Flavio Cipolla

Infobox Tennis player
playername= Flavio Cipolla


country= ITA
residence= Rome, Italy
datebirth= birth date and age|1983|10|20
placebirth= Rome, Italy
height= height|m=1.72
weight= convert|74|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro= 2003
plays= Right; Two-handed backhand
careerprizemoney= $402,103
singlesrecord= 6–8
singlestitles= 0
highestsinglesranking= No. 110 (April 21 2008)
AustralianOpenresult=
FrenchOpenresult= 2nd (2007)
Wimbledonresult=
USOpenresult= 3rd (2008)
doublesrecord= 3–7
doublestitles= 0
highestdoublesranking= No. 75 (July 14, 2008)
updated = October 2, 2008

Flavio Cipolla (born October 20, 1983, in Rome) is a professional tennis player on the ATP Tour from Italy. He reached the second round at the French Open of 2007, where he lost to Rafael Nadal. [ [http://www.rte.ie/sport/2007/0531/frenchopenm.html RTÉ Sport: Nadal advances at French Open ] ] He reached the 3rd round of the 2008 US Open.

Career

2008

Cipolla began 2008 with a bang the first week in January, winning the singles and doublestitles of the Challenger in New Caledonia, to get his singles ranking to a career high of #116.He won 2 more Challenger doubles titles in February in Belgrade and in March in Italyto establish himself as a top-100 doubles player, but did not make any further progress insingles after the first week, failing to qualify into the Australian Open and losingfirst or 2nd round in his next 6 tournaments, all Challengers.

Cipolla got a chance to compete in a grand-slam tournament at the 2008 U.S. Open in the men's singles competition at Flushing Meadows. Despite losing in qualifying he, along with Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, were reinstated following the withdrawals of Mikhail Youzhny and Mario Ancic. Cipolla made the most of his opportunity and reached the third round. In the first round he beat Jan Hernych before defeating Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei in the second round. In the third round he came up against world number 10 and tenth seed Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland. Cipolla took the match to 5 sets by taking a shock two set lead, however his Swiss opponent still had enough to come from behind and take the match, emerging victorious 5-7, 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-0, 6-4.

Titles (16)

Singles (4)

References

External links

*ATP|id=C723
* [http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?players=Cipolla&weeks=12 Cipolla Recent Match Results]
* [http://steveghelper.com/RankingHistory.php?player=Cipolla Cipolla World Ranking History]