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Marcello RIOS |
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Marcello has an apparent attitude problem. The media can not stand the fact that he doesn't treat them with respect. He has received the lemon award at the French Open, 2 years running for not cooperating with the press. He does not like fellow peers or opponents, for good reasons, some player's personalities are moronic.
Marcello held the No 1 ranking for a brief time this year. When Marcello, trails in a match he often gives up, so that he does not try. In the past year, he has tried more from being behind. He played Chang at the Australian Open and the US Open, and in both of the matches he trailed 2 sets to love. In Australia, he gave up losing in straight sets. In the US, he fought back to take the match in 5 sets
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Marcello Rios |
Left handed, Double hand backhand. |
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Country |
Chile |
Marital Status |
Single |
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Height |
175cm |
Weight |
63kg |
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Birthday |
26/12/1975 |
Age |
He is currently 22 |
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Best surface |
Clay |
Best shot |
Return |
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Standard Rank |
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Favourite Rank |
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Marcello has great groundstrokes, with consistent forehands and backhands. He is a gifted tactician in which he can move the ball all around the court. His early timing of his shots makes him able to create power from both his groundies. He can also hit winners equally as well, down the line and crosscourt. Rios has a great return in the game and repeatedly smacks winners off terrific serves. Players such as Chang and Agassi can hit the ball as cleanly but Rios is tactically better.
1998
Rios had a terrific start to the year winning the Auckland tournament and made the final of the Australian Open. Rios won Indian Wells defeating Rusedski in the final. He won the Lipton, beating Henman and Agassi to take the title. This win made him the world No 1, for the first time. He was forced out of Monte Carlo because of injury. Rios won the Italian Open, his third super nine of the year. As the favourite, for the French Open he fell to Moya in the Quarter finals. Rios fell in first round at Wimbledon. His current ranking is 3. He fell to Larsson at the US Open.
He showed consistency in the slams, reaching the round of 16 in ALL of the 4 slams. Rios made the Quarter Finals of the Australian Open losing to Chang but he beat Enqvist in a close match 4-6 6-4 6-7 7-6 6-3. Rios defeated Corretja to win the Monte Carlo super 9 and lost to Corretja in the Italian Open final. He made the Quarter Finals of the US Open forcing a 5th set against Chang after losing the first 2 sets.
Rios lost in the opening round of the Australian Open to Rafter. He fell in the round of 16 at the French Open. He won three titles on clay.
Rios lost to Tarrango at the US Open in the second round.
Rios came to the spotlight when he played Sampras at 1994 French Open. It was predicted from this match that he could he ranked No1. Rios lost to Enqvist, at the US Open in the first round. The match was extremely close as it went to a 5th set tie break.
Rios was the world Junior Number 1
Rios's GRAND SLAM Record
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Grand Slam |
94 |
95 |
96 |
97 |
98 |
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Australian |
M |
M |
1 |
Q |
F |
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French |
2 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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Wimbledon |
M |
M |
M |
4 |
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US Open |
M |
2 |
2 |
Q |
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M = Missed slams
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Marcello RIOS |
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