Potito Starace

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**Potito Starace**
Potito Starace lost to Ernests Gulbis at the 2007 U.S. Open [1].
Country	Italy
Residence	Cervinara, Italy
Date of birth	July 14, 1981 (1981-07-14) (age 26)
Place of birth	Benevento, Italy
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 1+¹⁄₂ in)
Weight	84 kg (190 lb/13.2 st)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed
Career prize money	$1,381,317
Singles
Career record:	73 - 79
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	27 (October 15, 2007)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1st (2005, 2006, 2007)
French Open	3rd (2004, 2007)
Wimbledon	1st (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
US Open	2nd (2004)
Doubles
Career record:	28 - 39
Career titles:	2
Highest ranking:	68 (April 2, 2007)
Infobox last updated on: April 21, 2008.

Potito Starace (born July 14, 1981 in Benevento) is a professional tennis player from Italy on the ATP Tour. He achieved his career-high ranking of 27th on October 15, 2007. He is currently 32nd in the ATP rankings. One of the most memorable moments of Starace's career was when he made the men's doubles quarterfinals of the 2006 French Open with Alberto Martín. They defeated eighth-seeded Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry along the way, before walking over to second seeds Jonas Björkman and Max Mirnyi. He reached 2 career ATP finals, both in 2007. He lost in Valencia to Nicolás Almagro and later in Kitzbühel to Juan Mónaco.^[1]

1 Betting scandal
2 Singles titles
- 2.1 Wins (8)
- 2.2 Singles finalist (7)
3 Doubles
- 3.1 Doubles wins (2)
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Betting scandal

Following Alessio di Mauro's 9 month ban in November 2007, Starace and Daniele Bracciali were eached fined and given short suspensions from playing. Starace received a fine of £21,400 and a 6 weeks ban from January 1, 2008. All of the players were Italian. None of the bets pertained to matches they were involved in or had any stake in.

[edit] Singles titles

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (0)
Challengers (8)
Futures (0)

[edit] Wins (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 10, 2004	Sanremo, Italy	Clay	Peter Wessels	6–4, 6–4
2.	May 31, 2004	Sassuolo, Italy	Clay	Alessio di Mauro	6–2, 6–3
3.	July 26, 2004	San Marino, San Marino	Clay	Hugo Armando	6–4, 1–6, 6–3
4.	September 5, 2005	Genova, Italy	Clay	Flavio Cipolla	6–3, 7–6
5.	March 27, 2006	Napoli, Italy	Clay	Alessio di Mauro	6–0, 5–1 ret.
6.	March 26, 2007	Napoli, Italy	Clay	Younes El Aynaoui	7–5, 6–2
7.	August 6, 2007	San Marino, San Marino	Clay	Albert Montañés	6–4, 7–6
8.	April 6, 2008	Napoli, Italy	Clay	Marcos Daniel	6-4, 4-6, 7-6(3)

[edit] Singles finalist (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	July 1, 2002	Mantova, Italy	Clay	Mariano Puerta	3–6, 0–1, ret.
2.	September 2, 2002	Aschaffenburg, Germany	Clay	Olivier Mutis	4–6, 0–6
3.	June 23, 2003	Reggio Emilia, Italy	Clay	Richard Gasquet	5–7, 1–6
4.	March 28, 2005	Napoli, Italy	Clay	Richard Gasquet	6–4, 3–6, 5–7
5.	September 4, 2006	Genova, Italy	Clay	Gorka Fraile	4–6, 6–3, 4–6
6.	April 15, 2007	Valencia, Spain	Clay	Nicolás Almagro	6–4, 2–6, 1–6
7.	July 29, 2007	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Juan Mónaco	7–5, 3–6, 4–6

[edit] Doubles

[edit] Doubles wins (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	March 4, 2007	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Martín Vassallo Argüello	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner	6–0, 6–2
2.	July 29, 2007	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Luis Horna	Tomas Behrend Christopher Kas	7–6(4), 7–6(5)