Andreas Seppi

Infobox Tennis player
playername= Andreas Seppi


country= Italy flagicon|ITA
residence= Kaltern an der Weinstraße, Italy
datebirth= birth date and age|1984|2|21
placebirth= Bolzano, Italy
height= height|m=1.90
weight= convert|82|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
turnedpro= 2002
plays= Right-handed; two-handed backhand
careerprizemoney= $1,656,846
singlesrecord= 92–106
singlestitles= 0
highestsinglesranking= 27 (July 7, 2008)
AustralianOpenresult= 2nd (2007, 2008)
FrenchOpenresult= 1st (2006, 2007, 2008)
Wimbledonresult= 3rd (2008)
USOpenresult= 3rd (2008)
doublesrecord= 18–44
doublestitles= 0
highestdoublesranking= 124 (August 25, 2008)
updated = August 2, 2008

Andreas Seppi (born February 21, 1984 in Bolzano, Italy) is a professional tennis player from the province of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol-Italy, who turned professional in 2000. Seppi is right handed and plays with a two hand backhand. He considers clay and hardcourts his favourite surface. He is coached by Massimo Sartori. cite news
title = Andreas Seppi profile
url = http://www.atptennis.com/5/en/players/playerprofiles/highlights.asp?playernumber=SA93
publisher = ATP
date = 2008-05-15
accessdate =] His career high was #27, achieved on July 7, 2008.

Tennis career

Seppi turned pro in 2000 playing exclusively on the ATP Futures and ATP Challenger Series circuit for three season. He won his first Futures event in 2003 , Munich, Germany defeating Lars Uebel in addition he qualified for his first two ATP events in Kitzbuhel and Bucharest where he was defeated by Olivier Mutis and Jose Acasuso respectively.

2004 Seppi made his Davis Cup debut against Georgia losing to Irakli Labadze in 5 sets. In Kitzbuhel Seppi failed to convert 10 match points against Rainer Schuettler in a second round loss, then a few weeks later Seppi was able to gain revenge for this loss. In his Grand Slam debut as a qualifer he defeated Schuettler from 2 sets to 0 down. cite news
title = Qualifiers making major impact at Open
url = http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=1872759&type=story
publisher = ESPN
date = 2008-05-15
accessdate =] 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 quarter finals. In Davis Cup Seppi came back from 2 sets to 0 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 semi final in Palermo where he defeated defending champion Tomas Berdych, before falling to Igor Andreev.

In 2006 Seppi made semi finals on the hardcourts in Sydney and the grass in Nottingham showing that he was able to perform well on other surfaces besides clay. Seppi ended the streak of 4 consecutive Sydney titles for Lleyton Hewitt and in the process saved 2 match points. Seppi lost against Andre Agassi in his last tournament appearance at Wimbledon.

At the 2007 Australian Open Seppi defeated American Bobby Reynolds in 5 sets after saving a match point. The match was scheduled for the afternoon, but was put back due to the heat rule where play could not commence if the temperature was over 39 degrees Celsius cite news
title = Early-Morning Defeat Leaves Qualifier Upset About Officials’ Decision
url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/sports/tennis/17open.html?ex=1326690000&en=fca178a266cd75fb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
publisher = New York Times
date = 2008-05-15
accessdate =] .This match finished at 3.34am 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 Martin del Potro, and Nicolas Massu losing to Gael Monfils. After Sunrise Seppi had been struggling with poor form with his ranking outside of the top 100, he surprisingly made his ATP Tour final in Gstaad where he defeated Stefan Koubek and Igor Andreev both in 3rd set tiebreakers and it was his first victory over Andreev. Seppi lead 5-3 in the 3rd set and had the opportunity to serve for the championship but failed to do so losing to Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-7(1) 6-4 7-5. Seppi made his first semi final indoors in Vienna defeating two time defending champion Ivan Ljubicic 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.

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(4) 7-6 (4) in the process saving a match point. Then he scored his biggest win over current 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 Monaco 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 cite news
title = Head to Head statistics
url = http://www.atptennis.com/3/en/players/headtohead/default.asp?playernum1=SA93&playernum2=K316
publisher = ATP
date = 2008-05-20
accessdate =] , before losing to Roger Federer in the semi finals.

Miscellanous

Seppi speaks German, Italian and English. He supports AC Milan and his nickname is Seppio, given to him by his coach.cite news
title = Andreas Seppi profile
url = http://www.atptennis.com/5/en/players/playerprofiles/highlights.asp?playernumber=SA93
publisher = ATP
date = 2008-05-15
accessdate =] When asked how did he manage to lose in the 2007 Kitzbühel quarterfinals 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?”. WTA player and good friend Karin Knapp lives in the same town as Seppi.cite news
title = Andreas Seppi diary
url = http://www.andreasseppi.com/diario/tennisitaliano10.pdf (Italian)
publisher = Tennis Italiano
date = 2008-05-15
accessdate =]

In Rotterdam 2008, the crowd sang Happy Birthday to Seppi, after he defeated Rafael Nadal and when asked by the on court interviewer after been drawn to play Lleyton Hewitt and then Rafael Nadal. Did he expect to standing there in the quarter finals? Seppi answered 'that he had his flight booked for Wednesday". cite news
title = Seppi defeats Nadal ABN AMRO WTT Rotterdam and on court interview
url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDJ3Hmi5ZAY
publisher = Youtube
date = 2008-05-15
accessdate =]

ingles Titles (2)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

A = did not participate in the tournament.

References

External links

* [http://www.andreasseppi.com/index.php?lan=de&&m=go Official Andreas Seppi Website]
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* [http://steveghelper.com/MatchResults.php?players=Seppi&weeks=12 Seppi Recent Match Results]
* [http://steveghelper.com/RankingHistory.php?player=Seppi Seppi World Ranking History]

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