Flavio Cipolla

Flavio Cipolla (born 20 October 1983) is an Italian tennis coach and former professional player. His career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking was No. 70, achieved on 23 April 2012. His best major result was reaching the third round of the 2008 US Open.

Flavio Cipolla

Flavio Cipolla in 2014
Country (sports)	Italy
Residence	Rome, Italy
Born	(1983-10-20) 20 October 1983 (age 41) Rome, Italy
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Turned pro	2003
Retired	2017
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$1,632,927
Singles
Career record	36-66
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 70 (23 April 2012)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2009, 2012)
French Open	2R (2007)
Wimbledon	1R (2011, 2012)
US Open	3R (2008)
Doubles
Career record	17-36
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 75 (14 July 2008)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2012, 2013)
French Open	1R (2012)
Wimbledon	2R (2008, 2017)
US Open	1R (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.

2012

In early 2012, Cipolla reached his first and only ATP Semi-Final in Casablanca, where he was defeated by Pablo Andujar. This lifted Cipolla to his highest career ranking of 70.

Coaching

In February 2023, Cipolla began coaching top 10 Women's Tennis Association (WTA) player Daria Kasatkina, replacing her longtime coach Carlos Martinez.^[1] He is also the coach of Gianluca Mager.

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–0)

Titles by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (1–0) Grass (0–0)

Titles by setting Outdoor (1–0) Indoor (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	May 2016	Istanbul Open, Turkey	250 Series	Clay	Dudi Sela	Andrés Molteni Diego Schwartzman	6–3, 5–7, [10–7]

Challenger career finals

Singles (5)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (5)

Titles by surface Hard (2) Grass (0) Clay (3) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	30 May 2006	Turin, Italy	Clay	Marcel Granollers	6–3, 6–3
2.	31 July 2007	Trani, Italy	Clay	Pablo Andújar	4–6, 6–2, 6–4
3.	4 September 2007	Genoa, Italy	Clay	Gianluca Naso	6–2, 6–7(4–7), 7–5
4.	1 January 2008	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard	Stéphane Bohli	6–4, 7–5
5.	6 February 2011	Burnie, Australia	Hard	Chris Guccione	W/O

Doubles (17)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (17)

Titles by surface Hard (3) Grass (0) Clay (13) Carpet (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents	Score
1.	4 July 2005	Mantua, Italy	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Salvador Navarro Óscar Serrano	5–7, 6–3, 6–3
2.	2 August 2005	Saransk, Russia	Clay	Simon Stadler	Konstantin Kravchuk Alexander Kudryavtsev	7–6(7–2), 4–6, 7–6(7–3)
3.	19 September 2005	Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Clay	Rainer Eitzinger	Jeroen Masson Stefan Wauters	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
4.	25 September 2006	Bratislava, Slovak Republic	Clay	Marcel Granollers	David Marrero Pablo Santos	7–6(7–2), 6–4
5.	9 October 2006	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Tomas Behrend	Pablo Andújar Marcel Granollers	6–3, 6–2
6.	26 March 2007	Naples, Italy	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Marco Crugnola Alessio di Mauro	6–4, 6–2
7.	30 April 2007	Rome, Italy	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Stefano Galvani Manuel Jorquera	3–6, 6–1, [11–9]
8.	1 January 2008	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard	Simone Vagnozzi	Jan Mertl Martin Slanar	6–4, 6–4
9.	11 February 2008	Belgrade, Serbia	Carpet	Konstantinos Economidis	Alessandro Motti Filip Polášek	4–6, 6–2, [10–8]
10.	24 March 2008	Barletta, Italy	Clay	Marcel Granollers	Oliver Marach Michal Mertiňák	6–3, 2–6, [11–9]
11.	28 April 2008	Rome, Italy	Clay	Simone Vagnozzi	Paolo Lorenzi Giancarlo Petrazzuolo	6–3, 6–3
12.	27 May 2008	Alessandria, Italy	Clay	Simone Vagnozzi	Matwé Middelkoop Melle Van Gemerden	3–6, 6–1, [10–4]
13.	13 October 2008	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Pavel Šnobel	Michail Elgin Alexandre Kudryavtsev	6–3, 6–4
14.	28 February 2010	Meknes, Morocco	Clay	Pablo Andújar	Alexandr Dolgopolov Artem Smirnov	6–2, 6–2
15.	12 September 2010	Braşov, Romania	Clay	Daniele Giorgini	Radu Albot Andrej Ciumac	6–3, 6–4
16.	19 September 2010	Todi, Italy	Clay	Alessio di Mauro	Marcel Granollers Gerard Granollers-Pujol	6–1, 6–4
17.	3 April 2011	Barranquilla, Colombia	Hard	Paolo Lorenzi	Alejandro Falla Eduardo Struvay	6–3, 6–4

Runners-up (22)

Singles (8)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (8)

Finals by surface Hard (3) Grass (0) Clay (5) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	29 August 2005	Freudenstadt, Germany	Clay	Sergio Roitman	7–5, 6–4
2.	6 September 2005	Genoa, Italy	Clay	Potito Starace	6–3, 7–6(7–3)
3.	3 April 2006	Monza, Italy	Clay	Nicolas Devilder	6–2, 7–5
4.	28 July 2008	Tampere, Finland	Clay	Mathieu Montcourt	6–2, 6–2
5.	9 January 2010	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard	Florian Mayer	6–3, 6–0
6.	4 Juny 2011	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Clay	Yuri Schukin	6–4, 4–6, 6–0
7.	13 November 2011	Loughborough, UK	Hard	Tobias Kamke	2–6, 5–7
8.	9 September 2012	Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France	Hard	Josselin Ouanna	4–6, 5–7

Doubles (15)

Legend Grand Slam (0) Tennis Masters Cup (0) ATP Masters Series (0) ATP Tour (0) Challengers (15)

Finals by surface Hard (3) Grass (0) Clay (12) Carpet (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents	Score
1.	29 June 2004	Mantua, Italy	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Daniele Bracciali Giorgio Galimberti	6–0, 6–4
2.	25 July 2005	Togliatti, Russia	Hard	Massimo Ocera	Scott Lipsky Mark Nielsen	6–2, 6–3
3.	12 September 2005	Seville, Spain	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Marcos Daniel Fernando Vicente	6–2, 6–7(1–7), 7–5
4.	3 October 2005	Rome, Italy	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Konstantinos Economidis Vasilis Mazarakis	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
5.	20 March 2006	Barletta, Italy	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Santiago Ventura Fernando Vicente	7–6(7–2), 4–6, [10–8]
6.	15 May 2006	San Remo, Italy	Clay	Francesco Piccari	Julien Benneteau Nicolas Mahut	6–4, 7–6(8–6)
7.	30 May 2006	Turin, Italy	Clay	Leonardo Azzaro	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6–4, 6–3
8.	11 June 2007	Košice, Slovak Republic	Clay	Leonardo Azzaro	Filip Polášek Lukáš Rosol	6–1, 7–6(7–5)
9.	23 July 2007	Poznań, Poland	Clay	Ivo Klec	Marc López Santiago Ventura	6–2, 5–7, [10–3]
10.	27 August 2007	Como, Italy	Clay	Maro Pedrini	Máximo González Simone Vagnozzi	7–6(7–5), 6–4
11.	4 September 2007	Genoa, Italy	Clay	Simone Bolelli	Daniele Giorgini Simone Vagnozzi	6–3, 6–1
12.	11 October 2009	Tarragona, Spain	Clay	Alessandro Motti	Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk	6–1, 6–1
13.	10 January 2010	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard	Simone Vagnozzi	Nicolas Devilder Édouard Roger-Vasselin	5–7, 6–2, [10–8]
14.	9 January 2011	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Hard	Simone Vagnozzi	Dominik Meffert Frederik Nielsen	7–6(7–4), 5–7, [10–5]
15.	24 September 2011	İzmir, Turkey	Hard	Thomas Fabbiano	Travis Rettenmaier Simon Stadler	6–0, 6–2

Performance timelines

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

DNQ

A

NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open			2R		1R	2R	1R	2–4
French Open	2R					1R		1–2
Wimbledon					1R	1R		0–2
US Open		3R	1R		2R	2R		4–4
Win–loss	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–0	1–3	2–4	0–1	7–12

Doubles

Current till 2013 Australian Open.

Tournament	2008	2010	2011	2012	2013	2017	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	2R	2R	A	2–2
French Open	A	A	A	1R	A	A	0–1
Wimbledon	2R	A	1R	1R	Q1	2R	2–4
US Open	A	A	A	1R	A	A	0–1
Win–loss	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–4	1–1	1–1	4–8