Potito Starace

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Potito Starace Tennis player
Potito Starace
Potito Starace at the 2013 French Open
Nickname: Poto
Nation: ItalyItaly Italy
Birthday: July 14, 1981
Size: 188 cm
Weight: 84 kg
1st professional season: 2001
Resignation: 2015
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer: Fabrizio Fanucci
Prize money: $ 3,795,741
singles
Career record: 161: 193
Highest ranking: 27 (October 15, 2007)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (2005–2007, 2009–2012)
French Open 3R (2004, 2007)
Wimbledon 2R (2009)
US Open 2R (2004, 2011)
Double
Career record: 110: 114
Career title: 6th
Highest ranking: 40 (June 18, 2012)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open AF (2011, 2012)
French Open HF (2012)
Wimbledon 2R (2006)
US Open AF (2011)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Potito Starace (born July 14, 1981 in Benevento ) is a former Italian tennis player .

Career

In 2001 Starace became a professional tennis player. In 2004 he reached the third round of the French Open as a qualifier with victories over Dmitri Tursunow and Sébastien Grosjean . There he was defeated by the former number 1, Marat Safin , after two match points awarded in five sets with 7: 6, 4 , 4: 6, 6: 3, 5: 7 and 5: 7. In the same year he reached the second round of the US Open and made his debut in the Davis Cup .

In 2007 he moved into the final of the ATP tournament in Valencia , where he lost to Nicolás Almagro in three sets. At the French Open he again reached the third round, in which he was defeated by world number one Roger Federer . At the end of July he reached the final of the Kitzbühel tournament , which he lost to Juan Mónaco . On October 15, 2007, Starace was number 27 in the world, its top ranking.

On December 22, 2007 it was announced that Starace was suspended for six weeks from January 1, 2008 for illegal sports betting.

At the Australian Open in 2009, he was defeated in the first round to the only 16-year-old Bernard Tomic , making him the youngest player to ever win a match in a Grand Slam tournament .

In 2010 Starace was in the final of the Umag ATP tournament , in which he was defeated in two sets by Juan Carlos Ferrero . In 2011 he reached the final of Casablanca , which he lost in straight sets to Pablo Andújar . With that he also lost his fourth ATP final.

In 2012 Starace reached the semi-finals of the French Open with his doubles partner Daniele Bracciali , they were defeated by the number 1 pairing Max Mirny / Daniel Nestor with 3: 6 and 4: 6. Starace won a total of six tournaments in the doubles competition on the ATP World Tour .

On August 7, 2015, the court of the Italian Tennis Association gave him a life ban and a fine of 20,000 euros. He and Daniele Bracciali were accused of manipulating games and being involved in betting fraud. Finally, in early 2018, they were acquitted by an Italian court. Both now want to demand compensation.

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP International Series Gold
ATP World Tour 500 (2)
ATP International Series
ATP World Tour 250 (4)
ATP Challenger Tour (20)
Title after covering
Hard Court (1)
Sand (4)
Lawn (0)
Carpet (1)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. May 16, 2004 ItalyItaly Sanremo sand NetherlandsNetherlands Peter Wessels 6: 4, 6: 4
2. June 6, 2004 ItalyItaly Sassuolo sand ItalyItaly Alessio di Mauro 6: 2, 6: 3
3. August 1, 2005 San MarinoSan Marino San Marino (1) sand United StatesUnited States Hugo Armando 6: 4, 1: 6, 6: 3
4th September 11, 2005 ItalyItaly Genoa sand ItalyItaly Flavio Cipolla 6: 3, 7: 6 3
5. April 2, 2006 ItalyItaly Naples (1) sand ItalyItaly Alessio di Mauro 6: 0, 5: 1 up.
6th April 1, 2007 ItalyItalyNaples (2) sand MoroccoMorocco Younes El Aynaoui 7: 5, 6: 2
7th August 12, 2007 San MarinoSan MarinoSan Marino (2) sand SpainSpain Albert Montañés 6: 4, 7: 6 5
8th. April 6, 2008 ItalyItalyNaples (3) sand BrazilBrazil Marcos Daniel 6: 4, 4: 6, 7: 6 3
9. July 5, 2009 ItalyItaly Turin sand ArgentinaArgentina Máximo González 7: 6 4 , 6: 3
10. August 14, 2011 San MarinoSan MarinoSan Marino (3) sand SlovakiaSlovakia Martin Kližan 6: 1, 3: 0 up.
11. May 5, 2013 ItalyItalyNaples (4) sand ItalyItaly Alessandro Giannessi 6: 2, 2: 0 up.

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. April 15, 2007 SpainSpain Valencia sand SpainSpain Nicolás Almagro 6: 4, 2: 6, 1: 6
2. July 29, 2007 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel sand ArgentinaArgentina Juan Mónaco 7: 5, 3: 6, 4: 6
3. August 1, 2010 CroatiaCroatia Umag sand SpainSpain Juan Carlos Ferrero 4: 6, 4: 6
4th April 10, 2011 MoroccoMorocco Casablanca sand SpainSpain Pablo Andújar 1: 6, 2: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour
No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. March 4, 2007 MexicoMexico Acapulco sand ArgentinaArgentina Martín Vassallo Argüello Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		6-0, 6-2
2. July 29, 2007 AustriaAustria Kitzbühel sand PeruPeru Luis Horna GermanyGermany Tomas Behrend Christopher Kas
GermanyGermany  		7: 6 4 , 7: 6 5
3. October 12, 2008 RussiaRussia Moscow Carpet (i) UkraineUkraine Serhiy Stachowskyj AustraliaAustralia Stephen Huss Ross Hutchins
United KingdomUnited Kingdom  		7: 6 4 , 2: 6, [10: 6]
4th October 31, 2010 RussiaRussia St. Petersburg Hard court (i) ItalyItaly Daniele Bracciali IndiaIndia Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
PakistanPakistan  		7: 6 6 , 7: 6 5
5. September 24, 2011 RomaniaRomania Bucharest sand ItalyItaly Daniele Bracciali AustriaAustria Julian Knowle David Marrero
SpainSpain 		3: 6, 6: 4, [10: 8]
6th February 10, 2013 ChileChile Viña del Mar sand ItalyItaly Paolo Lorenzi ArgentinaArgentina Juan Mónaco Rafael Nadal
SpainSpain  		6: 2, 6: 4
ATP Challenger Tour
No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. June 30, 2002 ItalyItaly Sassuolo sand ItalyItaly Leonardo Azzaro ItalyItaly Manuel Jorquera Diego Moyano
ArgentinaArgentina  		6: 3, 6: 2
2. July 5, 2009 ItalyItaly Turin sand ItalyItaly Daniele Bracciali ColombiaColombia Santiago Giraldo Pere Riba
SpainSpain  		6: 3, 6: 4
3. May 3, 2013 ItalyItaly Naples sand ItalyItaly Stefano Ianni ItalyItaly Alessandro Giannessi Andrei Golubew
KazakhstanKazakhstan  		6: 1, 6: 3
4th June 14, 2014 ItalyItaly Caltanissetta sand ItalyItaly Daniele Bracciali SpainSpain Pablo Carreño Busta Enrique López-Pérez
SpainSpain  		6: 3, 6: 3
5. July 12, 2014 ItalyItaly San Benedetto sand ItalyItaly Daniele Giorgini BoliviaBolivia Hugo Dellien Sergio Galdós
PeruPeru  		6: 3, 6: 7 3 , [10: 5]
6th August 18, 2014 ItalyItaly Cordenons sand RomaniaRomania Adrian Ungur Czech RepublicCzech Republic František Čermák Lukáš Dlouhý
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		6: 2, 6: 4
7th September 6, 2014 ItalyItaly Genoa sand ItalyItaly Daniele Bracciali GermanyGermany Frank Moser Alexander Satschko
GermanyGermany  		6: 3, 6: 4
8th. September 27, 2014 RomaniaRomania Sibiu sand RomaniaRomania Adrian Ungur RomaniaRomania Alexandru-Daniel Carpen Marius Copil
RomaniaRomania  		7: 5, 6: 2
9. June 6, 2015 ItalyItaly Mestre sand ItalyItaly Flavio Cipolla ArgentinaArgentina Facundo Bagnis Sergio Galdós
PeruPeru  		5: 7, 7: 6 3 , [10: 4]

Final participation

ATP World Tour
No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. March 4, 2006 MexicoMexico Acapulco (1) sand ItalyItaly Filippo Volandri Czech RepublicCzech Republic František Čermák Leoš Friedl
Czech RepublicCzech Republic  		5: 7, 2: 6
2. February 7, 2010 ChileChile Santiago de Chile sand ArgentinaArgentina Horacio Zeballos PolandPoland Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach
AustriaAustria  		4: 6, 0: 6
3. February 28, 2010 MexicoMexicoAcapulco (2) sand ItalyItaly Fabio Fognini PolandPolandŁukasz Kubot Oliver Marach
AustriaAustria		 0: 6, 0: 6

Web links

Commons : Potito Starace  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Starace and Bracciali blocked in Italy. In: news.ch. December 22, 2007, accessed November 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Betting fraud - Potito Starace and Daniele Bracciali banned for life. In: spox.com. August 7, 2015, accessed August 7, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Tennis professionals Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace acquitted of allegations of sports fraud. In: eurosport.de. Retrieved June 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Starace, Potito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Benevento , Italy