Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (born 15 November 2001) is an Argentine professional
tennis
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player. He has a career-high
ATP singles ranking of world No. 79, achieved on 31 January 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 376, achieved on 3 February 2020.
Cerúndolo has won one
ATP Tour
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singles title.
Professional career
2020-2021: First ATP title, NextGen finals debut
Cerúndolo made his ATP main draw debut at the
2021 Córdoba Open where, as a qualifier, he won the title. The world No. 335 was the fifth lowest ranked player to win an
ATP Tour
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title since 1990 and the youngest Argentine tennis player to reach an ATP final since
José Acasuso
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in 2001 and win an ATP tournament since
Guillermo Coria
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in 2001, and the first player to win a title in his debut ATP event since
Santiago Ventura in 2004.
In May 2021, Juan Manuel won his first challenger title on clay in an all-teenage final at the
2021 Garden Open II Challenger in Rome. He was the youngest Argentine champion on the
ATP Challenger Tour
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in 12 years since
Federico Delbonis
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and the first player to win on both tours in the same season since 2019. As a result, he reached a career-high ranking of World No. 152 in singles on 3 May 2021 and 2 weeks later entered the top 150 at No. 146.
In August and September, he won his second and third Challengers in Como, Italy and Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He made his debut in the top 100 after a semifinal showing at the Challenger in Buenos Aires at World No. 94 on 25 October 2021 becoming only the fourth teenager to crack the top 100 rankings in 2021. He is the first from the South American nation to be in the Top 100 while under the age of 20 since Juan Martín del Potro in 2006. In addition, Cerundolo is only the seventh Argentine teen to reach the Top 100 since 1990, along with 18-year-olds Del Potro, José Acasuso and Guillermo Coria and 19-year-olds David Nalbandian, Mariano Puerta and Mariano Zabaleta.
After
Félix Auger-Aliassime
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withdrew from the
2021 Next Generation ATP Finals
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, the ATP announced Cerúndolo as the next qualifier on 1 November 2021. He was the first player from South America to qualify in the tournament's history.
In his
Next Gen ATP finals debut, Cerúndolo lost to fourth seed
Brandon Nakashima
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in his first match. He then was defeated by seventh seed
Holger Rune
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. His third and final match ended in defeat to the tournament's top seed and eventual champion
Carlos Alcaraz
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.
2022: Major debut, injuries & hiatus
Cerúndolo made his Grand Slam debut at the
2022 Australian Open
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as a direct entry into the main draw where he lost to qualifier
Tomáš Macháč
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. He reached the top 80 on 17 January 2022.
After suffering a leg injury that made him unable to defend his title at the
Córdoba Open, he lost in the first round of both the
2022 Chile Open and the
Indian Wells Open
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to
Carlos Taberner
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He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 85 achieved on 23 May 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 337 achieved on ...
and
Jack Sock
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respectively.
At the
2022 Miami Open, Cerundolo reached the third round, getting past
Dušan Lajović
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and former top-10 player lucky loser
Kevin Anderson (replacing top-10 player
Matteo Berrettini
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who withdrew from the tournament). He was defeated by
Frances Tiafoe
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. He did not play in any of the ATP tournaments on clay due to leg and hip injuries and as result dropped out of the top 130 to No. 132 on 16 May 2022. He also skipped the entire grass season including
Wimbledon
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and the North American tournaments including the
US Open.
When he returned later in September, he triumphed at the Buenos Aires and Coquimbo Challengers.
2023-2024: Wimbledon & US Open debuts and first major win
He won the
2023 Challenger de Tigre in Argentina defeating Bolivian
Murkel Dellien.
In
Córdoba, Argentina he received a wildcard and defeated fellow Argentine and top seed
Diego Schwartzman
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to reach the quarterfinals. With the victory, he improved to 10–0 at this ATP 250 (including his three qualifying wins in 2021). At the
2023 Rio Open he qualified but lost to eventual champion
Cam Norrie.
In
Santiago
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he also qualified into the main draw and defeated
Pedro Cachin
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in the first round.
Cerúndolo made his debut at the
2023 Wimbledon Championships
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Tournament
The tournament was played on grass courts, wi ...
as a direct entry into the main draw.
He recorded his first Major win on his debut at the
US Open defeating
Ilya Ivashka
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in five sets.
2025: First Major and Masters clay wins and third round
Ranked No. 126 at the
2025 Mutua Madrid Open, Cerúndolo qualified for the main draw, making his debut at the tournament, and recorded his first Masters win on clay over
Aleksandar Kovacevic. Next he defeated previous year runner-up Félix Auger-Aliassime to reach the third round of a clay Masters for the first time and only the second time at this level.
Personal life
Cerúndolo is the younger brother of fellow tennis player,
Francisco
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. In 2021 the brothers became the first to reach back-to-back finals on the ATP Tour since 2017, when
Alexander Zverev
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won the title in Rome and
Mischa Zverev
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reached the final in Geneva.
Performance timelines
Singles
''Current through the
2025 Rio Open.''
ATP Tour finals
Singles: 1 (1 title)
ATP Challenger Tour finals
Singles: 13 (10 titles, 3 runner-ups)
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
ITF World Tennis Tour finals
Singles: 7 (3 titles, 4 runner-ups)
Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Record against top 10 players
JM Cerúndolo's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface. Only
ATP Tour
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main draw matches are considered:
References
External links
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2001 births
Living people
Argentine male tennis players
Tennis players from Buenos Aires
21st-century Argentine sportsmen