Dudi Sela

Dudi Sela
Sela 2016 at Wimbledon
Nation:	Israel
Birthday:	April 4th 1985
Size:	175 cm
Weight:	65 kg
1st professional season:	2002
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Yoav Ben Zvi
Prize money:	$ 3,855,496
singles
Career record:	143: 193
Highest ranking:	29 (July 20, 2009)
Current placement:	164
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	26:48
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	122 (February 22, 2010)
Current placement:	331
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: June 10, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Dudi Sela ( Hebrew דודי סלע; * April 4, 1985 in Kirjat Shmona ) is an Israeli tennis player .

Career

In his youth, Sela won the French Open junior tournament in doubles with György Balázs in 2003 , and in singles he reached the semi-finals in the same year at the US Open junior tournament, where he lost to Marcos Baghdatis . He won his first title on the Junior Tour in April 2000 in Haifa in doubles with his compatriot Idan Ben Harosch. In 2001 he also won doubles in Corfu and also reached the final in singles. In April 2001 he won his first individual title in Castricum. His best placement in the junior world rankings was 9th in singles and 16th in doubles, which he achieved in 2002 and 2003, respectively.

In 2002 he turned professional, three years later he won the tournaments in Vancouver and Lexington on the ATP Challenger Tour . In 2006, he won more men's singles titles than anyone with five tournament wins at the USTA Pro Circuit , a series of futures tournaments in the United States. In July 2007, he lost the Challengers final in Cordoba . Sela achieved his best Grand Slam result so far in Wimbledon in 2009 , where, after victories over Stefan Koubek , Rainer Schüttler and 15 seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo, he reached the round of 16, where he lost to Novak akoković .

In 2005 he played for Israel in the Davis Cup for the first time .

successes

Legend (single) Grand Slam Tennis Masters Cup ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 (1) ATP Challenger Tour (28)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (0) Sand (1) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 14, 2003	Tolyatti (1)	Hard court	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	6: 2, 6: 4
2.	July 25, 2005	Lexington	Hard court	Bobby Reynolds	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 4
3.	August 1, 2005	Vancouver (1)	Hard court	Paul Baccanello	6: 2, 6: 3
4th	July 16, 2007	Tolyatti (2)	Hard court	Mikhail Ledovskich	7: 6, 6: 3
5.	October 22, 2007	Seoul	Hard court	Konstantinos Economidis	6: 4, 6: 4
6th	November 19, 2007	Yokohama	Hard court	Takao Suzuki	6: 7, 6: 4, 6: 2
7th	August 3, 2008	Vancouver (2)	Hard court	Kevin Kim	6: 3, 6: 0
8th.	May 2, 2010	Rhodes	Hard court	Rainer Schüttler	7: 6 3 , 6: 3
9.	August 9, 2010	Vancouver (3)	Hard court	Ričardas Berankis	7: 5, 6: 2
10.	May 15, 2011	Busan (1)	Hard court	Tatsuma Ito	6: 2, 6: 7 5 , 6: 3
11.	May 21, 2011	Fargʻona	Hard court	Greg Jones	6: 2, 6: 1
12.	June 11, 2011	Nottingham	race	Jérémy Chardy	6: 4, 3: 6, 7: 5
13.	2nd September 2012	Bangkok	Hard court	Yūichi Sugita	6: 1, 7: 5
14th	May 19, 2013	Busan (2)	Hard court	Alex Bogomolov junior	6: 1, 6: 4
15th	July 28, 2013	Astana	Hard court	Mikhail Kukushkin	5: 7, 6: 2, 7: 6 6
16.	October 13, 2013	Tashkent	Hard court	Teimuras Gabashvili	6: 1, 6: 2
17th	April 12, 2015	Batman	Hard court	Blaž Kavčič	6: 7 5 , 6: 3, 6: 3
18th	23rd August 2015	Vancouver (4)	Hard court	John-Patrick Smith	6: 4, 7: 5
19th	November 1, 2015	Suzhou	Hard court	Matija Pecotić	6: 1, 1: 0 up.
20th	March 27, 2016	Shenzhen	Hard court	Wu Di	6: 4, 6: 3
21st	January 14, 2017	Canberra	Hard court	Jan-Lennard Struff	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
22nd	18th June 2017	Nottingham	race	Thomas Fabbiano	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
23.	June 9, 2019	Little rock	Hard court	Lee Duck-hee	6: 1, 4: 3 up.

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 28, 2008	Beijing	Hard court	Andy Roddick	4: 6, 7: 6 6 , 3: 6
2.	July 28, 2014	Atlanta	Hard court	John Isner	3: 6, 4: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 1, 2016	Istanbul	sand	Flavio Cipolla	Andrés Molteni Diego Schwartzman	6: 3, 5: 7, [10: 7]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 18, 2007	Kaohsiung	Hard court	Prakash Amritraj	Rik De Voest Pierre-Ludovic Duclos	6: 4, 7: 6 4
2.	July 22, 2012	Binghamton	Hard court	Harel Srugo	Adrien Bossel Michael McClune	6: 2, 3: 6, [10: 8]
3.	March 31, 2013	Le Gosier	Hard court	Wang Yeu-tzuoo	Philipp Marx Florin Mergea	6: 1, 6: 2
4th	October 25, 2015	Ningbo	Hard court	Amir Weintraub	Nikola Mektić Franko Škugor	6: 3, 3: 6, [10: 6]
5.	January 27, 2019	Burnie	Hard court	Lloyd Harris	Mirza Bašić Tomislav Brkić	6: 3, 6: 7 3 , [10: 8]

Web links

Commons : Dudi Sela  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Dudi Sela (English)
• ITF profile of Dudi Sela (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Dudi Sela (English)