The Sicilian has several opportunities to maintain the excellent position that is now also in the ranking next year.

The most exciting season of Marco Cecchinato is about to end. The Sicilian, which until April gravitated without success in the Challenger circuit, has collected many points in 2018. The turning point came for him from the tournament in Budapest, won by lucky loser, and then continued with a bang with Paris, in a historic Roland Garros where he reached the semi-finals (beating, among others, Novak Djokovic).

Between Hungary and the French capital, Ceck has gained in just over a month the beauty of 1200 "net" points, in the sense that they have added to those that already held without losing (without counting the very few gathered in Challenger, given that in 2017 he had not even played one round of those tournaments). Marco then won at Umago in July (another 250 points), and then recorded five defeats in a row on the cement and the second round at the recent Masters 1000 in Shanghai.

As I write the blue tennis player is in the twenty-first place of the Atp ranking. Seen and considered that reconfirming the semi-final at Roland Garros is very difficult (if not almost impossible), how could Cecchinato to confirm his position at the end of 2019? He could do it. In fact, Marco will surely play from January in the ATP circuit, on which this year he has only been permanently landed since April. And then he could earn several points in the first tournaments of the year, especially those who decide to play between Brisbane, Doha and Pune in the first week of Tour, and between Sydney and Auckland in the second, and then move to Melbourne and play, of course. , the Australian Open. The Ceck will have to be good at building a good booty then in the first weeks of the year, and then be able to afford to lose some points in Paris and possibly in Budapest. Seen and considered that the assisted by Simone Vagnozzi in March has practically only Challenger, another great opportunity would be to play good tournaments in Miami and Indian Wells, which give 1000 points to the winner and that, if he arrived at least in the second round, the would ensure that they continue to rise in the rankings before relighting most likely during the Roland Garros.

The real difficulty will start to exist starting in 2020, the year in which Cecchinato will have to think more about "defending" rather than gaining points. But there will be time and a way to think about it.