Simone Bolelli

Simone Bolelli (; born 8 October 1985) is an Italian professional tennis player. Bolelli is a Grand Slam champion since he won the 2015 Australian Open doubles event with Fabio Fognini, becoming the first all Italian men's pair to win a Grand Slam title in the Open Era.

Career

2003
In 2003, Bolelli reached his first ITF Futures tournament semifinal at Egypt F1, losing to 485th-ranked Jaroslav Pospíšil. He played entirely Futures events except for one Challenger tournament in Brindisi.

2004-2005
2004 saw Simone reached his second Futures final, losing to Dominique Coene. He made another final and won two Futures titles, making two wins out of three finals for Futures finals in the 2004 season. He won the Italy F15 and F8 titles, and lost in the final of a Challenger event in Braşov. In 2005, Bolelli reached the final of a Challenger in Trani.

2006
Simone Bolelli played in a few tournaments higher than a Challenger, receiving a wildcard into the Rome Masters. He also won the Como Futures tournament and made the final of Recanati, before losing to Davide Sanguinetti. He won his first Challenger singles title over Ivo Minář, and then made the final of a Challenger in Bergamo where he lost to Alex Bogdanović.

2007
Bolelli beat former world no. 1 Marat Safin in Barcelona and competed in the Miami, Rome and Hamburg Masters. He made his Grand Slam debut at the 2007 French Open.

2008
Bolelli was banned by The Italian Tennis Federation from national team events for skipping the Davis Cup tie with Latvia in Europe-Africa zone relegation playoff. The ban prevented Bolelli from playing in Davis Cup competition and the Olympics. It also prevented him from getting wild cards. Bolelli said that he had told Italy captain Corrado Barazzutti well in advance of the tie that he preferred to work on his fast-court game in Asia.

Significant finals

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 13 (5 titles, 8 runner-ups)

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 24 (14–10)

Doubles: 12 (7–5)

Performance timelines

Current through the 2019 Croatia Open Umag.

Singles

Notes2009 Wimbledon Championships counts as 1 win, 0 losses. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga received a walkover in the second round, after Bolelli withdrew.

Doubles

References

External links
 
 
 
 Bolelli recent match results
 Bolelli world ranking history

Category:1985 births
Category:Living people
Category:Hopman Cup competitors
Category:Italian male tennis players
Category:Olympic tennis players of Italy
Category:Sportspeople from Bologna
Category:Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Category:Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's doubles
Category:Italian expatriates in Monaco

Category:Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy
Category:Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Category:Mediterranean Games medalists in tennis
Category:Australian Open (tennis) champions