Marco Chiudinelli

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Davis Cup (9 wins, 19 losses)

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, 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
Defeat	5	III	Doubles (with Yves Allegro)		Feliciano López / Fernando Verdasco	6–7, 7–6, 7–6, 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
Defeat	8	V	Singles (dead rubber)		James Blake	4–6,6–7
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
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, 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
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, 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
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, 3–6, 7–6, 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, 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, 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