Filippo Volandri


Filippo Volandri is an Italian professional male tennis player. Volandri is a right-handed player who reached a career-high singles ranking of world no. 25 in July 2007. He turned pro in 1997 and has earned almost $4,000,000 in prize money. Volandri won the second title of his career in September 2006, beating Nicolás Lapentti in the final of the Sicily International in Palermo.

Rome Masters success & French open success

At the Rome Masters in 2007 Volandri, having entered as a wild card, recorded the biggest win of his career by beating the then world no. 1 Roger Federer in straight sets 6–2, 6–4. Volandri celebrated by doing a lap of honour around centre court, high-fiving spectators in the front rows.
Afterwards, Volandri hailed the victory as not only for himself, but for Italy, telling something of both the regard in which Federer, who holds the record for the longest spell as the world's top-ranked male player, is held and the relative under-achievement of Italy in men's tennis at the time. For his part Federer offered few excuses for his out-of-character display.
Hopes that this might be the start of Italy's re-emergence among the top nations of professional men's tennis were heightened when Volandri went on to beat world no. 12 Tomáš Berdych in the quarterfinal. The win meant that Volandri became the first Italian to reach the event's semifinals since 1978. His run stopped in the semifinals, however, as he lost to Fernando González. In the French Open he was the 29th seed and he made it to the fourth round moving him to 27th in the world, before losing in straight sets to Tommy Robredo.

Later career

Volandri has struggled greatly after the dropped match-fixing allegations, his only major success since 2007 is making it to the final of the 2012 Brasil Open where he beat then world 38 Thomaz Bellucci in the final he lost to then world 11 and top seed Nicolás Almagro in 3 sets. However, since then he has mainly competed on the ATP Challenger Tour, whilst since he reached the fourth round in the 2007 French Open he has not progressed past the 1st round of a grand slam.
On 23 June 2015, Volandri completed 300 wins at the ATP Challenger Tour tournaments by defeating Oriol Roca Batalla at the Aspria Tennis Cup in Milan. He became only the fourth player ever who obtained this achievement.

Controversy

Volandri had earlier come under suspicion for betting and match fixing, and his name featured prominently in a list compiled by the ATP of matches under suspicion for corruption.
In January 2009, Volandri received a three-month ban from the ATP for a doping offence after testing positive for salbutamol during the Indian Wells tournament. Volandri had a medical exemption from the International Tennis Federation to use salbutamol, an asthma medication, but the ITF deemed that his use of the drug was beyond therapeutic needs. His suspension was to last until 14 April 2009 and required him to forfeit all prize money and ranking points earned from the date of the failed test until the beginning of his suspension.
In March 2009, the Court of Arbitration for Sport overruled the ATP decision and ruled that Volandri should be reinstated and his forfeited ranking points and earnings returned to him. Volandri stated that he intended to sue the ATP over the incident.

ATP career finals

Singles: 9 (2 titles, 7 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–12003 Croatia Open – Singles|Croatia Open, CroatiaInternationalClay Carlos Moyá4–6, 6–3, 5–7
Win1–1St. Pölten International, AustriaInternationalClay Xavier Malisse6–1, 6–4
Loss1–2Croatia Open, CroatiaInternationalClay Guillermo Cañas5–7, 3–6
Loss1–3Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, ItalyInternationalClay Tomáš Berdych3–6, 3–6
Loss1–4Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, ItalyInternationalClay Igor Andreev6–0, 1–6, 3–6
Loss1–52006 ATP Buenos Aires – Singles|Argentina Open, ArgentinaInternationalClay Carlos Moyà6–7, 4–6
Loss1–62006 BCR Open Romania|Romanian Open, RomaniaInternationalClay Jürgen Melzer1–6, 5–7
Win2–62006 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia – Singles|Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, ItalyInternationalClay Nicolás Lapentti5–7, 6–1, 6–3
Loss2–72012 Brasil Open – Singles|Brasil Open, BrazilInternationalClay Nicolás Almagro3–6, 6–4, 4–6

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Loss0–12006 Abierto Mexicano Telcel – Men's Doubles|Mexican Open, MexicoInternationalClay Potito Starace František Čermák
Leoš Friedl		5–7, 2–6

ATP Challengers

OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Runner-up1.7 August 2000Prague, Czech RepublicClay Albert Montañés1–6, 1–6
Winner1.18 September 2000Biella, ItalyClay Hernán Gumy6–3, 6–2
Runner-up2.29 April 2002Rome, ItalyClay Martín Vassallo Argüello4–6, 0–6
Runner-up3.12 August 2002Graz, AustriaHard Olivier Mutis3–6, 2–6
Winner2.17 March 2003Cagliari, ItalyClay Rafael Nadal2–6, 6–2, 6–1
Winner3.9 June 2003Biella, ItalyClay José Acasuso2–6, 7–6, 6–4
Winner4.2 August 2004Trani, ItalyClay Francesco Aldi6–1, 6–3
Winner5.21 July 2008San MarinoClay Potito Starace5–7, 6–4, 6–1
Winner6.28 July 2008Cordenons, ItalyClay Óscar Hernández6–3, 7–5
Runner-up4.17 August 2009Trani, ItalyClay Daniel Köllerer3–6, 5–7
Winner7.12 April 2010Rome, ItalyClay Lamine Ouahab6–4, 7–5
Winner8.31 May 2010Rome, ItalyClay Reda El Amrani6–3, 6–2
Runner-up5.2 August 2010San MarinoClay Robin Haase2–6, 6–7
Runner-up6.9 August 2010Trani, ItalyClay Jesse Huta Galung6–7, 4–6
Runner-up7.28 March 2011Barletta, ItalyClay Aljaž Bedene5–7, 3–6
Runner-up8.18 April 2011Napoli, ItalyClay Thomas Schoorel2–6, 6–7
Winner9.18 July 2011Orbetello, ItalyClay Matteo Viola4–6, 6–3, 6–2
Runner-up9.18 September 2011Todi, ItalyClay Carlos Berlocq3–6, 1–6
Runner-up10.17 March 2012Rabat, MoroccoClay Martin Kližan2–6, 3–6
Runner-up11.12 May 2013Rome, ItalyClay Aljaž Bedene4–6, 2–6
Winner10.23 June 2013Milan, ItalyClay Andrej Martin6–3, 6–2
Winner11.28 July 2013Orbetello, ItalyClay Pere Riba6–4, 7–6
Runner-up12.11 August 2013City of San Marino, San MarinoClay Marco Cecchinato3–6, 4–6
Runner-up13.8 September 2013Genoa, ItalyClay Dustin Brown6–7, 3–6
Winner12.17 November 2013São Paulo, BrazilClay Alejandro González4–6, 6–4, 6–2
Runner-up14.14 September 2014Biella, ItalyClay Matteo Viola5–7, 1–6

Singles performance timeline

''Current as far as the 2016 Internazionali BNL d'Italia.
1 Was played on hardcourt from 2002–2008.
2 Held as Hamburg Masters until 2008 and Shanghai Masters from 2009.

Doubles performance timeline

''Current as far as the 2012 US Open.

Top 10 wins

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