Australian tennis player
Ben Ellwood (born 12 March 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
Career An outstanding junior, Ellwood won the boys' singles at the 1994 Australian Open , defeating Andrew Ilie in the final. He was the boys' doubles champion as well (with Mark Philippoussis ) and also went on to win the boys' doubles at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships and 1994 US Open (with Philippousssis and Nicolás Lapentti , respectively). This made Ellwood the first ever player to win the boys' doubles at the Australian Open, Wimbledon Championships and US Open in the same year.
Ellwood made his Grand Slam debut in the 1995 Australian Open and came close to upsetting world number 46 Fabrice Santoro in the opening round. He lost the encounter in five sets, but had a chance to win the match in a fourth set tiebreak, which the Frenchman won 9–7. His only Grand Slam singles win came in Australia a year later, when he beat Olivier Delaître . As a doubles player he had much more success, with his best result being a quarter-finals berth at the 1999 US Open , with Michael Tebbutt as his partner. The pair defeated 10th seeds Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Daniel Vacek along the way. He also competed in the mixed doubles and made the second round of two Grand Slams in 2002, at the Australian Open and Wimbledon , both times with Evie Dominikovic . These would be the only two occasions he won a Grand Slam mixed doubles match but he only twice played with his younger sister, Annabel Ellwood , in the 1998 Australian Open and 1999 Wimbledon Championships .[ 1]
On the ATP Tour , Ellwood made his only final when he and David Adams were doubles runners-up in the 2002 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships . Previously he had been a doubles quarter-finalist in Queen's with Michael Hill and made doubles semi-finals at Hong Kong in 1999 and Bucharest in 2001.[ 2]
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 1 (1 title)
Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)
ATP career finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP Masters Series (0–0) ATP Championship Series (0–0) ATP International Series (0–1)
Finals by surface Hard (0–1) Clay (0–0) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting Outdoors (0–1) Indoors (0–0)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 7 (5–2)Legend ATP Challenger (2–0) ITF Futures (3–2)
Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (1–1) Grass (4–0) Carpet (0–1)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score Win 1–0 Jul 1996 Bristol , United KingdomChallenger Grass Nick Weal 6–4, 6–3 Win 2–0 Jul 1996 Manchester , United KingdomChallenger Grass Fernon Wibier 6–4, 6–4 Loss 2–1 Nov 1998 Australia F2, Frankston Futures Clay Toby Mitchell 6–3, 1–6, 5–7 Win 3–1 Nov 1998 Australia F3, Berri Futures Grass Glenn Knox3–6, 6–3, 6–4 Loss 3–2 Feb 1999 Great Britain F3, Eastbourne Futures Carpet Jan Boruszewski 2–6, 3–6 Win 4–2 Oct 1999 Australia F1, Beaumaris Futures Clay Paul Baccanello 6–3, 6–2 Win 5–2 Nov 1999 Australia F3, Berri Futures Grass Dejan Petrovic 7–6, 6–1
Doubles: 21 (12–9)Legend ATP Challenger (6–7) ITF Futures (6–2)
Finals by surface Hard (3–2) Clay (5–2) Grass (4–5) Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score Loss 0–1 Dec 1993 Perth , AustraliaChallenger Grass Mark Philippoussis Paul Kilderry Brent Larkham 6–7, 3–6 Loss 0–2 Dec 1993 Adelaide , AustraliaChallenger Grass Mark Philippoussis Joshua Eagle Andrew Florent 1–6, 3–6 Win 1–2 Dec 1994 Perth , AustraliaChallenger Grass Mark Philippoussis Wayne Arthurs Neil Borwick 7–5, 7–6 Loss 1–3 Apr 1996 Nagoya , JapanChallenger Hard Peter Tramacchi Satoshi Iwabuchi Takao Suzuki 6–7, 6–7 Loss 1–4 Jul 1997 Winnetka , United StatesChallenger Hard Chad Clark Michael Sell Myles Wakefield 3–6, 6–7 Win 2–4 Apr 1998 Great Britain F4, Bournemouth Futures Clay Kalle Flygt James Davidson James Fox 6–4, 6–3 Loss 2–5 Jul 1998 Bristol , United KingdomChallenger Grass Wayne Arthurs Max Mirnyi Vladimir Voltchkov 4–6, 6–3, 6–7 Loss 2–6 Jul 1998 Manchester , United KingdomChallenger Grass Wayne Arthurs Mosé Navarra Stefano Pescosolido 1–6, 7–6, 6–7 Win 3–6 Aug 1998 Lexington , United StatesChallenger Hard Lleyton Hewitt Paul Goldstein Jim Thomas 5–7, 6–3, 6–2 Win 4–6 May 1999 Great Britain F6, Newcastle Futures Clay Miles Maclagan Damien Roberts Myles Wakefield 6–2, 6–4 Win 5–6 May 1999 Great Britain F7, Edinburgh Futures Clay Miles Maclagan Martin Lee Arvind Parmar 6–2, 6–3 Loss 5–7 Oct 1999 Australia F1, Beaumaris Futures Clay Dejan Petrovic Tim Crichton Domenic Marafiote 6–7, 3–6 Win 6–7 Apr 2001 Great Britain F3, Bournemouth Futures Clay Todd Larkham Luke Bourgeois Michael Tebbutt 7–6(7–4) , 7–6(7–4) Win 7–7 May 2001 Great Britain F4, Hatfield Futures Clay Luke Bourgeois Simon Dickson Mark Hilton 6–3, 6–3 Win 8–7 Jun 2001 Surbiton , United KingdomChallenger Grass David Adams Jeff Coetzee Marcos Ondruska 7–6(7–5) , 6–4 Win 9–7 Jul 2001 Manchester , United KingdomChallenger Grass Fredrik Lovén Wesley Moodie Shaun Rudman 4–6, 7–5, 6–4 Loss 9–8 Sep 2001 Brașov , RomaniaChallenger Clay Kalle Flygt Lovro Zovko Amir Hadad 1–6, 6–4, 4–6 Win 10–8 Nov 2001 Australia F5, Berri Futures Grass Dejan Petrovic Peter Luczak David Hodge7–6(8–6) , 6–7(5–7) , 6–3 Loss 10–9 Dec 2001 Australia F6, Barmera Futures Grass Dejan Petrovic Joseph Sirianni Jaymon Crabb 2–6, 3–6 Win 11–9 Feb 2002 Brest , FranceChallenger Hard Stephen Huss Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram 6–1, 6–4 Win 12–9 Feb 2002 Wrocław , PolandChallenger Hard Stephen Huss Aleksandar Kitinov Johan Landsberg 6–7(3–7) , 7–5, 7–6(8–6)
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
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