Paolo Lorenzi

Paolo Lorenzi
Paolo Lorenzi 2016 at the US Open
Nation:	Italy
Birthday:	December 25, 1981
Size:	183 cm
Weight:	78 kg
1st professional season:	2003
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Walter Grinovero Martin Rodriguez
Prize money:	$ 4,645,383
singles
Career record:	106: 175
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	33 (May 15, 2017)
Current placement:	108
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	41: 103
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	82 (January 29, 2018)
Current placement:	238
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: April 22, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Paolo Lorenzi (born December 25, 1981 in Rome ) is an Italian tennis player .

Career

Between 2000 and 2002, Lorenzi only played future tournaments. After winning his first tournament in Valpovo in 2003, he sought his luck at Challenger tournaments . The first successes came at the end of 2005 and in 2006 he won his first tournament in this category in Tarragona . With that he reached the top 200 for the first time and ended the year in 165th place.

2007 was less successful, mostly at the Challenger tournaments in the second round. He achieved a respectable success at the ATP tournament in Barcelona when he defeated his compatriot Stefano Galvani after qualifying in round one . The following year, Lorenzi initially played a few future tournaments again, after a victory in Trento he returned to the Challenger series and won the tournament in Alessandria until the end of the year . In the following four years he won eight other tournaments on the Challenger Tour.

On February 10, 2013, he won with Potito Starace in Vina del Mar for his first title on the ATP World Tour . In 2014 he reached the individual finals in São Paulo , his first on the ATP World Tour. He was defeated by Federico Delboni in three sets . He made his second final entry at the Generali Open 2016 in Kitzbühel . With the win against Nikolos Bassilaschwili , he became the oldest player to date to win his first title on the World Tour, at the time he was 34 years old.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP World Tour 500 ATP World Tour 250 (2) ATP Challenger Tour (28)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (0) Sand (2) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	23rd July 2016	Kitzbühel	sand	Nikolos Bassilashvili	6: 3, 6: 4

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 24, 2006	Tarragona	sand	Younes El Aynaoui	6: 4, 7: 6 4
2.	June 1, 2008	Alessandria	sand	Simone Vagnozzi	4: 6, 7: 6 5 , 7: 6 4
3.	June 28, 2009	Reggio nell'Emilia	sand	Jean-René Lisnard	7: 5, 1: 6, 6: 2
4th	July 5, 2009	Rijeka	sand	Blaž Kavčič	6: 3, 7: 6 2
5.	September 26, 2009	Ljubljana (1)	sand	Grega Žemlja	1: 6, 7: 6 4 , 6: 2
6th	July 18, 2010	Rimini	sand	Federico Delbonis	6: 2, 6: 0
7th	April 10, 2011	Pereira (1)	sand	Rogério Dutra da Silva	7: 5, 6: 2
8th.	September 25, 2011	Ljubljana (2)	sand	Grega Žemlja	6: 2, 6: 4
9.	August 12, 2012	Cordenons (1)	sand	Daniel Gimeno Traver	7: 6 5 , 6: 3
10.	4th November 2012	Medellin (1)	sand	Leonardo Mayer	7: 6 5 , 6: 7 4 , 6: 4
11.	April 19, 2014	San Luis Potosí	sand	Adrián Menéndez	6: 1, 6: 3
12.	4th October 2014	Cali	sand	Victor Estrella	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
13.	May 24, 2015	Eskişehir	Hard court	Íñigo Cervantes	7: 6 4 , 7: 6 5
14th	August 9, 2015	Cortina d'Ampezzo	sand	Máximo González	6: 3, 7: 5
15th	4th October 2015	Pereira (2)	sand	Alejandro González	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
16.	October 10, 2015	Medellin (2)	sand	Gonzalo Lama	7: 6 3 , 2: 0 up.
17th	January 16, 2016	Canberra	Hard court	Ivan Dodig	6: 2, 6: 4
18th	June 12, 2016	Caltanissetta (1)	sand	Matteo Donati	6: 3, 4: 6, 7: 6 7
19th	18th June 2017	Caltanissetta (2)	sand	Alessandro Giannessi	6: 4, 6: 2
20th	5th August 2018	Sopot	sand	Daniel Gimeno Traver	7: 6 2 , 6: 7 5 , 6: 3
21st	19th August 2018	Cordenons (2)	sand	Máté Valkusz	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 2, 2014	São Paulo	Sand (i)	Federico Delbonis	6: 4, 3: 6, 4: 6
2.	February 12, 2017	Quito	sand	Victor Estrella	7: 6 2 , 5: 7, 6: 7 6
3.	23rd July 2017	Umag	sand	Andrei Rublev	4: 6, 2: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 10, 2013	Viña del Mar	sand	Potito Starace	Juan Mónaco Rafael Nadal	6: 2, 6: 4

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 12, 2008	San Benedetto	sand	Júlio Silva	Cătălin-Ionuț Gârd Max Raditschnigg	6: 3, 7: 5
2.	August 2, 2009	Orbetello	sand	Giancarlo Petrazzuolo	Alessio di Mauro Manuel Jorquera	7: 6 5 , 3: 6, [10: 6]
3.	17th October 2010	Asunción	sand	Fabio Fognini	Carlos Berlocq Brian Dabul	6: 3, 6: 4
4th	April 3, 2011	Barranquilla	sand	Flavio Cipolla	Alejandro Falla Eduardo Struvay	6: 3, 6: 4
5.	June 5, 2011	Rijeka	sand	Júlio Silva	Dino Marcan Lovro Zovko	6: 3, 6: 2
6th	August 8, 2015	Cortina d'Ampezzo	sand	Matteo Viola	Lee Hsin-han Alessandro Motti	6: 7 5 , 6: 4, [10: 3]
7th	April 21, 2019	Sarasota	sand	Martín Cuevas	Luke Bambridge Jonny O'Mara	7: 6 5 , 7: 6 6

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 15, 2015	São Paulo	Sand (i)	Diego Schwartzman	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	4: 6, 2: 6
2.	February 14, 2016	Buenos Aires	sand	Íñigo Cervantes	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	3: 6, 0: 6

Web links

Commons : Paolo Lorenzi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Paolo Lorenzi (English)
• ITF profile of Paolo Lorenzi (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Paolo Lorenzi (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ First title at the age of 34 - Paolo Lorenzi makes history. In: spox.com. July 23, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .