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Potito Starace
Country	Italy
Residence	Cervinara, Italy
Date of birth	July 14, 1981 (age 28)
Place of birth	Benevento, Italy
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 11⁄2 in)
Weight	84 kg (190 lb; 13.2 st)
Turned pro	2001
Plays	Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money	$1,939,547
Singles
Career record	94–110
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 27 (October 15, 2007)
Current ranking	No. 62 (December 7, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1st (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009)
French Open	3rd (2004, 2007)
Wimbledon	2nd (2009)
US Open	2nd (2004)
Doubles
Career record	45–56
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 68 (April 2, 2007)
	Last updated on: May 11, 2009.

Starace at the 2008 Pilot Pen Tennis tournament.

Potito Starace (born July 14, 1981 in Benevento) is an Italian professional tennis player on the ATP Tour. He achieved his career-high ranking of 27th on October 15, 2007. He is currently 77th in the ATP rankings. One of the most memorable moments of Starace's career was when he made the men's doubles quarterfinals of the 2006 French Open with Alberto Martín. They defeated eighth-seeded Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry along the way, before walking over to second seeds Jonas Björkman and Max Mirnyi. He reached 2 career ATP finals, both in 2007. He lost in Valencia to Nicolás Almagro and later in Kitzbühel to Juan Mónaco.^[1]

[edit] Betting scandal

Following Alessio di Mauro's 9 month ban in November 2007, Starace and Daniele Bracciali were each fined and given short suspensions from playing. Starace received a fine of £21,400 and a 6 weeks ban from January 1, 2008. All of the players were Italian. None of the bets pertained to matches they were involved in or had any stake in.

[edit] Singles titles

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP International Series Gold (0)
ATP Tour (0)
Challengers (8)
Futures (0)

[edit] Wins (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	May 10, 2004	Sanremo	Clay	Peter Wessels	6–4, 6–4
2.	May 31, 2004	Sassuolo	Clay	Alessio di Mauro	6–2, 6–3
3.	July 26, 2004	San Marino	Clay	Hugo Armando	6–4, 1–6, 6–3
4.	September 5, 2005	Genova	Clay	Flavio Cipolla	6–3, 7–6
5.	March 27, 2006	Napoli	Clay	Alessio di Mauro	6–0, 5–1 ret.
6.	March 26, 2007	Napoli	Clay	Younes El Aynaoui	7–5, 6–2
7.	August 6, 2007	San Marino	Clay	Albert Montañés	6–4, 7–6
8.	April 6, 2008	Napoli	Clay	Marcos Daniel	6–4, 4–6, 7–6(3)
9.	July 5, 2009	Turin	Clay	Maximo Gonzalez	7-6(), 6-3

[edit] Singles finalist (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	April 15, 2007	Valencia	Clay	Nicolás Almagro	6–4, 2–6, 1–6
2.	July 29, 2007	Kitzbühel	Clay	Juan Mónaco	7–5, 3–6, 4–6

[edit] Doubles

[edit] Doubles wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	March 4, 2007	Acapulco	Clay	Martín Vassallo Argüello	Lukáš Dlouhý Pavel Vízner	6–0, 6–2
2.	July 29, 2007	Kitzbühel	Clay	Luis Horna	Tomas Behrend Christopher Kas	7–6(4), 7–6(5)
3.	October 6, 2008	Moscow	Carpet (i)	Sergiy Stakhovsky	Stephen Huss Ross Hutchins	7–6(4), 2–6, [10–6]