Laurynas Grigelis

Laurynas Grigelis
Country  Lithuania
Residence Costa di Mezzate, Italy
Born August 14, 1991
Klaipėda, Lithuania
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro 2008
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money $189,984
Singles
Career record 4–7
Career titles 0
1 Challenger, 9 Futures
Highest ranking No. 183 (July 9, 2012)
Current ranking No. 346 (January 19, 2015)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open Q1 (2012)
French Open Q3 (2012)
Wimbledon Q2 (2012, 2014)
US Open Q3 (2011)
Doubles
Career record 4–2
Career titles 0
7 Challengers, 5 Futures
Highest ranking No. 132 (November 12, 2012)
Current ranking No. 212 (January 19, 2015)
Last updated on: January 19, 2015.

Laurynas Grigelis (born August 14, 1991) is a Lithuanian professional tennis player and a prominent member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team. Grigelis holds the best ATP doubles ranking for Lithuanian player of all time.

Grigelis won his first title when he was 18 at a Futures tournament in Wrexham, United Kingdom. On ATP Challenger Tour Grigelis has won six titles, one singles and five doubles. He won his only singles title in summer 2011 in Aptos, United States. In 2012, Grigelis won five doubles titles. He captured three titles with Uladzimir Ignatik in Wofsburg, Germany, Cherbourg, and Saint Rémy, France, he achieved one title with Rameez Junaid in Saint–Brieuc, France, and one title with Alessandro Motti in Naples, Italy.

Since the end of 2010 Grigelis is couched by Giuseppe Menga.

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Men's Circuit career finals

TournamentSinglesDoubles
ATP Challenger Tour1–07–1
Futures9–35–7
SurfaceSinglesDoubles
Hard7–27–4
Clay2–04–3
Grass0–00–0
Carpet1–11–1

Singles: (10–3)

Outcome Date Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Winner September 13, 2009 Wrexham, Great Britain Hard United Kingdom David Rice 6–2, 6–3
Runner-up September 26, 2010 Brusaporto, Italy Hard (i) Sweden Filip Prpic 3–6, 4–6
Winner May 29, 2011 Agadir, Morocco Clay Lebanon Bassam Beidas 6–0, 6–0
Winner June 17, 2011 Aptos, United States Hard Serbia Ilija Bozoljac 6–2, 7–6(7–4)
Runner-up March 24, 2013 Taverne, Switzerland Carpet (i) Austria Martin Fischer 6–7(4–7), 1–6
Winner August 4, 2013 Vilnius, Lithuania Clay Italy Giammarco Micolani 6–1, 6–3
Winner September 22, 2013 Antalya, Turkey Hard Italy Claudio Fortuna 6–2, 6–3
Winner October 19, 2013 Loughborough, Great Britain Hard (i) United Kingdom David Rice 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Winner October 26, 2013 Tipton, Great Britain Hard (i) Belgium Joris De Loore 6–3, 6–3
Winner November 2, 2013 Edgbaston, Great Britain Hard (i) Belgium Joris De Loore 6–3, 1–6, 6–0
Winner December 1, 2013 Opava, Czech Republic Carpet (i) Belarus Uladzimir Ignatik 4–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–2)
Winner January 18, 2014 Glasgow, Great Britain Hard (i) United Kingdom Daniel Smethurst 7–5, 6–7(4–7), 7–5
Runner-up November 2, 2014 Loughborough, Great Britain Hard (i) Belgium Maxime Authom 6–2, 6–1

Doubles: (12–8)

Outcome Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up September 6, 2009 Trieste, Italy Clay Italy Giuseppe Menga Italy Filippo Leonardi
Italy Jacopo Marchegiani
6–2, 4–6, [7–10]
Runner-up May 16, 2010 Pozzuoli, Italy Clay United Kingdom Daniel Evans Argentina Juan-Martín Aranguren
Argentina Alejandro Fabbri
4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Runner-up June 5, 2011 Bergamo, Italy Clay Italy Riccardo Sinicropi Italy Giorgio Portaluri
Argentina Juan Pablo Villar
7–5, 3–6, [8–10]
Winner February 26, 2012 Wolfsburg, Germany Carpet (i) Belarus Uladzimir Ignatik Poland Tomasz Bednarek
France Olivier Charroin
7–5, 4–6, [10–5]
Winner March 4, 2012 Cherbourg, France Hard (i) Belarus Uladzimir Ignatik Germany Dustin Brown
United Kingdom Jonathan Marray
4–6, 7–6(11–9), [10–0]
Winner April 6, 2012 Saint-Brieuc, France Clay Australia Rameez Junaid France Stéphane Robert
France Laurent Rochette
1–6, 6–2, [10–6]
Winner April 28, 2012 Napoli, Italy Clay Italy Alessandro Motti Australia Rameez Junaid
Slovakia Igor Zelenay
6–4, 6–4
Winner September 8, 2012 St. Rémy, France Hard Belarus Uladzimir Ignatik Spain Jordi Marsé-Vidri
Spain Carles Poch-Gradin
6–7(4–7), 6–3, [10–6]
Runner-up October 19, 2012 Glasgow, United Kingdom Hard (i) Germany Bastian Knittel United Kingdom David Rice
United Kingdom Sean Thornley
3–6, 2–6
Runner-up October 26, 2012 Cardiff, United Kingdom Hard (i) Italy Giuseppe Menga Germany Bastian Knittel
Germany Kevin Krawietz
6–3, 4–6, [7–10]
Runner-up June 1, 2013 Changwon, South Korea Hard Spain Enrique Lopez-Perez South Korea Yong-Kyu Lim
South Korea Ji Sung Nam
7–5, 4–6, [9–11]
Winner August 3, 2013 Vilnius, Lithuania Clay Italy Giuseppe Menga Ukraine Ivan Anikanov
Belarus Yaraslau Shyla
7–5, 6–3
Winner September 14, 2013 Antalya, Turkey Hard Italy Federico Gaio Israel Dekel Bar
United Kingdom Richard Gabb
1–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Winner September 21, 2013 Antalya, Turkey Hard Italy Federico Gaio Russia Alexander Krasnorutskiy
Russia Anton Manegin
6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Runner-up March 23, 2014 Taverne, Switzerland Carpet (i) Switzerland Henri Laaksonen Sweden Jesper Brunström
Denmark Frederik Nielsen
4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Runner-up July 21, 2014 Recanati, Italy Hard Republic of Ireland James Cluskey Serbia Ilija Bozoljac
Serbia Goran Tošić
7–5, 4–6, [5–10]
Winner September 21, 2013 Aptos, United States Hard Belgium Ruben Bemelmans India Purav Raja
India Sanam Singh
6–3, 4–6, [11–9]
Winner October 19, 2014 Minsk, Belarus Hard (i) Lithuania Lukas Mugevičius Uzbekistan Shonigmatjon Shofayziyev
Belarus Andrei Vasilevski
6–4, 4–6, [10–6]
Winner October 26, 2014 Manchester, Great Britain Hard (i) United Kingdom David Rice United Kingdom Sean Thornley
United Kingdom Darren Walsh
6–4, 6–4
Winner January 17, 2015 Casablanca, Morocco Clay Romania Adrian Ungur Italy Flavio Cipolla
Italy Alessandro Motti
3–6, 6–2, [10–5]

Singles performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF R# RR LQ (Q#) A P Z# PO SF-B F-S G NMS NH

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.

The table is current through season 2014.

Tournament201020112012201320142015Career SRCareer W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A Q1 A A A 0 / 0 0–0
French Open A A Q3 A Q1 0 / 0 0–0
Wimbledon A A Q2 A Q2 0 / 0 0–0
US Open A Q3 A A Q1 0 / 0 0–0
Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 0 0–0
Davis Cup
Davis Cup Singles Z2 Z2 Z3 A Z2 0 / 3 4–6
Career statistics
Tournaments Played 0 1 0 0 0 0 Career total: 1
Hardcourt Win–Loss 1–3 0–2 0–0 0–0 2–2 0–0 0 / 1 1–5
Grass Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 0 0–0
Carpet Win–Loss 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 0 1–0
Clay Win–Loss 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0 / 0 0–0
Win–Loss 2–3 0–2 0–0 0–0 2–2 0–0 0 / 1 2–5
Win % 40% 0% -% -% 50% -% Career total: 36%
Year End Ranking 405 199 415 299 303 346

Davis Cup

Grigelis is a member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team, having posted a 6–9 record in singles and a 5–3 record in doubles in twelve ties played.

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