Marco Chiudinelli

Marco Chiudinelli

Country (sports)	Switzerland
Residence	Füllinsdorf, Switzerland
Born	(1981-09-10) 10 September 1981 Basel, Switzerland
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2000
Retired	2017
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$2,023,620
Official website	marcochiudinelli.com
Singles
Career record	52–98
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 52 (22 February 2010)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2010)
French Open	2R (2010)
Wimbledon	1R (2010)
US Open	3R (2006, 2009)
Doubles
Career record	27–55
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 118 (2 November 2009)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2010)
French Open	1R (2009, 2010)
Wimbledon	1R (2003, 2010)
US Open	2R (2010)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	W (2014)

Marco Chiudinelli (born 10 September 1981) is a retired tennis player from Switzerland.

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 and Roger Brogle. 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.

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 tournament were at the 2006 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 in the second round. He then fell to 25th seed Richard Gasquet. At the 2009 US Open, as a qualifier, he defeated Potito Starace, and then former top-10 player Mikhail Youzhny before he lost to eighth seed Nikolay Davydenko.

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

He reached the semifinals in Basel, his hometown tournament by beating eighth seed Philipp Kohlschreiber, and his countryman, qualifier Michael Lammer. He also defeated Richard Gasquet before losing to compatriot and world No. 1 Roger Federer in the semifinals.

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. Two weeks later as a result of his play in 2009, he was awarded Comeback Player of the Year in the 2009 ATP World Tour Awards.

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

He also played the longest doubles match ever with Stanislas Wawrinka, being defeated by Lukáš Rosol and Tomáš Berdych of the Czech Republic in the first round of the 2013 Davis Cup. The match, played on 2 February 2013, lasted 7 hours, 2 minutes.

Chiudinelli again represented Switzerland in the 2014 Davis Cup World Group first round, partnering Michael Lammer. His doubles victory with Lammer clinched the first-round victory over Serbia, allowing Switzerland to advance to the quarterfinals for the first time since 2004. Switzerland went on to win its first Davis Cup in history.

At the 2014 Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Chiudinelli played doubles with childhood friend and Roger Federer. They reached the final and held championship points, but lost a close tiebreaker.

In 2016, Chiudinelli qualified for the US Open and beat fellow qualifier Guilherme Clezar in the first round in four sets. This was Chiudinelli's first main-draw Grand Slam tournament victory since the 2010 US Open. In the second round, he faced Lucas Pouille. Chiudinelli was two sets and a break up in the third set and was serving for the match at 5–4, but was broken. He then lost the resulting tiebreaker and could not regain his form in the last two sets.

Chiudinelli then received a wild card into the 2016 Swiss Indoors tournament where he took on compatriot Stan Wawrinka in the first round and lost in three sets 7–6^(7–1), 1–6, 4–6, despite leading the match against the newly crowned 2016 US Open champion.

In 2017, after an injury plagued-season, Chiudinelli announced on his website that he would be retiring following the 2017 Swiss Indoors tournament where he enjoyed the greatest success of his career, reaching the semifinals in 2009.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–3)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (1–1) Grass (0–2) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	17 July 2006	Suisse Open Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Jean-Claude Scherrer	Jiří Novák Andrei Pavel	3–6, 1–6
Runner-up	2.	13 July 2009	Gerry Weber Open, Germany	Grass	Andreas Beck	Christopher Kas Philipp Kohlschreiber	3–6, 4–6
Winner	1.	2 August 2009	Suisse Open Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Michael Lammer	Jaroslav Levinský Filip Polášek	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	15 June 2014	Gerry Weber Open, Germany	Grass	Roger Federer	Andre Begemann Julian Knowle	6–1, 5–7, [10–12]

ATP Challenger Tour & ITF Futures

Singles: 15 (10 titles, 5 runner-ups)

Legend Challenger (3–4) Futures (7–1)

Finals by surface Hard (10–2) Clay (0–0) Carpet (0–3)

Finals by setting Outdoors (9–2) Indoors (1–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	3 February 2002	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Jimmy Wang	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Runner-up	1.	24 March 2002	Poitiers, France	Carpet (i)	Gregory Carraz	6–7(8–10), 2–6
Winner	2.	14 April 2002	Syros, Greece	Hard	Jeroen Masson	6–7(5–7), 6–2, 6–4
Winner	3.	28 April 2003	Namangan, Uzbekistan	Hard	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6–1, 7–6(7–1)
Winner	4.	25 January 2004	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Uros Vico	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	2 February 2004	Belgrade, Serbia	Carpet (i)	Nenad Zimonjić	6–2, 6–7(2–7), 4–6
Winner	1.	6 September 2004	Donetsk, Ukraine	Hard	Saša Tuksar	6–3, 6–2
Winner	5.	21 May 2006	Mishref, Kuwait	Hard	Karim-Mohamed Maamoun	6–0, 6–2
Winner	6.	4 June 2006	Mishref, Kuwait	Hard	Viktor Bruthans	6–1, 4–6, 6–0
Winner	7.	23 November 2008	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Benjamin Balleret	6–1, 6–0
Winner	2.	27 April 2009	Tenerife, Spain	Hard	Paolo Lorenzi	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	2.	4 March 2013	Kyoto, Japan	Carpet (i)	John Millman	6–4, 4–6, 6–7(2–7)
Runner-up	3.	9 August 2015	Segovia, Spain	Hard	Evgeny Donskoy	6–7(2–7), 3–6
Runner-up	4.	24 January 2016	Manila, Philippines	Hard	Mikhail Youzhny	4–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	21 February 2016	Wrocław, Poland	Hard (i)	Jan Hernych	6–3, 7–6(11–9)

Doubles: 17 (6 titles, 11 runner-ups)

Legend Challenger (6–11)

Finals by surface Hard (5–8) Clay (0–2) Carpet (1–1)

Finals by setting Outdoors (4–8) Indoors (2–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	22 October 2001	Seoul, Korea	Hard	Yves Allegro	František Čermák Jaroslav Levinský	7–5, 6–7(8–10), 3–6
Runner-up	2.	29 October 2001	Yokohama, Japan	Carpet (i)	Sebastian Jäger	Takao Suzuki Mitsuru Takada	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	19 November 2001	Puebla, Mexico	Hard	Tuomas Ketola	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	4–6, 7–6(7–5), 1–6
Winner	1.	30 September 2002	Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Yves Allegro	Janko Tipsarević Jan Weinzierl	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	28 October 2002	Réunion, Réunion Island	Hard	Jaroslav Levinský	Federico Browne Jonathan Erlich	1–6, 6–4, 3–6
Runner-up	5.	6 September 2004	Donetsk, Ukraine	Hard	Lovro Zovko	Igor Kunitsyn Uros Vico	6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	25 April 2005	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Jean-Claude Scherrer	Tomas Behrend Robert Lindstedt	6–3, 1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	7.	13 November 2006	Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine	Hard (i)	Lovro Zovko	Sergiy Stakhovsky Orest Tereshchuk	3–6, 0–6
Runner-up	8.	3 November 2008	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	George Bastl	Mikhail Elgin Alexander Kudryavtsev	4–6, 7–6(10–8), [8–10]
Runner-up	9.	26 March 2013	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Clay	Peter Gojowczyk	Marin Draganja Adrián Menéndez Maceiras	4–6, 3–6
Winner	2.	21 July 2014	Astana, Kazakhstan	Hard	Sergey Bubka	Chen Ti Huang Liang-chi	6–3, 6–4
Winner	3.	23 November 2015	Andria, Italy	Hard (i)	Frank Moser	Dustin Brown Carsten Ball	7–6(7–5), 7–5
Runner-up	10.	18 September 2016	Istanbul, Turkey	Hard	Marius Copil	Sadio Doumbia Calvin Hemery	4–6, 3–6
Winner	4.	25 September 2016	İzmir, Turkey	Hard	Marius Copil	Sadio Doumbia Calvin Hemery	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	11.	23 October 2016	Brest, France	Hard (i)	Luca Vanni	Sander Arends Mateusz Kowalczyk	7–6(7–2), 3–6, [5–10]
Winner	5.	23 April 2017	Taipei, Taiwan	Carpet (i)	Franko Škugor	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	4–6, 6–2, [10–5]
Winner	6.	7 May 2017	Gimcheon, South Korea	Hard	Teymuraz Gabashvili	Ruan Roelofse Yi Chu-huan	6–1, 6–3

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	Q1	A	Q1	A	1R	A	Q3	2R	Q1	A	Q3	Q1	A	Q2	Q1	0 / 2	1–2
French Open	A	A	Q1	A	Q2	Q1	A	A	A	A	2R	Q1	Q1	A	Q1	A	Q1	Q1	0 / 1	1–1
Wimbledon	A	A	Q1	Q1	Q2	Q2	A	A	A	Q2	1R	Q3	Q2	Q1	Q3	Q2	Q1	Q1	0 / 1	0–1
US Open	A	A	Q2	A	Q1	A	3R	A	A	3R	2R	Q2	Q1	Q1	1R	Q3	2R	Q2	0 / 5	6–5
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	3–4	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	0 / 9	8–9
National representation
Davis Cup	A	A	A	A	A	1R	PO	1R	A	1R	1R	Z1	1R	1R	W	PO	1R	1R	1 / 9	8–13
Swiss tournaments
Swiss Open	Q3	A	A	A	1R	A	2R	A	A	1R	2R	A	A	1R	A	1R	1R	1R	0 / 8	2–8
Swiss Indoors	A	A	Q1	Q3	2R	A	1R	1R	1R	SF	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	1R	0 / 13	5–13
Career Statistics
Overall Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	4–7	2–3	5–5	3–3	0–1	10–13	14–29	3–4	4–10	1–5	0–4	1–3	3–5	2–5	52–98
Year-end ranking	381	365	256	289	142	287	155	487	605	56	117	177	146	173	211	282	120	418	35%

National participation

Davis Cup (9 wins, 19 losses)

Group membership World Group (4–13) WG Play-off (4–6) Group I (1–0) Group II (0–0)

Matches by surface Hard (7–11) Clay (0–7) Grass (0–0) Carpet (2–1)

Matches by type Singles (8–13) Doubles (1–6)

Matches by setting Indoors (9–17) Outdoors (0–2)

Matches by venue Switzerland (8–7) Away (1–12)

• indicates the result of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

Result	No.	Rubber	Match type (partner if any)	Opponent nation	Opponent player(s)	Score
2–3; 4–6 March 2005; Expo Centre, Fribourg, Switzerland; World Group First Round; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	1	I	Singles	Netherlands	Sjeng Schalken	6–7(4–7), 6–4, 3–6, 7–5, 2–6
Victory	2	V	Singles (dead rubber)		Peter Wessels	4–6, retired
4–1; 22–24 September 2006; Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland; World Group Play-offs; Hard(i) surface
Victory	3	V	Singles (dead rubber)	Serbia and Montenegro	Janko Tipsarević	6–4, 6–1
2–3; 9–11 February 2007; Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland; World Group First Round; Carpet(i) surface
Victory	4	I	Singles	Spain	Fernando Verdasco	6–3, 6–4, 3–6, 7–6(7–2)
Defeat	5	III	Doubles (with Yves Allegro)		Feliciano López / Fernando Verdasco	6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–2), 1–6, 10–12
Victory	6	V	Singles (dead rubber)		David Ferrer	3–6, 6–3, 6–3
1–4; 6–8 March 2009; Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex, Birmingham, United States; World Group First Round; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	7	II	Singles	United States	Andy Roddick	1–6, 3–6, 6–7(5–7)
Defeat	8	V	Singles (dead rubber)		James Blake	4–6, 6–7(6–8)
3–2; 18–20 September 2009; Centro Sportivo "Valletta Cambiaso", Genoa, Italy; World Group Play-offs; Clay surface
Defeat	9	III	Doubles (with Stan Wawrinka)	Italy	Simone Bolelli / Potito Starace	2–6, 4–6, 6–7(3–7)
1–4; 5–7 March 2010; Plaza de Toros de La Ribera, Logroño, Spain; World Group First Round; Clay(i) surface
Defeat	10	I	Singles	Spain	David Ferrer	2–6, 6–7(5–7), 1–6
Defeat	11	V	Singles (dead rubber)		Nicolás Almagro	1–6, 3–6
0–5; 17–19 September 2010; National Tennis Centre, Astana, Kazakhstan; World Group Play-offs; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	12	I	Singles	Kazakhstan	Andrey Golubev	4–6, 4–6, 4–6
Defeat	13	V	Singles (dead rubber)		Mikhail Kukushkin	2–6, 4–6
5–0; 8–10 July 2011; PostFinance-Arena, Bern, Switzerland; Group I Europe/Africa Second Round; Hard(i) surface
Victory	14	IV	Singles (dead rubber)	Portugal	João Sousa	6–3, 6–4
0–5; 10–12 February 2012; Forum Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; World Group First Round; Clay(i) surface
Defeat	15	V	Singles (dead rubber)	United States	John Isner	3–6, 4–6
3–2; 14–16 September 2012; Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands; World Group Play-offs; Clay surface
Defeat	16	V	Singles (dead rubber)	Netherlands	Thiemo de Bakker	2–6, 6–7(4–7)
2–3; 1–3 February 2013; Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland; World Group First Round; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	17	III	Doubles (with Stan Wawrinka)	Czech Republic	Tomáš Berdych / Lukáš Rosol	4–6, 7–5, 4–6, 7–6(7–3), 22–24
4–1; 13–15 September 2013; Patinoire du Littoral, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; World Group Play-offs; Hard(i) surface
Victory	18	II	Singles	Ecuador	Julio César Campozano	3–6, 6–1, 6–3, 7–6(9–7)
Defeat	19	V	Singles (dead rubber)		Gonzalo Escobar	0–6, 5–7
3–2; 31 January – 2 February 2014; SPENS, Novi Sad, Serbia; World Group First Round; Hard(i) surface
Victory	20	III	Doubles (with Michael Lammer)	Serbia	Filip Krajinović / Nenad Zimonjić	7–6(9–7), 3–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–2
Defeat	21	V	Singles (dead rubber)		Filip Krajinović	4–6, 4–6
3–2; 12–14 September 2014; Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland; World Group Semifinal; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	22	III	Doubles (with Stan Wawrinka)	Italy	Simone Bolelli / Fabio Fognini	5–7, 6–3, 7–5, 3–6, 2–6
4–1; 18–20 September 2015; Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland; World Group Play-offs; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	23	III	Doubles (with Roger Federer)	Netherlands	Thiemo de Bakker / Matwé Middelkoop	6–7(7–9), 6–4, 6–4, 4–6, 1–6
0–5; 4–6 March 2016; Adriatic Arena, Pesaro, Italy; World Group First Round; Clay(i) surface
Defeat	24	I	Singles	Italy	Paolo Lorenzi	6–7(14–16), 3–6, 6–4, 7–5, 5–7
Defeat	25	III	Doubles (with Henri Laaksonen)		Simone Bolelli / Andreas Seppi	3–6, 1–6, 3–6
0–5; 3–5 February 2017; Legacy Arena / BJCC, Birmingham, United States; World Group First Round; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	26	I	Singles	United States	Jack Sock	4–6, 3–6, 1–6
3–2; 15–17 September 2017; Swiss Tennis Arena, Biel, Switzerland; World Group Play-offs; Hard(i) surface
Victory	27	II	Singles	Belarus	Dzmitry Zhyrmont	6–3, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3
Victory	28	IV	Singles		Yaraslav Shyla	6–4, 6–3, 6–4

Wins: 1

Edition	Swiss Team	Rounds/Opponents
2014 Davis Cup	Roger Federer Stanislas Wawrinka Michael Lammer Marco Chiudinelli	1R: SUI 3–2 SRB QF: SUI 3–2 KAZ SF: SUI 3–2 ITA F: SUI 3–1 FRA

External links

• Official website (in English and German)
• Marco Chiudinelli at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Marco Chiudinelli at the International Tennis Federation
• Marco Chiudinelli at the Davis Cup