Andreas Vinciguerra Explained

Andreas Vinciguerra
Residence:Malmö, Sweden
Birth Date:19 February 1981
Birth Place:Malmö, Sweden
Turnedpro:1998
Retired:2013
Plays:Left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney:$1,381,556
Coach:Mikael Tillström
Singlesrecord:87–103
Singlestitles:1
Highestsinglesranking:No. 33 (5 November 2001)
Australianopenresult:4R (2001)
Frenchopenresult:2R (2001)
Wimbledonresult:2R (2000, 2001)
Usopenresult:2R (2003)
Othertournaments:yes
Olympicsresult:2R (2000)
Doublesrecord:11–22
Doublestitles:0
Highestdoublesranking:No. 261 (19 February 2001)
Updated:23 April 2022

Andreas Vinciguerra (pronounced as /it/; born 19 February 1981) is a former tennis player from Sweden, who turned professional in 1998. He won 1 singles title in Copenhagen; reached the semi-finals of the 2001 Rome Masters and 2001 Paris Masters; and attained a career-high singles ranking of World No. 33 in November 2001.

Tennis career

Vinciguerra is of Italian origin on his father's side.

Junior career

As a junior Vinciguerra reached as high as No. 6 in the world in 1998.

Junior Slam results:

Australian Open: F (1998)
French Open: SF (1998)
Wimbledon: -
US Open: 1R (1998)

Pro career

He experienced significant problems with a back injury, but in 2006 made a comeback, which has seen him edge towards the top 100 in the ATP rankings.

Has played 9 Davis Cup matches in singles, and won 3 of them.

In the 2009 World Group Playoffs in March 2009, Sweden faced Israel in Vinciguerra's hometown. Dudi Sela first defeated Vinciguerra 11–9 in the fifth. Harel Levy then beat Vinciguerra in the decisive final match in a marathon 3-hour, 44 minutes, 8–6 in the fifth, to lead the Israeli team to a come-from-behind 3–2 victory over the 7-time Davis Cup champion Swedes at Baltic Hall in Malmö, Sweden, and allow Israel to advance in the 2009 Davis Cup.[1]

After the Davis Cup, Vinciguerra decided to continue playing and reached in his first tournament of the year the final at the Rome Challenger. He then received a Wild Card to the Swedish Open where he made it to the semifinals.

ATP career finals

Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runners-up)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters 1000 Series (0–0)
ATP 500 Series (0–0)
ATP 250 Series (1–3)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–1)
Clay (0–2)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (0–2)
Indoors (1–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Båstad, SwedenInternational SeriesClay Juan Antonio Marín4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Win1–1Copenhagen, DenmarkInternational SeriesHard Magnus Larsson6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Loss1–2Båstad, SwedenInternational SeriesClay Magnus Norman1–6, 6–7(6–8)
Loss1–3Copenhagen, DenmarkInternational SeriesHard Tim Henman3–6, 4–6

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 10 (5–5)

Legend
ATP Challenger (3–4)
ITF Futures (2–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (1–2)
Clay (3–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0-1Denmark F1, KoldingFuturesClay Frederik Fetterlein1–6, 2–6
Win1-1Finland F4, OuluFuturesCarpet Olivier Tauma6–3, 1–0 ret.
Win2-1Szczecin, PolandChallengerClay Juan Antonio Marín6–2, 6–4
Win3-1Prostějov, Czech RepublicChallengerClay Jérôme Golmardwalkover
Loss3-2Sarajevo, Bosnia & HerzegovinaChallengerHard Andreas Beck6–2, 6–7(1–7), 6–7(4–7)
Loss3-3Trani, ItalyChallengerHard Juan Pablo Guzmán1–6, 6–3, 6–7(1–7)
Win4-3Manerbio, ItalyChallengerClay Adrián García7–6(7–3), 6–1
Loss4-4Düsseldorf, GermanyChallengerClay Evgeny Korolev6–7(4–7), 3–6
Loss4-5Rome, ItalyChallengerClay Daniel Köllerer3–6, 3–6
Win5-5Sweden F7, JönköpingFuturesHard Érik Chvojka6–4, 7–6(7–3)

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Legend
ATP Challenger (0–0)
ITF Futures (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Performance timeline

Singles

Tournament2000200120022003200420052006SRW–LWin %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Openstyle=background:#afeeee3Rstyle=background:#afeeee4Rstyle=background:#afeeee2Rstyle=background:#afeeee3RAAstyle=background:#ecf2ffQ10 / 48–4
French Openstyle=background:#afeeee1Rstyle=background:#afeeee2RAstyle=background:#afeeee1RAAA0 / 31–3
Wimbledonstyle=background:#afeeee2Rstyle=background:#afeeee2RAstyle=background:#afeeee1RAAA0 / 32–3
US Openstyle=background:#afeeee1Rstyle=background:#afeeee1Rstyle=background:#afeeee1Rstyle=background:#afeeee2RAAA0 / 41–4
style=text-align:leftWin–loss3–45–41–23–40–00–00–00 / 1412–14
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
bgcolor=efefef align=leftIndian WellsA1RAAAAA0 / 10–1
bgcolor=efefef align=leftMiami3R2RAAAAA0 / 23–2
bgcolor=efefef align=leftMonte Carlo1R1R1RAAAA0 / 30–3
bgcolor=efefef align=leftRomeQ2bgcolor=yellowSFAAAAA0 / 14–1
bgcolor=efefef align=leftHamburgA1RAAAAA0 / 10–1
bgcolor=efefef align=leftCanada1R2RAAAAA0 / 21–2
bgcolor=efefef align=leftCincinnati1R1RAAAAA0 / 20–2
bgcolor=efefef align=leftStuttgart1R1RNot Held0 / 20–2
bgcolor=efefef align=leftParisAbgcolor=yellowSFAAAAA0 / 14–1
style=text-align:leftWin–loss2–510–90–10–00–00–00–00 / 1512–15

References

  1. https://archive.today/20120907114355/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gKplpxm13AeRv3D6zy2q7LMkLItg