Andreas Seppi

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Andreas Seppi

Country	Italy
Residence	Kaltern an der Weinstraße, Italy
Date of birth	February 21, 1984 (1984-02-21) (age 24)
Place of birth	Bolzano, Italy
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb/11 st)
Turned pro	2002
Plays	Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money	$1,468,081
Singles
Career record:	82 - 97
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	31 (June 9, 2008)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2nd (2007, 2008)
French Open	1st (2006, 2007, 2008)
Wimbledon	2nd (2006, 2007)
US Open	2nd (2004)
Doubles
Career record:	13 - 36
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	138 (April 24, 2006)
Infobox last updated on: May 26, 2008.

Andreas Seppi (born February 21, 1984 in Bolzano, Italy) is a professional tennis player from the province of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol-Italy, who turned professional in 2000. Seppi is right handed and plays with a two hand backhand. He considers clay and hardcourts his favourite surface. He is coached by Massimo Sartori. ^[1] His career high was #31, achieved on June 9, 2008.

Contents 1 Tennis career 1.1 Miscellanous 2 Singles Titles (2) 2.1 Singles Finalist (2) 3 Grand Slam singles performance timeline 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Tennis career

Seppi turned pro in 2000 playing exclusively on the ATP Futures and ATP Challenger Series circuit for three season. He won his first Futures event in 2003 , Munich, Germany defeating Lars Uebel in addition he qualified for his first two ATP events in Kitzbuhel and Bucharest where he was defeated by Olivier Mutis and Jose Acasuso respectively.

2004 Seppi made his Davis Cup debut against Georgia losing to Irakli Labadze in 5 sets. In Kitzbuhel Seppi failed to convert 10 match points against Rainer Schuettler in a second round loss, then a few weeks later Seppi was able to gain revenge for this loss. In his Grand Slam debut as a qualifer he defeated Schuettler from 2 sets to 0 down. ^[2] Seppi finished the 2005 season in the top 100 for the first time. He qualified for four ATP Masters Series events with his best performance in Hamburg where he reached the quarter finals. In Davis Cup Seppi came back from 2 sets to 0 down and defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero 5-7 3-6 6-0 6-3 6-2, before losing to Rafael Nadal in the reverse singles. After this performance, he reached his first ATP Tour semi final in Palermo where he defeated defending champion Tomas Berdych, before falling to Igor Andreev.

In 2006 Seppi made semi finals on the hardcourts in Sydney and the grass in Nottingham showing that he was able to perform well on other surfaces besides clay. Seppi ended the streak of 4 consecutive Sydney titles for Lleyton Hewitt and in the process saved 2 match points. Seppi lost against Andre Agassi in his last tournament appearance at Wimbledon.

At the 2007 Australian Open Seppi defeated American Bobby Reynolds in 5 sets after saving a match point. The match was scheduled for the afternoon, but was put back due to the heat rule where play could not commence if the temperature was over 39 degrees Celsius ^[3].This match finished at 3.34am which was at the time the latest time for a match to be completed until it was surpassed by the Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis match at the 2008 Australian Open.

Seppi made the final of the Sunrise Challenger defeating Gustavo Kuerten, Juan Martin del Potro, and Nicolas Massu losing to Gael Monfils. After Sunrise Seppi had been struggling with poor form with his ranking outside of the top 100, he surprisingly made his ATP Tour final in Gstaad where he defeated Stefan Koubek and Igor Andreev both in 3rd set tiebreakers and it was his first victory over Andreev. Seppi lead 5-3 in the 3rd set and had the opportunity to serve for the championship but failed to do so losing to Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-7(1) 6-4 7-5. Seppi made his first semi final indoors in Vienna defeating two time defending champion Ivan Ljubicic along the way to complete the feat of at least making the semi finals of events played on clay, hardcourt, grass and indoors, eventually finishing in the top 80 for the third consecutive year.

The 2008 season Seppi won his first Challenger title at Bergamo where he defeated Julien Benneteau 2-6 6-2 7-5 in the final for the loss of 1 set in the tournament. He made the quarter finals of the indoor event in Rotterdam where he defeated Lleyton Hewitt 3-6 7-6(4) 7-6 (4) in the process saving a match point. Then he scored his biggest win over current world number 2 Rafael Nadal 3-6 6-3 6-4, before losing to Robin Söderling. Seppi qualified for the semi finals of the Hamburg Masters, this was the first time he reached that stage of the Masters Series events, he defeated Richard Gasquet, Juan Monaco and Nicolas Kiefer in a match where he lead 6-3 5-3, before winning 6-3 5-7 7-5, which included Seppi winning the last 4 games and went for 3 hours and 13 minutes in duration ^[4], before losing to Roger Federer in the semi finals.

[edit] Miscellanous

Seppi speaks German, Italian and English. He supports AC Milan and his nickname is Seppio, given to him by his coach.^[1] When asked how did he manage to lose in the 2007 Kitzbühel quarterfinals to good friend Potito Starace after being 6-1 5-3 ahead? He answered "Easy: if I beat him who would have supplied me with movies for the whole season?”. WTA player and good friend Karin Knapp lives in the same town as Seppi.^[5]

In Rotterdam 2008, the crowd sang Happy Birthday to Seppi, after he defeated Rafael Nadal and when asked by the on court interviewer after been drawn to play Lleyton Hewitt and then Rafael Nadal. Did he expect to standing there in the quarter finals? Seppi answered 'that he had his flight booked for Wednesday". ^[6]

[edit] Singles Titles (2)

Legend (Singles)

Grand Slam (0)

Tennis Masters Cup (0)

ATP Masters Series (0)

ATP Tour (0)

Challengers (1)

Futures (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	20 January 2003	Munich, Germany	Carpet	Lars Uebel	6–4 7-5
2.	4 February 2008	Bergamo, Italy	Clay	Julien Benneteau	2-6 6-2 7-5

[edit] Singles Finalist (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	March 12, 2007	Sunrise, USA	Clay	Gael Monfils	6-3 1-6 6-1
2.	September 13, 2007	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Paul-Henri Mathieu	6-7(1) 6-4 7-5

[edit] Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Career win-loss
Australian Open	A	A	1R	2R	2R	2–3
French Open	A	A	1R	1R	1R	0–3
Wimbledon	A	1R	2R	2R		2–3
U.S. Open	2R	1R	1R	1R		1–4
Grand Slam Win-Loss	1-1	0-2	1-4	2-4	1-2	5-13
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	1R	2R	2R	2–3
Miami Masters	A	1R	1R	1R	2R	1–4
Monte Carlo Masters	A	2R	2R	2R	2R	4–4
Rome Masters	1R	2R	1R	A	2R	2–4
Hamburg Masters	1R	QF	2R	A	SF	8–4
Canada Masters	A	A	A	A		0–0
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	1R	A		0–1
Madrid Masters (Stuttgart)	A	A	A	A		0–0
Paris Masters	A	1R	1R	2R		1–3
Total Titles	0	0	0	0	0	0
Year End Ranking	146	68	74	50		N/A

A = did not participate in the tournament.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Andreas Seppi Website
• ATP Tour profile for Andreas Seppi
• Seppi Recent Match Results
• Seppi World Ranking History