Marc-Andrea Hüsler (born 24 June 1996) is a Swiss tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 56, achieved on 5 December 2022. In doubles, he achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 132 on 25 October 2021. He is currently the No. 1 Swiss player.[1]

Marc-Andrea Hüsler

Country (sports)	Switzerland
Residence	Rüschlikon, Switzerland
Born	(1996-06-24) 24 June 1996 (age 26) Zürich, Switzerland
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Turned pro	2016
Plays	Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$828,757
Singles
Career record	17–20 (in ATP Tour events)
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 56 (5 December 2022)
Current ranking	No. 56 (5 December 2022)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2021)
French Open	Q2 (2021)
Wimbledon	1R (2022)
US Open	1R (2022)
Doubles
Career record	14–13 (in ATP Tour events)
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 132 (25 October 2021)
Current ranking	No. 289 (5 December 2022)
Last updated on: 5 December 2022.

Tennis career

2017: ATP debut and first ATP win in doubles

Hüsler made his ATP main-draw doubles debut at the Swiss Indoors tournament, where he partnered former world No 1. Nenad Zimonjić, having received a wildcard into the tournament.[2] The pair defeated Adrian Mannarino and Benoît Paire to give Hüsler a win in his first tour level match, before losing in the quarterfinals to Marcus Daniell and Dominic Inglot.

2018: First Challenger doubles title, ATP singles debut and first win

Hüsler claimed his first ATP Challenger Tour doubles title in his first final, partnering Sem Verbeek at the Winnipeg Challenger.[3]

Just over a week later, Hüsler made his ATP main draw singles debut at the Swiss Open Gstaad, where he recorded his first ATP win defeating former top-10 player Nicolás Almagro in a third-set tiebreaker in the first round, before losing to Facundo Bagnis in the second round.[4] Hüsler received a wildcard into the doubles draw for the Swiss Indoors for the second consecutive year, this time with Verbeek as his partner.[5] The pair upset Michael Venus and Raven Klaasen, the top seeds for the tournament and world No. 7 doubles partnership in the 2018 Doubles Team Race Rankings in the first round.

2019: First Challenger singles title & Top 300 debut

On April 21, 2019, Hüsler won his first Challenger title at the 2019 San Luis Open Challenger Tour by beating Adrian Menendez-Maceiras 7–5-7–6 in the final.[6] As a result, he moved 70 positions up into the top 300 on 22 April at world No. 281 in singles.

2020: Two Challengers titles, First ATP semifinal & Top 150 debut

Hüsler reached the semifinals of the Austrian Open Kitzbühel, where he beat world No. 12 Fabio Fognini in the second round.[7] As a result, he reached the top 150 at world No. 149 on 9 November 2020.

2021: Maiden ATP doubles title

He won his maiden ATP doubles title at the 2021 Swiss Open Gstaad, partnering Dominic Stricker, defeating Polish pair Szymon Walków and Jan Zielinski.

In September, partnering also with Stricker, he reached the final of the 2021 Challenger Biel/Bienne, Switzerland but withdrew. As a result, he reached a month later a new career-high doubles ranking of World No. 132 on 25 October 2021. He also reached the final in singles, where he lost to Liam Broady but climbed to No. 155 on 18 October 2021. He finished the year ranked No. 188 in singles.

2022: Major & Masters & top 60 debut, Swiss No. 1, Maiden ATP singles title

In April he won two more Challenger titles in Mexico. As a result, he reached a career-high ranking of No. 121 on 9 May 2022.

In June, at the 2022 Halle Open he qualified for his first ATP 500 tournament but lost to Mackenzie McDonald. Hüsler made his Grand Slam debut after qualifying for Wimbledon,[8][9] where he lost to lucky loser Hugo Grenier, who was also making his debut, in the first round in five sets.[10][11]

At the 2022 Swedish Open he defeated seventh seed Holger Rune in the first round before losing to Laslo Djere. As a result, he reached the top 100 at World No. 99 on 18 July 2022. He became the Swiss No. 1 player until 8 August 2022.

At the 2022 Winston-Salem Open he reached only his second career quarterfinal as a qualifier after getting a second round bye after seventh seed Sebastian Baez withdrew, defeating previous year finalist and wildcard Mikael Ymer and defending champion and eleventh seed Ilya Ivashka.[12] Next, he reached the semifinals for the second time ever in his career defeating thirteenth seed Jack Draper in straight sets. He was only the fourth qualifier to reach the tournament semifinals ever.[13] As a result, he reached a new career high ranking of No. 85 becoming again the Swiss No. 1 player on 29 August 2022.

At the 2022 Sofia Open he reached his first ATP final with a win over fourth seed Lorenzo Musetti.[14] He defeated again fifth seed Holger Rune to win his maiden ATP title.[15] As a result, he climbed 31 spots to a new career-high of No. 64 in the rankings on 3 October 2022.[16]

He made his Masters 1000 debut at the 2022 Rolex Paris Masters after defeating Hugo Gaston and Laslo Djere in qualifying. On his debut, he defeated 11th seed Jannik Sinner in his first round match.[17] As a result he reached a career-high ranking of world No. 58 on 7 November 2022. He lost to Karen Khachanov in the second round.

Davis Cup

Hüsler made his Davis Cup debut for Switzerland in the 2018 Davis Cup World Group tie with Kazakhstan, where he partnered Luca Margaroli in the doubles. The pair were defeated, coming back from two sets to love down, but losing the fifth set to Timur Khabibulin and Aleksandr Nedovyesov. Hüsler made his singles debut in the following rubber, which by this point was dead as Switzerland were already 3–0 down. Hüsler won in straight sets over Roman Khassanov, salvaging the only point for Switzerland in the tie.[18] He opened up Switzerland's World Group Play-off tie against Sweden, losing from two sets to love up against Markus Eriksson, as Switzerland were relegated from the World Group.

Singles performance timeline

Current through the 2022 Australian Open.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Oct 2022	Sofia Open, Bulgaria	250 Series	Hard (i)	Holger Rune	6–4, 7–6(10–8)

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2021	Swiss Open Gstaad, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Dominic Stricker	Szymon Walków Jan Zieliński	6–1, 7–6(9–7)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 9 (7–2)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2017	Switzerland F5, Sion	Futures	Clay	Hiroyasu Ehara	6–4, 4–6, 2–6
Win	1–1	Dec 2017	Mexico F7, Metepec	Futures	Hard	Gonzalo Escobar	6–3, 6–4
Win	2–1	Jun 2018	USA F17, Tulsa	Futures	Hard	Sam Riffice	6–4, 6–2
Win	3–1	Apr 2019	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Adrián Menéndez Maceiras	7–5, 7–6(7–3)
Win	4–1	Sep 2020	Sibiu, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Tomás Martín Etcheverry	7–5, 6–0
Win	5–1	Oct 2020	Ismaning, Germany	Challenger	Carpet	Botic van de Zandschulp	6–7(3–7), 7–6(7–2), 7–5
Loss	5–2	Sep 2021	Biel/Bienne, Switzerland	Challenger	Hard (i)	Liam Broady	5-7, 3-6
Win	6–2	Apr 2022	Mexico City, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Tomás Martín Etcheverry	6-4, 6-2
Win	7–2	Apr 2022	Aguascalientes, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Juan Pablo Ficovich	6–4, 4–6, 6–3

Doubles: 22 (11–11)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2015	Italy F5, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Loïc Perret	Davide Melchiorre Riccardo Sinicropi	5–7, 0–6
Loss	0–2	Oct 2016	Germany F14, Oberhaching	Futures	Hard (i)	Raphael Baltensperger	Hannes Wagner Louis Wessels	1–6, 4–6
Loss	0–3	Jun 2017	Italy F19, Basilicanova	Futures	Clay	Lenny Hampel	Wilson Leite Bruno Sant'Anna	5–7, 4–6
Win	1–3	Jul 2017	Austria F1, Telfs	Futures	Clay	Lukas Ollert	Pascal Brunner Gavin van Peperzeel	7–5, 7–5
Loss	1–4	Oct 2017	Germany F14, Oberhaching	Futures	Hard (i)	Neil Pauffley	Johannes Härteis Daniel Masur	6–4, 5–7, [5–10]
Loss	1–5	Nov 2017	Mexico F5, Campeche	Futures	Hard	Jessy Kalambay	José Daniel Bendeck Alejandro Gómez	3–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Win	2–5	Nov 2017	Mexico F6, Monterrey	Futures	Hard	Jessy Kalambay	Gonzalo Escobar Federico Zeballos	7–6(7–5), 6–4
Win	3–5	Feb 2018	Switzerland F1, Oberentfelden	Futures	Carpet (i)	Jakub Paul	Jan Mertl Michael Vrbenský	4–6, 7–6(9–7), [10–8]
Win	4–5	Mar 2018	France F6, Villers-lès-Nancy	Futures	Hard (i)	Hugo Voljacques	Dan Added Maxime Tchoutakian	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3)
Win	5–5	Jun 2018	USA F13, Winston-Salem	Futures	Hard	Sem Verbeek	Trevor Allen Johnson Ronnie Schneider	7–6(9–7), 6–1
Win	6–5	Jul 2018	Canada F5, Saskatoon	Futures	Hard	Sem Verbeek	Alexis Galarneau Benjamin Sigouin	6–3, 6–3
Win	7–5	Jul 2018	Winnipeg, Canada	Challenger	Hard	Sem Verbeek	Marcel Granollers Gerard Granollers Pujol	6–7(5–7), 6–3, [14–12]
Win	8–5	Aug 2018	Switzerland F3, Sion	Futures	Clay	Jakub Paul	Juan Pablo Ficovich Tomás Lipovšek Puches	6–3, 6–4
Loss	8–6	Sep 2018	Cassis, France	Challenger	Hard	Gonçalo Oliveira	Matt Reid Sergiy Stakhovsky	2–6, 3–6
Loss	8–7	Nov 2018	Andria, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	David Pel	Karol Drzewiecki Szymon Walków	6–7(10–12), 6–2, [9–11]
Win	9–7	Feb 2019	Morelos, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	André Göransson	Gonzalo Escobar Luis David Martínez	6–3, 3–6, [11–9]
Loss	9–8	Jun 2019	Shymkent, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Clay	André Göransson	Nikola Ćaćić Yang Tsung-hua	4–6, 4–6
Win	10–8	Oct 2020	Hamburg, Germany	Challenger	Hard (i)	Kamil Majchrzak	Lloyd Glasspool Alex Lawson	6–3, 1–6, [20–18]
Loss	10-9	Jan 2021	Quimper, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	James Cerretani	Grégoire Barrère Albano Olivetti	7–5, 6–7(7–9), [8–10]
Win	11–9	Feb 2021	Potechefstroom, South Africa	Challenger	Hard	Zdeněk Kolář	Peter Polansky Brayden Schnur	6–4, 2–6, [10–4]
Loss	11-10	Sep 2021	Biel/Bienne, Switzerland	Challenger	Hard (i)	Dominic Stricker	Ruben Bemelmans Daniel Masur	w/o
Loss	11-11	Jan 2022	Traralgon, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Dominic Stricker	Manuel Guinard Zdeněk Kolář	3-6, 4-6

Record against top 10 players

Hüsler's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface. Only ATP Tour main draw matches are considered:

Player	Record	Win %	Hard	Clay	Grass	Last Match
Number 8 ranked players
Karen Khachanov	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (3–6, 5–7) at 2019 Davis Cup RR
Number 9 ranked players
Fabio Fognini	2–0	100%	–	2–0	–	Won (7–5, 5–7, 6–4) at 2022 Båstad
Nicolás Almagro	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	Won (6–7(8–10), 6–3, 7–6(7–4)) at 2018 Gstaad 1R
Jannik Sinner	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (3–6, 4–6) at 2020 Sofia 2R
Number 10 ranked players
Pablo Carreño Busta	1–0	100%	1–0	–	–	Won (6–3, 3–6, 6–2) at 2022 Sofia 2R
Denis Shapovalov	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (6–2, 4–6, 4–6, 6–3, 1–6) at 2022 US Open 1R
Total	4–3	57.14%	1–3 (25%)	3–0 (100%)	0–0 ( – )	* Statistics correct as of 29 September 2022[update].

References

External links

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