Cilic, Marin

Marin is one of the four sons of Zdenko and Kovilka Chilich. His older brothers are called Vinko and Goran, and the youngest is Mile.

Cilicia brought tennis to his cousin, Tanya, when he was 7 years old. Favorite coatings are hard and grass. On these quick pitches, Cilic usually makes many aces .

Carier start.

His main success in his junior career was a victory at the 2005 junior Roland Garros. This led him to second place in the ranking of juniors, and the following year he became the first junior in the world. After winning the cup, Roland Garros became the first Croatian tennis player to win the Junior Grand Slam tournament in the 21st century . The debut at the ATP tournaments took place in July 2005, thanks to a special invitation from the organizers of the tournament in Umag . As a result, he lost to Christoph Vligen 5-7, 2-6 in the first round. In August, he won the first career tournament of the ITF Futures series.

As a young and talented tennis player, he progressed quite quickly. His victory over the 25th tennis player Igor Andreev 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 in February 2006 at the Indors tournament in Zagreb was sensational. In the same month, he won another ITF Futures tournament. In July 2006, being on the 316th place in the ranking and beating Andreas Seppi , Dusan Vemic , Andrei Pavel , he reached the semifinals of the ATP tournament in Gstaad .

In January 2007 he made his debut in the main draw at the Australian Open Grand Slam tournament , having won this right, having passed through the qualification, but in the first round, Cilic lost. In April, Marine won the first title in the Challenger Series tournaments. This happened at the Challenger in Casablanca . In May, he wins another Challenger in Rijeka . Also in May, through qualification, he will make his debut at the French Open , but inferior in the first round. In June, at the grass tournament in London, he manages to reach the quarter finals, where he is inferior to No. 5 in the world, Andy Roddick . In September, he achieved the same result at a tournament in Beijing , where he first beat a player from the top ten, No. 4 in the world, Nikolay Davydenko 6-3, 6-4. He will beat him again in October in the match of the second round of the tournament in St. Petersburg 1-6, 7-5, 6-1. At that tournament, Cilic will reach the semifinals, and this performance will allow him to enter the first hundred in the world ranking for the first time.

2008-09.

Cilic begins the 2008 season with a semi-final in Chennai . At the Australian Open, he managed to overcome the first round for the first time and get right to the fourth. In the match of the third round, he beat No. 7 in the world at that time Fernando Gonzalez 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-1. In April, he reached the quarter-finals in Munich . At the French Open, he loses in the second round. Before the Wimbledon tournament, he reached the semi-finals of the tournament in Nottingham . At Wimbledon itself, he reached the fourth round. In July, he reached the quarter finals in Gstaad. Then also performs at the Masters Tournament in Toronto .

In August, takes part in the Beijing Olympics . On them he drops out in the second round of the single player tournament. After the Olympics, he played at a tournament in New Haven , where he played his first ATP final in his career and, having beaten Mardi Fish 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, won his debut title. At the US Open, he reached the third round, losing to Novak Djokovic . The 2008 season ends at 22nd place in the ranking.

2009 begins with winning a title at a tournament in Chennai. In the final, he beat the Indian tennis player Somdev Devvarman 6-4, 7-6 (3). At the Australian Open, he, like a year ago, reached the fourth round, beating David Ferrer 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-4 in the third round. In early February, at a tournament in Zagreb, Cilic won his third ATP title in his career. In the Croatian final, he defeated Mario Ancic 6-3, 6-4. At the end of February, he reached the quarterfinals of the tournament in Dubai , and in May in Munich. At the French Open, Cilic enters the fourth round, where Andy Murray is 5-7, 6-7 (4), 1-6. At the Wimbledon tournament, in a bitter struggle, which lasted 4 hours 28 minutes, in the third round match he lost to Tommy Haas 5-7, 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (3), 8-10.

He successfully performed at the US Open. In the fourth round match, he manages to win the second number in the world at that time Andy Murray 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 and for the first time break into the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam series tournament. He lost the fight for reaching the semifinals to future champion Juan Martin Del Potro 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 1-6. In October, Cilic was able to reach the finals at a tournament in Beijing. At the same time, he beat two tennis players from the top ten (1/4 of Nikolai Davydenko 6-4, 6-4 and 1/2 Rafael Nadal 6-1, 6-3. In the final, Marin lost to Novak Djokovic in three sets 2- 6, 6-7 (4). Once again he will make it to the finals this season in Vienna , but he is inferior to his local tennis player Jurgen Meltzer 4-6, 3-6. The season Marin finishes with two exits to the quarter finals at the tournament in Basel and at Masters in Paris, at the end of the year he was ranked 14th.

2010-11.

The season of 2010 begins for Cilic with the defense of last year's title at the tournament in Chennai. In the final, he was beaten by Stanislas Wavrinka with a score of 7-6 (2) 7-6 (3). He also defeated him in the match of the third round of the Australian Open. Then, in the fight for reaching the quarter-finals, he defeated the fifth racket of Juan Martin Del Potro 5-7, 6-4, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3. In the quarterfinal, the 7th number of the Andy Roddick rating was beaten 7-6 (4), 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3. Thus, Cilic for the first time in his career reached the semi-finals of the tournament from the Grand Slam series. In the fight for reaching the final, he lost to Andy Murray (6-3 4-6 4-6 2-6). Thanks to this successful performance, Cilic entered the top ten for the first time in the ranking. Immediately after Australia, he began to defend his title at a tournament in Zagreb. Having outplayed Michael Burrer in the final match (6-4 6-7 (5) 6-3), Cilic defended his last year's title.

At the end of February, Marine entered the quarterfinals of the tournament in Dubai. In May, he played the first final of the ATP unpaved tournament. In Munich, in the decisive match, he is inferior to Mikhail Youzhny 3-6, 6-4, 4-6. At the French Open, he reached the fourth round, where he lost to the future finalist Robin Söderling . At the Wimbledon tournament he stumbled in the first round, losing to Florian Mayer . In early August, he reached the semifinal of the tournament in Washington . At the US Open in the second round match he lost to Kei Nishikori . At the end of September, he reached the quarter-finals in Metz , and at the end of October at the tournament in Vienna. As a year ago, Cilic at the end of the season took 14th place in the ranking.

At the beginning of the 2011 season, he failed to win Chennai for the third time in a row, losing to Kei Nishikori in the first round. At the Australian Open, he reached the fourth round, where he was inferior to the first racket of the world to Rafael Nadal. He also failed to win for the third time in a row in Zagreb, where he lost in the quarterfinal match to Florian Meyer. Cilic reached the quarterfinal at the tournament in Rotterdam . At the tournament in Marseilles, he lost to Robin Söderling 7-6 (8), 3-6, 3-6 in the final match. In April, reached the quarter-finals in Munich, and in June - in London. Unsuccessfully performed at the French Open and Wimbledon tournament, losing in the first round. In July, he reached the quarter finals in Hamburg , as well as the finals at the tournament in Umag. At the US Open, he reached the third round, where he was inferior to Roger Federer . In October, at a tournament in Beijing, he made it to the finals, but for the fourth time for himself in tournaments, ATP was inferior in the decisive match. This time, Czech Tomas Berdychu 6-3, 4-6, 1-6. He managed to break this tradition at the end of October at a tournament in St. Petersburg, where he won the title by defeating Yanko Tipsarevich in the final 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.

2012-13.

Cilic missed the start of the season, including the Australian Open, playing for the first time of the season only at the end of February at a tournament in Delray Beach . The first results come to him in early May, when he reaches the final of the tournament in Munich. In it, he is inferior to the German Philip Kolschreiber 6-7 (8), 3-6. At the French Open, the match dropped out at the stage of the third round. In June, he wins the tournament in London, thanks to the disqualification in the decisive match of his opponent David Nalbandyan with a score of 6-7 (3), 4-3. At the Wimbledon tournament, he entered the fourth round, where he lost to the future finalist of the tournament Andy Murray. Also in this tournament, in a match of the third round, he played a marathon match with Sam Querrey , which lasted 5 hours 31 minutes of playing time, and ended with the score 7-6 (6), 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-7 ( 3), 17-15 in favor of Cilic. At that time, this match was the second longest in the history of the Wimbledon tournament. In July, Marine won the title at the tournament in Umag, beating the Spaniard Marcel Granollers in the final 6-4, 6-2. Then at the tournament in Hamburg he reached the semifinals. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the singles tournament, like four years ago in Beijing, is inferior in the second round. In the competition for male couples, he, together with Ivan Dodig, reached the quarterfinals. He also gets to the quarter finals at the Master in Cincinnati . At the US Open, he was also able to reach the quarter finals. Until the end of the season, he reached two more quarter-finals at tournaments in Shanghai and Valencia . He completes the season of 2012 in the first twenty (15th position).

The next season begins in a bad way: at the Australian Open and at the warm-up tournament, Marine lost at an early stage to not the strongest opponents. In February, another failure awaited him: the Croatian national team , despite Cilic’s two single victories, was unable to cope with the Italians at the opening meeting of the Davis Cup world group. In the fall, already without Marina, the Balkan team will lose again and for the first time in seven years will fly to the regional zone of the tournament. Cilic’s season continued on the Zagreb / Memphis ligament, where he won his first title of the season, beating Jurgen Meltzer in the final of the home tournament. The March series of Masters tournaments brought one quarter finals in singles and doubles: in Key Biscayne he reached this stage in singles, beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga , as well as in a pair where he defeated Marrero / Verdasco together with Lukas Dlougie . The subsequent dirt segment did not bring significant success, but Cilic again reached the peak of form, reaching the final of the tournament in London , where he beat Tomas Berdykh and lost to Andy Murray . Further success, however, did not follow: Marin first terminated Wimbledon ahead of schedule due to knee problems, ^[2] and then sued WADA and ITF for some time because of the niketamide found in his blood, ^[3] reducing his disqualification from the original nine months ^[4] to four and a half. ^[5] Marin returned to the games at the end of October - at the hall tournament in Paris .

2014-16. Grand Slam title.

The start of the 2014 season went without any noticeable success, but Cilic got the game form in the hall segment at three tournaments in a row: in Zagreb, Rotterdam and Delray Beach, he reached the finals, taking two titles. The series ended in fourth round in Indian Wells , after which the results went into decline. The transition, first to the ground, and then to grass, did not bring much change in the trend: Marin lost to Roland in the third round, but was able to add to Wimbledon , where, having beat Tomas Berdykh, he reached the quarter-finals for the first time in his career. Further, after a short pause, the Croat gradually continued to improve his results: at the tournament in Toronto, he, together with Santiago Gonzalez, made it to the semi-finals in a pair, beating the Brian brothers . Solo tournaments did not bring significant success, but a closer cooperation with Goran Ivanishevich , which began after the disqualification, brought its result. At the US Open in the quarterfinals and semi-finals in three sets, Marin defeated Berdykh and Federer and for the first time in his career made his way to the finals of the Grand Slam tournament, and then won the title, having also outplayed another Grand Slam tournament finals Kei Nishikori from Japan in the finals . He became the first Croatian tennis player to take on the Grand Slam since the performance of his coach Goran Ivanishevich, who won at Wimbledon in 2001.

In October 2014, Cilic won the tournament in Moscow , beating Roberto Bautista in the final with a score of 6-4, 6-4. At the end of the season, Cilic was selected for the first time in his career for the ATP World Tour Finals . There he played unsuccessfully, losing all three matches in the group. According to the results of the season, Marine for the first time finished in the Top 10 of the world ranking, taking the 9th line.

Due to a shoulder injury, Cilic missed the start of the 2015 season and returned to court in March. In April, at the Masters in Monte Carlo, he reached the quarterfinals. At the French Open, the Croat was able to reach only the fourth round. In the grassy part of the season, Cilic was noted for reaching the semifinals in Stuttgart and reaching the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon tournament. In early August, he reached the semifinals of the tournament in Washington. At the US Open Chile managed to finish the game to the semifinals, where he defeated Novak Djokovic. In the fall of the season, the best results of the Croatian were reaching the semifinals in Shenzhen and winning the tournament in Moscow, where Marine was able to defend his last year's title. Like a year ago, in the decisive match, he beat the Spaniard Roberto Bautista (6-4, 6-4).

Cilic reached the first final in 2016 at a hall tournament in Marseille in February, but lost to Australian tennis player Nick Kirios - 2-6, 6-7 (3). At the first Masters of the season in Indian Wells, he played out to the quarter finals. At the end of May, Marin reached the final of the clay tournament in Geneva , where he lost to the “host” Stan Wavrinka - 4-6, 6-7 (11). In June, he reached the semifinals on the grass in London, and at the Wimbledon tournament for the third year in a row he reached the quarter finals. In a tense five-set match, Cilic lost to Roger Federer. In August, at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Cilic finished the game until the third round, losing to the Frenchman Gael Monfils . In the doubles in an alliance with Marina Dragan, he lost already at the start. At the next tournament for himself, Cilic performed successfully. He was able to win Masters for the first time in his career. This happened in Cincinnati, where in the final, Marin defeated No. 2 in the world at that time Andy Murray with a score of 6-4, 7-5. the title became the 15th Croatian career in the World Tour.

In early October 2016, he played in the semi-finals of the tournament in Tokyo . At the end of the month, he won the tournament in Basel. In the final, he defeated Kei Nishikori - 6-1, 7-6 (5). At Masters in Paris, Cilic in the quarterfinals for the first time beat the current first racket of the world. At that time, it was Novak Djokovic - 6-4, 7-6 (2). In the semi-finals, Marine lost to John Isner . At the Final Tournament, Cilic defeated Nishikori and lost to Murray and Wavrinka, unable to leave the group. At the end of the season, he took 6th place in the ATP ranking. Throughout the season, Marine regularly played for the Croatian national team in the Djevic Cup and was able to reach the finals with his team. In the decisive match, the Croats played with Argentina in their homeland in Zagreb . Cilic played three matches. He was able to defeat Federico Delbonis and the doubles match in an alliance with Ivan Dodig . But he lost an important match against Argentine leader Juan Martin Del Potro, leading the match 2-0 in sets. As a result, the Croats lost with a total score of 2-3.

2017-19. Final at Wimbledon and in Australia.

At the beginning of March 2017, at a tournament in Acapulco, Cilic first reached the semi-finals of the season. In April, at the Masters in Monte Carloon reached the quarterfinals. In early May, Marine was able to win the tournament in Istanbul . In the final, he outplayed No. 6 in the world of Milos Raonic with a score of 7-6 (3), 6-3. At Masters in Rome, Cilic reached the quarter finals. He was also able to reach the quarterfinals at Roland Garros. Marin successfully spent the grassy part of the season. At the tournament in Hertogenbosch, he reached the semifinals. Then he reached the final of the tournament in London, where he lost to Spaniard Feliciano Lopez - 6-4, 6-7 (2), 6-7 (8). Also, before the final, Cilic managed to get out at the main grass tournament - Wimbledon. In the decisive match, he played against Roger Federer and lost to him in three sets.

Due to an injury, Cilic missed the preparatory part for the 2017 US Open. In the United States, he was able to pass only in the third round. In the autumn part of the season, Marin reached the semi-finals three times: in Tokyo, at Masters in Shanghai and Basel. At the masters in Paris, his result was an exit in the quarter finals. At the Final Tournament, Cilic lost all three matches in the group. He finished the season in 6th place.

Cilic started 2018 with reaching the semifinals at the tournament in Pune , where he lost to the future winner of the tournament, Gilles Simon from France. At the Australian Open, Cilic performed successfully. In the quarterfinals, he beat the first racket of the world by Rafael Nadal. In the fifth set, the Spaniard was forced to refuse to continue the match. On January 28, in a stubborn duel, Marine lost the final to Roger Federer. This was the third final at the Croatian Grand Slam and the best career performance on the Melbourne courts. Thanks to this result, after the tournament for the first time in his career he climbed to third place in the world ranking.

At Masters in Monte Carlo in April 2018, Cilic reached the quarterfinals. In May, at Masters in Rome, he was able to get to the semifinals, where he lost to Alexander Zverev from Germany in two sets. On the courts of Roland Garros, the Croatian tennis player played out to the quarterfinals where he lost to Juan Martin Del Potro. In June, Cilic won the tournament in London. In the decisive match, he fought with Novak Djokovic and won with a score of 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3. At the Wimbledon tournament in the second round, he easily took the first two sets from the Argentine Guido Pella , but then he lost his concentration and eventually lost in five sets (6: 3, 6: 1, 4: 6, 6: 7, 5: 7).

At Masters in Toronto in 2018, Cilic reached the quarter finals, and at Masters in Cincinnati in the 1/2 finals. At the US Open, he reached the quarter finals, where he was defeated by Japanese Kay Nishikori. the best result in tournaments in the fall of the season for Cilic was the quarterfinals of Masters in Paris. For the fourth time in his career, he selected for the World Tour Finals, where, as in previous attempts, he could not overcome the group round. At the end of the season, Marine took the 7th place in the ranking. 2018 brought Cilic an important victory in team competitions. He was the leader of his team in the Davis Cup and brought it to the finals. In the decisive game, the Croats fought with the French team . Cilic won both of his match against Jo-Wilfried Tsong and Luke Puy and helped beat France 3-1. The Croatian national team for the second time in history took the Davis Cup.

Cilic completed the Australian Open in 2019 in the fourth round, giving way to the quarterfinals of Roberto Bautista Aguta.

In May 2019, Marin reached the quarterfinals of the Masters in Madrid , having withdrawn from the tournament before the match with Djokovic for health reasons.

According to the official ATP website for the last week of the year ^[6] .

As of June 3, 2019

In order to prevent confusion and doubling of the score, the information in this table is adjusted only at the end of the tournament or at the end of the participation of this player.

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