54 Facts About Marcos Baghdatis

1. Marcos Baghdatis has the longest winning streak in Davis Cup matches of all-time with 36 consecutive singles victories, surpassing the previously held record of 33 by Bjorn Borg.

2. Marcos Baghdatis is one of the most successful Davis Cup players in the modern era.

3. Marcos Baghdatis made his Davis Cup debut for the Cyprus Davis Cup team in 2000 as a 14-year-old.

4. Marcos Baghdatis stated "It is clear that unless I am 100 per cent fit and healthy to compete, I shall not participate at the Olympics because I would be doing injustice to my country".

5. Marcos Baghdatis was forced to pull out of the Olympic Games in Rio due an elbow injury.

6. Marcos Baghdatis extended his grass court season in Newport, and made the semi-finals before bowing out to eventual champion Ivo Karlovic.

7. Marcos Baghdatis made the QF's in both Halle and Nottingham on grass, with his run in Halle en route to a straight sets victory over world number 8 Tomas Berdych.

8. Marcos Baghdatis produced solid, without spectacular results over the coming months.

9. At the Australian Open, where Marcos Baghdatis was unseeded, he drew ninth seed Jo-Wilfred Tsonga in a match between two former finalists.

10. Marcos Baghdatis ended the year at no 46 in the ATP Rankings and will hope to continue his resurgence in 2016.

11. Marcos Baghdatis defeated for the second time in 2015 Gilles Muller in the quarter-finals 7 46 63.

12. Marcos Baghdatis reached the round of 16 at St Petersburg, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo.

13. Marcos Baghdatis was solid on the ATP World Tour over the coming months.

14. In Round 2, Marcos Baghdatis, struggling with his calf injury and form, was trailing two sets and a break down against Australian qualifier John Millman.

15. Marcos Baghdatis stunned world number 7 David Ferrer 62 7, young gun Alexander Zverev and Simone Bolleli to his way to the semi-finals.

16. Marcos Baghdatis made the final, before bowing out to American Ryan Harrison in straight sets.

17. Marcos Baghdatis started the clay-court season with a first-round loss at the US Clay Court Championships in Houston to Alejandro Gonzalez.

18. Marcos Baghdatis entered the Australian Open, ranked at a low 109 in the ATP Rankings.

19. Marcos Baghdatis was not given a wildcard into the Brisbane International, although he did receive one for the Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand.

20. In July 2012 Marcos Baghdatis was selected by the Cypriot Olympic Committee to carry the Cypriot flag in the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Games.

21. Marcos Baghdatis played Andy Murray in the third round of Wimbledon playing under the closed roof until 11.03pm, eventually losing in four sets.

22. Marcos Baghdatis found some form in the Kuala Lumpur, where he was runner up to a determined Janko Tipsarevic.

23. Marcos Baghdatis made it to the third round of the 2011 Australian Open, before retiring midway through the fourth set against Jurgen Melzer due to a finger injury.

24. Marcos Baghdatis started the 2011 season by competing in the Brisbane International, losing in the quarterfinal to defending champion and second-seeded American Andy Roddick in two sets.

25. Marcos Baghdatis was ousted in the opening round at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, losing to Jeremy Chardy in three sets.

26. At the French Open, Marcos Baghdatis was beaten by Britain's Andy Murray in the third round in four sets.

27. Marcos Baghdatis played at the Indian Wells Masters, as the 27th seed.

28. Marcos Baghdatis made a second-round appearance at the Open 13 tournament in Marseille, losing to eventual champion Michael Llodra.

29. At the Australian Open, Marcos Baghdatis beat Italian Paolo Lorenzi in the opening round and 17th seed David Ferrer in the five-sets second round.

30. Marcos Baghdatis started off the year at the Brisbane International, one of the first ATP 250 tournaments of the season.

31. Marcos Baghdatis won his opening match in the ATP 250 tournament in Kuala Lumpur, against Lu Yen-hsun, but was beaten by Mikhail Youzhny in straight sets in the next round.

32. Marcos Baghdatis won his second ATP Challenger Tour title of the season, after defeating Xavier Malisse again, in the final of the Trophee des Alpilles in St Remy.

33. Marcos Baghdatis failed to qualify for the Cincinnati Masters, losing to Robert Kendrick in the opening qualifying round.

34. Marcos Baghdatis was defeated by Jeremy Chardy in the quarterfinals in two tiebreaks.

35. Marcos Baghdatis suffered injuries for the remainder of the season and did not participate in the US Open.

36. Marcos Baghdatis reached the semifinals by defeating Nikolay Davydenko and Tommy Robredo.

37. Marcos Baghdatis was the eleventh seed at the Australian Open but could not match his success from the previous year, losing a second-round match to Gael Monfils in four sets.

38. At Wimbledon, Marcos Baghdatis defeated Andy Murray in the fourth round in straight sets.

39. At the French Open, Marcos Baghdatis lost in the second round in five sets to Julien Benneteau.

40. Marcos Baghdatis answering an interviewer's question if he would be watching his next opponent in the 2006 Australian Open.

41. Marcos Baghdatis entered the Australian Open as an unseeded player, under the coaching of Guillaume Peyre, and produced an unexpected four-set victory over second-seed and world No 3 Andy Roddick in the fourth round.

42. Marcos Baghdatis kept playing Challengers and qualifying for upper-tier ATP events for the rest of 2005 and found good form towards the end of the year.

43. Marcos Baghdatis held two match points in his first-round match against a resurging Juan Carlos Ferrero, but failed to convert them into a win.

44. Marcos Baghdatis was one of only two players who won a set from eventual champion Roger Federer.

45. At the US Open, Marcos Baghdatis played for the first time in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament.

46. On 14 July 2012, Marcos Baghdatis married the Croatian former tennis player Karolina Sprem.

47. Marcos Baghdatis received the 2005 Cyprus Male Athlete of the Year award.

48. Marcos Baghdatis trained at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in Paris on an Olympic Solidarity Youth Development Programme Scholarship since the age of 14 and learned to speak French.

49. Marcos Baghdatis enjoys playing and watching football and is a supporter of Apollon Limassol in Cyprus.

50. Marcos Baghdatis began playing tennis at the age of five with his father and brothers.

51. Marcos Baghdatis has two brothers, Petros and Marinos, and a sister, Zena, who was adopted by his family at just 6 months old.

52. Marcos Baghdatis was born in Paramytha, Cyprus to a Lebanese father, Christos, and a Cypriot mother, Androula.

53. Marcos Baghdatis was the runner-up at the 2006 Australian Open and a semifinalist at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships and reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No 8 in August 2006.

54. Marcos Baghdatis is a Cypriot professional tennis player.