Paolo Lorenzi

Paolo Lorenzi

Paolo Lorenzi playing at Roland Garros 2013
Country (sports)	Italy
Residence	Siena, Italy
Born	15 December 1981 Rome, Italy
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$2,155,498
Singles
Career record	46–96
Career titles	0 13 Challengers
Highest ranking	No. 49 (4 March 2013)
Current ranking	No. 54 (2 May 2016)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2015)
French Open	1R (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Wimbledon	1R (2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
US Open	2R (2014)
Doubles
Career record	19–43
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 96 (7 October 2013)
Current ranking	No. 173 (1 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2013)
French Open	2R (2010, 2013)
Wimbledon	1R (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Last updated on: 1 February 2016.

Paolo Lorenzi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːolo loˈrɛntsi]; born 15 December 1981 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian professional tennis player, and current Italian No. 3. His career-high singles ranking is World No. 49, achieved in March 2013. Lorenzi is coached by Claudio Galoppini.^[1][2]

Tennis career

Lorenzi reached his first ATP World Tour final at the age of 32, in São Paulo. Here, at the 2014 Brasil Open, the Italian reached the semifinals of an ATP Tour tournament for the first time, upsetting Juan Monaco in three sets; then progressing to the final after the retirement of Tommy Haas in the second set of their semifinal match. He would go on to lose the final to Argentine Federico Delbonis in three sets.

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

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 (0–1)

Finals by Surface Hard (0–0) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	2 March 2014	Brasil Open, São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Federico Delbonis	6–4, 3–6, 4–6

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up)

Winner – 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 (1–2)

Titles by Surface Hard (0–0) Clay (1–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	10 February 2013	VTR Open, Viña del Mar, Chile	Clay	Potito Starace	Juan Mónaco Rafael Nadal	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	15 February 2015	Brasil Open, São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Diego Schwartzman	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2.	14 February 2016	Argentina Open, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Clay	Íñigo Cervantes	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	3–6, 0–6

Futures and Challenger finals: 41 (26–17)

Singles: 35 (21–14)

Legend
Challengers (17–13)
Futures (4–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	23 September 2002	Selargius, Italy	Clay	Rodolphe Cadart	0–6, 3–6
Winner	1.	11 August 2003	Našice, Croatia	Clay	Sebő Kiss	4–6, 6–0, 6–0
Winner	2.	25 March 2005	Frankston, Australia	Clay	Vasilis Mazarakis	6–4, 7–6^(7–4)
Runner-up	2.	10 April 2006	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Clay	Rainer Eitzinger	4–6, 7–6^(7–5), 5–7
Winner	3.	18 September 2006	Tarragona, Spain	Clay	Younes El Aynaoui	6–4, 7–6^(7–4)
Winner	4.	18 February 2008	Trento, Italy	Hard (i)	Philipp Oswald	7–6^(9–7), 7–6^(9–7)
Winner	5.	26 May 2008	Alessandria, Italy	Clay	Simone Vagnozzi	4–6, 7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(7–4)
Winner	6.	2 February 2009	Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire	Hard	Valentin Sanon	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	3.	6 April 2009	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Clay	Santiago Giraldo	2–6, 7–6^(7–3), 2–6
Runner-up	4.	27 April 2009	Tenerife, Spain	Hard	Marco Chiudinelli	3–6, 4–6
Winner	7.	22 June 2009	Reggio Emilia, Italy	Clay	Jean-René Lisnard	7–5, 1–6, 6–2
Winner	8.	29 June 2009	Rijeka, Croatia	Clay	Blaž Kavčič	6–3, 7–6^(7–2)
Winner	9.	21 September 2009	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Clay	Grega Žemlja	1–6, 7–6^(7–4), 6–2
Runner-up	5.	5 October 2009	Tarragona, Spain	Clay	Daniel Gimeno-Traver	4–6, 0–6
Runner-up	6.	18 April 2010	Pereira, Colombia	Hard	Santiago Giraldo	3–6, 3–6
Winner	10.	12 July 2010	Rimini, Italy	Clay	Federico del Bonis	6–2, 6–0
Winner	11.	10 April 2011	Pereira, Colombia	Clay	Rogério Dutra da Silva	7–5, 6–2
Winner	12.	25 September 2011	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Clay	Grega Žemlja	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	7.	3 March 2012	Salinas, Ecuador	Clay	Guido Pella	6–1, 5–7, 3–6
Runner-up	8.	18 March 2012	Guadalajara, Mexico	Hard	Thiago Alves	3–6, 6–7^(4–7)
Runner-up	9.	7 April 2012	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Clay	Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo	6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	10.	22 April 2012	Sarasota, US	Clay	Sam Querrey	1–6, 7–6^(7–3), 3–6
Winner	13.	12 August 2012	Cordenons, Italy	Clay	Daniel Gimeno-Traver	7–6^(7–5), 6–3
Runner-up	11.	16 September 2012	Todi, Italy	Clay	Andrey Kuznetsov	3–6, 0–2 ret.
Winner	14.	4 November 2012	Medellín, Colombia	Clay	Leonardo Mayer	7–6^(7–5), 6–7^(4–7), 6–4
Runner-up	12.	10 November 2012	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Leonardo Mayer	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	13.	26 January 2014	Bucaramanga, Colombia	Clay	Alejandro Falla	5–7, 1–6
Winner	15.	19 April 2014	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Clay	Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras	6–1, 6–3
Winner	16.	5 October 2014	Cali, Colombia	Clay	Víctor Estrella Burgos	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Runner-up	14.	15 November 2014	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Clay	Pablo Cuevas	W/O
Winner	17.	10 May 2015	Eskişehir, Turkey	Hard	Íñigo Cervantes	7–6^(7–4), 7–6^(7–5)
Winner	18.	9 August 2015	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Clay	Máximo González	6-3, 7-5
Winner	19.	4 October 2015	Pereira, Colombia	Clay	Alejandro González	4-6, 6-2, 6-4
Winner	20.	10 October 2015	Medellin, Colombia	Clay	Gonzalo Lama	7–6^(7–3), 2-0 ret.
Winner	21.	16 January 2016	Canberra, Australia	Hard	Ivan Dodig	6–2, 6–4

Doubles: 10 (7–3)

Legend
Challengers (5–2)
Futures (2–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 January 2008	Shenzhen, China	Hard	Giancarlo Petrazzuolo	Xin-yuan Yu Shao-xuan Zeng	6–7^(1–7), 6–7^(3–7)
Winner	1.	21 January 2008	Dongguan, China	Hard	Giancarlo Petrazzuolo	Frederik Nielsen Rasmus Norby	6–4, 7–6^(7–1)
Winner	2.	18 February 2008	Trento, Italy	Hard (i)	Giancarlo Petrazzuolo	Xavier Audouy Ludovic Walter	6–3, 4–6, [10–8]
Runner-up	2.	28 April 2008	Rome, Italy	Clay	Giancarlo Petrazzuolo	Flavio Cipolla Simone Vagnozzi	3–6, 3–6
Winner	3.	7 July 2008	San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy	Clay	Júlio Silva	Cătălin Gârd Max Raditschnigg	6–3, 7–5
Winner	4.	27 July 2009	Orbetello, Italy	Clay	Giancarlo Petrazzuolo	Alessio di Mauro Manuel Jorquera	7–6^(7–5), 3–6, [10–6]
Winner	5.	17 October 2010	Asunción, Paraguay	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Carlos Berlocq Brian Dabul	6–3, 6–4
Winner	6.	3 April 2011	Barranquilla, Colombia	Hard	Flavio Cipolla	Alejandro Falla Eduardo Struvay	6–3, 6–4
Winner	7.	5 June 2011	Rijeka, Croatia	Clay	Júlio Silva	Lovro Zovko Dino Marcan	6–3, 6–2
Runner-up	3.	29 January 2012	Bucaramanga, Colombia	Clay	Miguel Ángel López Jaén	Ariel Behar Horacio Zeballos	4–6, 6–7^(5–7)

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	Q1	Q1	1R	A	1R	1R	A	2R	1–4
French Open	Q3	Q2	Q3	1R	Q2	1R	1R	1R	1R	0–5
Wimbledon	Q2	Q1	Q1	1R	Q1	1R	1R	1R	1R	0–5
US Open	Q1	Q2	Q1	A	Q2	1R	1R	2R	1R	1–4
Win–Loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–0	0–4	0–4	1–3	1–4	2–18
Career Statistics
Titles–Finals	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0
Year End Ranking	294	207	84	143	108	64	109	64

Doubles performance timeline

Tournament	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	1R	A	A	2R	A	1–2
French Open	2R	A	1R	2R		2–3
Wimbledon	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	0–4
US Open	A	A	A	1R		0–1
Win–Loss	1–2	0–1	0–2	2–4	0-1	3–10

References

1. "atpworldtour.com Profile". atpworldtour.com. ATP Tour, Inc. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
2. "itftennis.com Men's Circuit record". itftennis.com. ITF Licensing (UK) Ltd. Retrieved 2009-12-07.

External links

• Paolo Lorenzi at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Paolo Lorenzi at the International Tennis Federation