Gianluca Mager

Gianluca Mager
	Mager at the 2019 French Open
Country (sports)	Italy
Born	1 December 1994 (age 30); Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2013
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Matteo Civarolo; Flavio Cipolla
Prize money	US$1,596,525
Singles
Career record	25–35
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 62 (22 November 2021)
Current ranking	No. 230 (2 December 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2021, 2022)
French Open	2R (2021)
Wimbledon	2R (2021)
US Open	1R (2020, 2021)
Doubles
Career record	1–11
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 310 (10 June 2019)
Current ranking	No. 1025 (29 January 2024)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2021, 2022)
French Open	1R (2020)
Wimbledon	1R (2021)
US Open	1R (2021)
	Last updated on: 29 January 2024.

Gianluca Mager (born 1 December 1994) is an Italian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 62 achieved on 22 November 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, 6–7^3–7, 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]

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner–up)

Legend
Grand Slam (0–0)
ATP Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP 500 (0–1)
ATP 250 (0–0)

Titles by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)

Titles by setting
Outdoor (0–1)
Indoor (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2020	Rio Open, Brazil	500 Series	Clay	Cristian Garín	6–7^(3–7), 5–7

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 17 (10–7)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (6–1)
ITF Futures Tour (4–6)

Titles by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (9–7)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2014	Georgia F2, Telavi	Futures	Clay	Daniil Medvedev	6–3, 2–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Aug 2014	Georgia F3, Telavi	Futures	Clay	Cristóbal Saavedra Corvalán	2–4 ret.
Loss	1–2	Sep 2014	Italy F31, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Florian Fallert	1–6, 6–3, 3–6
Loss	1–3	Sep 2014	Italy F33, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Omar Giacalone	6–2, 2–6, 5–7
Loss	1–4	Nov 2014	Italy F39, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Gianluca Naso	4–6, 3–6
Loss	1–5	Aug 2015	Italy F20, Pontedera	Futures	Clay	Lorenzo Giustino	6–7^(3–7), 3–6
Win	2–5	Sep 2015	Italy F27, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Yannick Maden	7–6^(8–6), 2–6, 6–3
Win	3–5	Oct 2015	Italy F33, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Lorenzo Sonego	6–3, 6–3
Win	4–5	Jul 2017	Italy F21, Casinalbo	Futures	Clay	Andrea Collarini	4–6, 7–6^(7–0), 6–2
Loss	4–6	Apr 2018	Italy F7, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Lorenzo Giustino	4–6, 1–6
Loss	4–7	Jul 2018	Milan, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Laslo Đere	2–6, 1–6
Win	5–7	Jan 2019	Koblenz, Germany	Challenger	Hard (i)	Roberto Ortega Olmedo	2–6, 7–6^(8–6), 6–2
Win	6–7	Apr 2019	Barletta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Nikola Milojević	7–6^(9–7), 5–7, 3–2 ret.
Win	7–7	Sep 2019	Biella, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Paolo Lorenzi	6-0, 6-7^(4–7), 7-5
Win	8–7	Apr 2021	Marbella, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Jaume Munar	2–6, 6–3, 6–2
Win	9–7	Feb 2022	Las Palmas, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Roberto Carballés Baena	7–6^(8–6), 6–2
Win	10–7	Jan 2024	Punta del Este, Uruguay	Challenger	Clay	Thiago Agustín Tirante	6–7^(5–7), 6–2, 6–0

Doubles: 6 (2–4)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (1–0)
ITF Futures Tour (1–4)

Titles by surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (1–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2014	Georgia F2, Telavi	Futures	Clay	Riccardo Bonadio	Grégoire Barrère Luca Margaroli	6–7^(5–7), 6–7^(5–7)
Win	1–1	Sep 2014	Italy F31, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Federico Maccari	Marcos Giraldi Requena Gonçalo Oliveira	3–6, 6–4, [10–6]
Loss	1–2	Sep 2014	Italy F33, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Gonçalo Oliveira	Omar Giacalone Pietro Rondoni	5–7, 1–6
Loss	1–3	Mar 2015	France F7, Saint Raphaël	Futures	Hard (i)	Erik Crepaldi	Yannick Jankovits Alexandre Sidorenko	1–6, 4–6
Loss	1–4	Apr 2018	Italy F6, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Walter Trusendi	Juan Ignacio Galarza Mariano Kestelboim	6–1, 4–6, [6–10]
Win	2–4	Jan 2019	Chennai, India	Challenger	Hard	Andrea Pellegrino	Matt Reid Luke Saville	6–4, 7–6^(9–7)

Record against top 10 players

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:

Player	Record	Win %	Hard	Clay	Grass	Last match
Number 2 ranked players
Casper Ruud	1–1	50%	–	1–1	–	Lost (3–6, 2–6) at 2021 Marbella
Number 3 ranked players
Dominic Thiem	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	Won (7–6^(7–4), 7–5) at 2020 Rio de Janeiro
Grigor Dimitrov	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	Lost (5–7, 1–6) at 2020 Rome
Number 4 ranked players
Jannik Sinner	0–1	0%	–	0–1	–	Lost (1–6, 5–7, 6–3, 3–6) at 2021 French Open
Number 5 ranked players
Andrey Rublev	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (3–6, 2–6, 2–6) at 2022 Australian Open
Number 6 ranked players
Félix Auger-Aliassime	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (6–4, 4–6, 1–6) at 2021 Paris
Gaël Monfils	0–2	0%	0–2	–	–	Lost (4–6, 2–6) at 2021 Indian Wells
Number 8 ranked players
Karen Khachanov	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (5–7, 3–6) at 2022 Adelaide 2
Number 10 ranked players
Pablo Carreño Busta	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (3–6, 6–7^(2–7)) at 2019 Stockholm
Total	2–9	18%	0–6 (0%)	2–3 (40%)	0–0 ( – )	* Statistics correct as of 18 October 2023^[update].