Gianluca Mager (born 1 December 1994) is an Italian
tennis player. He has a career-high
ATP singles ranking of No. 66 achieved on 13 September 2021. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 310 achieved on 10 June 2019.
Personal Info
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 semifinal as a qualifier.[4] Mager reached his first
ATP Tour final, defeating lucky loser
Attila Balázs in the semifinals before 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.
At the
2021 Sofia Open Mager reached his fourth quarterfinal of the season at the ATP 250 level (after Delray Beach, Belgrade and Kitzbühel) defeating sixth seed
Adrian Mannarino and
Miomir Kecmanović.[5] He lost in the quarterfinals to
Gaël Monfils in straight sets 6–2, 6–2 in 50 minutes. He was aiming to reach his second tour-level semifinal and first since 2020 in Rio de Janeiro.[6][7]
Mager's match record against those 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: