Andreas Seppi

Andreas Seppi

Country	Italy
Residence	Kaltern an der Weinstraße, Italy
Born	(1984-02-21) 21 February 1984 (age 28) Bolzano, Italy
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	75 kg (170 lb; 11.8 st)
Turned pro	2002
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$3,907,788
Singles
Career record	189–211
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 25 (21 May 2012)
Current ranking	No. 25 (28 May 2012)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	2R (2007, 2008, 2011)
French Open	4R (2012)
Wimbledon	3R (2008, 2009)
US Open	3R (2008)
Doubles
Career record	56–106
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 76 (10 January 2011)
Current ranking	No. 97 (28 May 2012)
Last updated on: 7 February 2011.

Andreas Seppi (born 21 February 1984 in Bolzano, Italy) is a professional tennis player from South Tyrol, northern Italy, who turned professional in 2000. He considers clay and hard courts his favourite surfaces.^[1] and is coached by Massimo Sartori.^[1]

Tennis career

Seppi turned pro in 2001, playing exclusively on the ATP Futures and ATP Challenger Series circuit for three seasons. He won his first Futures event in 2003, in Munich, Germany, defeating Lars Übel. In addition, he qualified for his first two ATP events in Kitzbühel and Bucharest, where he was defeated by Olivier Mutis and José Acasuso, respectively.

In 2004, Seppi made his Davis Cup debut against Georgia, losing to Irakli Labadze in five sets. In Kitzbühel, Seppi failed to convert 10 match points against Rainer Schüttler in a second-round loss. A few weeks later, Seppi was able to gain revenge for this loss. In his Grand Slam debut as a qualifer, he defeated Schüttler, coming from two sets to love down.^[2] Seppi finished the 2005 season in the top 100 for the first time. He qualified for four ATP Masters Series events, with his best performance in Hamburg, where he reached the quarterfinals. In the Davis Cup, Seppi came back from two sets to love down and defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero, 5–7, 3–6, 6–0, 6–3, 6–2, before losing to Rafael Nadal in the reverse singles. After this performance, he reached his first ATP Tour semifinal in Palermo, where he defeated defending champion Tomáš Berdych, before falling to Igor Andreev.

In 2006, Seppi made semifinals on hard courts in Sydney and grass in Nottingham, showing that he was able to perform well on other surfaces besides clay. Seppi ended the streak of four consecutive Sydney titles for Lleyton Hewitt and, in the process, saved two match points. Seppi lost against Andre Agassi in his last appearance at Wimbledon.

At the 2007 Australian Open, Seppi defeated American Bobby Reynolds in five sets, after saving a match point. The match was scheduled for the afternoon, but was put back due to the heat.^[3] This match finished at 3:34 am, which was at the time the latest time for a match to be completed until it was surpassed by the Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis match at the 2008 Australian Open.

Seppi made the final of the Sunrise Challenger, defeating Gustavo Kuerten, Juan Martín del Potro, and Nicolás Massú, and then losing to Gaël Monfils. After Sunrise, Seppi struggled with his ranking outside the top 100. He surprisingly made his first ATP Tour final in Gstaad, where he defeated Stefan Koubek and Igor Andreev both in third-set tiebreakers. Seppi led 5–3 in the third set and had the opportunity to serve for the championship but failed to do so losing to Paul-Henri Mathieu 6–7, 6–4, 7–5. Seppi made his first semi final indoors in Vienna defeating two time defending champion Ivan Ljubičić along the way to complete the feat of at least making the semi finals of events played on clay, hardcourt, grass and indoors, eventually finishing in the top 80 for the third consecutive year.

Andreas Seppi at 2008 US Open

The 2008 season Seppi won his first Challenger title at Bergamo where he defeated Julien Benneteau 2–6, 6–2, 7–5 in the final for the loss of 1 set in the tournament. He made the quarter-finals of the indoor event in Rotterdam where he defeated Lleyton Hewitt 3–6, 7–6, 7–6 in the process saving a match point. Then he scored his biggest win over the then world number 2 Rafael Nadal 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 before losing to Robin Söderling. Seppi qualified for the semi-finals of the Hamburg Masters, this was the first time he reached that stage of the Masters Series events, he defeated Richard Gasquet, Juan Mónaco and Nicolas Kiefer in a match where he led 6–3, 5–3 before winning 6–3, 5–7, 7–5 which included Seppi winning the last 4 games and went for 3 hours and 13 minutes in duration,^[4] before losing to Roger Federer in the semi-finals.

In 2009 Seppi made the semi finals in Belgrade and in Umag both on clay, while winning his second Challenger title in San Marino defeating countryman Potito Starace in the final. Seppi found success at the challenger level in 2010 where he won his third challenger title at Kitzbühel accounting for Victor Crivoi in the final.

For the second time Seppi won the Challenger title at Bergamo in 2011 and later in the year followed that victory with his first ATP title in 2011 at Eastbourne which came on grass defeating Janko Tipsarevic in the final after the Serbian retired at 5–3 down in the 3rd set. Earlier in the day Seppi played Igor Kunitsyn in the semi final which he also won in 3 sets.

Seppi won his second ATP title in 2012 at Belgrade defeating David Nalbandian in the semi finals and Benoit Paire in the final. At the quarterfinals of the Rome Masters he defeated Stanislas Wawrinka 6–7, 7–6, 7–6, having saved six match points in the process.

Seppi reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career at the 2012 French Open, eventually being defeated by world #1 Novak Djokovic in five sets having won the first two sets.

Personal

Seppi speaks Italian, German and English. He supports AC Milan and his nicknames are Andy and also Seppio, given to him by his coach.^[1] His good friend, WTA player Karin Knapp lives in the same town as Seppi.^[5] When asked how he managed to lose in the 2007 Kitzbühel quarter-finals to good friend Potito Starace after being 6–1, 5–3 ahead, he answered "Easy: if I beat him who would have supplied me with movies for the whole season?".

In Rotterdam 2008, the crowd sang Happy Birthday to Seppi, after he defeated Rafael Nadal and when asked by the on court interviewer after being drawn to play Lleyton Hewitt and then Rafael Nadal whether he expected reach quarter-finals, Seppi answered "that he had his flight booked for Wednesday".^[6]

ATP Career Finals

Singles: 3 (2–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	13 September 2007	Gstaad	Clay	Paul-Henri Mathieu	7–6(7–1), 4–6, 5–7
Winner	1.	18 June 2011	Eastbourne	Grass	Janko Tipsarević	7–6(7–5), 3–6, 5–3, ret.
Winner	2.	6 May 2012	Belgrade	Clay	Benoît Paire	6–3, 6–2

Doubles: 5 (0–5)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	4 February 2006	Zagreb, Croatia	Hard (i)	Davide Sanguinetti	Jaroslav Levinský Michal Mertinák	6–7(7–9), 1–6
Runner-up	2.	18 July 2010	Båstad, Sweden	Clay	Simone Vagnozzi	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecau	4–6, 5–7
Runner-up	3.	10 October 2010	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Dmitry Tursunov	Eric Butorac Jean-Julien Rojer	3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	4.	7 January 2011	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Daniele Bracciali	Rafael Nadal Marc Lopez	3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Runner-up	5.	16 June 2011	Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	Grigor Dimitrov	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	3–6, 3–6

Challengers and futures (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	20 January 2003	Munich	Carpet	Lars Übel	6–4, 7–5
2.	4 February 2008	Bergamo	Indoor Hard	Julien Benneteau	2–6, 6–2, 7–5
3.	3 August 2009	San Marino	Clay	Potito Starace	7–6(7–4), 2–6, 6–4
4.	2 August 2010	Kitzbühel	Clay	Victor Crivoi	6–2, 6–1
5.	7 February 2011	Bergamo	Indoor Hard	Gilles Muller	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
5.	9 October 2011	Mons	Hard	Julien Benneteau	2–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–4)

Singles Performance Timeline

Current through the 2012 French Open.

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	LQ	LQ	1R	2R	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	3–7
French Open	A	Q2	Q2	1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	2R	4R	6–7
Wimbledon	A	LQ	1R	2R	2R	3R	3R	2R	2R		8–7
US Open	LQ	2R	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	1R	1R		3–8
Win–Loss	0–0	1–1	0–2	1–4	2–4	5–4	3–4	2–4	3–4	3–2	20–29
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters			LQ	1R	2R	2R	2R	2R	1R	2R	5–7
Miami Masters			1R	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	2R	1R	3–8
Monte Carlo Masters			2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	2R	A	2R	7–7
Rome Masters	LQ	1R	2R	1R	LQ	2R	2R	2R	1R	QF	7–8
Madrid Masters		LQ	LQ	LQ		1R	3R	1R	A	2R	3–4
Canada Masters			LQ	LQ		1R	A	A	1R		0–2
Cincinnati Masters			LQ	1R	LQ	3R	2R	A	1R		3–4
Shanghai Masters	Not Masters Series						A	3R	A		2–1
Paris Masters			1R	1R	2R	1R	2R	LQ	3R		4–6
Hamburg Masters		1R	QF	2R	LQ	SF	Not Masters Series				8–4
Win–Loss	0–0	0–2	5–5	2–7	3–4	10–9	8–7	5–6	3–6	6–5	42–51
Career Statistics
Titles–Finals	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–3
Year End Ranking	240	146	68	74	50	35	49	52	38

References

External links

• Official Andreas Seppi Website
• Andreas Seppi at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Seppi Recent Match Results
• Seppi World Ranking History

v t e Association of Tennis Professionals Top ten Italian male singles tennis players as of April 2, 2012 Andreas Seppi (44 1) Fabio Fognini (57 2) Filippo Volandri (65 7) Potito Starace (69 1) Flavio Cipolla (87 3) Paolo Lorenzi (91 10) Simone Bolelli (108 1) Alessandro Giannessi (134 1) Matteo Viola (172 18) Simone Vagnozzi (179 4)

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