Until 2009: First successes in future and challenger tournaments
Marinko Matosevic emigrated to Australia with his parents as a child, and has been training at the Melbourne Tennis Academy since 1998 .
In 2003 he took part in the Australian future tournaments for the first time, but it was not until November 2004 that he was able to win his first main round match and was thus included in the tennis world rankings for the first time . In September 2007, Matosevic reached a futures final in Indonesia for the first time, and in May 2008 he won his first two titles in two consecutive futures tournaments in Mexico. As a result, he entered the top 500 in the world rankings for the first time and was able to work his way up to 294th place by the end of the year due to further successes at future level (two more titles and two finals).
In early 2009, Marinko Matosevic tried for the first time at the Australian Open to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament, but he was eliminated in the first round against Giovanni Lapentti . In February 2009 he won another Future title and was able to reach the final of a Challenger tournament for the first time in his hometown of Melbourne the following week . However, he lost this against the then 16-year-old Bernard Tomic . From now on he played mainly Challenger tournaments and was able to reach three more semifinals in the further course of the year. He was not able to qualify for ATP or Grand Slam tournaments this year, but he improved by over 100 places in the world rankings, and was meanwhile at his best rank of 159.
2010–2011: Grand Slam debut and Challenger title
In January 2010, Marinko Matosevic qualified for an ATP tournament for the first time in Sydney . He was eliminated in the first main round against Andreas Seppi . For the Australian Open 2010 he got a wildcard . He lost in four tight sets against Marco Chiudinelli in his Grand Slam debut . In March 2010, Matosevic qualified for the main draw at the Indian Wells Masters tournament , where he won his first ATP match against the top 100 player Michaël Llodra . In the second round he had no chance against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga . In June 2010 he was in Ojai for the second time in the finals of a Challenger tournament, but lost there to Bobby Reynolds . A month later he was finally able to win his first Challenger title in Aptos , after defeating Rajeev Ram , who was seeded in 1st position, in the first round and finally, Donald Young, who was seeded in 3rd position, in the final . It was not to be the last encounter with Young: In the course of 2010, the two met a total of four times, and all four encounters Matosevic won. So also in October 2010 at the Challenger tournament in Calabasas , where Matosevic won in the semifinals against Young and then prevailed in the final against Ryan Sweeting and thus won his second title. A week earlier, Matosevic had given two match points in the semifinals of the Challenger tournament in Tiburon against top 100 player Tobias Kamke and finally lost the match. At the end of his best season so far, Marinko Matosevic, who had worked his way up to 138th place in the world rankings, won a wildcard for the Australian Open 2011 by beating Peter Luczak in the Australian Open Wildcard Playoffs .
At the beginning of 2011, Marinko Matosevic got a wildcard for the ATP tournament in Brisbane , but he had no chance in the first round against the later finalist Andy Roddick . Also at the Australian Open, Matosevic was eliminated in the first round against Ričardas Berankis . In February 2011, Matosevic defeated the top 100 player Igor Kunizyn in Delray Beach in the final qualifying round , but then lost to Dudi Sela in the first main round . He then achieved his best position to date in the world rankings with 131st place. Later in the year, Marinko Matosevic managed to qualify for the main draw at four other ATP tournaments. He was able to reach the second round in Atlanta through another victory over Kunitsyn and in Washington through a revenge over Berankis. Another success was the first qualification for the Grand Slam tournament in Wimbledon , where Matosevic, however, was eliminated in the first round in four sets against Juan Ignacio Chela, who was 25th . In July 2011, he was against China his debut for the Australian Davis Cup team , but lost his single in five sets against the much worse-placed Wu Di . At the US Open , for which Matosevic received a wildcard, he met Chela again in the first round, but had to give up the match after less than half an hour of play due to an ankle injury. Since he did not get past the quarter-finals at Challenger level this year, Matosevic fell out of the top 200 in the world rankings at the end of the year, despite his success on the ATP Tour.
2012: First ATP final and entry into the top 100
The year 2012 began for Marinko Matosevic with four first round defeats, including in Brisbane and at the Australian Open . In February 2012 he was able to win his third Challenger title in Caloundra by a smooth final victory over Greg Jones . Three weeks later, Matosevic qualified for the main draw at the ATP tournament in Delray Beach without losing a set. There he defeated the top 50 players Ivo Karlović and Alex Bogomolov junior one after the other and thus reached an ATP quarter-finals for the first time. After further victories over Ernests Gulbis and Dudi Sela , against each of which he made up a 0-1 set deficit, Matosevic was surprisingly in his first ATP final. Even though he was defeated there in two sets against Kevin Anderson after winning twelve matches in a row , this was the greatest success of his career so far. After qualifying for another ATP quarter-finals in Munich in early May 2012 , Matosevic won his second Challenger title of the year a week later in Athens by defeating Ruben Bemelmans . As a result, he moved into the top 100 in the world rankings for the first time in his career. After he failed in qualifying at the French Open in early June 2012 , Matosevic reached the quarter-finals at the grass tournament in Eastbourne as a qualifier, defeating among others the top 20 player Richard Gasquet, who was in first place .
Since 2013: career record and end
The Australian announced in November 2018 that he wanted to end his career after not playing since February 2018 due to injuries.
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Australia
Aptos
Athens
Ruben Bemelmans
Kevin Anderson
