Ricardo Mello

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**Ricardo Mello**

Country	Brazil
Residence	Campinas, Brazil
Date of birth	December 21, 1980
Place of birth	Campinas, Brazil
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight	146 lb (66 kg)
Turned pro	1999
Plays	Left
Career prize money	US$858,188
Singles
Career record:	43 - 57
Career titles:	1
Highest ranking:	50 (July 25, 2005)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2r (2005)
French Open	1r (2004/05)
Wimbledon	1r (2005)
US Open	3r (2004)
Doubles
Career record:	7 - 19
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	118 (July 7, 2005)
Infobox last updated on: August 10, 2007.

Ricardo Mello is a Brazilian tennis player. His preference is for the clay court where he has won his best titles in the unranked tournements on the ATP Tour. He has had the occasional win in hard court tournaments. His best singles rank was 50th in 2005. He has won a singles tournament on the pro tour and plays most of his tennis in Futures and Satellite tournaments.

1 Early Days
2 Sponsorship
3 2006
4 Titles (1)
- 4.1 Singles (1)
5 External links

[edit] Early Days

Ricardo was born in the city of Campinas, Brazil and it was there at the age of 3 he started to play tennis. At the age of 15 he drew a wildcard into a tournament in his hometown. He lost this tournament to veteran and French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten. However he gained his first ATP career points. In 1999 Ricardo won his first futures in Uruguay and Paraguay.

[edit] Sponsorship

The current sponsor for his shoes and racquets is Babolat.

[edit] 2006

At the Campbell's Hall of Fame Championships, Mello played number one seed Andy Murray. Murray was in control of the first set, winning 6–1, but Mello won the second set 6–1. Mello took the 3rd and final to a tie-break after having 3 set points. He lost in the breaker 7–5. The final score was 1–6, 6–1, 6–7 (5–7).

At the RCA Championships in Indianapolis, Mello faced Jean-Rene Lisnard in the first round, and won in straight sets 7–5, 7–5. In the second round he faced 14th seed Vincent Spadea and lost 6–3, 6–1.