Say it with us: Mar-co Check-in-aah-toe, Ro-land Gar-ros sem-i-fin-al-ist. The 25-year-old Italian pulled off his biggest win yet on Tuesday, beating 2016 champion Novak Djokovic 6-3, 7-6(4), 1-6, 7-6(11) to reach the semi-finals in Paris. Marco Cecchinato, No 72 in the ATP Rankings, becomes the lowest-ranked Roland Garros semi-finalist since No. 100 Andrei Medvedev in 1999. The Palermo native is also the first Italian man to make a Grand Slam semi-final since Corrado Barazzutti at the 1978 Roland Garros. Cecchinato will next face Austrian Dominic Thiem in their first FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting. The seventh seed beat German Alexander Zverev 6-4, 6-2, 6-1 earlier Tuesday to reach his third consecutive Roland Garros semi-final. Thiem has never made a Grand Slam...
Before arriving in Budapest at the end of April for the Gazprom Hungarian Open, Marco Cecchinato had won just five of his first 34 tour-level matches. Little did the Italian know that he would go on to capture his maiden ATP World Tour title on the red clay as a lucky loser. “Maybe it is a dream,” Cecchinato told ATPWorldTour.com at the time. Little did he know what would come in the weeks ahead. When the World No. 72 began his Roland Garros campaign, he had never won a Grand Slam main draw match. But after defeating reigning Nitto ATP Finals runner-up David Goffin in four sets on Sunday, Cecchinato advanced to the quarter-finals. [ALSO LIKE] “This is the best...
Marco Cecchinato became just the second Italian man to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final since 1998 on Sunday, upsetting No. 8 seed David Goffin 7-5, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 on Sunday at Roland Garros. The Gazprom Hungarian Open champion, competing in only his fifth Grand Slam, joins Fabio Fognini (2011 Roland Garros) as the only two Italian men to reach the last eight of a major since Davide Sanguinetti (1998 Wimbledon). Prior to Roland Garros, Cecchinato had never won a Grand Slam main draw match (0-4). World No. 72 Cecchinato converted six of 18 break point chances en route to victory after two hours and 31 minutes, becoming the lowest-ranked man to reach the quarter-finals at Roland Garros since Ernests Gulbis...
Whatever routines Marco Cecchinato has been following this week in Paris, he should keep doing them. The Italian had never won a Grand Slam match before Roland Garros, and now he's into the fourth round in Paris. Cecchinato beat 10th seed Pablo Carreno Busta 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-3, 6-1 on Friday, converting six of his eight break points to upset the 2017 quarter-finalist. [ALSO LIKE] In February, Carreno Busta had dropped only five games against Cecchinato on clay at the Argentina Open. But much has changed since then for the 25-year-old Italian. Cecchinato won his maiden ATP World Tour title in April at the Gazprom Hungarian Open in Budapest. And in the fourth round, he'll face either eighth seed David Goffin...
Watch as Marco Cecchinato serves out the match to complete his comeback from a set down against Fabio Fognini in the first round at the BMW Open by FWU on Tuesday.
