MARCELO RIOS THE BEST EVER

Marcelo Rios The Best Ever

BY Andres Valdivia


This is the story of one of the most important tennis player in our country, his name is Marcelo Rios and he was born in Santiago on December 26th, 1975. He has four brothers, his father is Jorge Rios, and his mother is Alicia Mayorga

At age nine, his mother Alicia decided to register Marcelo in the Sport Frances tennis club.

He was talented and nobody could denied it. But he had problems with his physical build, because not the best for a professional tennis player. However, he was ambitious. Marcelo showed that he was a different player demonstrating creativity and rebelliousness, which allowed him to play in high level with shots worthy of a experienced player.

Marcelo lived with a racquet in his hand and he tried to play anybody who wanted to play with him, this is how Chile’s best tennis player grew up.

When he made his professional debut, he played in the Conde Godo Tournament in Barcelona in 1994.

In this tournament, Marcelo won 3 games against players ranked in the top 100, after this tournament Marcelo was compared with players like John McEnroe and Michael Chang. In that year Marcelo was ranked 549, in the world. Two months later, he was in the top 300.

In 1995, he won 3 titles in Bologna, Amsterdam, and Kuala Lumpur. He finished the year 25th in the world and was then under the direction of coach Larry Stefanski. Under his supervision, Rios would reach the peak of his career, number one in the world.

Now he is retired and he has participated in the senior ATP tour where he finished number one at the end of the last year.

Marcelo Rios is our best tennis player of all time and we have to respect him for that. We the Chilean people always forget our idols, we have to try not to do that with Marcelo, because he was the best.