Marco Chiudinelli | Bio | ATP Tour

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Only child of parents Lorenzo and Reni, who are both Information Technology specialists
Speaks German, English and French
Considers strengths as serve and baseline play, and hard courts as favourite surface
Listens to variety of rock bands and favorites are: Dream Theater, Metallica, Coldplay, Patent Ochsner, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Transatlantic, Audioslave
When at home, enjoys spending quality time with friends and going to concerts
Big fan of footballteam FC Basel and likes to play jassen (Swiss card game)
Considers best moments of his careerDavis Cup debut in 2005, firstATP World Tour doubles title at 2009 Gstaad (w/Lammer), reaching US Open 3Rin 2006 and 2009, and first ATP World Tour SF at 2009 Basel
Presented 2009 ATP Comeback Player of the Year award by Federer at Indian Wells
Player he admired growing up was Ivan Lendl
Future goals are reaching Top 50 and winning a singles title

(UPDATED AUGUST 28, 2016)

The Swiss achieved career-high No. 52 on Feb. 22, 2010 after finishing 2009 at year-end best No. 56. Fell as low as No. 428 on Aug. 3, 2015 after 1R loss at Gstaad as WC (l. to Delbonis). Broke into Top 100 on Oct. 5, 2009 after reaching Bangkok QF as Q (l. to No. 7 Tsonga in 3 sets). Unranked from Jan. 28, 2008 to Nov. 10, 2008 due to left knee injury
Advanced to 1st ATP World Tour SF at 2009 Basel, beating Gasquet before falling to No. 1 Federer, his childhood friend and fellow Basel native. Captured 1st ATP doubles title at 2009 Gstaad with countryman Lammer as WC (d. Levinsky/Polasek). Three-time doubles runner-up, including 2014 Halle w/Federer (l. to Begemann/Knowle 12-10 in Match TB after holding 4 MPs). Captured ATP Challenger Tour singles titles at 2004 Donetsk, UKR (d. Tuksar); 2009 Tenerife, ESP as Q (d. Lorenzi) and 2016 Wroclaw, POL (d. Hernych)
Qualified at US Open in 2006 (d. Lopez, l. to Gasquet in 3R), 2009 (d. Youzhny, l. to No. 8 Davydenko in 3R), 2014 (l. to Marchenko in 1R) and 2016 (d. Rola, Lamasine and Kovalik in Q). Advanced to 2R in 2010 at Australian Open (d. Matosevic, l. to No. 3 Djokovic in 4 sets), Roland Garros (d. Devvarman in 5 sets, l. to Isner in 4 sets) and US Open (d. Sock, l. to Isner in 4 sets)
Owns 0-6 record at ATP Masters 1000 events, with all appearances coming between 2009 Shanghai and 2010 Madrid
Made ATP World Tour debut at 2003 Bangkok as Q (l. to Ancic in 3 sets) and earned 1st win at 2004 Halle as LL (d. Kratochvil, l. to Novak in 2R). Still seeking 1st win against Top 10 opponents (0-11). Owns records of 167-144 at Challengers and 70-41 at Futures
Member of Swiss Davis Cup team that won title in 2014 (DNP in final). Owns 7-18 record (6-12 singles), including longest rubber ever in 2013 1R w/Wawrinka (l. to Berdych/Rosol 24-22 in 5th after 7h1m).
Missed Jun. 2005 to Feb. 2006 with right shoulder injury. Played only 2 tournaments from Feb. 2007 to Aug. 2008 with left knee injury (surgery on Nov. 14, 2007)