Marco Chiudinelli
Marco Chiudinelli is a retired tennis player from Switzerland.
Biography
Marco is the only child of father Lorenzo Chiudinelli and mother Reni,. 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,, 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, 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)
| 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, |
ATP Challenger Tour & ITF Futures
Singles: 15 (10 titles, 5 runner-ups)
| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Winner | 1. | 3 February 2002 | Dubai, UAE | Hard |  Jimmy Wang | 7–6, 6–2 |
| Runner-up | 1. | 24 March 2002 | Poitiers, France | Carpet |  Gregory Carraz | 6–7, 2–6 |
| Winner | 2. | 14 April 2002 | Syros, Greece | Hard |  Jeroen Masson | 6–7, 6–2, 6–4 |
| Winner | 3. | 28 April 2003 | Namangan, Uzbekistan | Hard |  Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi | 6–1, 7–6 |
| Winner | 4. | 25 January 2004 | Doha, Qatar | Hard |  Uros Vico | 6–2, 6–4 |
| Runner-up | 1. | 2 February 2004 | Belgrade, Serbia | Carpet |  Nenad Zimonjić | 6–2, 6–7, 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 |  John Millman | 6–4, 4–6, 6–7 |
| Runner-up | 3. | 9 August 2015 | Segovia, Spain | Hard |  Evgeny Donskoy | 6–7, 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 | Jan Hernych | 6–3, 7–6 |
Doubles: 17 (6 titles, 11 runner-ups)
| 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, 3–6 |
| Runner-up | 2. | 29 October 2001 | Yokohama, Japan | Carpet | 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, 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 | 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, |
| 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 | Frank Moser | Dustin Brown Carsten Ball | 7–6, 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 | Luca Vanni |  Sander Arends Mateusz Kowalczyk | 7–6, 3–6, |
| Winner | 5. | 23 April 2017 | Taipei, Taiwan | Carpet | Franko Škugor |  Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana | 4–6, 6–2, |
| Winner | 6. | 7 May 2017 | Gimcheon, South Korea | Hard | Teymuraz Gabashvili |  Ruan Roelofse Yi Chu-huan | 6–1, 6–3 |
Singles performance timeline
National participation
Davis Cup (9 wins, 19 losses)
- 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.
Wins: 1