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Key facts
- Country sports
- Brazil
- Residence
- Belo Horizonte , Brazil
- Born
- ( 1983-09-23 ) September 23, 1983 (age 42) , Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Height
- 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
- Plays
- Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
- Coach
- Daniel Melo
- Prize money
- US $8,863,271
- Career record
- 1–0
- Highest ranking
- No. 273 (21 November 2005)
- Current ranking
- No. 59 (16 February 2026)
- Australian open
- SF ( 2015 )
- French open
- W ( 2015 )
- Wimbledon
- W ( 2017 )
- Us open
- F ( 2018 )
- Tour finals
- F ( 2014 , 2017 )
- Olympic games
- QF ( 2012 , 2016 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Brazil
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marcelo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Belo Horizonte
- Sibling
- Daniel Melo
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Participant in
- tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – men's doubles
- Sport
- tennis
- Country for sport
- Brazil
- Mass
- 87
- Image
- Melo RG13 (2) (9386470928).jpg
- Height
- 203
- Residence
- Belo Horizonte
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- Commons category
- Marcelo Melo
- singles record
- 1–0
- date of birth
- 1983-09-23
- doubles record
- 660–447
- prize money
- 8721451
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- social media followers
- 43408
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Marcelo Pinheiro Davi de Melo ( Portuguese pronunciation: [maʁˈsɛlu ˈmɛlu]; born September 23, 1983) is a Brazilian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. He is a former world No. 1, which he achieved on 2 November 2015. Melo is the only Brazilian player who has reached number one in the ATP doubles rankings.
Melo is a two-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2015 French Open alongside Ivan Dodig and the 2017 Wimbledon Championships with Łukasz Kubot. Melo was also the first Brazilian man ever to win a Grand Slam doubles title. He has won 42 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including nine at Masters 1000 level. He reached the final at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships and 2018 US Open in men's doubles, as well as at the 2009 French Open in mixed doubles. Melo also finished runner-up in doubles at the ATP Finals in 2014 and 2017.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marcelo Melo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.