David Marrero Santana (; born 8 April 1980) is a Spanish professional
tennis
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player. Marrero won 14 doubles titles and reaching a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 5 in November 2013.
Professional career
2000–2007
Marrero earned his first world ranking late in 2000 as a 20-year-old, but he spent only a few weeks inside the top-500 until early 2005. By late 2005, he had made it into the top-300, but faded over the next year to close out 2006 outside the top-400. In the middle of 2007, he again inched into the top-300, but faded again to close out 2007 at No. 362.
2008
As a qualifier, Marrero reached the final of a Challenger in Chile in January, losing to No. 132
Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo after upsetting No. 272
Sebastián Decoud, No. 187
Adrián García and No. 111
Nicolás Lapentti. This result brought him back into the top 300 at World No. 289. The very next week he gained revenge over Ramirez-Hidalgo to qualify into an ATP stop in Chile, where he again beat García before losing to No. 104
Fabio Fognini
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in the 2nd round. In February, Marrero scored another upset, defeating World No. 114
Máximo González.
2009–2013: ATP tour finals and World No. 5 in doubles
Marrero reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 143 on 8 February 2010 and career-high ranking of World No. 5 in doubles on 11 November 2013 after winning the
ATP World Tour Finals
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with
Fernando Verdasco
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His career-high singles ranking is world No. 7, achieved in April 2009.
His best performance in a Grand Slam was making the semifinals of the 2009 ...
defeating the
Bryan Brothers
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.
2016: Match fixing controversy
In January 2016, Marrero was featured in a New York Times article about his suspected match-fixing at the Australian Open.
2022
He announced his retirement at the
2022 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell
but continued to play in ITF and Challenger circuit.
Significant finals
Year-end championships finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
Masters 1000 finals
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
ATP career finals
Doubles: 30 (14 titles, 16 runner-ups)
Challenger and Futures finals
Singles: 16 (8–8)
Doubles: 60 (33–27)
Doubles performance timeline
References
External links
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1980 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Alicante
Sportspeople from Las Palmas
Spanish male tennis players