Marcelo Ríos Marcelo Ríos Marcelo Andrés Ríos Mayorga (; born 26 December 1975) is a former world No. 1 tennis player from Chile. Nicknamed "El Chino" ("The Chinese") and "El zurdo de Vitacura" ("The Lefty from Vitacura"), he became the first Latin American player to reach the top position on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles rankings in 1998. He held the world No. 1 ranking for six weeks. He also held the top ranking in both juniors and seniors. He was the first player to win all three clay-court Masters Series tournaments (Monte Carlo, Rome, and Hamburg) since the format
Marcelo Ríos "Marcelo Rios: The Man We Barely Knew". In May 2014, Ríos claimed in an interview to El Mercurio that he could be a sufferer of Asperger syndrome. On 17 November 2016, Ríos confirmed in an interview to Chilevisión that he was diagnosed with Asperger twice in his life, as a kid and during a Davis Cup tie, but he didn't care that much until the 2014 interview. Ríos' career was marked by a number of controversies. "Davis Cup matches are included in the statistics. Walkovers are neither official wins nor official losses." "At the 1998 ATP Tour World Championships (Tennis