Potito Starace

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Potito Starace

Country	Italy
Residence	Cervinara, Italy
Born	(1981-07-14) July 14, 1981 (age 30) Cervinara, Italy
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	84 kg (190 lb; 13.2 st)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$2,787,979
Singles
Career record	149–170
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 27 (October 15, 2007)
Current ranking	No. 95 (May 14, 2012)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
French Open	3R (2004, 2007)
Wimbledon	2R (2009)
US Open	2R (2004, 2011)
Doubles
Career record	86–90
Career titles	5
Highest ranking	No. 43 (January 31, 2011)
Current ranking	No. 47 (February 7, 2011)
Last updated on: February 7, 2011.

Starace at the 2008 Pilot Pen Tennis tournament.

Potito Starace (born July 14, 1981 in Cervinara) is an Italian professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. He achieved his career-high ranking of 27th on October 15, 2007 and prefers to play on red clay. Umberto Rianna is the coach from Potito Starace and Daniele Bracciali.

One of the most memorable moments of Starace's career was when he made the men's doubles quarterfinals of the 2006 French Open with Alberto Martín. They defeated eighth-seeded Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry along the way, before walking over to second seeds Jonas Björkman and Max Mirnyi.

He played four ATP finals and lost all. In the Challenger Tour he won the San Marino CEPU Open three times, a record for that tournament. In doubles he won five ATP titles.

He represented Italy at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he lost to Rafael Nadal in the first round.^[1]

Betting scandal

Following Alessio di Mauro's 9 month ban in November 2007, Starace and Daniele Bracciali were each fined and given short suspensions from playing. Starace received a fine of £21,400 and a 6 weeks ban from January 1, 2008. All of the players were Italian. None of the bets pertained to matches they were involved in or had any stake in.

ATP Career Finals

Singles: 4 (0–4)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	April 15, 2007	Valencia, Spain	Clay	Nicolás Almagro	6–4, 2–6, 1–6
Runner-up	2.	July 29, 2007	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Juan Mónaco	7–5, 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	3.	August 1, 2010	Umag, Croatia	Clay	Juan Carlos Ferrero	4–6, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	April 10, 2011	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Pablo Andújar	1–6, 2–6

Doubles: 8 (5–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	March 15, 2006	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Filippo Volandri	František Čermák Leoš Friedl	5–7, 2–6
Winner	1.	March 4, 2007	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Martín Vassallo Argüello	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner	6–0, 6–2
Winner	2.	July 29, 2007	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Luis Horna	Tomas Behrend Christopher Kas	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–5)
Winner	3.	October 6, 2008	Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Stephen Huss Ross Hutchins	7–6(7–4), 2–6, [10–6]
Runner-up	2.	February 7, 2010	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Horacio Zeballos	Lukasz Kubot Olivier Marach	4–6, 0–6
Runner-up	3.	February 27, 2010	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Lukasz Kubot Olivier Marach	0–6, 0–6
Winner	4.	October 31, 2010	St. Petersburg, Russia	Hard (i)	Daniele Bracciali	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–5)
Winner	5.	September 24, 2011	Bucarest, Romania	Clay	Daniele Bracciali	Julian Knowle David Marrero	3–6, 6–4, [10–8]

Singles Performance Timeline

Current through 2012 Internazionali BNL d'Italia.

References

1. ^ Olympic results

External links

• Potito Starace at the Association of Tennis Professionals

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)