Giorgio Galimberti

Giorgio Galimberti
Giorgio Galimberti 2006 at the Riviera di Rimini Challenger
Nation:	Italy
Birthday:	5th September 1976
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	79 kg
1st professional season:	1995
Playing hand:	Right
Trainer:	Maurizio Riva
Prize money:	$ 619,134
singles
Career record:	9:21
Highest ranking:	115 (May 5, 2003)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	30:37
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	65 (June 6, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Giorgio Galimberti (born September 5, 1976 in Milan ) is a former Italian tennis player .

Career

Giorgio Galimberti celebrated mainly successes in doubles in his career, but was also active in singles. His best placement in the individual world rankings was 115th on May 5, 2003. He played a total of five times in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament and reached the second round three times. He won two singles titles on the ITF Future Tour and three titles on the ATP Challenger Tour . In doubles, however, he won 25 titles on the Challenger Tour and four other future titles. His best performance in the double competitions of the Grand Slams was reaching the round of 16 at the French Open 2005 .

On the ATP World Tour , he won the tournament in Milan in February 2005 alongside Daniele Bracciali . With Bracciali he had failed in the final of the same tournament the year before. In 1998 he had already reached his first World Tour final with Massimo Valeri in Bologna . His best ranking position was 65th on June 6, 2005.

On February 18, 2008, Galimberti was banned for 100 days for illegal sports betting and was fined $ 35,000. At this point, Galimberti had not played a tournament for five months. After the ban he only played twice in tournaments, both futures.

For the Italian Davis Cup team , he completed a total of eleven matches between 2001 and 2006. He won two of his four singles games and seven of his eleven games in doubles.

successes

Legend (number of victories)

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)

Double

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	February 15, 2005	Milan	Hard court (i)	Daniele Bracciali	Jean-François Bachelot Arnaud Clément	6: 7 10 , 7: 6 6 , 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Bottom line
1.	June 8, 1998	Bologna	sand	Massimo Valeri	Brandon Coupe Paul Rosner	6: 7, 3: 6
2.	February 15, 2004	Milan	Hard court (i)	Daniele Bracciali	Jared Palmer Pavel Vízner	4: 6, 4: 6

Web links

Commons : Giorgio Galimberti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Giorgio Galimberti (English)
• ITF profile Giorgio Galimberti (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Giorgio Galimberti (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Galimberti receives betting ban , news.bbc.co.uk.