Marcelo Melo

Marcelo Melo
Marcelo Melo 2014 in Madrid
Nickname:	Girafa
Nation:	Brazil
Birthday:	September 23, 1983
Size:	203 cm
Weight:	87 kg
1st professional season:	1998
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Daniel Melo
Prize money:	$ 5,511,854
singles
Career record:	1-0
Highest ranking:	273 (November 21, 2005)
Double
Career record:	455: 273
Career title:	32
Highest ranking:	1 (November 2, 2015)
Current placement:	4th
Weeks as No. 1:	56
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: July 2nd, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Marcelo Pinheiro Davi de Melo (born September 23, 1983 in Belo Horizonte ) is a Brazilian tennis player .

Career

The double specialist began his professional career in 1998. After a positive doping test for Isomethepten at the ATP Queen's Club in 2007, Melo had to serve a two-month ban. The ITF justified the comparatively short ban with the fact that Melo did not take the drug with the intention of increasing performance. In 2009 he reached the final of the mixed competition of the French Open together with Vania King . He was the seventh Brazilian in the final of a Grand Slam tournament . In 2013 he was in the final of the doubles competition at Wimbledon . In 2015 he won his first Grand Slam title in Paris alongside Ivan Dodig .

He achieved his best world ranking in singles in November 2005 with rank 273. In doubles he led the world rankings for 19 weeks from November 2, 2015 and took over the lead again on May 9, 2016. With his tournament victory at Wimbledon 2017 with Łukasz Kubot , he took over the top of the world rankings again for five weeks, also on November 6, 2017 after winning the Paris Masters .

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (2) ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (9) ATP World Tour 500 (7) ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 (15) ATP Challenger Tour (11)

Title after covering Hard Court (20) Sand (9) Grass (4) Carpet (0)

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 6, 2007	Estoril	sand	André Sá	Martín García Sebastián Prieto	3: 6, 6: 2, [10: 6]
2.	January 6, 2008	Adelaide	Hard court	Martín García	Chris Guccione Robert Smeets	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 7]
3.	February 17, 2008	Costa do Sauípe (1)	sand	André Sá	Albert Montañés Santiago Ventura	4: 6, 6: 2, [10: 7]
4th	May 24, 2008	Pörtschach	sand	André Sá	Julian Knowle Jürgen Melzer	7: 5, 6: 7 3 , [13:11]
5.	August 23, 2008	New Haven	Hard court	André Sá	Mahesh Bhupathi Mark Knowles	7: 5, 6: 2
6th	May 24, 2009	Kitzbühel	sand	André Sá	Andrei Pavel Horia Tecau	6: 7 9 , 6: 2, [10: 7]
7th	May 22, 2010	Nice	sand	Bruno Soares	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	1: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
8th.	February 6, 2011	Santiago de Chile	sand	Bruno Soares	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	6: 3, 7: 6 3
9.	February 12, 2011	Costa do Sauípe (2)	sand	Bruno Soares	Pablo Andújar Daniel Gimeno Traver	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
10.	October 21, 2012	Stockholm	Hard court (i)	Bruno Soares	Robert Lindstedt Nenad Zimonjić	6: 7 4 , 7: 5, [10: 6]
11.	January 6, 2013	Brisbane	Hard court	Tommy Robredo	Eric Butorac Paul Hanley	4: 6, 6: 1, [10: 5]
12.	October 12, 2013	Shanghai (1)	Hard court	Ivan Dodig	David Marrero Fernando Verdasco	7: 6 2 , 6: 7 6 , [10: 2]
13.	January 11, 2014	Auckland	Hard court	Julian Knowle	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	4: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
14th	March 1, 2015	Acapulco (1)	Hard court	Ivan Dodig	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Santiago González	7: 6 2 , 5: 7, [10: 3]
15th	June 6, 2015	French Open	sand	Ivan Dodig	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 7 5 , 7: 6 5 , 7: 5
16.	October 11, 2015	Tokyo	Hard court	Raven Klaasen	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	7: 6 5 , 3: 6, [10: 7]
17th	October 18, 2015	Shanghai (2)	Hard court	Raven Klaasen	Simone Bolelli Fabio Fognini	6: 3, 6: 3
18th	October 25, 2015	Vienna (1)	Hard court (i)	Łukasz Kubot	Jamie Murray John Peers	4: 6, 7: 6 3 , [10: 6]
19th	November 8, 2015	Paris (1)	Hard court (i)	Ivan Dodig	Vasek Pospisil Jack Sock	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 5]
20th	July 31, 2016	Toronto	Hard court	Ivan Dodig	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	6: 4, 6: 4
21st	August 21, 2016	Cincinnati	Hard court	Ivan Dodig	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	7: 6 5 , 6: 7 5 , [10: 6]
22nd	October 30, 2016	Vienna (2)	Hard court (i)	Łukasz Kubot	Oliver Marach Fabrice Martin	4: 6, 6: 3, [13:11]
23.	April 1, 2017	Miami	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Nicholas Monroe Jack Sock	7: 5, 6: 3
24.	May 14, 2017	Madrid	sand	Łukasz Kubot	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin	7: 5, 6: 3
25th	17th June 2017	's-Hertogenbosch	race	Łukasz Kubot	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	6: 3, 6: 4
26th	June 25, 2017	Hall (1)	race	Łukasz Kubot	Alexander Zverev Mischa Zverev	5: 7, 6: 3, [10: 8]
27.	15th July 2017	Wimbledon	race	Łukasz Kubot	Oliver Marach Mate Pavic	5: 7, 7: 5, 7: 6 2 , 3: 6, 13:11
28.	5th November 2017	Paris (2)	Hard court (i)	Łukasz Kubot	Ivan Dodig Marcel Granollers	7: 6 3 , 3: 6, [10: 6]
29	January 12, 2018	Sydney	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Jan-Lennard Struff Viktor Troicki	6: 3, 6: 4
30th	June 24, 2018	Hall (2)	race	Łukasz Kubot	Alexander Zverev Mischa Zverev	7: 6 1 , 6: 4
31.	October 7, 2018	Beijing	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Oliver Marach Mate Pavic	6: 1, 6: 4
32.	October 14, 2018	Shanghai (3)	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	6: 4, 6: 2
33.	23 August 2019	Winston-Salem	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Nicholas Monroe Tennys Sandgren	6: 7 6 , 6: 1, [10: 3]
34.	February 29, 2020	Acapulco (2)	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	7: 6 6 , 6: 7 4 , [11: 9]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 4, 2002	Belo Horizonte (1)	Hard court	Daniel Melo	Denis Golowanow Michael Joyce	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	July 24, 2005	Bogotá	sand	Brian Dabul	Marcos Daniel Santiago González	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	July 29, 2006	Campos do Jordão	Hard court	André Sá	Jacob Adaktusson Leonardo Mayer	7: 6 1 , 7: 5
4th	August 6, 2006	Belo Horizonte (2)	Hard court	André Sá	Jean-Julien Rojer Márcio Torres	6: 1, 6: 4
5.	October 8, 2006	Quito	sand	Rogério Dutra da Silva	Pablo Cuevas Horacio Zeballos	6: 3, 6: 4
6th	October 15, 2006	Medellin	sand	André Ghem	Pablo Cuevas Horacio Zeballos	without a fight
7th	October 22, 2006	Bogotá	sand	André Sá	Eric Nunez Jean-Julien Rojer	6: 4, 7: 6 5
8th.	April 1, 2007	Mexico city	sand	Horacio Zeballos	Ramón Delgado André Sá	6: 4, 6: 2
9.	April 7, 2007	San Luis Potosí	sand	Jérémy Chardy	Jorge Aguilar Pablo González	6: 0, 6: 3
10.	April 22, 2007	Bermuda	sand	André Sá	Benedikt Dorsch Serhij Stachowskyj	6: 2, 6: 4
11.	November 18, 2007	Buenos Aires	sand	Sebastian Prieto	Brian Dabul Máximo González	6: 4, 7: 6 0

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 15, 2008	Queen's Club (1)	race	André Sá	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	4: 6, 6: 7 3
2.	March 1, 2009	Delray Beach	Hard court	André Sá	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4: 6, 4: 6
3.	June 14, 2009	Queen's Club (2)	race	André Sá	Wesley Moodie Michail Juschny	4: 6, 6: 4, [6:10]
4th	July 26, 2009	Hamburg	sand	Filip Polášek	Simon Aspelin Paul Hanley	3: 6, 3: 6
5.	January 17, 2010	Auckland	Hard court	Bruno Soares	Marcus Daniell Horia Tecau	5: 7, 4: 6
6th	August 1, 2010	Gstaad	sand	Bruno Soares	Johan Brunström Jarkko Nieminen	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , [9:11]
7th	September 26, 2010	Metz (1)	Hard court (i)	Bruno Soares	Dustin Brown Rogier Wassen	3: 6, 3: 6
8th.	February 26, 2011	Acapulco	sand	Bruno Soares	Victor Hănescu Horia Tecău	1: 6, 3: 6
9.	September 25, 2011	Metz (2)	Hard court (i)	Lukáš Dlouhý	Jamie Murray André Sá	4: 6, 6: 7 7
10.	February 26, 2012	Memphis	Hard court (i)	Ivan Dodig	Max Mirny Daniel Nestor	6: 4, 5: 7, [7:10]
11.	July 6, 2013	Wimbledon	race	Ivan Dodig	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 3, 3: 6, 4: 6, 4: 6
12.	February 23, 2014	Rio de Janeiro	sand	David Marrero	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	4: 6, 2: 6
13.	April 20, 2014	Monte Carlo	sand	Ivan Dodig	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 6: 3, [8:10]
14th	August 10, 2014	Toronto	Hard court	Ivan Dodig	Alexander Peya Bruno Soares	4: 6, 3: 6
15th	5th October 2014	Tokyo	Hard court	Ivan Dodig	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Michał Przysiężny	3: 6, 7: 6 3 , [5:10]
16.	November 16, 2014	London (1)	Hard court (i)	Ivan Dodig	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7: 6 5 , 2: 6, [7:10]
17th	August 9, 2015	Washington, DC (1)	Hard court	Ivan Dodig	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4: 6, 2: 6
18th	June 25, 2016	Nottingham	race	Ivan Dodig	Dominic Inglot Daniel Nestor	5: 7, 6: 7 4
19th	19th March 2017	Indian Wells (1)	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Raven Klaasen Rajeev Ram	7: 6 1 , 4: 6, [8:10]
20th	August 6, 2017	Washington, DC (2)	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Henri Kontinen John Peers	6: 7 5 , 4: 6
21st	15th October 2017	Shanghai (1)	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Henri Kontinen John Peers	4: 6, 2: 6
22nd	19th November 2017	London (2)	Hard court (i)	Łukasz Kubot	Henri Kontinen John Peers	4: 6, 2: 6
23.	September 7, 2018	US Open	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Mike Bryan Jack Sock	3: 6, 1: 6
24.	18th March 2019	Indian Wells (2)	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Horacio Zeballos Nikola Mektić	6: 4, 4: 6, [3:10]
25th	June 23, 2019	Hall	race	Łukasz Kubot	Raven Klaasen Michael Venus	6: 4, 3: 6, [4:10]
26th	October 13, 2019	Shanghai (2)	Hard court	Łukasz Kubot	Mate Pavić Bruno Soares	4: 6, 2: 6
27.	October 27, 2019	Vienna	Hard court (i)	Łukasz Kubot	Rajeev Ram Joe Salisbury	4: 6, 7: 6 5 , [5:10]

Mixed

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 7, 2009	French Open	sand	Vania King	Bob Bryan Liezel Huber	7: 5, 6: 7 5 , [7:10]

Web links

Commons : Marcelo Melo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Marcelo Melo (English)
• ITF profile Marcelo Melo (English)
• Davis Cup statistics Marcelo Melo (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tennis-magazin.de: Doping: Brazilian tennis professional blocked . September 25, 2007