Flavio Cipolla

Flavio Cipolla
Flavio Cipolla at Wimbledon 2014
Nation:	Italy
Birthday:	October 20, 1983
Size:	173 cm
Weight:	74 kg
1st professional season:	2003
Playing hand:	Right, one-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 1,632,873
singles
Career record:	36:66
Highest ranking:	70 (April 23, 2012)
Current placement:	663
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	17:36
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	75 (July 14, 2008)
Current placement:	858
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: September 10, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Flavio Cipolla (born October 20, 1983 in Rome ) is an Italian tennis player .

Career

Cipolla has been a professional tennis player since 2003. He won his first individual title in 2006 at the Challenger tournament in Turin , when he defeated Marcel Granollers . Cipolla achieved its first triumph in doubles in 2005 in Mantua , alongside his compatriot Alessandro Motti . Among other things, he played successfully in doubles with Simon Stadler (victory in Saransk 2005) and Tomas Behrend (victory in Barcelona 2006). In early 2008 he was able to win the Challenger tournament in Nouméa in both singles and doubles.

In 2016, he surprisingly achieved his first ATP tournament victory. With his Israeli doubles partner Dudi Sela , he was able to win the ATP tournament in Istanbul in the ATP World Tour 250 category on May 1st at the age of 32 . For his doubles partner it was also the first tournament victory at ATP level.

Grand Slam record

In 2007, Cipolla played a Grand Slam tournament for the first time. After he failed in qualifying at the Australian Open , he defeated Davide Sanguinetti , Marcel Granollers and Benjamin Balleret in qualifying for the 2007 French Open . In the first main round of the tournament he defeated Teimuras Gabashvili , who had to give up during the game. The following game against the tournament favorites Rafael Nadal he clearly lost 2: 6, 1: 6, 4: 6.

In 2008 Cipolla qualified for the US Open in New York City . In the first round he defeated Jan Hernych in five sets (6: 7, 6: 4, 2: 6, 7: 6, 7: 6) in a four-hour match. He then defeated Lu Yen-hsun in four sets in the second round , but was eliminated in the third round against Stanislas Wawrinka despite a two-set lead in five sets (7: 5, 7: 6, 4: 6, 0: 6, 4: 6), also in a four-hour match.

At the Australian Open 2009 Cipolla defeated Dmitri Tursunow in the first round in four sets, but was eliminated in the second round against Tommy Haas in three sets.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals 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) Lawn (0) Sand (1)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 30, 2006	Turin	sand	Marcel Granollers	6: 3, 6: 3
2.	July 31, 2007	Trani	sand	Pablo Andújar	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 4
3.	September 4, 2007	Genoa	sand	Gianluca Naso	6: 2, 6: 7 4 , 7: 5
4th	January 6, 2008	Nouméa	Hard court	Stéphane Bohli	6: 4, 7: 5
5.	February 6, 2011	Burnie	Hard court	Chris Guccione	without a fight

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

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

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	4th July 2005	Mantua	sand	Alessandro Motti	Salvador Navarro Óscar Serrano Gámez	5: 7, 6: 3, 6: 3
2.	August 2, 2005	Saransk	sand	Simon Stadler	Konstantin Kravchuk Alexander Kudryavtsev	7: 6 2 , 4: 6, 7: 6 3
3.	September 19, 2005	Banja Luka (1)	sand	Rainer Eitzinger	Jeroen Masson Stefan Wauters	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
4th	September 25, 2006	Bratislava	sand	Marcel Granollers	David Marrero Pablo Santos-González	7: 6 2 , 6: 4
5.	October 9, 2006	Barcelona	sand	Tomas Behrend	Pablo Andújar Marcel Granollers	6: 3, 6: 2
6th	March 26, 2007	Naples	sand	Marcel Granollers	Marco Crugnola Alessio di Mauro	6: 4, 6: 2
7th	April 30, 2007	Rome (1)	sand	Marcel Granollers	Stefano Galvani Manuel Jorquera	3: 6, 6: 1, [11: 9]
8th.	January 5, 2008	Nouméa	Hard court	Simone Vagnozzi	Jan Mertl Martin Slanar	6: 4, 6: 4
9.	February 11, 2008	Belgrade	Carpet (i)	Konstantinos Economidis	Alessandro Motti Filip Polášek	4: 6, 6: 2, [10: 8]
10.	March 29, 2008	Barletta	sand	Marcel Granollers	Oliver Marach Michal Mertiňák	6: 3, 2: 6, [11: 9]
11.	May 2, 2008	Rome (2)	sand	Simone Vagnozzi	Paolo Lorenzi Giancarlo Petrazzuolo	6: 3, 6: 3
12.	June 1, 2008	Alessandria	sand	Simone Vagnozzi	Matwé Middelkoop Melle van Gemerden	3: 6, 6: 1, [10: 4]
13.	October 13, 2008	Tashkent	Hard court	Pavel Šnobel	Mikhail Yelgin Alexander Kudryavzew	6: 3, 6: 4
14th	February 28, 2010	Meknes	sand	Pablo Andújar	Oleksandr Dolhopolov Artem Smyrnow	6: 2, 6: 2
15th	September 12, 2010	Brașov	sand	Daniele Giorgini	Radu Albot Andrei Ciumac	6: 3, 6: 4
16.	September 26, 2010	Todi (1)	sand	Alessio di Mauro	Marcel Granollers Gerard Granollers	6: 1, 6: 4
17th	April 3, 2011	Barranquilla	sand	Paolo Lorenzi	Alejandro Falla Eduardo Struvay	6: 3, 6: 4
18th	March 15, 2014	Kazan	Hard court (i)	Goran Tošić	Viktor Baluda Konstantin Kravchuk	3: 6, 7: 5, [12:10]
19th	March 8, 2015	Quimper	Hard court (i)	Dominik Meffert	Martin Emmrich Andreas Siljeström	3: 6, 7: 6 5 , [10: 8]
20th	June 6, 2015	Mestre	sand	Potito Starace	Facundo Bagnis Sergio Galdós	5: 7, 7: 6 3 , [10: 4]
21st	July 11, 2015	Todi (2)	sand	Máximo González	Andreas Beck Peter Gojowczyk	6: 4, 6: 1
22nd	29th August 2015	Manerbio	sand	Daniel Muñoz de La Nava	Gero Kretschmer Alexander Satschko	7: 6 5 , 3: 6, [11: 9]
23.	19th September 2015	Banja Luka (2)	sand	Ilija Bozoljac	Jaroslav Pospíšil Jan Šátral	6: 2, 7: 5

Web links

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• ATP profile Flavio Cipolla (English)
• ITF profile of Flavio Cipolla (English)
• Davis Cup statistics Flavio Cipolla (English)