Matteo Arnaldi

Matteo Arnaldi (born 22 February 2001) is an Italian professional tennis player. He won the Davis Cup in 2023 with Italy. Arnaldi has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 41, achieved on 30 October 2023, and a career high doubles ranking of world No. 286, achieved on 8 August 2022.

Career

2022: ATP and Masters debuts, Maiden Challenger title

Arnaldi made his ATP main draw debut at the 2022 Rome Masters after receiving a wildcard into the singles and doubles main draws. He received these wildcards by winning the pre-qualification wildcard tournaments in both singles and doubles. He won his maiden Challenger title at the 2022 Internazionali di Tennis d'Abruzzo as a wildcard defeating Francesco Maestrelli.

Following Holger Rune's withdrawal to be first alternate at the 2022 ATP Finals, Arnaldi gained entry to participate in the 2022 Next Generation ATP Finals.

2023: Major & top 100 debuts, Maiden Major & Masters & top 10 wins, first ATP semi-final, top 50

Following his third Challenger win at the 2023 Murcia Open, he reached a career-high ranking of No. 102 on 10 April 2023.

Ranked No. 105, he qualified for the ATP 500 2023 Barcelona Open and won his first round match against Jaume Munar.

Next he qualified for the 2023 Madrid Open for his first Masters of the season and only the second overall and won his first Masters 1000 match over fellow qualifier Benoit Paire. Next, he upset world No. 4 and third seed Casper Ruud in straight sets for his first career top-10 win, to reach the third round of a Masters for the first time. As a result he made his debut into the top 100 at No. 99 in the rankings on 8 May 2023.

He received a wildcard for the main draw at the Italian Open, where he defeated Diego Schwartzman in the first round.

On his Grand Slam debut he qualified for the 2023 French Open and recorded his first win against Daniel Elahi Galán. As a result, he reached a new career high ranking of No. 72 on 12 June 2023.
He also made his debut at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships.

In Umag, Arnaldi beat qualifier Jesper de Jong, qualifier Flavio Cobolli and top seed Jiří Lehečka to reach his first ATP semi-final, only losing to the eventual champion Alexei Popyrin in more than three hours of play.

In Toronto, Arnaldi qualified and recorded his first ever Masters 1000 win on hard courts beating local wildcard Vasek Pospisil in the first round, then fell to World No. 3 Daniil Medvedev in the second. As a result, he reached a new career-high ranking of No. 61 on 14 August 2023. He reached the top 50 at No. 47 on 11 September 2023, following a fourth round showing at the US Open with a win over Arthur Fils in five sets and an upset over 16th seed Cameron Norrie in the third round.

At the start of his first Asian swing he qualified for the ATP 500 2023 China Open (tennis) and reached the second round defeating fellow qualifier JJ Wolf. At the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters he defeated Alexei Popyrin and upset 21st seed Jan-Lennard Struff to reach the third round.https://www.atptour.com/en/news/medvedev-garin-tsitsipas-hijikata-shanghai-2023-saturday

Singles performance timeline

''Current through 2023 Rolex Paris Masters.''

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles 10 (6–4)

Doubles 2 (1–1)

Record against top 10 players

Arnaldi'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 and Davis Cup matches are considered:

Wins over top 10 players

*He has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

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References

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2001 births
Living people
Italian male tennis players
People from Sanremo
Sportspeople from the Province of Imperia
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis
21st-century Italian people

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