 Chiudinelli was two sets and a break up in the third set and was serving for the match at 5–4, but was broken.He then lost the resulting tiebreaker and could not regain his form in the last two sets.Chiudinelli then received a wild card into the 2016 Swiss Indoors tournament where he took on compatriot Stan Wawrinka in the first round and lost in three sets 7–6(7–1), 1–6, 4–6, despite leading the match against the newly crowned 2016 US Open champion.