Chris Guccione

Chris Guccione
Chris Guccione at the 2016 French Open
Nickname:	Gucc
Nation:	Australia
Birthday:	July 30, 1985
Size:	201 cm
Weight:	92 kg
1st professional season:	2003
Resignation:	2017
Playing hand:	Left
Prize money:	$ 1,654,903
singles
Career record:	45:65
Highest ranking:	67 (April 7, 2008)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	116: 107
Career title:	5
Highest ranking:	38 (November 3, 2014)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Christopher "Chris" Luke Guccione (born July 30, 1985 in Melbourne ) is a former Australian tennis player .

Career

In 2004 he defeated the then number one on the ATP Tour , Juan Carlos Ferrero, at Medibank International . In a qualifying game at the 2005 Wimbledon Championships , he hit 50 aces. In his career he has won four tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour in singles and 19 more in doubles. In 2007 he reached the final in Adelaide , but lost in three sets against Novak Đoković .

In July 2010 he won his first title on the ATP World Tour in Newport . He defeated Santiago González and Travis Rettenmaier in doubles with his partner Carsten Ball in the final . In 2014, he won another title each in Newport and Bogotá with Lleyton Hewitt and Samuel Groth within a week . In September and October 2014 he reached two more finals with Samuel Groth. In 2015 he won his fourth title with André Sá and reached another final with him. He played his last professional match at the Australian Open 2017 .

He is the son of Italian father Santo and Australian mother Diane.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP World Tour 500 ATP World Tour 250 (5) ATP Challenger Tour (27)

Title after covering Hard Court (1) Sand (0) Grass (4) Carpet (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 13, 2005	Burnie	Hard court	Goichi Motomura	6: 3, 7: 5
2.	April 10, 2005	Canberra	sand	Lars Uebel	7: 5, 6: 1
3.	October 8, 2006	Quito	sand	Guillermo Cañas	6: 3, 7: 6 4
4th	October 15, 2006	Medellin	sand	Santiago Giraldo	7: 6 4 , 7: 6 4
5.	July 19, 2009	Aptos	Hard court	Nick Lindahl	6: 3, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 1, 2007	Adelaide	Hard court	Novak Đoković	3: 6, 7: 6 6 , 4: 6
2.	January 12, 2008	Sydney	Hard court	Dmitri Tursunov	6: 7 3 , 6: 7 4

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 11, 2010	Newport (1)	race	Carsten Ball	Santiago González Travis Rettenmaier	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	July 13, 2014	Newport (2)	race	Lleyton Hewitt	Jonathan Erlich Rajeev Ram	7: 5, 6: 4
3.	20th July 2014	Bogotá	Hard court	Samuel Groth	Nicolás Barrientos Juan Sebastián Cabal	7: 6 5 , 6: 7 3 , [11: 9]
4th	June 27, 2015	Nottingham	race	André Sá	Pablo Cuevas David Marrero	6: 2, 7: 5
5.	July 16, 2016	Newport (3)	race	Samuel Groth	Jonathan Marray Adil Shamasdin	6: 4, 6: 3

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 13, 2005	Burnie	Hard court	Luke Bourgeois	Alexander Hartman Scott Lipsky	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	April 10, 2005	Canberra	sand	Richard Fromberg	Werner Eschauer Vasilis Mazarakis	6: 1, 6: 2
3.	August 6, 2006	Segovia	Hard court	Paul Baccanello	Johan Landsberg Filip Prpic	6: 3, 7: 6 2
4th	April 19, 2009	Johannesburg	Hard court	George Bastl	Mikhail Yelgin Alexander Kudryavzew	6: 2, 4: 6, [11: 9]
5.	May 9, 2009	Ramat Hasharon	Hard court	George Bastl	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	7: 5, 7: 6 6
6th	July 19, 2009	Aptos (1)	Hard court	Carsten Ball	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6: 3, 6: 2
7th	July 18, 2010	Aptos (2)	Hard court	Carsten Ball	Adam Feeney Greg Jones	6: 1, 6: 3
8th.	July 17, 2011	Aptos (3)	Hard court	Carsten Ball	John Paul Fruttero Raven Klaasen	7: 6 5 , 6: 4
9.	October 9, 2011	Sacramento	Hard court	Carsten Ball	Nicholas Monroe Jack Sock	7: 6 3 , 1: 6, [10: 5]
10.	October 16, 2011	Tiburon (1)	Hard court	Carsten Ball	Steve Johnson Sam Querrey	6: 1, 5: 7, [10: 6]
11.	October 14, 2012	Tiburon (2)	Hard court	Rik De Voest	Jordan Kerr Andreas Siljeström	6: 1, 6: 4
12.	April 13, 2013	Leon (1)	Hard court	Matt Reid	Purav Raja Divij Sharan	6: 3, 7: 5
13.	April 21, 2013	Mexico city	Hard court	Carsten Ball	Jordan Kerr John-Patrick Smith	6: 3, 3: 6, [11: 9]
14th	February 8, 2014	Dallas	Hard court (i)	Samuel Groth	Ryan Harrison Mark Knowles	6: 4, 6: 2
15th	April 6, 2014	Leon (2)	Hard court	Samuel Groth	Marcus Daniell Artem Sitak	6: 3, 6: 4
16.	April 27, 2014	Shenzhen	Hard court	Samuel Groth	Dominik Meffert Tim Pütz	6: 3, 7: 6 5
17th	May 4, 2014	Taipei	Carpet (i)	Samuel Groth	Austin Krajicek John-Patrick Smith	6: 4, 5: 7, [10: 8]
18th	May 11, 2014	Gimcheon	Hard court	Samuel Groth	Austin Krajicek John-Patrick Smith	6: 7 5 , 7: 5, [10: 4]
19th	June 8, 2014	Nottingham	race	Rajeev Ram	Colin Fleming André Sá	6: 7 2 , 6: 2, [11: 9]
20th	March 22, 2015	Drummondville	Hard court (i)	Philip Bester	Frank Dancevic Frank Moser	6: 4, 7: 6 6
21st	June 7, 2015	Manchester	race	André Sá	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	without a fight
22nd	August 16, 2015	Aptos (4)	Hard court	Artem Sitak	Yuki Bhambri Matthew Ebden	6: 4, 7: 6 2

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 6, 2008	Adelaide	Hard court	Robert Smeets	Martín García Marcelo Melo	3: 6, 6: 3, [7:10]
2.	September 28, 2014	Shenzhen (1)	Hard court	Samuel Groth	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	4: 6, 6: 7 4
3.	19th October 2014	Moscow	Hard court (i)	Samuel Groth	František Čermák Jiří Veselý	6: 7 2 , 5: 7
4th	4th October 2015	Shenzhen (2)	Hard court	André Sá	Jonathan Erlich Colin Fleming	1: 6, 7: 6 3 , [6:10]
5.	January 10, 2016	Brisbane	Hard court	James Duckworth	Henri Kontinen John Peers	6: 7 4 , 1: 6
6th	April 25, 2016	Bucharest	sand	André Sá	Florin Mergea Horia Tecau	5: 7, 4: 6
7th	19th June 2016	Queen's Club	race	André Sá	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	3: 6, 6: 7 5

Web links

Commons : Chris Guccione  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Chris Guccione (English)
• ITF profile Chris Guccione (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Chris Guccione (English)