Gianluca Mager (born 1 December 1994) is an Italian

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player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 66 achieved on 13 September 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 310 achieved on 10 June 2019.

Personal Info

Born in

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, from a family of German origins. In 2010, Mager was disqualified for failing a doping test after smoking marijuana at a party.

Professional career

Mager made his ATP main draw debut at the 2017 Internazionali BNL d'Italia after earning a wildcard in the pre-qualifying wildcard tournament. He was defeated by

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in the first round. He got his first singles ATP main-draw win in the first round in

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in October 2019 against Spaniard

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. At the

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in Brazil, an ATP 500 level tournament on clay courts, he beat world No. 34

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in the first round, and world No. 4

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in the quarterfinals to reach the semifinal as a qualifier. Mager reached his first

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final, defeating lucky loser Attila Balazs in the semifinals before losing to Chilean

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, 6–7^3–7, 5–7. Mager started the tournament No. 114 in the world and qualified into the main draw. After this good performance, Mager reached a singles ranking of World No. 77. At the

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Mager reached his fourth quarterfinal of the season at the ATP250 level (after Delray Beach, Belgrade and Kitzbuhel) defeating 6th seed

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and Miomir Kecmanovic. He lost in the quarterfinals to

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6-2, 6-2 in 50 minutes. He was aiming to reach his second tour-level semifinal and first since 2020 in Rio de Janeiro.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner–up)

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 16 (9–7)

Doubles: 6 (2–4)

Record against top 10 players

Gianluca's match record against those who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who have been No. 1 in bold (ATP World Tour, Grand Slam and Davis Cup main draw matches). *

1–0 *

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Wins over top 10 players

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References

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* * 1994 births Living people Italian male tennis players Italian people of German descent {{Italy-tennis-bio-stub