Thomaz Bellucci

Thomaz Bellucci

Infobox Tennis player
playername=Thomaz Bellucci
|country=BRA
residence= São Paulo, Brazil
datebirth= birth date and age|1987|12|30|df=y
placebirth= Tietê, Brazil
height= height|m=1.87
weight= convert|80|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro=2005
plays= Left-handed; two-handed backhand
careerprizemoney= US $213,709
singlesrecord= 3–11
singlestitles= 0
highestsinglesranking= No. 67 (June 16, 2008)
AustralianOpenresult=
FrenchOpenresult= 1st (2008)
Wimbledonresult= 2nd (2008)
USOpenresult= 2nd (2008)
doublesrecord= 2–2
doublestitles= 0
highestdoublesranking= No. 115 (May 12, 2008)
updated= September 7, 2008

Thomaz Cocchiarali Bellucci (born December 30, 1987 in Tietê, Brazil) is a professional Brazilian tennis player. He used a string of Challenger tournament victories early in 2008 to break into the top 100 in the world as a 20-year-old.

Juniors career

Bellucci reached a high of #15 in the world two weeks after his 17th birthday, in January, 2005. [ [http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/players/player.asp?player=100052372 ITF Juniors Profile Page for Bellucci, accessed 5/15/08] ]

Professional career

2007

Bellucci began 2007 ranked #582, but began a rapid ascent in June to finish the year at #202.

2008

The 20-year-old Bellucci continued his rapid rise early in 2008. The first week of the year,ranked #202, he made it to the quarterfinals of a Challenger in São Paulo.

Bellucci had little success in his next few tournaments, but in February he got back on track, beating #145 Pablo Andujar while qualifying into an ATP stop in Buenos Aires and thenrecording his first-ever ATP match win, over #83 Werner Eschauer, before bowing out inthe next round to #25 Juan Ignacio Chela. The following week, he beat #130 Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo and #140 Eduardo Schwank en route to his first-ever Challenger title, in Santiago, Chile, to improve his ranking to #145. The next week, he beat #162 Dick Norman before losing in a Challenger second round match.

April - May: 17 match Challenger winning streak

In April, Bellucci began an amazing string of Challenger match wins in singles play. First he won a minor Challenger in Florianopolis, Brazil, and made the final in doubles. Two weeks later, he ran his singles streak to 10 matches while winning a major Challenger in Tunis, beating #155 Andreas Beck, #363 Martin Verkerk, #136 Paul Capdeville, #113
Nicolas Massu, and #175 Dusan Vemic, and also won the doubles title. Those wins got him into the top 100 for the first time at #100. The following week, at a minor Challenger in Rabat, Morocco, he ran his streak to 15 matches while beating #136 Capdeville again, #96 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, and #119 Martin Vassallo-Arguello to win the title and get his ranking to #81. His streak endedat 17 matches the next week, after beating #128 Rik de Voest to reach the quarterfinals of a challenger in Bordeaux, France, when he finally lost to #111 Igor Kunitsyn, improving Bellucci'sranking to #75.

French Open

In late May, he qualified into his first French Open, lost to 3-time defending champion and ATP #2 Rafael Nadal in the first round.

Wimbledon

Bellucci achieved his first win in a Grand Slam event, defeating Igor Kunitsyn in four sets.

Titles (6)

Singles (4)

References

External links

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* [http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?players=Bellucci&weeks=12 Bellucci Recent Match Results]
* [http://steveghelper.com/RankingHistory.php?player=Bellucci Bellucci World Ranking History]
* [http://www.itftennis.com/juniors/players/player.asp?player=100052372 Bellucci ITF Juniors Profile]
* [http://www.daviscup.com/teams/player.asp?player=100052372 Bellucci Davis Cup Profile]
* [http://www.ThomazBellucci.com Thomaz Bellucci fan site]
* [http://www.ThomazBellucci.blogspot.com Thomaz Bellucci fan blog site]


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