Marius Copil
Introduction '''Marius Copil''' (born 17 October 1990) is a Romanian professional tennis player playing on the ATP World Tour and ATP Challenger Tour. He is a member of the Romanian Davis Cup team. Copil is known for his extremely fast, powerful, and consistent serve.
Career Copil in 2014===2009: ATP debut===In September 2009 he received wild card access to the main draw of 2009 BCR Open Romania, where he defeated his fellow countryman Victor Crivoi in the first round, but lost to Spaniard Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo in the second round.=== 2010–2012: Challenger Tour success ===In May 2010, Copil reached his first ATP Challenger Tour final at the Trofeo Paolo Corazzi as a qualifier. On his route to the final he won in three sets against Australian Bernard Tomic in the semifinals and finished runner-up to German Denis Gremelmayr.Season 2011 started well for Copil. He reached his second Challenger final at the Tretorn Serie+ event in Kazan, Russia. In the final, he won against 4th seeded German Andreas Beck, in straight sets.In season 2012, Copil beat world No. 13 Marin Čilić in the first round at the China Open in Beijing.===2015–2017: Major debut, Maiden ATP doubles title, Top 100 in singles===He made his Grand Slam main draw debut at the 2015 Australian Open, where he defeated Pablo Andújar. At the same tournament, he recorded the fastest serve at a Grand Slam: 242.0 km/h (150.4 mph).In April at the Romanian Open partnering fellow Romanian Adrian Ungur, after saving five match points, they defeated Nicholas Monroe/Artem Sitak 17–15 in the match tiebreak to become the first Romanian team to win the Bucharest title since 1998 (Pavel/Trifu).At the 's-Hertogenbosch Open, Copil defeated Jarkko Nieminen and Guillermo García López as a wildcard to reach the quarterfinals.He made his top 100 singles debut after the 2017 Mutua Madrid Open, where he was a wildcard entry, at World No. 90 on 15 May 2017.===2018: Two ATP singles finals===Copil reached his first ATP World Tour-level singles final at the Sofia Open, where he lost to Mirza Bašić.Ranked No. 93, Copil reached the final of the Swiss Indoors in Basel as a qualifier, losing to Roger Federer after defeating world No. 6 Marin Čilić and No. 5 Alexander Zverev on the way, his first ever wins over top-10 players. He became the lowest-ranked Basel finalist since No. 100 Patrick McEnroe in 1994 and 1st qualifier in the final since Baghdatis in 2005.===2019: Career-high singles ranking, Grand Slam success===Copil reached the 2019 Australian Open second round for the second time defeating Marcel Granollers in straight sets. As a result, he reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 56 on 28 January 2019.His best showing in doubles at a Grand Slam in his career was reaching the third round of the 2019 French Open partnering Rohan Bopanna. He also reached the second round of the 2019 US Open (tennis) for the first time in his career in singles and doubles.===2020–2023: Loss of form, drop in rankings, out of top 400===
ATP career finals ===Singles: 2 (2 runners-up)===LegendGrand Slam tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–1)ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–2)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoor (0–0)Indoor (0–2)ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Sofia Open, Bulgaria250 SeriesHard Mirza Bašić6–7(6–8), 7–6(7–4), 4–6Loss0–2Swiss Indoors, Switzerland500 SeriesHard Roger Federer6–7(5–7), 4–6===Doubles: 1 (1 title)===LegendGrand Slam tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–0)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoor (1–0)Indoor (0–0)ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Romanian Open, Romania250 SeriesClay Adrian Ungur Nicholas Monroe Artem Sitak3–6, 7–5, 17–15
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals ===Singles: 21 (8–13)===LegendATP Challenger (3–9)ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (4–4)Finals by surfaceHard (5–8)Clay (3–3)Grass (0–1)Carpet (0–1)ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Romania F16, AradFuturesClay Martín Alund6–4, 6–3Win2–0Romania F16, DevaFuturesClay Andrei Mlendea6–3, 7–6(7–5)Loss2–1Romania F14, AradFuturesClay Attila Balázs6–3, 5–7, 3–6Loss2–2Greece F3, ParosFuturesCarpet Petar Jelenic6–2, 4–6, 6–7(2–7)Win3–2Guatemala F1, Guatemala CityFuturesHard Iván Endara7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–3)Loss3–3Cremona, ItalyChallengerHard Denis Gremelmayr4–6, 5–7Loss3–4Germany F2, StuttgartFuturesHard Jan Mertl6–2, 3–6, 4–6Win4–4Kazan, RussiaChallengerHard Andreas Beck6–4, 6–4Loss4–5Romania F1, BucharestFuturesClay Petru-Alexandru Luncanu6–3, 4–6, 5–7Loss4–6Kazan, RussiaChallengerHard Jürgen Zopp6–7(4–7), 6–7(4–7)Win5–6Quimper, FranceChallengerHard Marc Gicquel7–6(11–9), 6–4Loss5–7Arad, RomaniaChallengerClay Adrian Ungur4–6, 6–7(3–7)Loss5–8Guimarães, PortugalChallengerHard João Sousa3–6, 0–6Loss5–9İzmir, TunisiaChallengerHard Lukaš Lacko3–6, 6–7(5-7)Loss5–10Surbiton, United KingdomChallengerGrass Lu Yen-hsun5–7, 6–7(11–13)Win6–10Budapest, HungaryChallengerHard Steve Darcis6–4, 6–2Loss6–11Bratislava, SlovakiaChallengerHard Norbert Gombos6–7(8–10), 6–4, 3–6Loss6–12Kaohsiung, TaiwanChallengerHard Evgeny Donskoy6–7(0–7), 5–7Loss6–13Bratislava, SlovakiaChallengerHard Lukáš Lacko4–6, 6–7(4–7)Win7–13M25 Portimao, PortugalWorld Tennis TourHard  Alexey Vatutin7–5, 6–2Win8–13M25 Bacău, RomaniaWorld Tennis TourClay Hernán Casanova6–3, 7–6(7–4)===Doubles: 19 (9–10)===LegendATP Challenger (2–3)ITF Futures (7–7)Finals by surfaceHard (3–2)Clay (5–8)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–0)ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Romania F16, DevaFuturesClay Ilie-Aurelian Giurgiu Bojan Szumanski  Hubert Holzler6–3, 6–2Win2–0Germany F5, NusslochFuturesCarpet Petru-Alexandru Luncanu Jonathan Marray  Rasmus NørbywalkoverWin3–0Romania F1, CraiovaFuturesClay Petru-Alexandru Luncanu Andrei Ciumac  Radu Albot7–5, 6–1Loss3–1Romania F9, IașiFuturesClay Victor Ioniță Gleb Alekseenko  Vadim Alekseenko3–6, 6–2, 7–10Loss3–2Romania F10, ClujFuturesClay Ilie-Aurelian Giurgiu Gleb Alekseenko  Vadim Alekseenko4–6, 4–6Loss3–3Romania F11, OradeaFuturesClay Ilie-Aurelian Giurgiu Attila Balázs  György Balázs2–6, 2–6Loss3–4Italy F23, BolzanoFuturesClay Antal van der Duim Manuel Jorquera  Leonardo Tavares7–6(7–2), 3–6, 5–10Win4–4Romania F14, AradFuturesClay Vasek Pospisil Andrei Mlendea  Jiří Školoudík6–3, 6–4Loss4–5Romania F15, BrașovFuturesClay Vasek Pospisil C C-Rodriguez  Gerard Granollers-Pujol5–7, 7–6(7–2), 10–12Win5–5Guatemala F1, Guatemala CityFuturesHard Iván Endara James Ludlow  Ruben Gonzales7–5, 6–3Loss5–6Italy F30, CalabriaFuturesClay Giuseppe Faraone Andrea Arnaboldi  Gianluca Naso4–6, 4–6Win6–6Germany F2, StuttgartFuturesHard Simon Stadler Kevin Krawietz  Marcel Zimmermann6–1, 6–2Loss6–7Romania F2, BucharestFuturesClay Victor Crivoi Florin Mergea  Andrei Dăescu6–7(4–7), 2–6Win7–7Romania F3, BacăuFuturesClay Victor Crivoi Harri Heliövaara  Timo Nieminen6–3, 6–4Win8–7Brașov, RomaniaChallengerClay Victor Crivoi Andrei Ciumac Aleksandr Nedovyesov6–7(8–10), 6–4, 12–10Loss8–8Binghamton, United StatesChallengerHard Sergiy Stakhovsky Daniel Cox Daniel Smethurst7–6(7–3), 2–6, 6–10Loss8–9Sibiu, RomaniaChallengerClay Alexandru-Daniel Carpen Potito Starace Adrian Ungur5–7, 2–6Loss8–10Istanbul, TurkeyChallengerHard Marco Chiudinelli Sadio Doumbia Calvin Hemery4–6, 3–6Win9–10İzmir, TurkeyChallengerHard Marco Chiudinelli Sadio Doumbia Calvin Hemery6–4, 6–4
Singles performance timeline Tournament200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022W–L'''Grand Slam tournaments'''Australian OpenAAAAAAAAQ1Q22RQ2Q11R2RQ2Q1A2-3French OpenAAAAAAQ2AQ1Q2Q3Q31R1R1RQ1Q1 Q20-3WimbledonAAAAAAAAAQ2Q21R1R1R1RNHQ2Q10-4US OpenAAAAAAQ2Q3Q1Q1Q2Q11R1R2RAQ2A1-3Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–01–10–10–30–42–40–00–00–03–13===Wins over top 10 players=== Season 20182019 '''Total''' Wins 2 0 '''2'''#PlayerRankEventSurfaceRdScoreMC Rank'''2018'''1.Marin Čilić6Basel, SwitzerlandHard (i)2R7–5, 7–6(7–2)932.Alexander Zverev5Basel, SwitzerlandHard (i)SF6–3, 6–7(6–8), 6–493
Davis Cup ===Singles performances (18–8)===EditionRoundDateAgainstSurfaceOpponentWin/LoseResult2009 World Group play-offsPO18–20 September 2009 SwedenHard (i) Andreas VinciguerraWin4–6 ret.2010 Europe/Africa Zone Group IQF7–8 May 2010 UkraineClay Ivan SergeyevUnfinished4–6, 2–12011 World Group play-offsPO16–18 September 2011 Czech RepublicClay Lukáš RosolLose4–6, 6–7(2–7)2012 Europe/Africa Zone Group I1R PO14–16 September 2012 FinlandHard (i) Harri HeliövaaraWin3–6, 6–4, 6–2, 6–4 Jarkko NieminenLose3–6, 5–7, 6–1, 6–7(4–7)2013 Europe/Africa Zone Group I1R1–3 February 2013 DenmarkHard (i) Frederik NielsenWin6–3, 7–6(9–7), 6–4 Christoffer KønigsfeldtWin6–4, 6–32R5–7 April 2013 NetherlandsHard Thiemo de BakkerLose6–7(3-7), 6–7(2–7)2014 Europe/Africa Zone Group I1R PO12–14 September 2014 SwedenClay Elias YmerWin 6–2, 6–3, 6–22015 Europe/Africa Zone Group I1R6–8 March 2015 IsraelHard (i) Dudi SelaWin6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–3), 6–4, 6-2 Bar Tzuf BotzerWin7–6(7–3), 6–32R17–19 July 2015 SlovakiaClay Norbert GombosWin7–6(7–5), 6–7(6–8), 6–4, 7–6(12–10) Martin KližanLose7–6(7–3), 6–32016 Europe/Africa Zone Group I1R4–6 March 2016 SloveniaHard (i) Blaž RolaWin7–5, 6–3, 7–6(7–5) Tomislav TernarWin6-3, 6–32R15–17 July 2016 SpainHard Feliciano LópezLose6–7(7-7), 7–5, 4–6, 6–3, 3–62017 Europe/Africa Zone Group I1R3–5 February 2017 BelarusHard (i) Egor GerasimovLose 3–6, 4–6, 4–6 Ilya IvashkaWin 7–5, 6–3, 6–12018 Europe/Africa Zone Group II1R3–4 February 2018 LuxembourgHard (i) Christophe ThollWin6-3, 6-2 Ugo NastasiWin6-1, 6-12R7–8 April 2019 MoroccoHard (i) Amine AhoudaWin6-0, 6-13R15–16 September 2019 PolandClay (i) Kamil MajchrzakWin6-2, 6-4 Hubert HurkaczLose3-6, 4-62019 Europe/Africa Zone Group II—5–6 April 2019 ZimbabweHard (i) Benjamin LockLose4-6, 5-7 Takanyi GarangangaWin6-4, 7-52020–2021 World Group IPO17–19 September 2021 PortugalHard (i) Gastão EliasWin6-4, 6-3 Gastão EliasWin 6–3, 2–6, 6–4===Doubles performances (2–1)===EditionRoundDatePartnerAgainstSurfaceOpponentsWin/LoseResult2009 World Group1R6–8 March 2009 Horia Tecău RussiaHard (i) Marat Safin Dmitry TursunovWin4–6, 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–5), 6–42011 World Group play-offsPO16–18 September 2011 Horia Tecău Czech RepublicClay Tomáš Berdych Radek ŠtěpánekLose6–3, 3–6, 0–6, 2–62014 Europe/Africa Zone Group I1R31 January – 2 February 2014 Horia Tecău UkraineHard Sergei Bubka Denys MolchanovWin5–7, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4
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