Marcos Daniel

Marcos Daniel

Country (sports)	Brazil
Residence	Passo Fundo, Brazil
Born	July 4, 1978 Passo Fundo, Brazil
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	1997
Retired	2011
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$1,114,707
Singles
Career record	24–66 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 56 (September 14, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 202 (September 19, 2011)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2003, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011)
French Open	2R (2008)
Wimbledon	1R (2006, 2008, 2010)
US Open	1R (2006, 2008)
Doubles
Career record	14–32 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 102 (December 5, 2005)
Last updated on: August 9, 2010.

Marcos Diniz Daniel (born July 4, 1978 in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul) is a retired professional tennis player from Brazil who turned professional in 1997. The right-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 56 in September 2009. He is coached by his brother, Márcio.

Tennis career

Marcos Daniel's brother owns an academy for developing young tennis players, called Daniel Tennis Center where Marcos Daniel used to work as a ball catcher. He started playing youth tournaments at age 5. When he was 12, representing this academy, he reached his first final but he did not succeed in winning the title.^[1]

In August 2009, he reached the semi-finals of the ATP Gstaad tournament. He also reached the semi-finals there in 2006.

He qualified for the 2009 French Open and lost in the first round to Rafael Nadal after giving a strong performance, 5–7, 4–6, 3–6.

Titles (21)

Singles (14)

Legend (Singles) Grand Slam (0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0) ATP World Tour 500 (0) ATP World Tour 250 (0) ATP Challenger Tour (14)

Titles by Surface Hard (1) Grass (0) Clay (13) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	September 2, 2003	Gramado, Brazil	Hard	José de Armas	7–5, 7–5
2.	July 18, 2005	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Jean-Julien Rojer	6–4, 6–4
3.	October 17, 2005	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Daniel Köllerer	6–2, 6–3
4.	November 7, 2005	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Flávio Saretta	6–2, 1–6, 6–0
5.	October 15, 2007	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Santiago Giraldo	7–6(3), 6–4
6.	March 3, 2008	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Iván Navarro	6–3, 1–6, 6–3
7.	September 15, 2008	Cali, Colombia	Clay	Leonardo Mayer	6–2 retired
8.	September 22, 2008	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Horacio Zeballos	6–4, 4–6, 6–4
9.	March 22, 2009	Marrakech, Morocco	Clay	Lamine Ouahab	4–6, 7–5, 6–2
10.	May 17, 2009	Zagreb, Croatia	Clay	Olivier Rochus	6–3, 6–4
11.	July 19, 2009	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Horacio Zeballos	4–6, 7–6(5), 6–4
12.	April 18, 2010	Blumenau, Brazil	Clay	Bastian Knittel	7-5, 6-7(5), 6-4
13.	October 30, 2010	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Thomaz Bellucci	6–1, 3–6, 6–3
14.	November 7, 2010	Medelín, Colombia	Clay	Juan Sebastián Cabal	6–3, 7–5

Doubles (7)

Legend (Singles) Grand Slam (0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0) ATP World Tour 500 (0) ATP World Tour 250 (0) ATP Challenger Tour (7)

Titles by Surface Hard (3) Grass (0) Clay (4) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	July 28, 2003	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Hard	Alexandre Simoni	Kentaro Masuda Takahiro Terachi	6–4, 6–2
2.	September 2, 2003	Gramado, Brazil	Hard	Alexandre Simoni	Santiago González Alejandro Hernández	7–6(5), 6–4
3.	August 9, 2004	Manta, Ecuador	Hard	Santiago González	Eric Nunez Jimy Szymanski	3–6, 6–2, 7–6(5)
4.	April 18, 2005	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Santiago González	Goran Dragicevic Mirko Pehar	7–6(4), 6–3
5.	September 12, 2005	Sevilla, Spain	Clay	Fernando Vicente	Flavio Cipolla Alessandro Motti	6–2, 6–7(1), 7–5
6.	October 17, 2005	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Santiago González	Frederico Gil Marcelo Melo	6–2, 7–5
7.	October 8, 2007	Quito, Ecuador	Clay	Brian Dabul	Hugo Armando Ricardo Mello	4–6, 7–5, [10–7]

Runners-up (14)

Singles (7)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (7)

Finals by Surface Hard (1) Grass (0) Clay (6) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	October 8, 2001	Lima, Peru	Clay	Juan Ignacio Chela	6–2, 1–0 retired
2.	September 12, 2005	Sevilla, Spain	Clay	Marco Mirnegg	6–3, 3–0 retired
3.	October 10, 2005	Quito, Ecuador	Clay	Thiago Alves	1–6, 7–6(1), 6–2
4.	March 5, 2007	Salinas, Ecuador	Hard	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	6–4, 6–4
5.	November 12, 2007	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Sergio Roitman	6–1, 6–4
6.	November 19, 2007	Lima, Peru	Clay	Pablo Cuevas	0–6, 6–4, 6–3
7.	March 31, 2008	Napoli, Italy	Clay	Potito Starace	6–4, 4–6, 7–6(3)

Doubles (7)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (7)

Finals by Surface Hard (2) Grass (0) Clay (5) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	September 24, 2001	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Ricardo Mello	Adriano Ferreira Edgardo Massa	Walkover
2.	June 24, 2002	Eisenach, Germany	Clay	Adrián García	Edwin Kempes Martin Verkerk	6–3, 6–4
3.	July 26, 2004	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Hard	Iván Miranda	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6–2, 7–5
4.	January 3, 2005	São Paulo, Brazil	Hard	Tomas Behrend	André Sá Bruno Soares	6–2, 6–2
5.	January 17, 2005	La Serena, Chile	Clay	Tomas Behrend	Enzo Artoni Ramón Delgado	7–6(2), 6–4
6.	April 4, 2005	Mexico City, Mexico	Clay	Flávio Saretta	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Šnobel	5–7, 6–4, 6–3
7.	July 18, 2005	Bogotá, Colombia	Clay	Santiago González	Brian Dabul Marcelo Melo	6–4, 6–4

References

1. CBT news

External links

• Marcos Daniel at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Daniel Recent Match Results
• Daniel World Ranking History
• Daniel Tennis Center site