In the singles, he was defeated by Mikhail Youzhny who went on to win the tournament.

Čilić made it to the fourth round of the Australian Open 2008, taking out two seeds on his way, including 2007 Australian Open finalist Fernando González. James Blake beat him in the fourth round. He had achieved his goal for the year of reaching the top 40. His fourth-round result at the Australian Open put him at no. 39 in the ATP rankings.

Čilić also made it to the fourth round of Wimbledon, beating Jarkko Nieminen in five sets in the second round and knocking out fourteenth seed Paul-Henri Mathieu. He lost in straight sets to Arnaud Clément. At the Canada Masters, he defeated Andy Roddick in reach the quarterfinal stage, giving his best performance in a Masters Series tournament to date. He lost in three sets to Gilles Simon in the quarterfinals.

Čilić played the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven, Connecticut, where he won his first ATP title. He defeated Viktor Troicki, Jürgen Melzer, Igor Andreev, and 2007 finalist Mardy Fish in the final.

Čilić, seeded for the first time at a Grand Slam, reached the third round of the US Open, but lost to Novak Djokovic, in a match that lasted almost four hours. Čilić came back from a break down in each of the second, third, and fourth sets. In the first round, he had defeated Julien Benneteau in five sets in a match that lasted more than four hours, winning the deciding set.

2009

He won his first title of 2009 and second career ATP title in the 2009 Chennai Open, defeating first-time finalist Somdev Devvarman.

Čilić at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships

He reached the fourth round of the Australian Open after beating David Ferrer in straight sets, equalling his 2008 record. In the fourth round, he was defeated by Juan Martín del Potro in four sets. Later in the year, Čilić won the PBZ Zagreb Indoors, defeating compatriot Mario Ančić in the final. He helped his country defeat Chilean opponents in the Davis Cup first-round tie by winning the opening singles match and joining forces with Mario Ančić to win the doubles rubber.

Čilić reached a career best at the French Open when he beat eighteenth seed Radek Štěpánek in the third round in straight sets. After two competitive sets against the third-seeded Andy Murray, Čilić lost the match.

He reached the second round of the Queen's Club Championships, an ATP World Tour 250 series event, where he was defeated by Nicolas Mahut of France. He beat Alberto Martín to make it into the second round at Wimbledon and won a five-set match (spread over two days) against Sam Querrey. He played another five-set match in the third round against Tommy Haas. He recovered from two sets down, but lost 10–8 in the deciding set, having held a match point.

During the hard-court season, Čilić was defeated in back-to-back events in the first round. At Washington, he was defeated in straight sets by Somdev Devvarman. He then failed to duplicate his quarterfinal appearance in Canada, losing to Mikhail Youzhny. In the 2009 US Open, as 16th seed, he reached the fourth round, after defeating Ryan Sweeting, Jesse Levine, and Denis Istomin. He defeated Levine after being down two sets to love, coming back to win. He then scored the biggest upset of the 2009 US Open with a straight-sets victory over second-seeded Andy Murray in the fourth round. Čilić outclassed Murray by saving all the break points he faced and took advantage of Murray's unforced errors. After the match, he said it was the biggest win of his career to date. However, in the quarterfinals, he lost to the eventual champion Juan Martín del Potro, despite leading by one set and an opening break in the second set.

Following his impressive US Open run, Čilić participated in the 2009 China Open in Beijing as eighth seed. He won his opening match against Russian Igor Andreev, followed by a three-set victory over Frechman Julien Benneteau. In the quarterfinals he defeated fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko, before stunning world no. 2 and top seed (in the tournament) Rafael Nadal in a straightforward win. In the final, Čilić went down to second seed Novak Djoković in straight sets.

He reached the fifth final of his career at the 2009 Bank Austria-TennisTrophy as top seed, however he lost. He received a wild card for the 2009 Davidoff Swiss Indoors, where he finished in the quarterfinals, losing to Radek Štěpánek. His final tournament of the year was the 2009 BNP Paribas Masters. Entered as 12th seed, he came from a set down to defeat Łukasz Kubot, in the second round, and then from a set down again to defeat seventh seed Fernando Verdasco, before coming to a halt in the quarterfinals against eventual finalist Gaël Monfils.

2010

Čilić won the 2010 Chennai Open final, beating Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland in straight sets.

Seeded 14th at the 2010 Australian Open, he defeated Fabrice Santoro, Bernard Tomic (in five sets), and Stanislas Wawrinka (in four sets). In the fourth round, he faced fourth seed and reigning US Open champion Juan Martín del Potro; it was their third meeting in the past five Grand Slams and the second major in a row where they met (also in the same round the previous year). In a match that lasted more than four and a half hours, Čilić defeated Del Potro, to reach his second quarterfinal appearance at a Grand Slam. In the quarterfinals, he defeated seventh seed Andy Roddick in another five-set victory. In doing so, he became the first Croatian to reach the semifinals at the Australian Open. However, Čilić lost in four sets to eventual finalist Andy Murray. Čilić followed up his Australian campaign by defending his title in Zagreb, defeating Michael Berrer in the final. Čilić achieved a new career-high ranking of no. 9 as a result. Čilić was selected to play singles and doubles partnering with Karlović for the Croatia Davis Cup Team against Ecuador in March 2010. Čilić, seeded eighth, lost in the second round to Guillermo García-López at the 2010 BNP Paribas Open.

At the French Open, Čilić lost to Robin Söderling in the fourth round.

Čilić was defeated in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships by Florian Mayer.

He reached the semifinals of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, D.C., ending Mardy Fish's 11-match winning streak in the third round. Čilić was defeated by eventual champion David Nalbandian.

At the US Open 2010, Čilić lost to Kei Nishikori in the second round.

2011

Čilić began the season with a first-round loss to Kei Nishikori in Chennai, failing to defend his title.

At the 2011 Australian Open he progressed to the fourth round, defeating Donald Young, Santiago Giraldo, and then John Isner in a five-set. In the fourth round, he lost to world no. 1 Rafael Nadal.

Next, he went to Zagreb to defend another title. Again, he was unable to do so, falling to Florian Mayer in the quarterfinals.

Čilić played next in Rotterdam and lost to Viktor Troicki in the quarterfinals.

He then played in Marseille, where he was unseeded. He defeated Tomáš Berdych, in the quarterfinals and saved one match point in a comeback win against Mikhail Youzhny. He lost to Robin Söderling in the final.

Čilić played for Croatia in the World Group playoffs in the first round of the 2011 Davis Cup, defeating Florian Mayer in the opening singles rubber. He leveled the tie at 2–2 by defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber in the first reverse singles rubber. However, Germany ultimately won the tie.

At Umag, Čilić became the first Croatian man to reach the finals in over 20 years, losing to Alexandr Dolgopolov.

He upset Juan Martín del Potro in the second round of the Rogers Cup and reached the third round of the US Open, losing to Roger Federer.

In ATP 500 in Beijing, he lost the final against world no. 6 Tomáš Berdych in three sets. the next week he was upset by Albert Ramos in the Shanghai Rolex Masters

Cilic won his sixth career title in St Petersburg by defeating world no. 10 Janko Tipsarević in the final. En route to the final, he defeated Sergei Bubka, Somdev Devvarman, Andreas Seppi, and Mikhail Youzhny

2012

Čilić did not play at the Australian Open. Cilic did play at Indian Wells 2012. He lost in the 2nd round to David Nalbandian. He was defeated by Juan Martín del Potro in the third round at Miami.

In June, Čilić won the Queen's Club Championships in London after his opponent in the final, David Nalbandian, was disqualified in the second set for aggravated behaviour, having kicked the hoarding around a linesman's chair, injuring the linesman.

In the third round of Wimbledon, he beat Sam Querrey 7–6, 6–4, 6–7, 6–7, 17–15 in the second-longest match ever played at Wimbledon in 5 hours and 31 minutes. He subsequently lost to Andy Murray the following round.

On 11 July 2012, Čilić defeated Daniel Brands of Germany and reached the quarterfinals of Croatia Open. On 15 July 2012, Čilić became the first home player to win the Croatia Open after 22 years by defeating Marcel Granollers of Spain in the final.

Čilić was seeded 12th at the 2012 US Open, where he matched his 2009 effort in reaching the quarter-finals. He was defeated by the eventual champion Andy Murray despite winning the first set and leading by a break in the second set.

2013

Čilić started his year in Chennai Open, lost to Benoît Paire in the quarterfinal. In the Australian Open, He was seeded 12th but was upset in the third round by Andreas Seppi, lost in 5 sets (7-6(2), 3-6, 6-2, 4-6, 2-6).

In February Davis Cup, Čilić played for Croatia in the World Group playoffs against Italy, he defeated Paolo Lorenzi in the opening singles rubber. In the first reverse singles, he faced Andreas Seppi whom he lost to earlier in the Australian Open, but Cilic prevailed in a straight three-set win (6-3, 6-3, 7-5). However, Italy eventually won the group with a final score of 3:2.

In Zagreb where he won twice in 2009 and 2010, Čilić won for the third time and his ninth career title, defeating Jürgen Melzer in the final. Later in the Memphis Indoor, Čilić was top seeded in the event but lost to Kei Nishikori the eventual champion in the quarterfinal .

In March, Čilić played in Indian Wells, lost in the third round to Milos Raonic in three sets (6-3, 4-6, 3-6). In the following Miami, he defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the fourth round but lost to Andy Murray in the quarterfinal.

In April, Čilić started his clay season in Monte Carlo, he lost to Richard Gasquet in Round 16.

ATP career finals

Singles: 16 (9–7)

Legend Grand Slam (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 series (0–2) ATP World Tour 250 series (9–5)

Titles by Surface Hard (7–4) Clay (1–3) Grass (1–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	23 August 2008	Pilot Pen International New Haven, Connecticut	Hard	Mardy Fish	6–4, 4–6, 6–2
Winner	2.	11 January 2009	Chennai, India	Hard	Somdev Devvarman	6–4, 7–6(7–3)
Winner	3.	8 February 2009	Zagreb, Croatia	Hard (i)	Mario Ančić	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	11 October 2009	Beijing, China	Hard	Novak Djokovic	2–6, 6–7(4–7)
Runner-up	2.	1 November 2009	Vienna, Austria	Hard (i)	Jürgen Melzer	4–6, 3–6
Winner	4.	10 January 2010	Chennai, India (2)	Hard	Stanislas Wawrinka	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–3)
Winner	5.	7 February 2010	Zagreb, Croatia (2)	Hard (i)	Michael Berrer	6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–3
Runner-up	3.	9 May 2010	Munich, Germany	Clay	Mikhail Youzhny	3–6, 6–4, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	20 February 2011	Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Robin Söderling	7–6(10–8), 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	5.	31 July 2011	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Alexandr Dolgopolov	4–6, 6–3, 3–6
Runner-up	6.	9 October 2011	Beijing, China (2)	Hard	Tomáš Berdych	6–3, 4–6, 1–6
Winner	6.	30 October 2011	St. Petersburg, Russia	Hard (i)	Janko Tipsarević	6–3, 3–6, 6–2
Runner-up	7.	6 May 2012	Munich, Germany (2)	Clay	Philipp Kohlschreiber	6–7(8–10), 3–6
Winner	7.	17 June 2012	London, UK	Grass	David Nalbandian	6–7(3–7), 4–3 default
Winner	8.	15 July 2012	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Marcel Granollers	6–4, 6–2
Winner	9.	10 February 2013	Zagreb, Croatia (3)	Hard (i)	Jürgen Melzer	6–3, 6–1

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Legend Grand Slam (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 series (0–1)

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

Outcome	No.	Date	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	30 July 2011	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Lovro Zovko	Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini	3–6, 7–5, [7–10]

Career record against top 10

The following is Čilić's career record against top 10 players (#1 players in bold):

• Janko Tipsarević: 6–2
• Mardy Fish: 4–0
• Fernando Verdasco: 4–4
• Nikolay Davydenko: 3–1
• John Isner: 2–0
• Nicolás Almagro: 2–1
• Marcos Baghdatis: 2–1
• Andy Roddick: 2–1
• Arnaud Clément: 2–2
• Stanislas Wawrinka: 2–4
• David Nalbandian: 2–4
• Juan Martín del Potro: 2–7
• Mikhail Youzhny: 3–5
• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga: 2–1
• Rafael Nadal: 1–2
• Mario Ančić: 1–0
• Juan Carlos Ferrero: 1–0
• Rainer Schüttler: 1–0
• Fernando González: 1–1
• James Blake: 1–2
• Tommy Robredo: 1–2
• Radek Štěpánek: 1–2
• Tommy Haas: 1–2
• David Ferrer: 1–3
• Tomáš Berdych: 1–4
• Andy Murray: 1–8
• Ivan Ljubičić: 0–1
• Gaël Monfils: 0–1
• Robin Söderling: 0–2
• Gilles Simon: 0–3
• Roger Federer: 0–4
• Novak Djokovic: 0–7

Singles Performance Timeline

Current till 2013 Internazionali BNL d'Italia.

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	1R	4R	4R	SF	4R	A	3R	16–6
French Open	1R	2R	4R	4R	1R	3R		9–6
Wimbledon	1R	4R	3R	1R	1R	4R		8–6
US Open	Q1	3R	QF	2R	3R	QF		13–5
Win–Loss	0–3	9–4	12–4	9–4	5–4	9–4	2–1	46–23
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	NH	2R	Not Held			2R	NH	2–2
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells Masters	A	2R	3R	2R	3R	2R	3R	4–6
Miami Masters	A	2R	3R	4R	2R	3R	QF	8–6
Monte Carlo Masters	A	1R	2R	3R	3R	2R	3R	6–6
Madrid Masters1	A	3R	2R	3R	2R	3R	1R	6–5
Rome Masters	A	1R	3R	2R	QF	1R	2R	6–6
Canada Masters	A	QF	1R	1R	3R	3R		6–5
Cincinnati Masters	LQ	1R	2R	1R	1R	QF		4–5
Shanghai Masters2	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	QF		3–5
Paris Masters	A	3R	QF	3R	1R	2R		5–5
Win–Loss	0–0	9–9	9–9	5–9	9–9	11–9	7–5	50–50
Career statistics
Titles–Finals	0–0	1–1	2–4	2–3	1–4	2–3	1–1	9–16
Year End Ranking	71	22	14	14	22	15

¹Was played on hardcourt from 2002–2008.
²Held as Hamburg Masters until 2008.

Clothing and Equipment

Čilić plays with the Head YouTek Radical Midplus Racquet and uses the Luxilon Big Banger Alu Power Tennis strings.^{[citation needed]} He wears Li-Ning apparel since the 2011 season, switching over from Fila.

External links

• Official website: marin-cilic.net
• Official Facebook Fan page
• Marin Čilić at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• ITF mens profile for Marin Čilić
• Čilić Recent Match Results
• Čilić World Ranking History
• Website about Marin Čilić (English) (French)
• ATP DEUCE Magazine: On the Rise... Marin Čilić