Australian tennis player
Ben Ellwood (born 12 March 1976) is a former professionaltennis player from Australia.
An outstanding junior, Ellwood won the boys' singles at the1994 Australian Open , defeatingAndrew Ilie in the final. He was the boys' doubles champion as well (withMark Philippoussis ) and also went on to win the boys' doubles at the1994 Wimbledon Championships and1994 US Open (with Philippousssis andNicolás Lapentti , respectively). This made Ellwood the first ever player to win the boys' doubles at the Australian Open,Wimbledon Championships andUS Open in the same year.
Ellwood made hisGrand Slam debut in the1995 Australian Open and came close to upsetting world number 46Fabrice 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 beatOlivier Delaître . As a doubles player he had much more success, with his best result being a quarter-finals berth at the1999 US Open , withMichael Tebbutt as his partner. The pair defeated 10th seedsYevgeny Kafelnikov andDaniel Vacek along the way. He also competed in the mixed doubles and made the second round of two Grand Slams in 2002, at theAustralian Open andWimbledon , both times withEvie 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 the1998 Australian Open and1999 Wimbledon Championships .[ 1]
On theATP Tour , Ellwood made his only final when he andDavid Adams were doubles runners-up in the2002 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships . Previously he had been a doubles quarter-finalist inQueen's withMichael Hill and made doubles semi-finals atHong Kong in 1999 andBucharest in 2001.[ 2]
Junior Grand Slam finals [ edit ] [ edit ] [ edit ] [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] 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 3–6, 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
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 7–6(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)
Performance timelines [ edit ] (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.
Australia
Neville Godwin
Jamie Delgado
Roman Kukal
Ricardo Schlachter
Nicolás Lapentti
Paul Goldstein
Martin Damm
Fernon Wibier
Jan Boruszewski
Satoshi Iwabuchi
Kalle Flygt
Max Mirnyi
Mosé Navarra
Lovro Zovko
Amir Hadad
Aleksandar Kitinov