Marcelo Melo

Marcelo Pinheiro Davi de Melo (born September 23, 1983) is a Brazilian professional tennis player from Belo Horizonte.

This was the first time since 2001 that a Brazilian reached the final of a Grand Slam.

In ATP 500 Hamburg, a tournament that had once been a Masters Series, Melo and his partner, the Slovak Filip Polášek, finished as the runners-up.

At the end of the year, Melo announced the end of his partnership with André Sá and his new partnership with Bruno Soares.

Also in 2007 they won the tournament title of ATP 250 Estoril.

He has represented Brazil in the Davis Cup since 2008, often playing doubles alongside André Sá or Bruno Soares, and has also competed at three editions of the Summer Olympic Games.

After playing with different Brazilian partners in doubles, including André Sá, Melo went through a relatively successful period of his career, reaching the semifinals of Wimbledon doubles, with some matches lasting four hours.

Melo and Sá reached the quarterfinals of the US Open.

Melo won the Buenos Aires Challenger without André Sá, who also was not in Adelaide triumph, the first week of 2008 when Melo played with the Argentine Martín García.

In 2008, Melo partnered with André Sá and had a good campaign, winning three ATPs together—Costa do Sauípe, Poertschach and New Haven.

They came to play in the Masters Cup, in which the top eight doubles in the world compete, but they ended the year ranked No. 9 in the Champions Race; this was because Melo was injured in Wimbledon and took time to recover, and Melo and Sá had not made any major campaign in the Masters Series and Grand Slams.

Melo and Sá later went on to play as reserves in the Masters Cup.

They also participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

In 2009, Melo and Sá won one ATP and reached the final of two other competitions.

At Roland Garros, Melo reached the final of the Mixed Doubles with American player Vania King, losing the final by two sets to one.

In 2010, Melo and Soares reached the final of the ATP 250 Auckland at the beginning of the year.

After that, they did not play well until May, when Melo won the title of the ATP 250 Nice.

At Roland Garros, they defeated the brothers Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan—, the world's top doubles players—, and reached the quarterfinal.

They subsequently reached the semifinals of the ATP 500 Hamburg, the final of the ATP 250 Gstaad, the third round of the US Open, the final of the ATP 250 Metz, and the semifinals of the ATP 500 Tokyo and ATP 250 Stockholm.

Playing with Soares, Melo won his 10th ATP doubles title in the ATP 250 Stockholm, reaching the 17th position worldwide.

In 2011, Melo and Soares won two consecutive titles in the ATP 250 Chile and Brazil and were runners-up in the ATP 500 Acapulco.

They reached the semifinals of the ATP 250 Nice and Eastbourne, and Melo reached the Newport semifinal with André Sá.

In August, Melo and Soares competed in the semifinals of the ATP 500 Washington.

In September, playing with Lukáš Dlouhý, Melo reached the final of the ATP 250 Metz.

In October, with Soares, he reached the semifinals of the ATP 500 Valencia and the Japan Open Tennis Championships, and later the final of the ATP 250 Stockholm.

In November, Melo and Soares reached the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 Paris.

At the end of the year, Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares ended their partnership.

In 2012, playing with Ivan Dodig, Melo was the runner-up at ATP 500 Memphis and reached the quarterfinals of Roland Garros and Wimbledon.

He was also a quarterfinalist at the Masters 1000 Madrid with Marin Čilić.

Melo participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics with Bruno Soares; they reached the quarterfinals after defeating the duo Berdych and Stepanek by 24–22 in the last set.

In the second half of 2012, Melo was a semifinalist in the Masters 1000 Cincinnati and reached the third round of the US Open playing with Dodig.

In October, partnered with Cilic, Melo was a semifinalist in the Masters 1000 Shanghai.

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.

Primarily a doubles specialist, his career-high doubles ranking is No. 1, which he first reached in November 2015.

Melo is the only Brazilian ever to top the ATP doubles rankings.

He 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 35 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including nine at Masters 1000 level.

With this, Melo reached the best rank in his career for the second time, reaching the 18th position worldwide.