Simone Bolelli

Bolelli at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Italy
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco
Born	(1985-10-08) 8 October 1985 (age 36) Bologna, Italy
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro	2003
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$5,956,402
Singles
Career record	123-165 (42.7% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 36 (23 February 2009)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (2008, 2009, 2015, 2016)
French Open	3R (2008, 2015)
Wimbledon	3R (2008, 2011, 2014)
US Open	2R (2007, 2014)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2008)
Doubles
Career record	214-170 (55.7% in ATP Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	10
Highest ranking	No. 8 (17 August 2015)
Current ranking	No. 31 (1 August 2022)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (2015)
French Open	SF (2015)
Wimbledon	SF (2021)
US Open	SF (2011)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals	RR (2015)
Olympic Games	1R (2008)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	SF (2014)
Medal record Mediterranean Games Singles
Last updated on: 1 August 2022.

Simone Bolelli (Italian pronunciation: [si'mo:ne bo'l?lli]; born 8 October 1985) is an Italian professional tennis player. Bolelli is a Grand Slam champion, having won the 2015 Australian Open doubles event with Fabio Fognini, together becoming the first all-Italian men's pair to win a Grand Slam title in the Open Era. He has a career-high ATP ranking in doubles of World No. 8 achieved on 17 August 2015 and in singles of World No. 36 achieved on 23 February 2009.

Career

2003

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

2004-2005

In 2004, Bolelli 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 Bra?ov.

In 2005, Bolelli reached the final of a Challenger in Trani.

2006: ATP debut

Simone Bolelli played in a few tournaments higher than a Challenger, reaching the quarterfinals in doubles on his Masters 1000 debut partnering with Andreas Seppi as alternates pair at the 2006 Monte Carlo Masters and also receiving a wildcard into the singles and doubles (w/ Seppi) main draws at the 2006 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 Miná?, and then made the final of a Challenger in Bergamo where he lost to Alex Bogdanovi?.

2007: Grand Slam debut in singles

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: First singles final

In May, Bolleli reached his maiden final at the clay-court 2008 BMW Open tournament in Munich, where he was defeated by Fernando González.

In September, Simone 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.^[1][2]

2009: Top 40 singles ranking

2010-15: Major doubles title, three ATP 250 titles

At the 2015 Australian Open, Bolelli and Fabio Fognini captured their first Grand Slam championship doubles title. The Italian duo, playing their ninth major together, defeated French pair Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in straight sets 6-4, 6-4 in the final.^[3] They also reached the semifinals of the 2015 French Open and three Masters finals at the 2015 Indian Wells Masters, 2015 Monte-Carlo Masters and 2015 Shanghai Rolex Masters.

2016: First ATP 500 title

In February 2016, Bolleli won his second biggest title in doubles at the ATP 500 2016 Dubai Tennis Championships with Andreas Seppi.

2021: Wimbledon semifinal and three titles

In 2021 Bolleli won two clay titles with new partner Máximo González at the Chile Open (tennis) and Emilia-Romagna Open in Parma and one grass title at the first edition of the 2021 Mallorca Championships after the walkover from the wildcard pair Novak Djokovic/Carlos Gómez-Herrera^[4] and reached two other finals. He returned to the top 50 in doubles at World No. 46 on 28 June 2021.

Having never passed the second round and not played for five years at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships, Bolleli most successful run with his partner was to the semifinals of the Major where the unseeded pair was defeated by fourth seeded pair and eventual runners-up Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos. As a result, he raised to No. 32 in the doubles rankings on 12 July 2021. He returned to the top 30 in the doubles rankings on 26 July 2021.

2022: Major quarterfinal, Second ATP 500 title

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	2015	Australian Open	Hard	Fabio Fognini	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	6-4, 6-4

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 3 (3 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2015	Indian Wells Masters	Hard	Fabio Fognini	Jack Sock Vasek Pospisil	6-4, 6-7(3-7), [10-7]
Loss	2015	Monte-Carlo Masters	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6-7(3-7), 1-6
Loss	2015	Shanghai Masters	Hard	Fabio Fognini	Raven Klaasen Marcelo Melo	3-6, 3-6

ATP career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0-1	May 2008	Bavarian Championships, Germany	International	Clay	Fernando González	6-7(4-7), 7-6(7-4), 3-6

Doubles: 22 (10 titles, 12 runner-ups)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1-0	May 2011	Bavarian Championships, Germany	250 Series	Clay	Horacio Zeballos	Andreas Beck Christopher Kas	7-6(7-3), 6-4
Win	2-0	Jul 2011	Croatia Open, Croatia	250 Series	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Marin ?ili? Lovro Zovko	6-3, 5-7, [10-7]
Loss	2-1	Oct 2012	Kremlin Cup, Russia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Daniele Bracciali	Franti?ek ?ermák Michal Merti?ák	5-7, 3-6
Win	3-1	Feb 2013	Argentina Open, Argentina	250 Series	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Nicholas Monroe Simon Stadler	6-3, 6-2
Loss	3-2	Feb 2013	Mexican Open, Mexico	500 Series	Clay	Fabio Fognini	?ukasz Kubot David Marrero	5-7, 2-6
Win	4-2	Jan 2015	Australian Open, Australia	Grand Slam	Hard	Fabio Fognini	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	6-4, 6-4
Loss	4-3	Mar 2015	Indian Wells Masters, US	Masters 1000	Hard	Fabio Fognini	Vasek Pospisil Jack Sock	4-6, 7-6(7-3), [7-10]
Loss	4-4	Apr 2015	Monte-Carlo Masters, Monaco	Masters 1000	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6-7(3-7), 1-6
Loss	4-5	Oct 2015	Shanghai Masters, China	Masters 1000	Hard	Fabio Fognini	Raven Klaasen Marcelo Melo	3-6, 3-6
Win	5-5	Feb 2016	Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE	500 Series	Hard	Andreas Seppi	Feliciano López Marc López	6-2, 3-6, [14-12]
Loss	5-6	Jul 2018	Swedish Open, Sweden	250 Series	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Julio Peralta Horacio Zeballos	3-6, 4-6
Loss	5-7	Sep 2019	St. Petersburg Open, Russia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Matteo Berrettini	Divij Sharan Igor Zelenay	3-6, 6-3, [8-10]
Loss	5-8	Oct 2019	Kremlin Cup, Russia (2)	250 Series	Hard (i)	Andrés Molteni	Marcelo Demoliner Matwé Middelkoop	1-6, 2-6
Win	6-8	Mar 2021	Chile Open, Chile	250 Series	Clay	Máximo González	Federico Delbonis Jaume Munar	7-6(7-4), 6-4
Loss	6-9	Apr 2021	Sardegna Open, Italy	250 Series	Clay	Andrés Molteni	Lorenzo Sonego Andrea Vavassori	3-6, 4-6
Loss	6-10	May 2021	Geneva Open, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Máximo González	John Peers Michael Venus	2-6, 5-7
Win	7-10	May 2021	Emilia-Romagna Open, Italy	250 Series	Clay	Máximo González	Oliver Marach Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	6-3, 6-3
Win	8-10	Jun 2021	Mallorca Open, Spain	250 Series	Grass	Máximo González	Novak Djokovic Carlos Gómez-Herrera	Walkover
Loss	8-11	Jan 2022	Sydney International, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Fabio Fognini	John Peers Filip Polá?ek	5-7, 5-7
Win	9-11	Feb 2022	Rio Open, Brazil	500 Series	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	7-5, 6-7(2-7), [10-6]
Loss	9-12	Jul 2022	Swedish Open, Sweden	250 Series	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Rafael Matos David Vega Hernández	4-6, 6-3, [11-13]
Win	10-12	Jul 2022	Croatia Open, Croatia	250 Series	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Lloyd Glasspool Harri Heliovaara	5-7, 7-6(8-6), [10-7]

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 24 (14-10)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1-0	May 2004	Italy F8, Verona	Futures	Clay	Alex Vittur	6-1, 7-6(7-4)
Win	2-0	Jul 2004	Italy F15, Bologna	Futures	Clay	Mattia Livraghi	6-2, 6-3
Loss	2-1	Sep 2004	Bra?ov, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Victor Ioni	1-6, 6-7(3-7)
Loss	2-2	Oct 2004	Belgium F1, Waterloo	Futures	Carpet (i)	Dominique Coene	2-6, 3-6
Loss	2-3	Aug 2005	Trani, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Luká? Dlouhý	4-6, 4-6
Loss	2-4	Feb 2006	Bergamo, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Alex Bogdanovic	1-6, 0-3 ret.
Win	3-4	Jul 2006	Biella, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Ivo Miná?	7-5, 3-6, 7-6(7-0)
Loss	3-5	Jul 2006	Recanati, Italy	Challenger	Hard	Davide Sanguinetti	4-6, 0-3 ret.
Win	4-5	Sep 2006	Como, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Federico Luzzi	4-6, 6-3, 6-2
Loss	4-6	Feb 2007	Bergamo, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Fabrice Santoro	2-6, 1-6
Loss	4-7	Apr 2007	Casablanca, Morocco	Challenger	Clay	Marin ?ili?	6-4, 3-6, 4-6
Win	5-7	May 2007	Tunis, Tunisia	Challenger	Clay	Andrei Pavel	4-6, 7-6(7-4), 6-2
Win	6-7	Nov 2007	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Hard (i)	Alejandro Falla	4-6, 7-6(9-7), 6-1
Loss	6-8	May 2010	Biella, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Björn Phau	4-6, 2-6
Win	7-8	Jul 2010	Turin, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Potito Starace	7-6(9-7), 6-2
Win	8-8	May 2011	Rome, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Eduardo Schwank	2-6, 6-1, 6-3
Win	9-8	Mar 2012	Florianópolis, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Bla? Kav?i?	6-3, 6-4
Win	10-8	Jul 2012	Recanati, Italy	Challenger	Hard	Fabrice Martin	6-3, 6-2
Loss	10-9	Aug 2012	San Marino, San Marino	Challenger	Clay	Martin Kli?an	3-6, 1-6
Win	11-9	Feb 2014	Bergamo, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Jan-Lennard Struff	7-6(8-6), 6-4
Win	12-9	Apr 2014	Vercelli, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Mate Deli?	6-2, 6-2
Win	13-9	May 2014	Tunis, Tunisia	Challenger	Clay	Julian Reister	6-4, 6-2
Win	14-9	Jul 2014	Oberstaufen, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Michael Berrer	6-4, 7-6(7-2)
Loss	14-10	Mar 2018	Punta del Este, Uruguay	Challenger	Clay	Guido Andreozzi	6-3, 4-6, 3-6
Loss	14-11	Apr 2018	Barletta, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Marco Trungelliti	6-2, 6-7(4-7), 4-6

Doubles: 13 (7-6)

Result	W-L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1-0	Sep 2002	Italy F5, Selargius	Futures	Hard	Filippo Figliomeni	Florian Allgauer Stefano Mocci	w/o
Win	2-0	May 2004	Italy F8, Verona	Futures	Clay	Alberto Brizzi	Diego Álvarez Juan Felipe Yáñez	6-3, 6-2
Win	3-0	Jul 2004	Italy F15, Bologna	Futures	Clay	Alberto Brizzi	Ivan Dodig Michael Staniak	7-6(7-4), 6-0
Loss	3-1	Apr 2006	Napoli, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Fabio Fognini	Tomá? Cibulec ?ukasz Kubot	5-7, 6-4, [7-10]
Win	4-1	Jul 2006	Recanati, Italy	Challenger	Hard	Davide Sanguinetti	Sebastian Rieschick Viktor Troicki	6-1, 3-6, [10-4]
Loss	4-2	Sep 2007	Genoa, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Flavio Cipolla	Daniele Giorgini Simone Vagnozzi	3-6, 1-6
Win	5-2	Feb 2008	Bergamo, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Andreas Seppi	James Cerretani Igor Zelenay	6-3, 6-0
Loss	5-3	Mar 2018	Punta del Este, Uruguay	Challenger	Clay	Alessandro Giannessi	Facundo Bagnis Ariel Behar	2-6, 6-7(7-9)
Loss	5-4	Aug 2018	Pullach, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Daniele Bracciali	Sander Gillé Joran Vliegen	2-6, 2-6
Loss	5-5	Jun 2019	Lyon, France	Challenger	Clay	Andrea Pellegrino	Philipp Oswald Filip Polá?ek	4-6, 6-7(2-7)
Win	6-5	Jul 2019	Braunschweig, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Guillermo Durán	Antonio ?an?i? Nathaniel Lammons	6-3, 6-2
Win	7-5	Oct 2019	Barcelona, Spain	Challenger	Clay	David Vega Hernández	Sergio Martos Gornés Ramkumar Ramanathan	6-4, 7-5
Loss	7-6	Mar 2020	Pau, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Florin Mergea	Benjamin Bonzi Antoine Hoang	3-6, 2-6

Performance timelines

Singles

Notes
^a 2009 Wimbledon Championships counts as 1 win, 0 losses. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga received a walkover in the second round, after Bolelli withdrew.

Doubles

Current through the 2022 Davis Cup.

References

External links

• Simone Bolelli at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Simone Bolelli at the International Tennis Federation
• Simone Bolelli at the Davis Cup
• Bolelli recent match results
• Bolelli world ranking history