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.
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 semifinal 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. He was also the coach of Gianluca Mager until August 2025.
ATP career finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title) LegendGrand 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 surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Titles by settingOutdoor (1–0)Indoor (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Istanbul Open, Turkey250 SeriesClay Dudi Sela Andrés Molteni Diego Schwartzman6–3, 5–7, [10–7]
Challenger career finals
Singles (5) LegendGrand Slam (0)Tennis Masters Cup (0)ATP Masters Series (0)ATP Tour (0)Challengers (5)Titles by surfaceHard (2)Grass (0)Clay (3)Carpet (0)
No.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore1.30 May 2006Turin, ItalyClay Marcel Granollers6–3, 6–32.31 July 2007Trani, ItalyClay Pablo Andújar4–6, 6–2, 6–43.4 September 2007Genoa, ItalyClay Gianluca Naso6–2, 6–7(4–7), 7–54.1 January 2008Nouméa, New CaledoniaHard Stéphane Bohli6–4, 7–55.6 February 2011Burnie, AustraliaHard Chris GuccioneW/O
Doubles (17) LegendGrand Slam (0)Tennis Masters Cup (0)ATP Masters Series (0)ATP Tour (0)Challengers (17)Titles by surfaceHard (3)Grass (0)Clay (13)Carpet (1)
No.DateTournamentSurfacePartneringOpponentsScore1.4 July 2005Mantua, ItalyClay Alessandro Motti Salvador Navarro Óscar Serrano5–7, 6–3, 6–32.2 August 2005Saransk, RussiaClay Simon Stadler Konstantin Kravchuk Alexander Kudryavtsev7–6(7–2), 4–6, 7–6(7–3)3.19 September 2005Banja Luka, Bosnia and HerzegovinaClay Rainer Eitzinger Jeroen Masson Stefan Wauters4–6, 6–3, 6–34.25 September 2006Bratislava, Slovak RepublicClay Marcel Granollers David Marrero Pablo Santos7–6(7–2), 6–45.9 October 2006Barcelona, SpainClay Tomas Behrend Pablo Andújar Marcel Granollers6–3, 6–26.26 March 2007Naples, ItalyClay Marcel Granollers Marco Crugnola Alessio di Mauro6–4, 6–27.30 April 2007Rome, ItalyClay Marcel Granollers Stefano Galvani Manuel Jorquera3–6, 6–1, [11–9]8.1 January 2008Nouméa, New CaledoniaHard Simone Vagnozzi Jan Mertl Martin Slanar6–4, 6–49.11 February 2008Belgrade, SerbiaCarpet Konstantinos Economidis Alessandro Motti Filip Polášek4–6, 6–2, [10–8]10.24 March 2008Barletta, ItalyClay Marcel Granollers Oliver Marach Michal Mertiňák6–3, 2–6, [11–9]11.Rome, ItalyClay Simone Vagnozzi Paolo Lorenzi Giancarlo Petrazzuolo6–3, 6–312.27 May 2008Alessandria, ItalyClay Simone Vagnozzi Matwé Middelkoop Melle Van Gemerden3–6, 6–1, [10–4]13.13 October 2008Tashkent, UzbekistanHard Pavel Šnobel Michail Elgin Alexandre Kudryavtsev6–3, 6–414.28 February 2010Meknes, MoroccoClay Pablo Andújar Alexandr Dolgopolov Artem Smirnov6–2, 6–215.12 September 2010Braşov, RomaniaClay Daniele Giorgini Radu Albot Andrej Ciumac6–3, 6–416.19 September 2010Todi, ItalyClay Alessio di Mauro Marcel Granollers Gerard Granollers-Pujol6–1, 6–417.3 April 2011Barranquilla, ColombiaHard Paolo Lorenzi Alejandro Falla Eduardo Struvay6–3, 6–4
Runners-up (22)
Singles (8) LegendGrand Slam (0)Tennis Masters Cup (0)ATP Masters Series (0)ATP Tour (0)Challengers (8)Finals by surfaceHard (3)Grass (0)Clay (5)Carpet (0)
No.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore1.29 August 2005Freudenstadt, GermanyClay Sergio Roitman7–5, 6–42.6 September 2005Genoa, ItalyClay Potito Starace6–3, 7–6(7–3)3.3 April 2006Monza, ItalyClay Nicolas Devilder6–2, 7–54.28 July 2008Tampere, FinlandClay Mathieu Montcourt6–2, 6–25.9 January 2010Nouméa, New CaledoniaHard Florian Mayer6–3, 6–06.4 Juny 2011Prostějov, Czech RepublicClay Yuri Schukin6–4, 4–6, 6–07.13 November 2011Loughborough, UKHard Tobias Kamke2–6, 5–78.9 September 2012Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, FranceHard Josselin Ouanna4–6, 5–7
Doubles (15) LegendGrand Slam (0)Tennis Masters Cup (0)ATP Masters Series (0)ATP Tour (0)Challengers (15)Finals by surfaceHard (3)Grass (0)Clay (12)Carpet (0)
No.DateTournamentSurfacePartneringOpponentsScore1.29 June 2004Mantua, ItalyClay Alessandro Motti Daniele Bracciali Giorgio Galimberti6–0, 6–42.25 July 2005Togliatti, RussiaHard Massimo Ocera Scott Lipsky Mark Nielsen6–2, 6–33.12 September 2005Seville, SpainClay Alessandro Motti Marcos Daniel Fernando Vicente6–2, 6–7(1–7), 7–54.3 October 2005Rome, ItalyClay Alessandro Motti Konstantinos Economidis Vasilis Mazarakis6–4, 7–6(7–4)5.20 March 2006Barletta, ItalyClay Alessandro Motti Santiago Ventura Fernando Vicente7–6(7–2), 4–6, [10–8]6.15 May 2006San Remo, ItalyClay Francesco Piccari Julien Benneteau Nicolas Mahut6–4, 7–6(8–6)7.30 May 2006Turin, ItalyClay Leonardo Azzaro Marcel Granollers Marc López6–4, 6–38.11 June 2007Košice, Slovak RepublicClay Leonardo Azzaro Filip Polášek Lukáš Rosol6–1, 7–6(7–5)9.23 July 2007Poznań, PolandClay Ivo Klec Marc López Santiago Ventura6–2, 5–7, [10–3]10.27 August 2007Como, ItalyClay Maro Pedrini Máximo González Simone Vagnozzi7–6(7–5), 6–411.4 September 2007Genoa, ItalyClay Simone Bolelli Daniele Giorgini Simone Vagnozzi6–3, 6–112.11 October 2009Tarragona, SpainClay Alessandro Motti Tomasz Bednarek Mateusz Kowalczyk6–1, 6–113.10 January 2010Nouméa, New CaledoniaHard Simone Vagnozzi Nicolas Devilder Édouard Roger-Vasselin5–7, 6–2, [10–8]14.9 January 2011Nouméa, New CaledoniaHard Simone Vagnozzi Dominik Meffert Frederik Nielsen7–6(7–4), 5–7, [10–5]15.24 September 2011İzmir, TurkeyHard Thomas Fabbiano Travis Rettenmaier Simon Stadler6–0, 6–2
Performance timelines
Singles Tournament2007200820092010201120122013Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian Open2R1R2R1R2–4French Open2R1R1–2Wimbledon1R1R0–2US Open3R1R2R2R4–4Win–loss1–12–11–20–01–32–40–17–12
Doubles Current till 2013 Australian Open. Tournament200820102011201220132017Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAAA2R2RA2–2French OpenAAA1RAA0–1Wimbledon2RA1R1RQ12R2–4US OpenAAA1RAA0–1Win–loss1–10–00–11–41–11–14–8
References
External links
Cipolla world ranking history