Matteo Arnaldi (born 22 February 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 35, achieved on 1 April 2024, and a career high doubles ranking of world No. 286, achieved on 8 August 2022.[1] He is currently the No. 3 Italian player.[2]
_(52157038811).jpg) Arnaldi at the 2022 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois | |||||||||
| Country (sports) |  Italy | ||||||||
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| Born | 22 February 2001 Sanremo, Italy | ||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||
| Turned pro | 2019 | ||||||||
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | ||||||||
| Coach | Alessandro Petrone | ||||||||
| Prize money | $1,577,521 | ||||||||
| Singles | |||||||||
| Career record | 34–30 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup) | ||||||||
| Career titles | 0 | ||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 35 (1 April 2024) | ||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 36 (22 April 2024) | ||||||||
| Grand Slam singles results | |||||||||
| Australian Open | 2R (2024) | ||||||||
| French Open | 2R (2023) | ||||||||
| Wimbledon | 1R (2023) | ||||||||
| US Open | 4R (2023) | ||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||
| Career record | 1–4 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup) | ||||||||
| Career titles | 0 | ||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 286 (8 August 2022) | ||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 573 (1 April 2024) | ||||||||
| Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||
| Australian Open | 1R (2024) | ||||||||
| US Open | 2R (2023) | ||||||||
| Team competitions | |||||||||
| Davis Cup | W (2023) Record: 3–2 (60.0%) | ||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 1 April 2024. | |||||||||
Career edit
2022: ATP and Masters debuts, Maiden Challenger title edit
Arnaldi made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Rome Masters after receiving a wildcard into the singles and doubles main draws.[3] He received these wildcards by winning the pre-qualification wildcard tournaments in both singles and doubles.[4] He won his maiden Challenger title at the 2022 Internazionali di Tennis d'Abruzzo as a wildcard defeating Francesco Maestrelli.
Following Holger Rune's withdrawal to be first alternate at the 2022 ATP Finals, Arnaldi gained entry to participate in the 2022 Next Generation ATP Finals.[5]
2023: Major & top 100 debuts, Maiden Major & Masters & top 10 wins, first ATP semifinal, top 50 edit
Following his third Challenger win at the 2023 Murcia Open, he reached a career-high ranking of No. 102 on 10 April 2023.
Ranked No. 105, he qualified for the ATP 500 2023 Barcelona Open and won his first round match against Jaume Munar.
Next he qualified for the 2023 Madrid Open for his first Masters of the season and only the second overall and won his first Masters 1000 match over fellow qualifier Benoit Paire. Next, he upset world No. 4 and third seed Casper Ruud in straight sets for his first career top-10 win, to reach the third round of a Masters for the first time.[6] As a result he made his debut into the top 100 at No. 99 in the rankings on 8 May 2023.[7]
He received a wildcard for the main draw at the Italian Open,[8] where he defeated Diego Schwartzman in the first round.[9]
On his Grand Slam debut he qualified for the 2023 French Open and recorded his first win against Daniel Elahi Galán. As a result, he reached a new career high ranking of No. 72 on 12 June 2023. He also made his debut at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships.[10]
In Umag, Arnaldi beat qualifier Jesper de Jong, qualifier Flavio Cobolli and top seed Jiří Lehečka to reach his first ATP semifinal, only losing to the eventual champion Alexei Popyrin in more than 3 hours of play.[11]
In Toronto, Arnaldi qualified and recorded his first ever Masters 1000 win on hard courts beating local wildcard Vasek Pospisil in the first round, then fell to World No. 3 Daniil Medvedev in the second.[12] As a result, he reached a new career-high ranking of No. 61 on 14 August 2023. He reached the top 50 at No. 47 on 11 September 2023, following a fourth round showing at the US Open with wins over Jason Kubler, Arthur Fils in five sets and an upset over 16th seed Cameron Norrie in the third round.[13]
At the start of his first Asian swing he qualified for the ATP 500 China Open and reached the second round defeating fellow qualifier JJ Wolf. At the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters he defeated Alexei Popyrin and upset 21st seed Jan-Lennard Struff to reach the third round.[14]
He won the 2023 Davis Cup with team Italy.[15]
2024: First Australian Open win, Masters fourth round, top 35 edit
He recorded his first win at the 2024 Australian Open defeating wildcard Adam Walton. He reached the top 40 at No. 38 on 29 January 2024.
Ranked No. 43 at the 2024 Delray Beach Open he defeated Yoshihito Nishioka firing 21 aces and recording 50 winners.[16][17] At the 2024 BNP Paribas Open he reached the second round defeating Luca Van Assche. At the 2024 Miami Open he reached the third round for the first time at this Masters and only for the third time at this level, defeating Arthur Fils and 17th seed Alexander Bublik. He defeated Denis Shapovalov to reach the fourth round of a Masters for the first time in his career. As a result he reached the top 35 in the rankings on 1 April 2024.
At the beginning of the clay season, at the 2024 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, he reached the quarterfinals with a defeat of Arthur Cazaux by retirement, and of two Argentines, eight seed Sebastian Baez and qualifier Marco Trungelliti.
Singles performance timeline edit
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
Current through 2024 Indian Wells Masters.
| Tournament | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | SR | W–L | Win% |
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| Grand Slam tournaments | ||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | Q3 | 2R | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
| French Open | A | A | A | 2R | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% | |
| Wimbledon | NH | A | Q1 | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |
| US Open | A | A | Q3 | 4R | 0 / 1 | 3–1 | 75% | |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 4–3 | 1–1 | 0 / 4 | 5–4 | 56% |
| ATP Tour Masters 1000 | ||||||||
| Indian Wells Masters | NH | A | A | Q2 | 2R | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Miami Open | NH | A | A | Q1 | 4R | 0 / 1 | 3–1 | 75% |
| Monte-Carlo Masters | NH | A | A | A | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Madrid Open | NH | A | A | 3R | 0 / 1 | 2–1 | 67% | |
| Italian Open | A | A | 1R | 2R | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | 33% | |
| Canadian Open | NH | A | A | 2R | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% | |
| Cincinnati Masters | A | A | A | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Shanghai Masters | NH | 3R | 0 / 1 | 2–1 | 67% | |||
| Paris Masters | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 6–4 | 4–2 | 0 / 8 | 10–8 | 56% |
| Career statistics | ||||||||
| Tournaments | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 25 | ||
| Overall win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–4 | 20–15 | 11–9 | 31–28 | ||
| Year-end ranking | 998 | 363 | 134 | 44 | 53% | |||
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals edit
Singles 10 (6–4) edit
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| Result | W–L | Date | Category | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | Jul 2021 | Futures | M25 Casinalbo, Italy | Clay | Franco Agamenone
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4–6, 5–7 |
| Win | 1–1 | Aug 2021 | Futures | M25 Bolzano, Italy | Clay | Alexander Weis
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6–0, 6–1 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Sep 2021 | Futures | M25 Eupen, Belgium | Clay |  Facundo Diaz Acosta
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6–7(6–8), 2–6 |
| Win | 2–2 | Oct 2021 | Futures | M25 Skopje, North Macedonia | Clay |  Louis Wessels
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6–1, 6–0 |
| Win | 3–2 | May 2022 | Challenger | Francavilla al Mare, Italy | Clay | Francesco Maestrelli
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6–3, 6–7(7–9), 6–4 |
| Loss | 3–3 | Aug 2022 | Challenger | San Marino, Italy | Clay |  Pavel Kotov
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6–7(5–7), 4–6 |
| Loss | 3–4 | Oct 2022 | Challenger | Saint-Tropez, France | Hard | Mattia Bellucci
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3–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 4–4 | Feb 2023 | Challenger | Tenerife, Spain | Hard | Raúl Brancaccio
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6–1, 6–2 |
| Win | 5–4 | Apr 2023 | Challenger | Murcia, Spain | Clay |  Borna Gojo
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6–4, 7–6(7–4) |
| Win | 6–4 | Jun 2023 | Challenger | Heilbronn, Spain | Clay | Facundo Diaz Acosta
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7–6(7–4), 6–1 |
Doubles 2 (1–1) edit
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| Result | W–L | Date | Category | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponent | Score |
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| Win | 1–0 | Sep 2019 | Futures | M25 Pula, Italy | Clay | Jacopo Berrettini
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Luciano Darderi Francesco Maestrelli
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6–2, 6–2 |
| Loss | 1–1 | Mar 2023 | Challenger | Las Palmas, Spain | Clay | Luciano Darderi
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 Sadio Doumbia Fabien Reboul
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7–5, 4–6, [7–10] |
Wins over top 10 players edit
- He has a 2–5 (28.6%) record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.
| Season | 2023 | 2024 | Total |
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| Wins | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| # | Player | Rank | Event | Surface | Rd | Score | MAR |
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| 2023 | |||||||
| 1. |  Casper Ruud
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4 | Madrid Masters, Spain | Clay | 2R | 6–3, 6–4 | 105 |
| 2024 | |||||||
| 2. |  Taylor Fritz
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10 | Acapulco, Mexico | Hard | 1R | 6–4, 4–6, 6–3 | 42 |
- *As of 27 February 2024[update]
References edit
- ^ "Matteo Arnaldi | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.
- ^ "ATP Rankings | Pepperstone ATP Rankings (Singles)". ATP Tour.
- ^ "Day 1 Preview: Marin Cilic & Frances Tiafoe Begin Rome Campaigns | ATP Tour | Tennis". ATP Tour.
- ^ "Matteo Arnaldi: il talento, la crescita e lo status di 'giocatore di challenger'". May 3, 2022.
- ^ "Italian Arnaldi Replaces Rune In Milan Field". ATP Tour. Nov 6, 2022.
- ^ "Matteo Arnaldi Defeats Casper Ruud in Madrid | ATP Tour | Tennis".
- ^ "Matteo Arnaldi Thriving on the Big Stage in Madrid | ATP Tour | Tennis".
- ^ "Fognini and Errani lead the Rome wild cards". 28 April 2023.
- ^ "Top 100 Arnaldi Beats Schwartzman In Front Of Home Fans In Rome". atpworldtour.com. ATP. 11 May 2023. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
- ^ "Matteo Arnaldi Qualifies for Wimbledon Debut | ATP Tour | Tennis".
- ^ "Tennis: Musetti out in Hamburg, Arnaldi in the semifinals in Umag – News". 29 July 2023.
- ^ "Daniil Medvedev Makes Fast Start in Toronto | ATP Tour | Tennis".
- ^ "Ben Shelton Set for Top 20 Breakthrough Behind US Open Run | ATP Tour | Tennis".
- ^ "Medvedev Hits 60 Wins, Tsitsipas Makes Fast Start In Shanghai". atptour.com.
- ^ "Arnaldi gives Italy 1-0 lead over Australia in Davis Cup final". Reuters.
- ^ "Arnaldi uses 21 aces to navigate Delray Beach wind & Nishioka".
- ^ "ATP roundup: Patrick Kypson earns first tour win". Reuters.