Gianluigi Quinzi

The following week he won the 30th Copa Gerdau beating Stefan Kozlov in the final; 6–4, 6–3.

In March, Quinzi reached the final of the 43rd Banana Bowl tournament; he lost in three sets to the French player Jean Sebastien Tatlot.

Quinzi was the second Italian in sport history to win here; Diego Nargiso was the first to win the title in 1987.

Gianluigi Quinzi (born 1 February 1996), is a former tennis player from Italy.

Gianluigi was born in Cittadella on February 1, 1996 and grew up in Porto San Giorgio with his mother Carlotta, a ski racer and handball player, and his father Luca, the president of a local tennis club.

He started to be known early in Junior ITF tournaments: aged fourteen – in 2010 – he won the Honduras Junior Bowl, on clay court, by defeating in the final Walner Espinoza 6–0, 6–1, becoming the youngest Italian player to win an ITF Junior tournament.

With the excellent results obtained in 2010, Quinzi was nominated Player of the Year, in the category Under-14, by the European Tennis Association; before him, years before, previous nominees for this award have included Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Marin Čilić, Gaël Monfils, Kim Clijsters, Justine Henin and Anna Kournikova.

In September 2011, Quinzi obtained his first ATP point at the 2011 Mazatlán Open beating the Swiss tennis player Luca Margaroli in the first round.

Quinzi obtained his best result in Italy: in Milan he won the Trofeo Bonfiglio in 2012, beating Temür Ismailov in three sets.

At the 2012 French Open Junior he was seeded No. 2. He was eliminated in the third round by British tennis player Kyle Edmund; 7–6(1), 1–6, 6–4.

At the 2012 Wimbledon Junior the young Italian, No. 3 seed, arrived in the semifinals where he lost to Luke Saville, who was No. 1 in the Junior ITF rankings and the returning champion from 2011.

In September, he reached the 2012 US Open Junior quarterfinals, losing in three sets to the Japanese player Yoshihito Nishioka.

In September 2012, Quinzi entered in the history of Italian tennis: he won the 2012 Junior Davis Cup with Filippo Baldi: the first time in sport history that Italy won the Junior Davis Cup (in 2011 Italy finished runner-up with Quinzi also playing).

His first best result in ITF Men's Circuit went in 2012 Pozzuoli, where he reached the quarterfinals, but he lost to the Italian player Alessio di Mauro.

In September 2012, he reached his first semifinal match in the ITF tournament of Manzanillo, in Mexico, beating, with the score of 6–1, 6–0, the same Yoshihito Nishioka who beat him in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Junior US Open, a week before.

In the following two months he also reached the semifinals in other 4 ITF tournaments (Santa Cruz, Santiago, Santa Maria and Lins) often defeating players with a higher ranking and older than him.

On November 23, 2012, he reached is first ITF final in the tournament of Curico, Chile ($10,000, on clay court), defeating Juan Carlos Sáez (world rank No. 464) in the semifinal, but he lost to Guillermo Rivera Aránguiz in straight sets.

Quinzi, at the end of 2012, was world rank No. 561.

He reached his career high ranking of No. 1 in ITF Juniors rankings on 1 January 2013.

Quinzi won the 2013 Wimbledon Championships junior boys' singles title, defeating Chung Hyeon 7–5, 7–6(7–2) in the final to claim the championship.

His parents always get too nervous when their son is playing and as a result they are not present to his games, not even in the junior boy's final of 2013 Wimbledon.

Initially Quinzi applied himself to Alpine skiing, gaining a second place in the championships of the Trentino-Alto Adige; but at seven years old, after leaving other sports as well, he focused his efforts primarily on tennis.

At the age of 8 he was noticed by the talent scout Nick Bollettieri who offered him a scholarship to his academy.

He participated at the Little Mo, tournament played in Florida which is reserved for Under-10 players, and triumphed printing his name in the Hall of Fame of a tournament won in the past by players such as Serena Williams and Andy Roddick.

At thirteen years old, he became the youngest player in the ITF Junior rankings and the next year he triumphed in four tournaments in a row with a series of twenty victories.

On January 1, 2013, Quinzi reached his best ranking of No. 1 in the world in the ITF Junior rankings: he is the first Italian player ever to obtain this result.

At 2013 Australian Open Quinzi, seeded No. 2, reached the quarterfinals without losing a set, but there he was defeated by Thanasi Kokkinakis in three sets.

At the second Junior Grand Slam of the season, the 2013 French Open, Quinzi, despite some physical problems, arrived into the quarterfinals, where he lost to No. 2 Nikola Milojević 7–6(2), 6–2.

However, one month later, Quinzi, seeded sixth, soon reached the semifinals at 2013 Wimbledon, beating 10th seed Tatlot in the third round (6–1, 6–1), and the same Nikola Milojević who beat him on the French clay, prevailing in the quarterfinals (6–4, 6–3).

With an outstanding performance Quinzi beat Kyle Edmund in straight sets to reach his first Junior Grand Slam final.

In the final, he defeated the Korean, Chung Hyeon, 7–5, 7–6(7–2).

He won the title without dropping a set in the entire tournament.

At 2013 US Open Quinzi reached the quarterfinals but lost to Thanasi Kokkinakis in three sets.

In 2013 Quinzi obtained his first big professional result in March: in the first ITF Futures tournament he took part, in Bogotá, he soon reached his second career final, beating high-ranked players than him.

Here he lost to Carlos Salamanca (three hundred position ahead of him in the ATP rankings) in straight sets.

In April Quinzi officially entered in the Top 500, becoming the youngest player of the ATP rankings among the first 500.

He then received a wild card to enter the main draw of the 2013 Rai Open, the first clay court Challenger tournament of the season played in Italy, but he lost in the first round to former Top 100 player Frederico Gil in three sets.

The following week he took part to his second ITF tournament of the season, in Sharm El Sheik; he reached his third career ITF final without losing a set.

He lost to Mohamed Safwat in three sets.

On 15 April 2019 he reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 142 on the ATP World Tour rankings.