Marco Cecchinato

Marco Cecchinato
Cecchinato at the 2018 French Open
Country (sports)  Italy
Residence Palermo, Italy
Born (1992-09-30) 30 September 1992
Palermo, Italy
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 (37.1%)
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 (16.67%)
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)

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (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 (2–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (2–0)
Grass (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoor (2–0)
Indoor (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Apr 2018 Hungarian Open, Hungary 250 Series Clay Australia John Millman 7–5, 6–4
Win 2–0 Jul 2018 Croatia Open Umag, Croatia 250 Series Clay Argentina Guido Pella 6–2, 7–6(7–4)

ATP Challengers and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 19 (11–8)

Legend
ATP Challengers (5–7)
ITF Futures (6–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Mar 2012 Umag, Croatia Futures Clay Slovakia Andrej Martin 6–3, 6–4
Loss 1–1 Feb 2013 Zagreb, Croatia Futures Hard (i) Bosnia and Herzegovina Damir Džumhur 2–6, 5–7
Win 2–1 Mar 2013 Umag, Croatia Futures Clay Hungary Attila Balázs 6–4, 6–2
Win 3–1 Jul 2013 Modena, Italy Futures Clay Austria Dominic Thiem 6–3, 6–4
Win 1–0 Aug 2013 San Marino, San Marino Challenger Clay Italy Filippo Volandri 6–3, 6–4
Loss 1–1 Sep 2013 Sibiu, Romania Challenger Clay Czech Republic Jaroslav Pospíšil 6–4, 4–6, 1–6
Win 4–1 Mar 2014 Pula, Italy Futures Clay Austria Dennis Novak 6–4, 6–2
Win 5–1 Mar 2014 Pula, Italy Futures Clay Spain Roberto Carballés Baena 6–4, 6–1
Loss 1–2 Jun 2014 Mestre, Italy Challenger Clay Uruguay Pablo Cuevas 4–6, 6–2, 2–6
Win 2–2 Apr 2015 Turin, Italy Challenger Clay Belgium Kimmer Coppejans 6–2, 6–3
Loss 2–3 Sep 2015 Genoa, Italy Challenger Clay Spain Nicolás Almagro 7–6(7–1), 1–6, 4–6
Win 3–3 Jun 2016 Milan, Italy Challenger Clay Serbia Laslo Đere 6–2, 6–2
Loss 3–4 Sep 2016 Como, Italy Challenger Clay France Kenny de Schepper 6–2, 6–7(0–7), 5–7
Win 6–1 Mar 2017 Pula, Italy Futures Clay Italy Andrea Basso 6–4, 6–1
Loss 3–5 May 2017 Ostrava, Czech Republic Challenger Clay Italy Stefano Travaglia 2–6, 6–3, 4–6
Win 4–5 May 2017 Rome, Italy Challenger Clay Slovakia Jozef Kovalík 6–4, 6–4
Loss 4–6 Jun 2017 Todi, Italy Challenger Clay Argentina Federico Delbonis 5–7, 1–6
Loss 4–7 Sep 2017 Como, Italy Challenger Clay Portugal Pedro Sousa 6–1, 2–6, 4–6
Win 5–7 Mar 2018 Santiago, Chile Challenger Clay Spain Carlos Gómez-Herrera 1–6, 6–1, 6–1

Singles performance timeline

Current through the 2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters.

Tournament2012201320142015201620172018SRW–L
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.

Top-10 wins

Season2018Total
Wins11
# Player Rank Event Surface Round Score MC Rank
2018
1. Belgium David Goffin No. 9 French Open, Paris, France Clay 4th Round 7–5, 4–6, 6–0, 6–3 72

See also

References

  1. "Marco Cecchinato – Profile". atpworldtour.com. ATP.
  2. "Tennis, Cecchinato nella storia: vince a Budapest, primo successo in un torneo Atp di un siciliano" (in Italian). gds.it. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  3. "ATP Nizza: grande Cecchinato, batte De Bakker e si qualifica". ubitennis.com (in Italian). UBISPORTING srl.
  4. Marco Cecchinato: Italian given 18-month ban for match-fixing
  5. Marco Cecchinato Acquitted Of Match-Fixing
  6. https://www.sport24.co.za/Tennis/ATPTour/cecchinato-claims-maiden-title-despite-defeat-20180429
  7. "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.
  8. https://www.repubblica.it/sport/tennis/2018/06/01/news/cecchinato_berrettini_roland_garros-197939638
  9. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/tennis/44349979
  10. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/44375046
  11. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2018/jun/05/french-open-2018-day-10-live-thiem-zverev-djokovic-stephens-keys
  12. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/44375046
  13. https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/44416697
  14. https://www.tennisworldusa.org/tennis/news/Tennis_Interviews/58086/satisfied-marco-cecchinato-eager-to-continue-his-rise-after-umag-success/
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