Felipe Meligeni Alves

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Meligeni Rodrigues and the second or paternal family name is Alves.

Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves (born 19 February 1998) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 117 achieved on 21 April 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 75 achieved on 20 June 2022.^[1] He is currently the No. 4 Brazilian singles player.^[2]

Felipe Meligeni Alves

Meligeni Alves at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Full name	Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves
Country (sports)	Brazil
Residence	Campinas, Brazil
Born	(1998-02-19) 19 February 1998 (age 27) Campinas, Brazil
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	2016
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Cesar Chiappari
Prize money	US $ 1,324,264
Singles
Career record	5–13
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 117 (21 April 2025)
Current ranking	No. 145 (30 June 2025)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2021, 2024)
French Open	1R (2024)
Wimbledon	1R (2024)
US Open	2R (2023)
Doubles
Career record	16–11
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 75 (20 June 2022)
Current ranking	No. 291 (23 June 2025)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2022)
French Open	1R (2022)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	3–2
Last updated on: 30 June 2025.

Career

2016: Juniors

Meligeni Alves won the 2016 US Open boys' doubles title, partnering Juan Carlos Aguilar.^[3]

2020: ATP debut, Maiden Challenger singles and doubles titles

In January 2020, he reached the semifinals of the Punta del Este Challenger.^[4]

Meligeni made his debut in an ATP Tour singles main draw as wildcard at the 2020 Rio Open, losing in three sets to world No. 4 Dominic Thiem in the first round.

Meligeni won his first ATP Challenger doubles title at Guayaquil alongside Venezuelan Luis David Martínez, defeating Spaniards Sergio Martos Gornés and Jaume Munar in the final.

Meligeni Alves won his first ATP Challenger singles title at São Paulo, defeating Portuguese Frederico Ferreira Silva, on 29 November 2020. He also won his second doubles title alongside Luis David Martínez in the same event.^[5]

2021: First ATP title and top 100 debut in doubles

In March 2021, Meligeni Alves won his first ATP 250 doubles title alongside Rafael Matos at the 2021 Córdoba Open defeating Romain Arneodo and Benoît Paire. He reached the top 100 on 14 June 2021 at world No. 99 in doubles.

In March, he reached the semifinals of the Santiago Challenger.^[6] In June he reaches the semi of the Challenger in Biella,^[7] and in July, in the Iasi Challenger semi.^[8] He reached the final of the Santiago Challenger in October, losing in the final to Sebastián Báez.^[9] He even reached the semi-final of the Challenger in São Paulo.^[10]

2022: Top 150 in singles, Major debut & Second ATP title & top 75 in doubles

In doubles, he made his Grand Slam debut partnering Rafael Matos at the 2022 Australian Open. In February 2022, Meligeni Alves won his second ATP 250 doubles title at the 2022 Chile Open alongside Matos.

In singles, he reached the top 150 at No. 144 on 18 July 2022 following his second Challenger title at the 2022 Iași Open in Romania and a career-high singles ranking of No. 137 on 25 July 2022.

In April 2022, he reached the semifinals at Challenger in Mexico.^[11] In June, went to the Buenos Aires Challenger semi.^[12] He was champion of the Challenger in Iasi, Romania, in July.^[13] He also reached the semifinals of the São Leopoldo Challenger in November.^[14]

He finished the year ranked at No. 149 in singles on 21 November 2022.

2023: Masters and Grand Slam debuts

He entered the main draw of a Masters 1000 for the first time, at the 2023 Miami Masters 1000.^[15] In May he went to the semifinals of the Challenger of Oeiras.^[16] He reached the best ranking of his career, 129 in the world, when he became champion of the Lyon Challenger in June.^[17] Reached the 2nd round of the 2023 US Open.^[18] In November, he reached the semifinals of the Challenger in Guayaquil.^[19]

2024: Roland Garros and Wimbledon debuts

Meligeni reached the round of 16 at the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro, after passing through the qualifiers.^[20] In March, he reached the semifinals of the São Leopoldo Challenger.^[21] At Challenger 175 in Turin, Meligeni skipped the qualifiers, and then won the first two matches of the main draw, reaching the quarterfinals.^[22]

He qualified for the main draw of the 2024 French Open making his debut at this Major. He lost to seventh seed Casper Ruud in the first round in straight sets.^[23] Ranked No. 147, he qualified for the 2024 Wimbledon Championships making also his debut.^[24]

Personal life

Meligeni Alves is of Argentine descent through his mother.^[25] Meligeni Alves' older sister Carolina Meligeni Alves is also a tennis player^[26] and their uncle, Fernando Meligeni, was also a tennis player who reached the semifinals at the 1999 French Open^[27] and 4th place at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games.^[28]

ATP Tour finals

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

Legend Grand Slam (0–0) ATP 1000 (0–0) ATP 500 (0–0) ATP 250 (2–0)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (2–0) Grass (0–0)

Finals by setting Outdoor (2–0) Indoor (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Feb 2021	Córdoba Open, Argentina	ATP 250	Clay	Rafael Matos	Romain Arneodo Benoît Paire	6–4, 6–1
Win	2–0	Feb 2022	Chile Open, Chile	ATP 250	Clay	Rafael Matos	Andre Goransson Nathaniel Lammons	7–6(10–8), 7–6(7–3)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 15 (9 titles, 6 runner-ups)

Legend ATP Challenger Tour (5–2) ITF Futures/WTT (4–4)

Finals by surface Hard (1–0) Clay (8–6) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Nov 2020	São Paulo Challenger, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Frederico Ferreira Silva	6–2, 7–6(7–1)
Loss	1–1	Oct 2021	Challenger de Santiago III, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Sebastián Báez	6–3, 6–7(6–8), 1–6
Win	2–1	Jul 2022	Iași Open, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Pablo Andújar	6–3, 4–6, 6–2
Win	3–1	Jun 2023	Open Sopra Steria, France	Challenger	Clay	Alexander Ritschard	6–4, 0–6, 7–6(9–7)
Loss	3–2	Oct 2024	Curitiba Challenger, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Jaime Faria	4–6, 4–6
Win	4–2	Mar 2025	Yucatán Open, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Juan Pablo Ficovich	6–2, 1–6, 6–2
Win	5–2	Apr 2025	Mexico City Open, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Luka Pavlovic	6–3, 6–3
Win	1–0	May 2018	F17 Cairo, Egypt	Futures	Clay	Orlando Luz	7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–3)
Loss	1–1	Oct 2018	F6 Curitiba, Brazil	Futures	Clay	Francisco Cerúndolo	6–7(3–7), 2–6
Loss	1–2	Nov 2018	F7 São Carlos, Brazil	Futures	Clay	João Souza	3–6, 3–6
Win	2–2	Feb 2019	M15 Monastir, Tunisia	WTT	Hard	Evan Hoyt	6–4, 6–3
Win	3–2	Mar 2019	M15 Antalya, Turkey	WTT	Clay	Ivan Nedelko	6–7(5–7), 7–5 ret.
Win	4–2	Apr 2019	M15 Antalya, Turkey	WTT	Clay	Clement Geens	6–3, 1–0 ret.
Loss	4–3	May 2019	M15 Las Palmas, Spain	WTT	Clay	Eduard Esteve Lobato	2–6, 3–6
Loss	4–4	May 2019	M15 Las Palmas, Spain	WTT	Clay	Eduard Esteve Lobato	4–6, 1–6

Doubles: 20 (8 titles, 12 runner-ups)

Legend ATP Challenger Tour (8–12) ITF Futures/WTT (20+)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (8–12) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Aug 2019	Open Castilla y León, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Orlando Luz	Sander Arends David Pel	4–6, 6–7(3–7)
Loss	0–2	Oct 2019	Lima Challenger, Peru	Challenger	Clay	Luis David Martínez	Ariel Behar Gonzalo Escobar	2–6, 6–2, [3–10]
Win	1–2	Nov 2020	Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Luis David Martínez	Sergio Martos Gornés Jaume Munar	6–0, 4–6, [10–3]
Win	2–2	Nov 2020	São Paulo Challenger, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Luis David Martínez	Rogério Dutra Silva Fernando Romboli	6–3, 6–3
Loss	2–3	Dec 2020	Campeonato Internacional, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Luis David Martínez	Sadio Doumbia Fabien Reboul	7–6(9–7), 5–7, [7–10]
Loss	2–4	Mar 2021	Challenger de Santiago, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Rafael Matos	Luis David Martínez Gonçalo Oliveira	5–7, 1–6
Loss	2–5	May 2021	Biella Challenger V, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Rafael Matos	Andre Goransson Nathaniel Lammons	6–7(3–7), 3–6
Win	3–5	Jul 2021	Iași Open, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Orlando Luz	Hernán Casanova Roberto Ortega Olmedo	6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–6	Jul 2021	Tampere Open, Finland	Challenger	Clay	Orlando Luz	Pedro Cachín Facundo Mena	5–7, 3–6
Win	4–6	Jul 2021	Trieste Challenger, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Orlando Luz	Antoine Hoang Albano Olivetti	7–5, 6–7(6–8), [10–5]
Win	5–6	Aug 2021	Como Challenger, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Rafael Matos	Luis David Martínez Andrea Vavassori	6–7(2–7), 6–4, [10–6]
Loss	5–7	Sep 2021	NÖ Open, Austria	Challenger	Clay	Rafael Matos	Dustin Brown Andrea Vavassori	6–7(5–7), 1–6
Win	6–7	Nov 2021	Uruguay Open, Uruguay	Challenger	Clay	Rafael Matos	Ignacio Carou Luciano Darderi	6–4, 6–4
Win	7–7	Nov 2021	Campinas International, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Rafael Matos	Gilbert Klier Jr. Matheus Pucinelli de Almeida	6–3, 6–1
Loss	7–8	Nov 2021	São Paulo Challenger, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Rafael Matos	Nicolás Barrientos Alejandro Gómez	walkover
Loss	7–9	Apr 2022	San Luis Open, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Luis David Martínez	Nicolás Barrientos Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela	6–7(11–13), 2–6
Win	8–9	Apr 2022	Challenger de Tigre II, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Guillermo Durán	Luciano Darderi Juan Bautista Torres	3–6, 6–4, [10–3]
Loss	8–10	May 2022	Salvador Challenger, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Orlando Luz	Diego Hidalgo Cristian Rodríguez	5–7, 1–6
Loss	8–11	Nov 2022	São Léo Open, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	João Lucas Reis da Silva	Guido Andreozzi Guillermo Durán	1–5 ret.
Loss	8–12	Sep 2024	Buenos Aires Challenger, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Marcelo Zormann	Murkel Dellien Facundo Mena	6–1, 2–6, [10–12]

National representation

Davis Cup

Meligeni Alves was first nominated to play for Brazil in Davis Cup in September 2021 against Lebanon.^[29] Meligeni Alves made his debut in Davis Cup against Hady Habib and won in straight sets in the second rubber which after allowed the Brazilian team to confirm the 4–0 tie and advance into the 2022 Davis Cup qualifying round.^[30] Currently, Meligeni Alves sports a 3–2 record in Davis Cup matches.

All Davis Cup Matches: 1–0 (Singles: 1–0)
2020 Davis Cup World Group I
Round	Date	Opponent	Final match score	Location	Surface	Match	Opponent	Rubber Score
WGI	September 18–19, 2021	Lebanon	2–0	Jounieh	Clay	Singles 4	Hady Habib	6–1, 6–3

United Cup

He represented Brazil at the 2023 United Cup as the No. 2 player.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2016	US Open	Hard	Juan Carlos Aguilar	Félix Auger-Aliassime Benjamin Sigouin	6–3, 7–6(7–4)