Flavio Cipolla

Flavio Cipolla

Flavio Cipolla at the 2012 Open de Nice Côte d’Azur
Country	Italy
Residence	Rome, Italy
Born	(1983-10-20) 20 October 1983 Rome, Italy
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$1,452,774
Singles
Career record	36-65
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 70 (23 April 2012)
Current ranking	No. 182 (27 January 2014)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2009, 2012)
French Open	2R (2007)
Wimbledon	1R (2011, 2012)
US Open	3R (2008)
Doubles
Career record	13-35
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 75 (14 July 2008)
Current ranking	No. 218 (27 January 2014)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2012, 2013)
French Open	1R (2012)
Wimbledon	2R (2008)
US Open	1R (2012)
Last updated on: 13 July 2013.

Flavio Cipolla (born 20 October 1983, in Rome) is a professional tennis player on the ATP Tour from Italy. He reached the second round at the French Open of 2007, where he lost to Rafael Nadal.^[1] He reached the 3rd round of the 2008 US Open. His career high rank is #70, achieved on 23 April 2012.

Career

2008

Cipolla began 2008 with a bang the first week in January, winning the singles and doubles titles of the Challenger in New Caledonia, to get his singles ranking to a career high of #116. He won 2 more Challenger doubles titles in February in Belgrade and in March in Italy to establish himself as a top-100 doubles player.

Cipolla got a chance to compete in a grand-slam tournament at the 2008 U.S. Open in the men's singles competition at Flushing Meadows. Despite losing in qualifying he, along with Rui Machado, were reinstated following the withdrawals of Mikhail Youzhny. Cipolla made the most of his opportunity and reached the third round. In the first round he beat Jan Hernych before defeating Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei in the second round. In the third round he came up against world number 10 and tenth seed Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland. Cipolla took the match to 5 sets by taking a shock two set lead, however his Swiss opponent still had enough to come from behind and take the match, emerging victorious 5–7, 6–7, 6–4, 6–0, 6–4.

Challenger Career Finals

Singles (5)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	30 May 2006	Turin, Italy	Clay	Marcel Granollers	6–3, 6–3
2.	31 July 2007	Trani, Italy	Clay	Pablo Andújar	4–6, 6–2, 6–4
3.	4 September 2007	Genoa, Italy	Clay	Gianluca Naso	6–2, 6–7(4–7), 7–5
4.	1 January 2008	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard	Stéphane Bohli	6–4, 7–5
5.	6 February 2011	Burnie, Australia	Hard	Chris Guccione	W/O

Doubles (17)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents	Score
1.	4 July 2005	Mantova, Italy	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Salvador Navarro Óscar Serrano	5–7, 6–3, 6–3
2.	2 August 2005	Saransk, Russia	Clay	Simon Stadler	Konstantin Kravchuk Alexander Kudryavtsev	7–6(7–2), 4–6, 7–6(7–3)
3.	19 September 2005	Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Rainer Eitzinger	Jeroen Masson Stefan Wauters	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
4.	25 September 2006	Bratislava, Slovak Republic	Clay	Marcel Granollers	David Marrero Pablo Santos	7–6(7–2), 6–4
5.	9 October 2006	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Tomas Behrend	Pablo Andújar Marcel Granollers	6–3, 6–2
6.	26 March 2007	Napoli, Italy	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Marco Crugnola Alessio di Mauro	6–4, 6–2
7.	30 April 2007	Rome, Italy	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Stefano Galvani Manuel Jorquera	3–6, 6–1, [11–9]
8.	1 January 2008	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard	Simone Vagnozzi	Jan Mertl Martin Slanar	6–4, 6–4
9.	11 February 2008	Belgrade, Serbia	Carpet	Konstantinos Economidis	Alessandro Motti Filip Polášek	4–6, 6–2, [10–8]
10.	24 March 2008	Barletta, Italy	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Oliver Marach Michal Mertiňák	6–3, 2–6, [11–9]
11.	28 April 2008	Rome, Italy	Clay	Simone Vagnozzi	Paolo Lorenzi Giancarlo Petrazzuolo	6–3, 6–3
12.	27 May 2008	Alessandria, Italy	Clay	Simone Vagnozzi	Matwé Middelkoop Melle Van Gemerden	3–6, 6–1, [10–4]
13.	13 October 2008	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Pavel Šnobel	Michail Elgin Alexandre Kudryavtsev	6–3, 6–4
14.	28 February 2010	Meknes, Morocco	Clay	Pablo Andújar	Alexandr Dolgopolov Artem Smirnov	6–2, 6–2
15.	12 September 2010	Braşov, Romania	Clay	Daniele Giorgini	Radu Albot Andrej Ciumac	6–3, 6–4
16.	19 September 2010	Todi, Italy	Clay	Alessio di Mauro	Marcel Granollers Gerard Granollers-Pujol	6–1, 6–4
17.	3 April 2011	Barranquilla, Colombia	Hard	Paolo Lorenzi	Alejandro Falla Eduardo Struvay	6–3, 6–4

Runner-ups (22)

Singles (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	29 August 2005	Freudenstadt, Germany	Clay	Sergio Roitman	7–5, 6–4
2.	6 September 2005	Genoa, Italy	Clay	Potito Starace	6–3, 7–6(7–3)
3.	3 April 2006	Monza, Italy	Clay	Nicolas Devilder	6–2, 7–5
4.	28 July 2008	Tampere, Finland	Clay	Mathieu Montcourt	6–2, 6–2
5.	9 January 2010	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard	Florian Mayer	6–3, 6-0
6.	4 Juny 2011	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Clay	Yuri Schukin	6–4, 4–6, 6–0
7.	13 November 2011	Loughborough, UK	Hard	Tobias Kamke	2–6, 5–7
8.	9 September 2012	Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France	Hard	Josselin Ouanna	4–6, 5–7

Doubles (15)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents	Score
1.	29 June 2004	Mantua, Italy	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Daniele Bracciali Giorgio Galimberti	6–0, 6–4
2.	25 July 2005	Togliatti, Russia	Hard	Massimo Ocera	Scott Lipsky Mark Nielsen	6–2, 6–3
3.	12 September 2005	Seville, Spain	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Marcos Daniel Fernando Vicente	6–2, 6–7(1–7), 7–5
4.	3 October 2005	Rome, Italy	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Konstantinos Economidis Vasilis Mazarakis	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
5.	20 March 2006	Barletta, Italy	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Santiago Ventura Fernando Vicente	7–6(7–2), 4–6, [10–8]
6.	15 May 2006	San Remo, Italy	Clay	Francesco Piccari	Julien Benneteau Nicolas Mahut	6–4, 7–6(8–6)
7.	30 May 2006	Turin, Italy	Clay	Leonardo Azzaro	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–4, 6–3
8.	11 June 2007	Košice, Slovak Republic	Clay	Leonardo Azzaro	Filip Polášek Lukáš Rosol	6–1, 7–6(7–5)
9.	23 July 2007	Poznań, Poland	Clay	Ivo Klec	Marc López Santiago Ventura	6–2, 5–7, [10–3]
10.	27 August 2007	Como, Italy	Clay	Maro Pedrini	Máximo González Simone Vagnozzi	7–6(7–5), 6–4
11.	4 September 2007	Genoa, Italy	Clay	Simone Bolelli	Daniele Giorgini Simone Vagnozzi	6–3, 6–1
12.	11 October 2009	Tarragona, Spain	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	6–1, 6–1
13.	10 January 2010	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard	Simone Vagnozzi	Nicolas Devilder Édouard Roger-Vasselin	5–7, 6–2, [10–8]
14.	9 January 2011	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard	Simone Vagnozzi	Dominik Meffert Frederik Nielsen	7–6(7–4), 5–7, [10–5]
15.	24 September 2011	İzmir, Turkey	Hard	Thomas Fabbiano	Travis Rettenmaier Simon Stadler	6–0, 6–2

Singles performance timeline

Doubles Performance Timeline

Key

Won tournament; or reached Final; Semifinal; Quarter-final; Round 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a Round Robin stage; lost in Qualification Round; absent from tournament event; played in a Davis Cup Zonal Group (with its number indication) or Play-off; won a bronze, silver (F or S) or gold medal at the Olympics; a downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament (Not a Masters Series); or a tournament that was Not Held in a given year.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.

Current till 2013 Australian Open.

References

External links

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v t e Association of Tennis Professionals Top ten Italian male singles tennis players as of 27 January 2014 1. Fabio Fognini (15 1) 2. Andreas Seppi (31 6) 3. Filippo Volandri (73 3) 4. Paolo Lorenzi (107 8) 5. Potito Starace (149 4) 6. Marco Cecchinato (165 2) 7. Matteo Viola (171 7) 8. Flavio Cipolla (182 7) 9. Thomas Fabbiano (183 4) 10. Andrea Arnaboldi (191 21)