The 21st century
Argentina · born Buenos Aires, 1998 · right-handed · Eastbourne 2023 and Queen's 2026 champion
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Grass titles, Eastbourne 2023 and Queen's 2026
6-7, 6-4, 6-3
Queen's final against Tommy Paul, 2026
3h 2m
Length of the 2026 Queen's final
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Best Wimbledon singles result, 2023
Born in Buenos Aires on 13 August 1998, Cerúndolo is the son of Alejandro Cerúndolo, a former player and coach, and the brother of Juan Manuel, also a tour player. He turned professional in 2018, reached his first ATP final in Buenos Aires in 2021 and, ranked 103, made the semi-finals of the 2022 Miami Open, where Jannik Sinner retired against him in the quarter-final. His first title came at Båstad later that year, followed by Eastbourne in 2023, Umag in 2024 and the Argentina Open in 2026. He has reached the fourth round at the French Open twice and at the Australian Open once, and a career-high No. 18 in May 2025. In the 2026 grass season he won Queen's, the first Argentine to take the title, then lost in the first round at Wimbledon to Jaume Munar.
| Wimbledon singles | Second round 2023; first round 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026 |
|---|---|
| Queen's 2026 | Champion as the seventh seed, beating Aleksandar Kovacevic, Arthur Fery, Brandon Nakashima 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 and Tommy Paul 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3 in a final of three hours and two minutes. The first Argentine to win the title |
| Eastbourne 2023 | Champion as the fourth seed. Came back from a set and 1-4 down against Mackenzie McDonald in the semi-final, then beat Tommy Paul 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 in the final |
| Eastbourne and Queen's | With Andy Roddick and Feliciano López, one of three men to have won both events |
| Wimbledon defeats | 2023: beat Nuno Borges 5-7, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4, then lost to Jiří Lehečka. 2025: led Borges by a set in the first round and lost 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (5), 0-6. 2026: lost to Jaume Munar 1-6, 4-6, 3-6 |
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| 2023 | Men's singles | |
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| 2026 | Men's singles | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"I fought really hard during the whole week, every match was a war and I think I got the reward."
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Miami 2022
Ranked 103 and playing his first Masters 1000 main draw, he beat Reilly Opelka, Gael Monfils, Frances Tiafoe and Jannik Sinner, who retired, before Casper Ruud stopped him in the semi-final. Before the Monfils match he was "super tight", thinking of the television audience. "I felt like I was in a movie, just playing freely," he said later. Monfils, Tiafoe and Sinner became practice partners.
Source: ATP TourBuenos Aires 2021
His brother Juan Manuel won his first ATP title at Córdoba in 2021, a week before Francisco reached his first final in Buenos Aires. The following year both were in the top 100, the first brothers there together since the Zverevs. At Miami in 2022 both won two matches in the same Masters 1000 draw.
Source: WikipediaEastbourne 2023
His rain-delayed semi-final against Mackenzie McDonald had looked lost at a set and 1-4 down. He turned it round, finished it with a break to love on the Saturday morning, and won the final against Tommy Paul that afternoon in blustery wind. He said he had played "a really good four points" in the morning and had not expected to win a title there.
Source: ATP TourQueen's 2026
His father had a phobia of flying and had never seen him play in person. He began therapy the year before, and his children said they would not believe it "until you are on the plane". His parents flew from Argentina the night before the final and arrived after it had started. Cerúndolo celebrated with them afterwards: "It's the first time my dad took a flight."
Source: Nile PostQueen's 2026
A Diego Maradona shirt hung over a chair in his players' box all week. After the final he spoke for his country: "We don't have the resources of other countries and we still compete at a high level and have many players. I am super proud of my country and representing it."
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