Simone Bolelli

Infobox Tennis biography
playername = Simone Bolelli


nickname = Superbol
country = ITA
residence = Budrio, Italy
datebirth = birth date and age|1985|10|8
placebirth = Bologna, Italy
height = height|m=1.85
weight = convert|84|kg|lb|abbr=on
turnedpro = 2003
retired = "Active"
plays = Right-handed; one-handed backhand
careerprizemoney = $US628,807
singlesrecord = 21–30
singlestitles = 0 ATP, 5 Challenger / Futures
highestsinglesranking = 45 (September 8, 2008)
AustralianOpenresult = 2R (2008)
FrenchOpenresult = 3R (2008)
Wimbledonresult = 3R (2008)
USOpenresult = 2R (2007)
doublesrecord = 6–19
doublestitles = 0 ATP, 3 Challenger / Futures
highestdoublesranking = 154 (January 29, 2007)
updated = May 5, 2008

Simone Bolelli (born October 8, 1985 in Bologna) is a professional Italian tennis player. Bolelli reached his career-high singles ranking of World Number 45 on September 8, 2008. His highest doubles rank was World Number 154, achieved on January 29, 2007. Bolelli turned professional in 2003 and uses his right hand in play.

Career

2003

In 2003, Bolelli reached his first ITF Futures tournament semifinal at Egypt F1, losing to 485th-ranked Jaroslav Pospisil. He played entirely Futures events except for one Challenger tournament in Brindisi, losing to Galo Blanco in the second round. He finished the year ranked 623.

2004

2004 saw Simone reached his first Futures final, losing to Dominique Coene. He then made another final and won two futures titles, making a 2 wins out of 3 finals record for Futures finals in the 2004 season. He won the Italy F15 and F8 titles, and lost in the final of a Challenger event in Braşov. In doubles, Bolelli won the doubles Futures title with Alberto Brizzi at Italy F15, and with Brizzi at Italy F8, winning both the singles and doubles events at F15 and F8. He finished ranked 269 for singles and 533 for doubles.

2005

Bolelli did not win a Futures tournament at all in 2005 for singles, however did reach the finals of a Challenger in Trani. Simone's doubles success in 2005 was also limited; as for he didn't even reach any type of Futures or Challenger final.

2006

Simone Bolelli played in a few tournaments higher than a Challenger, receiving a wildcard into the Rome Masters. He lost in in three sets to number 39 Fernando Verdasco. He also won the Como Futures tournament, and made the finals of Recanati before losing to Davide Sanguinetti. He won his first Challenger singles title over Ivo Minar, and then made the final of a Challenger in Bergamo where he lost to Alex Bogdanovic. He also played Fernando Gonzalez in Basel (entering the tournament as a Lucky Loser), taking the second set in a tiebreak and losing the surrounding sets in tiebreaks. Bolelli qualified and lost in the first round of Vienna to number 27 Dominik Hrbaty. He lost in Stuttgart to Jiri Novak, having played 4 ATP matches and winning a set in 2 of them. Partnered with Fabio Fognini, Bolelli lost in the finals of the Napoli Challenger doubles tournament in March. Simone won the Rencanati doubles tournament with singles champion (who defeated Bolelli in the final), Davide Sanguinetti, and reached the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo Masters partnering Andreas Seppi, winning three-set matches over Igor Andreev and Nikolay Davydenko and then Leos Friedl and Frantisek Cermak. They eventually lost to Fabrice Santoro and Nenad Zimonjić. He finished the year ranked in the top 200, ranked 127 for singles and 171 for doubles.

2007

In qualifying for the 2007 Australian Open, Bolleli was seeded 15th, but lost in the second round. [Source: [http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/bios/cmatch/ms/atpba98.html] ] Bolelli lost to Fabrice Santoro in the Bergamo Challenger, and bosted a career win over 22nd-ranked Dmitry Tursunov at the Miami Masters, before losing to David Ferrer. He won and lost one singles Davis cup match versus Israel, losing to Noam Okun, but beating Dudi Sela. He lost in the Casablanca challenger final to Marin Cilic and winning his own in Tunisia over Andrei Pavel in three sets. Simone beat former World Number 1 Marat Safin in Barcelona, and competed in the Miami, Rome and Hamburg Masters. He made a Grand Slam debut at the 2007 French Open, beating former runner-up Martin Verkerk and then losing to Guillermo Cañas, and again, beating Guillermo Garcia-López at the 2007 Wimbledon event before losing to former world number 1 Lleyton Hewitt. He lost in the first round of doubles cometition on both occasions, both times with Juan Martín del Potro.

2008

Bolelli got banned by The Italian Tennis Federation from future national team events for skipping the Davis Cup tie with Latvia in Europe-Africa zone relegation playoff. The ban prevents Bolelli from playing in Davis Cup and the Olympics. It will also prevent him from getting wild cards that are assigned for select tournaments by the federation. Bolelli said he told Italy captain Corrado Barrazzutti well in advance of the tie that he preferred to work on his fast-court game in Asia.

ingles Titles

A = did not participate in the tournament.

References

External links

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* [http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?playersBolel=&weeks=12 Bolelli Recent Match Results]
* [http://steveghelper.com/RankingHistory.php?player=bolel Bolelli World Ranking History]