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 injuries—and at just 28 years old—Rios announced his retirement from tennis during a press conference in Santiago. He organized a farewell tour across his home country, travelling through several cities, meeting with fans, offering tennis clinics, and playing friendly matches with international and local tennis players such as Petr Korda and Goran Ivanišević. The tour ended on December 22, 2004, at a soccer stadium in Santiago, where he played his final tennis match of his career on the main tour against Guillermo Coria of Argentina. On March 29, 2006, Ríos, aged 30, debuted on the ATP Champions Tour, a tour