Flavio Cipolla (born 20 October 1983) is a former professional
tennis
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player on the
ATP Tour
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from Italy. He reached the second round at the French Open of 2007, where he lost to
Rafael Nadal
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.
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/ref> 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
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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
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. Despite losing in qualifying he, along with Rui Machado
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, were reinstated following the withdrawals of Mikhail Youzhny
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. Cipolla made the most of his opportunity and reached the third round. In the first round he beat Jan Hernych
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before defeating Yen-Hsun Lu
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He won the most titles on the ATP Challenger Tour in tennis history. His favorite surface is hardcourt, though several of ...
of Chinese Taipei
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in the second round. In the third round he came up against world number 10 and tenth seed Stanislas Wawrinka
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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)
Challenger career finals
Singles (5)
Doubles (17)
Runners-up (22)
Singles (8)
Doubles (15)
Performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
''Current till 2013 Australian Open
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.
References
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Cipolla world ranking history
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1983 births
Living people
Italian male tennis players
Tennis players from Rome