Ben Ellwood Explained

Ben Ellwood
Country:	Australia
Residence:	South Melbourne. Australia
Birth Date:	12 March 1976
Birth Place:	Canberra, Australia
Height:	5 ft. 10 in.
Turnedpro:	1994
Plays:	Right-handed
Careerprizemoney:	$388,461
Singlesrecord:	4–14
Singlestitles:	0 2 Challenger, 3 Futures
Highestsinglesranking:	No. 140 (28 October 1996)
Australianopenresult:	2R (1996)
Frenchopenresult:	Q2 (1996, 1998)
Wimbledonresult:	1R (1997)
Usopenresult:	1R (1996)
Doublesrecord:	32–50
Doublestitles:	0 6 Challenger, 6 Futures
Highestdoublesranking:	No. 66 (18 March 2002)
Australianopendoublesresult:	3R (1999, 2000)
Frenchopendoublesresult:	2R (2001)
Wimbledondoublesresult:	3R (2000)
Usopendoublesresult:	QF (1999)
Australianopenmixedresult:	2R (2002
Wimbledonmixedresult:	2R (2002)
Updated:	1 February 2022

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

Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1993	US Open	Hard	James Sekulov	Neville Godwin Gareth Williams	3–6, 3–6
Win	1994	Australian Open	Hard	Mark Philippoussis	Jamie Delgado Roman Kukal	7–5, 7–6
Win	1994	Wimbledon	Grass	Mark Philippoussis	Vladimir Platenik Ricardo Schlachter	6–2, 6–4
Win	1994	US Open	Hard	Nicolás Lapentti	Paul Goldstein Scott Humphries	6–0, 6–2

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	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Bristol, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Nick Weal	6–4, 6–3
Win	2–0	Manchester, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Fernon Wibier	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2–1	Australia F2, Frankston	Futures	Clay	Toby Mitchell	6–3, 1–6, 5–7
Win	3–1	Australia F3, Berri	Futures	Grass	Glenn Knox	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–2	Great Britain F3, Eastbourne	Futures	Carpet	Jan Boruszewski	2–6, 3–6
Win	4–2	Australia F1, Beaumaris	Futures	Clay	Paul Baccanello	6–3, 6–2
Win	5–2	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	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Perth, Australia	Challenger	Grass	Mark Philippoussis	Paul Kilderry Brent Larkham	6–7, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Adelaide, Australia	Challenger	Grass	Mark Philippoussis	Joshua Eagle Andrew Florent	1–6, 3–6
Win	1–2	Perth, Australia	Challenger	Grass	Mark Philippoussis	Wayne Arthurs Neil Borwick	7–5, 7–6
Loss	1–3	Nagoya, Japan	Challenger	Hard	Peter Tramacchi	Satoshi Iwabuchi Takao Suzuki	6–7, 6–7
Loss	1–4	Winnetka, United States	Challenger	Hard	Chad Clark	Michael Sell Myles Wakefield	3–6, 6–7
Win	2–4	Great Britain F4, Bournemouth	Futures	Clay	Kalle Flygt	James Davidson James Fox	6–4, 6–3
Loss	2–5	Bristol, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Wayne Arthurs	Max Mirnyi Vladimir Voltchkov	4–6, 6–3, 6–7
Loss	2–6	Manchester, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Wayne Arthurs	Mosé Navarra Stefano Pescosolido	1–6, 7–6, 6–7
Win	3–6	Lexington, United States	Challenger	Hard	Lleyton Hewitt	Paul Goldstein Jim Thomas	5–7, 6–3, 6–2
Win	4–6	Great Britain F6, Newcastle	Futures	Clay	Miles Maclagan	Damien Roberts Myles Wakefield	6–2, 6–4
Win	5–6	Great Britain F7, Edinburgh	Futures	Clay	Miles Maclagan	Martin Lee Arvind Parmar	6–2, 6–3
Loss	5–7	Australia F1, Beaumaris	Futures	Clay	Dejan Petrovic	Tim Crichton Domenic Marafiote	6–7, 3–6
Win	6–7	Great Britain F3, Bournemouth	Futures	Clay	Todd Larkham	Luke Bourgeois Michael Tebbutt	7–6^(7–4), 7–6^(7–4)
Win	7–7	Great Britain F4, Hatfield	Futures	Clay	Luke Bourgeois	Simon Dickson Mark Hilton	6–3, 6–3
Win	8–7	Surbiton, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	David Adams	Jeff Coetzee Marcos Ondruska	7–6^(7–5), 6–4
Win	9–7	Manchester, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Fredrik Lovén	Wesley Moodie Shaun Rudman	4–6, 7–5, 6–4
Loss	9–8	Brașov, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Kalle Flygt	Lovro Zovko Amir Hadad	1–6, 6–4, 4–6
Win	10–8	Australia F5, Berri	Futures	Grass	Dejan Petrovic	Peter Luczak David Hodge	7–6^(8–6), 6–7^(5–7), 6–3
Loss	10–9	Australia F6, Barmera	Futures	Grass	Dejan Petrovic	Joseph Sirianni Jaymon Crabb	2–6, 3–6
Win	11–9	Brest, France	Challenger	Hard	Stephen Huss	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	6–1, 6–4
Win	12–9	Wrocław, Poland	Challenger	Hard	Stephen Huss	Aleksandar Kitinov Johan Landsberg	6–7^(3–7), 7–5, 7–6^(8–6)

Performance timelines

Singles

Tournament	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q2	Q1	1R	2R	1R	Q3	Q1	A	A	Q1	Q1	0 / 3	1–3
French Open	A	A	A	Q2	A	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Wimbledon	A	Q1	Q3	Q2	1R	Q3	Q3	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
US Open	A	A	A	1R	Q1	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 5	1–5
ATP Masters Series
Miami	A	A	Q1	Q1	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Hamburg	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Rome	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 0	0–0

Doubles

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	3R	3R	1R	1R	0 / 8	4–8
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	0 / 3	1–3
Wimbledon	Q1	Q2	1R	Q1	Q2	3R	2R	1R	0 / 4	3–4
US Open	A	Q1	A	A	QF	A	2R	2R	0 / 3	5–3
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	5–2	4–3	3–4	1–4	0 / 18	13–18
ATP Masters Series
Miami	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	0 / 1	1–1
Rome	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Cincinnati	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0 / 2	1–2

Notes and References

http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/players/player/profile.aspx?playerid=30008417 ITF Tennis Profile
http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/El/B/Ben-Ellwood.aspx ATP World Tour Profile