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Marc-Andrea Hüsler (born 24 June 1996) is a
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player. He has a career-high
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singles ranking of world No. 51, achieved on 16 January 2023. In doubles, he achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 132 on 25 October 2021. He is currently the No. 1 Swiss player.


Tennis career


2017: ATP debut and first ATP win in doubles

Hüsler made his ATP main-draw doubles debut at the Swiss Indoors tournament, where he partnered former world No 1.
Nenad Zimonjić Nenad Zimonjić ( sr-Cyrl, Ненад Зимоњић, ; born 4 June 1976) is a Serbian former professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles. He is an eight-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2008 and 2009 Wimbledon Cha ...
, having received a wildcard into the tournament. The pair defeated
Adrian Mannarino Adrian Mannarino (born 29 June 1988) is a French professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 22, attained on 19 March 2018. He won his first ATP Tour singles title at the 2019 Rosmalen Open on grass. He is c ...
and
Benoît Paire Benoît Paire (; born 8 May 1989) is a French professional tennis player. His best result in a Grand Slam has been reaching the fourth round, which he has achieved on four occasions. He has won three singles titles, at the 2015 Swedish Open, t ...
to give Hüsler a win in his first tour level match, before losing in the quarterfinals to
Marcus Daniell Marcus Daniell (born 9 November 1989) is a New Zealand professional tennis player. He reached his career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 34 on 29 January 2018 after reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. He won a bronze medal ...
and
Dominic Inglot Dominic Inglot ( ; born 6 March 1986) is a British former professional tennis player and a Davis Cup champion. A doubles specialist; he made the final of twenty seven ATP World Tour events, winning fourteen, including the Citi Open and Swiss In ...
.


2018: First Challenger doubles title, ATP singles debut and first win

Hüsler claimed his first
ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour, known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series, is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. The Challenger Tour events are the second-highest tier of tennis competition, behind the ATP ...
doubles title in his first final, partnering
Sem Verbeek Sem Verbeek (born 12 April 1994) is a Dutch tennis player. Verbeek has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 104 achieved on 1 November 2021. He has a career high singles ranking of World No. 531 achieved on 15 April 2019. Professiona ...
at the Winnipeg Challenger. Just over a week later, Hüsler made his ATP main draw singles debut at the
Swiss Open Gstaad The Swiss Open Gstaad (currently sponsored by EFG International and called the EFG Swiss Open Gstaad) is a tennis tournament held in Gstaad, Switzerland. The tournament is played on outdoor clay courts. Between 1971 and 1989 it was an event of t ...
, where he recorded his first ATP win defeating former top-10 player
Nicolás Almagro Nicolás Almagro Sánchez (; born 21 August 1985 in Murcia, Spain) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He reached the quarterfinals of the French Open in 2008, 2010 and 2012 (losing each time to Rafael Nadal, the eventual ch ...
in a third-set tiebreaker in the first round, before losing to
Facundo Bagnis Facundo Bagnis (; born 27 February 1990) is an Argentine professional tennis player. He has won 1 ATP doubles event at Stuttgart and 16 Challengers in singles, achieving a career-high singles ranking of World No. 55 in November 2016. Tennis care ...
in the second round. Hüsler received a wildcard into the doubles draw for the Swiss Indoors for the second consecutive year, this time with Verbeek as his partner. The pair upset Michael Venus and
Raven Klaasen Raven Klaasen ( ; born 16 October 1982) is a South African professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He achieved his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 7 in August 2019, and has won 19 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, includi ...
, the top seeds for the tournament and world No. 7 doubles partnership in the 2018 Doubles Team Race Rankings in the first round.


2019: First Challenger singles title & Top 300 debut

On April 21, 2019, Hüsler won his first Challenger title at the 2019 San Luis Open Challenger Tour by beating Adrian Menendez-Maceiras 7–5-7–6 in the final. As a result, he moved 70 positions up into the top 300 on 22 April at world No. 281 in singles.


2020: Two Challengers titles, First ATP semifinal & Top 150 debut

Hüsler reached the semifinals of the
Austrian Open Kitzbühel The Austrian Open Kitzbühel (formally known as the Generali Open Kitzbühel) and originally known as the Austrian International Championships from (1894–1968) is an annual tennis tournament held in Kitzbühel, Austria. The event was part of t ...
, where he beat world No. 12
Fabio Fognini Fabio Fognini (; born 24 May 1987) is an Italian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ranking of world No. 9 achieved on 15 July 2019. He is currently ranked (July 2022) in 64th place by the Association of Tennis Professionals (AT ...
in the second round. As a result, he reached the top 150 at world No. 149 on 9 November 2020.


2021: Maiden ATP doubles title

He won his maiden ATP doubles title at the 2021 Swiss Open Gstaad, partnering Dominic Stricker, defeating Polish pair
Szymon Walków Szymon Walków (; born 22 September 1995) is a Polish tennis player who specialises in doubles. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 818 achieved on 3 December 2018. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 86 achie ...
and Jan Zielinski. In September, partnering also with Stricker, he reached the final of the 2021 Challenger Biel/Bienne, Switzerland but withdrew. As a result, he reached a month later a new career-high doubles ranking of World No. 132 on 25 October 2021. He also reached the final in singles, where he lost to
Liam Broady Liam Tarquin Broady (born 4 January 1994) is a tennis player and current British No. 6. In 2010, he won the Boys' Doubles at Wimbledon with Tom Farquharson, and the Boys' Doubles at the Australian Open with Joshua Ward-Hibbert, as well as rea ...
but climbed to No. 155 on 18 October 2021. He finished the year ranked No. 188 in singles.


2022: Major & Masters & top 60 debut, Swiss No. 1, Maiden ATP singles title

In April he won two more Challenger titles in Mexico. As a result, he reached a career-high ranking of No. 121 on 9 May 2022. In June, at the 2022 Halle Open he qualified for his first ATP 500 tournament but lost to Mackenzie McDonald. Hüsler made his Grand Slam debut after qualifying for Wimbledon, where he lost to lucky loser Hugo Grenier, who was also making his debut, in the first round in five sets. At the
2022 Swedish Open The 2022 Swedish Open, also known as Nordea Open, for sponsorship reasons, was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts as part of the ATP Tour 250 Series of the 2022 ATP Tour and as part of the WTA 125 tournaments. It took ...
he defeated seventh seed
Holger Rune Holger Vitus Nødskov Rune (; born 29 April 2003) is a Danish professional tennis player. He was ranked as high as No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 7 November 2022 making him the highes ...
in the first round before losing to Laslo Djere. As a result, he reached the top 100 at World No. 99 on 18 July 2022. He became the Swiss No. 1 player until 8 August 2022. At the 2022 Winston-Salem Open he reached only his second career quarterfinal as a qualifier after getting a second round bye after seventh seed Sebastian Baez withdrew, defeating previous year finalist and wildcard
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and defending champion and eleventh seed
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. Next, he reached the semifinals for the second time ever in his career defeating thirteenth seed Jack Draper in straight sets. He was only the fourth qualifier to reach the tournament semifinals ever. As a result, he reached a new career high ranking of No. 85 becoming again the Swiss No. 1 player on 29 August 2022. At the 2022 Sofia Open he reached his first ATP final with a win over fourth seed
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. He defeated again fifth seed Holger Rune to win his maiden ATP title. As a result, he climbed 31 spots to a new career-high of No. 64 in the rankings on 3 October 2022. He made his Masters 1000 debut at the 2022 Rolex Paris Masters after defeating
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and Laslo Djere in qualifying. On his debut, he defeated 11th seed
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in his first round match. He lost to
Karen Khachanov Karen Abgarovich Khachanov (russian: Каре́н Абга́рович Хача́нов; born 21 May 1996) is a Russian professional tennis player. Khachanov has won four ATP Tour singles titles, including a Masters 1000 title at the 2018 Paris ...
in the second round. As a result he reached a career-high ranking of world No. 58 on 7 November 2022.


Davis Cup

Hüsler made his Davis Cup debut for Switzerland in the
2018 Davis Cup World Group The World Group is the highest level of Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countr ...
tie with Kazakhstan, where he partnered
Luca Margaroli Luca Margaroli (born 15 February 1992) is a Swiss tennis player. Margaroli has a career high ATP singles ranking of 692, achieved on 23 October 2017. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of 128 achieved on 6 June 2019. Margaroli made ...
in the doubles. The pair were defeated, coming back from two sets to love down, but losing the fifth set to
Timur Khabibulin Timur Khabibulin ( tt-Cyrl, Тимур Хәбибуллин, translit=Timur Xäbibullin, born 2 August 1995) is an Uzbekistani–Kazakhstani tennis player of Tatar descent. Khabibulin has a career high ATP singles ranking of 753 achieved on 9 Ma ...
and Aleksandr Nedovyesov. Hüsler made his singles debut in the following rubber, which by this point was dead as Switzerland were already 3–0 down. Hüsler won in straight sets over
Roman Khassanov Roman Rashitovich Khassanov (russian: Роман Рашитович Хасанов; born 7 September 1996) is a Kazakhstani tennis player. Khassanov has a career high ATP singles ranking of 671 achieved on 7 May 2018. He also has a career high A ...
, salvaging the only point for Switzerland in the tie. He opened up Switzerland's World Group Play-off tie against Sweden, losing from two sets to love up against
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, as Switzerland were relegated from the World Group.


Singles performance timeline

''Current through the
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.''


ATP career finals


Singles: 1 (1 title)


Doubles: 1 (1 title)


ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals


Singles: 9 (7–2)


Doubles: 22 (11–11)


Record against top 10 players

Hüsler's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface. Only ATP Tour main draw matches are considered:


References


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