Marco Cecchinato
Country (sports) | Italy |
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Residence | Palermo, Italy |
Born | Palermo, Italy | 30 September 1992
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Turned pro | 2010 |
Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
Coach | Simone Vagnozzi |
Prize money | $1,936,431 |
Singles | |
Career record | 23–39 |
Career titles | 2 |
Highest ranking | No. 21 (8 October 2018) |
Current ranking | No. 21 (8 October 2018) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | 1R (2016) |
French Open | SF (2018) |
Wimbledon | 1R (2017, 2018) |
US Open | 1R (2015, 2018) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 4–20 |
Career titles | 0 |
Highest ranking | No. 169 (27 June 2016) |
Current ranking | No. 508 (27 August 2018) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | 3R (2016) |
French Open | 1R (2018) |
Wimbledon | 1R (2018) |
US Open | 2R (2015) |
Team competitions | |
Davis Cup | QF (2016) |
Last updated on: 27 2018. |
Marco Cecchinato (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko tʃekkiˈnaːto]; born 30 September 1992) is an Italian professional tennis player.[1] On 29 April 2018, he won his first ATP World Tour title at the 2018 Hungarian Open. He became the first Sicilian tennis player to win an ATP title.[2]
Career
2013 – 2017
In May 2013 Cecchinato qualified for the main draw at the ATP tournament in Nice, losing to sixth seed and countryman, Fabio Fognini, in the first round.[3]
In July 2014, Cecchinato qualified for Umag, played No. 6 seed and countryman, Andreas Seppi. He lost in the first round, but was able to take a set from Seppi.
Cecchinato made his Grand Slam debut at the 2015 US Open.
On 20 July 2016, Cecchinato was suspended for 18 months (until January 2018) and fined €40,000 by the Italian tennis federation for illegal behavior including match fixing and match betting.[4] He successfully appealed against that decision.[5]
Cecchinato reached his first ATP quarter final at Bucharest in 2016.
2018: Breakthrough, Maiden ATP World Tour title, French Open semifinals
In March he played a challenger in Santiago of Chile and he won it, coming to the top 100. In semi final he beat the former top 5 Tommy Robredo in a very good match.
He won his first ATP title in Budapest, in 2018, where he reached the final as a lucky loser, having lost in the qualifying competition;[6] he thus became the ninth player ever to win an ATP tournament as lucky loser.[7]
At the 2018 French Open, the 72nd-ranked Cecchinato came from two sets down to win his first grand slam match against Marius Copil. In the second round, he defeated the lucky loser Marco Trungelliti. In the third round, he came from a set down to topple tenth seed Pablo Carreño Busta.[8] In the fourth round, he beat 8th seed Belgian David Goffin in four sets.[9] He then upset former champion Novak Djokovic in four sets (with a 13–11 tiebreaker in the final set) to reach his first Grand Slam semi-final.[10][11] His French Open run ended with a loss to Dominic Thiem.[12][13] His semifinal finish moved him to 27th in the world and enabled him, for the first time in his career, to be seeded at a Grand Slam tournament (Wimbledon).
Despite his first Grand Slam seeding, he lost in the first round in 4 sets against the young Australian Alex de Minaur. Later in July, however, Cecchinato achieved his second career ATP title at the Croatia Open, defeating Guido Pella in the final. As a result, he attained a career-best ranking of 22nd in the world.[14]
ATP career finals
Singles: 2 (2 titles)
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Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Apr 2018 | Hungarian Open, Hungary | 250 Series | Clay | John Millman | 7–5, 6–4 |
Win | 2–0 | Jul 2018 | Croatia Open Umag, Croatia | 250 Series | Clay | Guido Pella | 6–2, 7–6(7–4) |
ATP Challengers and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 19 (11–8)
Legend |
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ATP Challengers (5–7) |
ITF Futures (6–1) |
Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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Win | 1–0 | Mar 2012 | Umag, Croatia | Futures | Clay | Andrej Martin | 6–3, 6–4 |
Loss | 1–1 | Feb 2013 | Zagreb, Croatia | Futures | Hard (i) | Damir Džumhur | 2–6, 5–7 |
Win | 2–1 | Mar 2013 | Umag, Croatia | Futures | Clay | Attila Balázs | 6–4, 6–2 |
Win | 3–1 | Jul 2013 | Modena, Italy | Futures | Clay | Dominic Thiem | 6–3, 6–4 |
Win | 1–0 | Aug 2013 | San Marino, San Marino | Challenger | Clay | Filippo Volandri | 6–3, 6–4 |
Loss | 1–1 | Sep 2013 | Sibiu, Romania | Challenger | Clay | Jaroslav Pospíšil | 6–4, 4–6, 1–6 |
Win | 4–1 | Mar 2014 | Pula, Italy | Futures | Clay | Dennis Novak | 6–4, 6–2 |
Win | 5–1 | Mar 2014 | Pula, Italy | Futures | Clay | Roberto Carballés Baena | 6–4, 6–1 |
Loss | 1–2 | Jun 2014 | Mestre, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Pablo Cuevas | 4–6, 6–2, 2–6 |
Win | 2–2 | Apr 2015 | Turin, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Kimmer Coppejans | 6–2, 6–3 |
Loss | 2–3 | Sep 2015 | Genoa, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Nicolás Almagro | 7–6(7–1), 1–6, 4–6 |
Win | 3–3 | Jun 2016 | Milan, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Laslo Đere | 6–2, 6–2 |
Loss | 3–4 | Sep 2016 | Como, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Kenny de Schepper | 6–2, 6–7(0–7), 5–7 |
Win | 6–1 | Mar 2017 | Pula, Italy | Futures | Clay | Andrea Basso | 6–4, 6–1 |
Loss | 3–5 | May 2017 | Ostrava, Czech Republic | Challenger | Clay | Stefano Travaglia | 2–6, 6–3, 4–6 |
Win | 4–5 | May 2017 | Rome, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Jozef Kovalík | 6–4, 6–4 |
Loss | 4–6 | Jun 2017 | Todi, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Federico Delbonis | 5–7, 1–6 |
Loss | 4–7 | Sep 2017 | Como, Italy | Challenger | Clay | Pedro Sousa | 6–1, 2–6, 4–6 |
Win | 5–7 | Mar 2018 | Santiago, Chile | Challenger | Clay | Carlos Gómez-Herrera | 1–6, 6–1, 6–1 |
Singles performance timeline
Current through the 2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters.
Tournament | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | SR | W–L |
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Grand Slam tournaments | |||||||||
Australian Open | A | A | Q1 | Q2 | 1R | Q1 | Q1 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 |
French Open | A | A | Q2 | Q3 | 1R | Q3 | SF | 0 / 2 | 5–2 |
Wimbledon | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | 0 / 2 | 0–2 |
US Open | A | A | Q2 | 1R | A | Q1 | 1R | 0 / 2 | 0–2 |
Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 5–3 | 0 / 7 | 5–7 |
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 | |||||||||
Indian Wells Masters | A | A | A | Q1 | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
Miami Open | A | A | A | Q1 | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
Monte-Carlo Masters | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | 2R | 0 / 2 | 1–2 |
Madrid Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |
Italian Open | Q2 | Q2 | 1R | Q1 | 1R | A | 2R | 0 / 3 | 1–3 |
Canadian Open | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 |
Cincinnati Masters | A | A | A | Q1 | A | A | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 |
Shanghai Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | 3R | 0 / 1 | 2–1 |
Paris Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |
Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 4–5 | 0 / 8 | 4–8 |
National representation | |||||||||
Davis Cup | A | A | A | A | QF | A | A | 0 / 1 | 1–0 |
Career statistics | |||||||||
Titles / Finals | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 2 / 2 | 2 / 2 | |
Overall Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 3–10 | 1–5 | 23–20 | 27–43 | |
Year-end ranking | 409 | 163 | 159 | 90 | 187 | 109 | 39% |
Record against top-10 players
Cecchinato's match record against players who have been ranked in the top 10. Only ATP Tour main draw matches are considered. As of 11 October 2018[update].
- Marcos Baghdatis 2–0
- Gilles Simon 2–0
- Pablo Carreño Busta 1–1
- Novak Djokovic 1–1
- David Goffin 1–1
- Mardy Fish 0–1
- Juan Mónaco 0–1
- Gaël Monfils 0–1
- Kei Nishikori 0–1
- Dominic Thiem 0–1
- Milos Raonic 0–3
Top-10 wins
Season | 2018 | Total |
Wins | 1 | 1 |
# | Player | Rank | Event | Surface | Round | Score | MC Rank |
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2018 | |||||||
1. | David Goffin | No. 9 | French Open, Paris, France | Clay | 4th Round | 7–5, 4–6, 6–0, 6–3 | 72 |
See also
References
- ^ "Marco Cecchinato – Profile". atpworldtour.com. ATP.
- ^ "Tennis, Cecchinato nella storia: vince a Budapest, primo successo in un torneo Atp di un siciliano" (in Italian). gds.it. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
- ^ "ATP Nizza: grande Cecchinato, batte De Bakker e si qualifica". ubitennis.com (in Italian). UBISPORTING srl.
- ^ Marco Cecchinato: Italian given 18-month ban for match-fixing
- ^ Marco Cecchinato Acquitted Of Match-Fixing
- ^ https://www.sport24.co.za/Tennis/ATPTour/cecchinato-claims-maiden-title-despite-defeat-20180429
- ^ "ATP Budapest: Lucky loser Marco Cecchinato wins the first ATP title". tennisworldusa.org. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
Cecchinato is the ninth player in the Open era who won an ATP title as a lucky loser and the third in the last two seasons after Andrey Rublev and Leonardo Mayer in Umag and Hamburg last July.
- ^ https://www.repubblica.it/sport/tennis/2018/06/01/news/cecchinato_berrettini_roland_garros-197939638
- ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/tennis/44349979
- ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/44375046
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2018/jun/05/french-open-2018-day-10-live-thiem-zverev-djokovic-stephens-keys
- ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/44375046
- ^ https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/44416697
- ^ https://www.tennisworldusa.org/tennis/news/Tennis_Interviews/58086/satisfied-marco-cecchinato-eager-to-continue-his-rise-after-umag-success/
External links
- Marco Cecchinato at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- {{ITF profile}} template using deprecated numeric ID.
- Marco Cecchinato at the Davis Cup