Murkel Dellien

Murkel Dellien
Country (sports)	Bolivia
Born	16 September 1997 (age 26); Trinidad, Bolivia
Plays	Right-handed
College	Wichita State
Prize money	$102,040
Singles
Career record	1–4
Career titles	4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 263 (30 October 2023)
Current ranking	No. 288 (29 January 2024)
Doubles
Career record	0–0
Career titles	2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 186 (29 January 2024)
Current ranking	No. 186 (29 January 2024)
	Last updated on: 29 January 2024.

Murkel Alejandro Dellien Velasco (born 16 September 1997) is a Bolivian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 263, achieved on 30 October 2023. He is the current No. 2 Bolivian tennis player.^[1] He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 186 achieved on 29 January 2024.

Dellien played college tennis at Wichita State.^[2]

Dellien represents Bolivia at the Davis Cup, where he has a W/L record of 1–0.

Career edit

In 2021 he defeated Zizou Bergs in his first Davis Cup rubber.^[3]

Personal life edit

He is the younger brother of fellow tennis player Hugo Dellien.^[4] Their father, Hugo Eduardo Dellien,^[5] represented Beni Department as a substitute member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Social Democratic Power alliance from 2006 to 2010.

ATP Challenger and ITF World Tennis Tour finals edit

Singles: 8 (4–4) edit

Legend
ATP Challenger (0–1)
ITF World Tennis Tour (4–3)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (4–4)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2022	M15, Naples, Usa	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Pedro Boscardin Dias	3–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	1–1	May 2022	M15, Quito, Ecuador	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Arklon Huertas Del Pino	7–6^(7–1), 6–3
Win	2–1	Jun 2022	M15, Quito, Ecuador	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Juan Bautista Otegui	6–3, 6–2
Loss	2–2	Sep 2022	M25, Maribor, Slovenia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Hernán Casanova	4–6, 3–6
Win	3–2	Oct 2022	M15, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Conner Huertas del Pino	6–0, 6–2
Win	4–2	Nov 2022	M15, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Franco Roncadelli	7–6^(7–5), 6–3
Loss	4–3	Jan 2023	Tigre, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Juan Manuel Cerúndolo	6–4, 4–6, 2–6
Loss	4–4	Mar 2023	M25, Río Cuarto, Argentina	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Pol Martín Tiffon	6–7^(7–9), 6–3, 5–7

Doubles: 18 (10–8) edit

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (1–2)
ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (9–6)

Titles by surface
Hard (1–0)
Clay (9–8)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Sep 2012	Boliva F2, Bolivia	Future	Clay	Hugo Dellien	Facundo Mena Sebastian Serrano	3–6, 5–7
Loss	0–2	Sep 2013	Boliva F3, Bolivia	Future	Clay	Hugo Dellien	Franco Feitt Jose Maria Paez	3–6, 3–6
Win	1–2	Jun 2021	M25 Wichita, United States	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Nicolas Acevedo	John McNally Benjamin Sigouin	6–4, 2–6, [12–10]
Win	2–2	Sep 2021	M15 Ibagué, Colombia	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Boris Arias	Alejandro Gómez Alejandro Hoyos	6–4, 3–6, [10–4]
Win	3–2	Oct 2021	M25 Lima, Peru	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Jorge Panta	Cayetano March Pol Martin Tiffon	7–6^(7–4), 7–6^(7–3)
Loss	3–3	Nov 2021	M15 Córdoba, Argentina	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Boris Arias	Ignacio Carou Alejo Lorenzo Lingua Lavallén	4–6, 7–5, [4–10]
Win	4–3	Apr 2022	M25 Rosario, Argentina	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Arklon Huertas del Pino	Tomás Farjat Ignacio Monzon	6–3, 6–3
Win	5–3	Apr 2022	M25 Rosario, Argentina	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Arklon Huertas del Pino	Román Andrés Burruchaga Juan Ignacio Galarza	6–3, 7–5
Loss	5–4	May 2022	M15 Quito, Ecuador	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Arklon Huertas del Pino	Igor Gimenez Nicolas Zanellato	2–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Win	6–4	Jun 2022	M15 Quito, Ecuador	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Arklon Huertas del Pino	Alejandro Mendoza Jorge Panta	6–3, 7–5
Loss	6–5	Jun 2022	Corrientes, Argentina	Challenger	Clay	Nicolás Álvarez	Guido Andreozzi Guillermo Durán	5–7, 2–6
Win	7–5	Aug 2022	M25 Koksijde, Belgium	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Hernán Casanova	Zvonimir Babić Simon Freund	6–1, 4–6, [10–5]
Loss	7–6	Aug 2022	Prague, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Adrian Andreev	Victor Vlad Cornea Andrew Paulson	3–6, 1–6
Win	8–6	Mar 2023	M25 San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Valerio Aboian	Franco Emanuel Egea Gabriel Alejandro Hidalgo	6–7^(5–7), 7–5, [10–7]
Win	9–6	May 2023	Coquimbo, Chile	Challenger	Clay	Valerio Aboian	Tomás Farjat Facundo Juárez	7–6^(7–4), 6–0
Loss	9–7	Jun 2023	M25 Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Pedro Sakamoto	Sebastian Fanselow Dominik Kellovsky	2–6, 4–6
Win	10–7	Jun 2023	M25 Córdoba, Spain	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Valerio Aboian	Imanol Lopez Morillo Benjamin Winter Lopez	6–3, 6–7^(4–7), [11–9]
Loss	10–8	Jul 2023	M25 Kassel, Germany	World Tennis Tour	Clay	Stefan Latinovic	Jiri Barnat Patrik Rikl	4–6, 4–6