Giovanni Lapentti

Giovanni Lapentti
Lapentti in 2014
Nation:	Ecuador
Birthday:	January 25, 1983
Size:	193 cm
Weight:	91 kg
1st professional season:	2002
Resignation:	2017
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Gabriel Markus
Prize money:	$ 588,402
singles
Career record:	19:37
Highest ranking:	110 (May 23, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	12:18
Highest ranking:	176 (April 16, 2004)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Giovanni Carlo Lapentti (born January 25, 1983 in Guayaquil ) is a former Ecuadorian tennis player .

Private

Giovanni is the younger brother of the former tennis player Nicolás Lapentti . His younger brother Leonardo also played tennis (at a lower level). Giovanni Lapentti married Andrea Gómez in 2011, Miss Venezuela in 2004 and became a father in 2012.

Career

2001 Lapentti won the youth doubles competition at Wimbledon on the side of Frank Dancevic .

Lapentti made his ATP World Tour debut in 2003 at ATP Las Vegas . After qualifying, he won against Paradorn Srichaphan in the first round before losing to David Sánchez 3: 6, 6: 7 in the round of 16 . At the French Open 2003 he suffered an injury in the match against Tommy Robredo when the score was 2-2 sets, so he gave up the match and could not return to the tour until 2004 . In total, he won four Challenger titles in 2003, most of all players that year.

Already in 1998 Lapentti made his debut in the Davis Cup, at the age of 15 years. He won against Björn Munroe from the Bahamas in straight sets. In 2000 he managed to turn a 2-0 set deficit against Arvind Parmar , so that Ecuador won the match 3-2 and rose to the world group for the fourth time. Overall, his record is 19:28 in 26 encounters, of which eleven wins and 17 defeats are individual. Lapentti has now completed the third most games after Andrés Gómez and his brother Nicolás Lapentti .

In his career Lapentti reached the quarterfinals of an ATP tournament twice - in Scottsdale in 2005 and in Indianapolis in the same year .

In February 2010, the Ecuadorian resigned and played his last tournament at the Ecuador Open . He and his brother Nicolás also got a wildcard for doubles.

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 Series

ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series

ATP Challenger Tour (16)

singles

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 16, 2003	Salinas	sand	Iván Miranda	6: 3, 6: 4
2.	July 27, 2003	Campos do Jordão	Hard court	Goichi Motomura	6: 4, 6: 0
3.	October 12, 2003	Quito (1)	sand	Ricardo Mello	6: 3, 6: 7, 6: 3
4th	November 2, 2003	Waco	Hard court	Paul Goldstein	6: 4, 6: 3
5.	August 15, 2004	Manta ray (1)	Hard court	Carlos Berlocq	6: 7 2 , 6: 3, 6: 4
6th	October 10, 2004	Quito (2)	sand	Răzvan Sabau	6: 4, 6: 3
7th	July 19, 2008	Manta ray (2)	Hard court	Ricardo Mello	6: 2, 6: 4
8th.	September 14, 2008	Quito (3)	sand	Riccardo Ghedin	6: 4, 6: 4
9.	October 10, 2010	Quito (4)	sand	João Souza	2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
10.	March 12, 2011	San Jose	Hard court	Igor Kunitsyn	7: 5, 6: 3

Double

Victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 26, 2003	Campos do Jordão	Hard court	Rik De Voest	Carlos Berlocq Miguel Gallardo Valles	6: 1, 7: 5
2.	May 29, 2004	Ljubljana	sand	Rik De Voest	Robert Lindstedt Michael Russell	6: 3, 6: 4
3.	February 11, 2005	Dallas	Hard court	Rik De Voest	Ramón Delgado André Sá	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	January 29, 2005	Santiago de Chile	sand	Damián Patriarca	Enzo Artoni Ignacio González King	6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 4
5.	April 10, 2011	Recife	Hard court	Fernando Romboli	André Ghem Rodrigo Guidolin	6: 2, 6: 1
6th	February 14, 2016	Santo Domingo	sand	Ariel Behar	Jonathan Eysseric Franko Škugor	7: 5, 6: 4

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Lapentti  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• ATP profile of Giovanni Lapentti (English)
• ITF profile Giovanni Lapentti (English)
• Davis Cup statistics Giovanni Lapentti (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nicolas Lapentti Halts Retirement For Brothers Farewell Tournament In Ecuador. In: ubitennis.net. February 6, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017 .