19 Facts About Marco Cecchinato

1. Marco Cecchinato completes a stellar week at the Argentina Open without dropping a set.

2. Marco Cecchinato started his 2019 season in Doha where he reached the semifinals.

3. Marco Cecchinato upsets second seed Damir Dzumhur to reach the third round of the Gazprom Hungarian Open on Wednesday.

4. Marco Cecchinato reached his first ATP quarterfinal at the Romanian Open in 2016.

5. Marco Cecchinato became the first Sicilian tennis player to win an ATP title.

6. Marco Cecchinato is one win away of being the first Italian Grand Slam finalist since 1976.

7. Marco Cecchinato is the first Italian player in the semifinal of a Grand Slam in 40 years.

8. Marco Cecchinato extends into a forehand during his match against Milos Raonic at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters on Wednesday.

9. Marco Cecchinato is made to work for a place in his first ATP World Tour semi-final on Friday in Budapest.

10. Marco Cecchinato will rise inside the Top 60 of the ATP Rankings on Monday, after beating John Millman to win the Gazprom Hungarian Open.

11. Marco Cecchinato won just four of his first 32 tour-level matches.

12. Marco Cecchinato tries to reach his first Grand Slam semi-final on Tuesday against Novak Djokovic.

13. Marco Cecchinato plays in his first Grand Slam quarter-final on Tuesday against Novak Djokovic.

14. Marco Cecchinato becomes the lowest-ranked Roland Garros semi-finalist since No 100 Andrei Medvedev in 1999.

15. Marco Cecchinato fights hard against Dominic Thiem in the Roland Garros semi-finals on Friday.

16. Marco Cecchinato recovers from a set down to beat Jiri Vesely at the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag on Wednesday.

17. Marco Cecchinato saves seven of eight break points to defeat Guido Pella in the final of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag.

18. Marco Cecchinato sees the tennis world in a different way, and viceversa.

19. Marco Cecchinato is an Italian professional tennis player.