Filippo Volandri
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| Country (sports) |
 Italy
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|---|---|
| Residence | Livorno, Italy |
| Born |
5 September 1981 Livorno, Italy |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Turned pro | 1997 |
| Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $3,877,544 |
| Official website | filippovolandri.it |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 176–222 |
| Career titles | 2 |
| Highest ranking | No. 25 (23 July 2007) |
| Current ranking | No. 209 (9 March 2016) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2004) |
| French Open | 4R (2007) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2004) |
| US Open | 2R (2004) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Olympic Games | 1R (2004) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 32–76 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 120 (14 May 2006) |
| Current ranking | n.a. |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2005) |
| French Open | 2R (2005, 2007, 2011, 2012) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (2004, 2005) |
| US Open | 2R (2003, 2005) |
Filippo Volandri (born 5 September 1981; Italian pronunciation: [fiˈlippo voˈlandri]) is an Italian professional male tennis player. Volandri is a right-handed player who reached a career-high singles ranking of world no. 25 in July 2007. He turned pro in 1997 and has earned over $3,000,000 in prize money. Volandri won the second title of his career in September 2006, beating Nicolás Lapentti in the final of the Sicily International in Palermo.
At the Rome Masters in 2007 Volandri, having entered as a wild card, recorded the biggest win of his career by beating the then world no. 1 Roger Federer in straight sets 6–2, 6–4. Volandri celebrated by doing a lap of honour around centre court, high-fiving spectators in the front rows.
Afterwards, Volandri hailed the victory as not only for himself, but for Italy, telling something of both the regard in which Federer, who holds the record for the longest spell as the world's top-ranked male player, is held and the relative under-achievement of Italy in men's tennis at the time. For his part Federer offered few excuses for his out-of-character display.
Hopes that this might be the start of Italy's re-emergence among the top nations of professional men's tennis were heightened when Volandri went on to beat the highly rated world no. 12 Tomáš Berdych in the quarterfinal. The win meant that Volandri would be the first Italian to reach the event's semifinals since 1978. His run stopped in the semifinals, however, as he lost to Fernando González. In the French Open he was the 29th seed and he made it to the forth round projecting him up to 25 th in the world, before losing in straight sets to Tommy Robredo.
Volandri has struggled greatly after the dropped max-fixing allegations, his only major success since 2007 is making it to the final of the 2012 Brasil Open where he beat then world 38 Thomaz Bellucci in the final he lost to then world 11 and top seed Nicolás Almagro in 3 sets. However, since then he has mainly competed on the ATP Challenger Tour, whilst since he reached the forth round in the 2007 French Open he has not progressed past the 1st round of a grand slam.
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