Gianluca Mager (born 1 December 1994) is an Italiantennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 71 achieved on 2 August 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 310 achieved on 10 June 2019.
Born in Liguria, from a family of German origins.[1]
In 2010, Mager was disqualified for failing a doping test after smoking marijuana at a party.[2]
Professional career[]
Mager made his ATP main draw debut at the 2017 Internazionali BNL d'Italia after earning a wildcard in the pre-qualifying wildcard tournament.[3] He was defeated by Aljaž Bedene in the first round.
He got his first singles ATP main-draw win in the first round in Stockholm in October 2019 against Spaniard Pablo Andújar.
At the 2020 Rio Open in Brazil, an ATP 500 level tournament on clay courts, he beat world No. 34 Casper Ruud in the first round, and world No. 4 Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals to reach the final. Mager reached his first ATP Tour final, losing to Chilean Cristian Garín, 6–73–7, 5–7. Mager started the tournament No. 114 in the world and qualified into the main draw. After this good performance, Mager reached a singles ranking of World No. 77.
Gianluca's match record against those who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who have been No. 1 in bold (ATP World Tour, Grand Slam and Davis Cup main draw matches).