Marco Cecchinato

Marco Cecchinato (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko tʃekkiˈnaːto]; born 30 September 1992) is an Italian professional tennis player.^[1] He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of World No. 16 reached on 25 February 2019. On 29 April 2018, he won his first ATP World Tour title at the 2018 Hungarian Open as a lucky loser, becoming the first Sicilian tennis player to win an ATP title.^[2] Cecchinato is a clay specialist and his best Grand Slam result is a semifinal at the 2018 French Open. At the other Grand Slams he has not won a match in singles.

Marco Cecchinato

Cecchinato at the 2018 French Open
Country (sports)	Italy
Residence	Palermo, Italy
Born	(1992-09-30) 30 September 1992 (age 31) Palermo, Italy
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2010
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Coach	Massimo Sartori
Prize money	US $4,959,644
Singles
Career record	78–127 (38.0% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 16 (25 February 2019)
Current ranking	No. 179 (23 October 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
French Open	SF (2018)
Wimbledon	1R (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023)
US Open	1R (2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023)
Doubles
Career record	14–56 (20.0% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 169 (27 June 2016)
Current ranking	No. 855 (23 October 2023)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (2016)
French Open	1R (2018, 2019)
Wimbledon	1R (2018, 2023)
US Open	2R (2015, 2019)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	QF (2016)
Last updated on: 23 October 2023.

Career

2013–2017: ATP and Grand Slam debut

In May 2013, Cecchinato qualified for the main draw at the ATP tournament in Nice, losing to countryman and No. 6 seed, Fabio Fognini, in the first round.^[3]

In July 2014, Cecchinato qualified for Umag, where he played another countryman and No. 6 seed, Andreas Seppi, in the first round. Cecchinato lost the match in three sets.

Cecchinato then 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] The ban was overturned and declared a mistrial after the prosecutors took too long to complete the initial trial phase. Despite this, Cecchinato admitted to telling potential bettors of his poor physical state prior to a match.^[5]

Cecchinato reached his first ATP quarterfinal at the 2016 Romanian Open.

2018: First two ATP titles, French Open semifinal, Top 20

In March, he played and won a Challenger tournament in Santiago, defeating former top 5 player Tommy Robredo en route.

He won his first ATP title in Budapest after reaching 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 lucky loser Marco Trungelliti. In the third round, he came from a set down to topple 10th 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 deciding set) to reach his first Grand Slam semifinal.^[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 at Wimbledon. Despite his first Grand Slam seeding, he lost in the first round in four 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]

At the 2018 Shanghai Rolex Masters, the Italian defeated Gilles Simon and Chung Hyeon to reach the round of 16, where he fell to Novak Djokovic. As a result, he climbed to World No. 19 in the singles rankings on 15 October 2018.

2019: Third ATP title and career high singles ranking

Cecchinato started his 2019 season in Doha where he reached the semifinals. That was his career best performance in a non-clay ATP tournament.

At the Australian Open, he lost to Filip Krajinović in the first round despite leading by two sets and having a match point in the fourth set. That was his third straight first round loss at a grand slam event.

During the Latin American clay court swing, Cecchinato won his third career ATP title at the Argentina Open, defeating Diego Schwartzman in the finals. Cecchinato didn't drop a set in the entire tournament, and lost just three games in a one-sided final. As a result, he also attained his career-best ranking of World No. 16 on 25 February 2019.^[15]

2020–2021: Fourth and fifth ATP finals

In 2020 season, which was affected by COVID-19 pandemic, he managed to reach his fourth ATP final at the inaugural Forte Village Sardegna Open in October, where he lost in straight sets to Serbian Laslo Đere.

In May 2021, he reached his fifth final at the 2021 Emilia-Romagna Open, losing to first time ATP winner Sebastian Korda.^[16]

2022: Out of top 200, Two Challenger titles, back to top 100

In May, he qualified and defeated former world No. 3 Dominic Thiem at the 2022 Geneva Open in the first round.^[17]

In July, at the 2022 Croatia Open Umag he reached the quarterfinals defeating Lorenzo Musetti^[18] before losing to Franco Agamenone.^[19]

He re-entered the top 100 at No. 98 on 17 October 2022 following two Challenger titles in October.

2023: ATP semifinal, back to top 75

He reached his first ATP semifinal since 2021 at the 2023 Estoril Open. At the 2023 Mutua Madrid Open he reached the second round defeating Marton Fucsovics. At the Italian Open he reached the third round defeating Mackenzie McDonald and 21st seed Roberto Bautista Agut.

Performance timelines

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

P#

DNQ

A

Z#

PO

G

S

B

NMS

NTI

P

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Current through the 2023 French Open.

Tournament	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	Q1	Q2	1R	Q1	Q1	1R	1R	1R	1R	Q1	0 / 5	0–5
French Open	A	A	Q2	Q3	1R	Q3	SF	1R	3R	3R	2R	1R	0 / 7	10–7
Wimbledon	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	NH	1R	A	1R	0 / 5	0–5
US Open	A	A	Q2	1R	A	Q1	1R	1R	1R	1R	A	1R	0 / 6	0–6
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–2	0–1	5–3	0–4	2–3	2–4	1–2	0–3	0 / 23	10–23
ATP Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	2R	NH	A	Q1	A	0 / 1	0–1
Miami Open	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	3R	NH	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
Monte-Carlo Masters	A	A	A	A	1R	A	2R	3R	NH	2R	Q1	A	0 / 4	4–4
Madrid Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	NH	1R	A	2R	0 / 3	1–3
Italian Open	Q2	Q2	1R	Q1	1R	A	2R	2R	2R	Q2	A	3R	0 / 6	5–6
Canadian Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	NH	A	A		0 / 2	0–2
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	A		0 / 2	0–2
Shanghai Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	3R	1R	NH				0 / 2	2–2
Paris Masters	A	A	A	A	A	A	1R	A	1R	A	A		0 / 2	0–2
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	4–6	3–8	1–2	1–2	0–0	3–2	0 / 23	9–23
National representation
Davis Cup	A	A	A	A	QF	A	A	A	A	A	A		0 / 1	1–0
Career statistics
	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	Career
Tournaments	0	1	3	4	10	5	25	26	13	21	7	7	122
Titles	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3
Finals	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	0	5
Overall win–loss	0–0	0–1	0–3	0–4	3–10	1–5	23–23	12–25	10–14	16–21	4–7	10–7	77–119
Year-end ranking	409	163	159	90	187	109	20	71	80	99	105		37%

ATP career finals

Singles: 5 (3 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Legend Grand Slam (0-0) ATP Masters 1000 (0-0) ATP 500 Series (0-0) ATP 250 Series (3–2)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (3–2) Grass (0–0)

Finals by setting Outdoor (3–2) Indoor (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2018	Hungarian Open, Hungary	250 Series	Clay	John Millman	7–5, 6–4
Win	2–0	Jul 2018	Croatia Open, Croatia	250 Series	Clay	Guido Pella	6–2, 7–6^(7–4)
Win	3–0	Feb 2019	Argentina Open, Argentina	250 Series	Clay	Diego Schwartzman	6–1, 6–2
Loss	3–1	Oct 2020	Forte Village Sardegna Open, Italy	250 Series	Clay	Laslo Đere	6–7^(3–7), 5–7
Loss	3–2	May 2021	Emilia-Romagna Open, Italy	250 Series	Clay	Sebastian Korda	2–6, 4–6

Records

• These records were attained in the Open Era of tennis.

Tournament	Year	Record accomplished	Player tied
Hungarian Open	2018	Winning an ATP tournament as lucky loser	Heinz Gunthardt Bill Scanlon Francisco Clavet Christian Miniussi Sergiy Stakhovsky Rajeev Ram Leonardo Mayer Andrey Rublev Kwon Soon-woo^[20]

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 23 (13–10)

Legend ATP Challenger (7–9) ITF Futures (6–1)

Finals by surface Hard (0–1) Clay (13–9) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Mar 2012	Croatia F3, Umag	Futures	Clay	Andrej Martin	6–3, 6–4
Loss	1–1	Feb 2013	Croatia F1, Zagreb	Futures	Hard (i)	Damir Džumhur	2–6, 5–7
Win	2–1	Mar 2013	Croatia F3, Umag	Futures	Clay	Attila Balázs	6–4, 6–2
Win	3–1	Jul 2013	Italy F17, Modena	Futures	Clay	Dominic Thiem	6–3, 6–4
Win	4–1	Aug 2013	San Marino, San Marino	Challenger	Clay	Filippo Volandri	6–3, 6–4
Loss	4–2	Sep 2013	Sibiu, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Jaroslav Pospíšil	6–4, 4–6, 1–6
Win	5–2	Mar 2014	Italy F6, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Dennis Novak	6–4, 6–2
Win	6–2	Mar 2014	Italy F7, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Roberto Carballés Baena	6–4, 6–1
Loss	6–3	Jun 2014	Mestre, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Pablo Cuevas	4–6, 6–2, 2–6
Win	7–3	Apr 2015	Turin, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Kimmer Coppejans	6–2, 6–3
Loss	7–4	Sep 2015	Genoa, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Nicolás Almagro	7–6^(7–1), 1–6, 4–6
Win	8–4	Jun 2016	Milan, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Laslo Đere	6–2, 6–2
Loss	8–5	Sep 2016	Como, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Kenny de Schepper	6–2, 6–7^(0–7), 5–7
Win	9–5	Mar 2017	Italy F5, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Andrea Basso	6–4, 6–1
Loss	9–6	May 2017	Ostrava, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Stefano Travaglia	2–6, 6–3, 4–6
Win	10–6	May 2017	Rome, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Jozef Kovalík	6–4, 6–4
Loss	10–7	Jun 2017	Todi, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Federico Delbonis	5–7, 1–6
Loss	10–8	Sep 2017	Como, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Pedro Sousa	6–1, 2–6, 4–6
Win	11–8	Mar 2018	Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Carlos Gómez-Herrera	1–6, 6–1, 6–1
Loss	11–9	Feb 2020	Punta del Este, Uruguay	Challenger	Clay	Thiago Monteiro	6–7^(3–7), 7–6^(8–6), 5-7
Loss	11–10	Oct 2021	Lošinj, Croatia	Challenger	Clay	Carlos Taberner	w/o
Win	12–10	Oct 2022	Lisbon, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Luca Van Assche	6–3, 6–3
Win	13–10	Oct 2022	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Yannick Hanfmann	4–6, 6–4, 6–3

Doubles: 9 (6–3)

Legend ATP Challenger (3–1) ITF Futures (3–2)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (6–3) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2011	Italy F4, Rome	Futures	Clay	Francesco Aldi	Leandro Migani   Filip Prpic	3–6, 6–3, [6–10]
Win	1–1	Jul 2011	Italy F17, Sassuolo	Futures	Clay	Francesco Aldi	Filippo Leonardi   Jacopo Marchegiani	6–4, 6–3
Win	2–1	Aug 2011	Spain F27, Xativa	Futures	Clay	Francesco Aldi	Enrique Lopez-Perez   Ivan Arenas-Gualda	6–4, 6–3
Win	3–1	Aug 2011	Serbia F8, Novi Sad	Futures	Clay	Matteo Civarolo	Marko Begovic   Jeremy Tweedt	6–3, 6–1
Loss	3–2	Sep 2012	Todi, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Alessio Di Mauro	Martin Fischer   Philipp Oswald	3–6, 2–6
Loss	3–3	Jul 2013	Italy F17, Modena	Futures	Clay	Matteo Fago	Omar Giacalone   Daniele Giorgini	6–4, 6–7^(5-7), [7–10]
Win	4–3	Sep 2014	Biella, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Matteo Viola	Frank Moser   Alexander Satschko	7–5, 6–0
Win	5–3	Apr 2017	Barletta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Matteo Donati	Marin Draganja   Tomislav Draganja	6–3, 6–4
Win	6–3	Sep 2017	Sibiu, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Matteo Donati	Sander Gille   Joran Vliegen	6–3, 6–1

Record against other players

Record against top 10 players

Cecchinato's match record against those who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who have been No. 1 in boldface

•   Marcos Baghdatis 2–0
•   Gilles Simon 2–0
•   Diego Schwartzman 2–3
•   Stan Wawrinka 1–0
•   Pablo Carreño Busta 1–1
•   Novak Djokovic 1–1
•   Richard Gasquet 1–1
•   Dominic Thiem 1–1
•   Fabio Fognini 1–3
•   David Goffin 1–3
•   Tomáš Berdych 0–1
•   Matteo Berrettini 0–1
•   Mardy Fish 0–1
•   Juan Mónaco 0–1
•   Gaël Monfils 0–1
•   Kei Nishikori 0–1
•   Denis Shapovalov 0–1
•   Roberto Bautista Agut 0–2
•   Hubert Hurkacz 0–2
•   Alexander Zverev 0–2
•   Milos Raonic 0–4

* As of 4 April 2023^[update]

Top-10 wins

• He has a 1–9 (10.0%) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

Season	2018	Total
Wins	1	1

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	MCR
2018
1.	David Goffin	9	French Open, France	Clay	4R	7–5, 4–6, 6–0, 6–3	72

* As of 9 February 2021^[update]

See also

• Italian players best ranking
• Best result of an Italian tennis player in Grand Slam

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. "Cecchinato claims maiden title despite defeat".
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. "Roland Garros, impresa Cecchinato: Batte Carreno Busta e va agli ottavi. Fuori Berrettini". June 2018.
9. "French Open 2018: World number 72 Marco Cecchinato shocks David Goffin". BBC Sport. 3 June 2018.
10. "Unseeded Cecchinato shocks Djokovic". BBC Sport.
11. Burnton, Simon (5 June 2018). "French Open quarter-final: Marco Cecchinato stuns Novak Djokovic – as it happened". The Guardian.
12. "Unseeded Cecchinato shocks Djokovic". BBC Sport.
13. "Thiem beats Cecchinato to make final". BBC Sport.
14. "Satisfied Marco Cecchinato eager to continue his rise after Umag success".
15. "Cecchinato defeats Schwartzman to win the Argentina Open. | ATP Tour | Tennis".
16. "#NextGenATP Sebastian Korda Claims First Title in Parma | ATP Tour | Tennis".
17. "Marco Cecchinato Ousts Dominic Thiem in Geneva | ATP Tour | Tennis".
18. "Tennis, ATP – Croatia Open 2022: Cecchinato downs Musetti". 28 July 2022.
19. "Jannik Sinner Surges into Umag Semi-Finals | ATP Tour | Tennis".
20. "History in Adelaide: Lucky loser Kwon becomes first Korean to win multiple ATP singles titles". 14 January 2023.

External links

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