Flavio Cipolla


Flavio Cipolla 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. He reached the 3rd round of the 2008 US Open. His career high rank is No. 70, achieved on 23 April 2012.

Career

2008

Cipolla began 2008 with a bang the first week in January, winning the singles and doubles
titles 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 Italy
to establish himself as a top-100 doubles player.
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 Rui Machado, were reinstated following the withdrawals of Mikhail Youzhny. 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, 6–4, 6–0, 6–4.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–02016 Istanbul Open – Doubles|Istanbul Open, Turkey250 SeriesClay Dudi Sela Andrés Molteni
Diego Schwartzman		6–3, 5–7,

Challenger career finals

Singles (5)

No.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
1.30 May 2006Turin, ItalyClay Marcel Granollers6–3, 6–3
2.31 July 2007Trani, ItalyClay Pablo Andújar4–6, 6–2, 6–4
3.4 September 2007Genoa, ItalyClay Gianluca Naso6–2, 6–7, 7–5
4.1 January 2008Nouméa, New CaledoniaHard Stéphane Bohli6–4, 7–5
5.6 February 2011Burnie, AustraliaHard Chris GuccioneW/O

Doubles (17)

No.DateTournamentSurfacePartneringOpponentsScore
1.4 July 2005Mantua, ItalyClay Alessandro Motti Salvador Navarro
Óscar Serrano		5–7, 6–3, 6–3
2.2 August 2005Saransk, RussiaClay Simon Stadler Konstantin Kravchuk
Alexander Kudryavtsev		7–6, 4–6, 7–6
3.19 September 2005Banja Luka, Bosnia and HerzegovinaClay Rainer Eitzinger Jeroen Masson
Stefan Wauters		4–6, 6–3, 6–3
4.25 September 2006Bratislava, Slovak RepublicClay Marcel Granollers David Marrero
Pablo Santos		7–6, 6–4
5.9 October 2006Barcelona, SpainClay Tomas Behrend Pablo Andújar
Marcel Granollers		6–3, 6–2
6.26 March 2007Naples, ItalyClay Marcel Granollers Marco Crugnola
Alessio di Mauro		6–4, 6–2
7.30 April 2007Rome, ItalyClay Marcel Granollers Stefano Galvani
Manuel Jorquera		3–6, 6–1,
8.1 January 2008Nouméa, New CaledoniaHard Simone Vagnozzi Jan Mertl
Martin Slanar		6–4, 6–4
9.11 February 2008Belgrade, SerbiaCarpet Konstantinos Economidis Alessandro Motti
Filip Polášek		4–6, 6–2,
10.24 March 2008Barletta, ItalyClay Marcel Granollers Oliver Marach
Michal Mertiňák		6–3, 2–6,
11.28 April 2008Rome, ItalyClay Simone Vagnozzi Paolo Lorenzi
Giancarlo Petrazzuolo		6–3, 6–3
12.27 May 2008Alessandria, ItalyClay Simone Vagnozzi Matwé Middelkoop
Melle Van Gemerden		3–6, 6–1,
13.13 October 2008Tashkent, UzbekistanHard Pavel Šnobel Michail Elgin
Alexandre Kudryavtsev		6–3, 6–4
14.28 February 2010Meknes, MoroccoClay Pablo Andújar Alexandr Dolgopolov
Artem Smirnov		6–2, 6–2
15.12 September 2010Braşov, RomaniaClay Daniele Giorgini Radu Albot
Andrej Ciumac		6–3, 6–4
16.19 September 2010Todi, ItalyClay Alessio di Mauro Marcel Granollers
Gerard Granollers-Pujol		6–1, 6–4
17.3 April 2011Barranquilla, ColombiaHard Paolo Lorenzi Alejandro Falla
Eduardo Struvay		6–3, 6–4

Runners-up (22)

Singles (8)

No.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
1.29 August 2005Freudenstadt, GermanyClay Sergio Roitman7–5, 6–4
2.6 September 2005Genoa, ItalyClay Potito Starace6–3, 7–6
3.3 April 2006Monza, ItalyClay Nicolas Devilder6–2, 7–5
4.28 July 2008Tampere, FinlandClay Mathieu Montcourt6–2, 6–2
5.9 January 2010Nouméa, New CaledoniaHard Florian Mayer6–3, 6–0
6.4 Juny 2011Prostějov, Czech RepublicClay Yuri Schukin6–4, 4–6, 6–0
7.13 November 2011Loughborough, UKHard Tobias Kamke2–6, 5–7
8.9 September 2012Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, FranceHard Josselin Ouanna4–6, 5–7

Doubles (15)

No.DateTournamentSurfacePartneringOpponentsScore
1.29 June 2004Mantua, ItalyClay Alessandro Motti Daniele Bracciali
Giorgio Galimberti		6–0, 6–4
2.25 July 2005Togliatti, RussiaHard Massimo Ocera Scott Lipsky
Mark Nielsen		6–2, 6–3
3.12 September 2005Seville, SpainClay Alessandro Motti Marcos Daniel
Fernando Vicente		6–2, 6–7, 7–5
4.3 October 2005Rome, ItalyClay Alessandro Motti Konstantinos Economidis
Vasilis Mazarakis		6–4, 7–6
5.20 March 2006Barletta, ItalyClay Alessandro Motti Santiago Ventura
Fernando Vicente		7–6, 4–6,
6.15 May 2006San Remo, ItalyClay Francesco Piccari Julien Benneteau
Nicolas Mahut		6–4, 7–6
7.30 May 2006Turin, ItalyClay Leonardo Azzaro Marcel Granollers
Marc López		6–4, 6–3
8.11 June 2007Košice, Slovak RepublicClay Leonardo Azzaro Filip Polášek
Lukáš Rosol		6–1, 7–6
9.23 July 2007Poznań, PolandClay Ivo Klec Marc López
Santiago Ventura		6–2, 5–7,
10.27 August 2007Como, ItalyClay Maro Pedrini Máximo González
Simone Vagnozzi		7–6, 6–4
11.4 September 2007Genoa, ItalyClay Simone Bolelli Daniele Giorgini
Simone Vagnozzi		6–3, 6–1
12.11 October 2009Tarragona, SpainClay Alessandro Motti Tomasz Bednarek
Mateusz Kowalczyk		6–1, 6–1
13.10 January 2010Nouméa, New CaledoniaHard Simone Vagnozzi Nicolas Devilder
Édouard Roger-Vasselin		5–7, 6–2,
14.9 January 2011Nouméa, New CaledoniaHard Simone Vagnozzi Dominik Meffert
Frederik Nielsen		7–6, 5–7,
15.24 September 2011İzmir, TurkeyHard Thomas Fabbiano Travis Rettenmaier
Simon Stadler		6–0, 6–2

Singles performance timeline

Doubles Performance Timeline

''Current till 2013 Australian Open.