Thomaz Bellucci

Country	Brazil
Residence	São Paulo, Brazil
Date of birth	30 December 1987 (1987-12-30) (age 21)
Place of birth	Tietê, Brazil
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	80 kg (180 lb; 13 st)
Turned pro	2005
Plays	Left-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money	US $672,807
Singles
Career record	25-34
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 36 (November 16, 2009)
Current ranking	No. 36 (November 16, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1R (2009)
French Open	1R (2008, 2009)
Wimbledon	2R (2008)
US Open	2R (2008, 2009)
Doubles
Career record	4–8
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 115 (May 12, 2008)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon	1R (2008)
Last updated on: November 16, 2009.

Thomaz Cocchiarali Bellucci (born December 30, 1987 in Tietê), a professional tennis player, is the top ranked Brazilian tennis player. He currently holds a career high ranking of #36, achieved on November 16, 2009.

He used a string of ITF Challenger tournament victories early in 2008 to break into the top 100 rankings of the ATP World Tour as a 20-year-old.

He reached his first tour final at the Brasil Open in 2009 and won his first tour title at the Swiss Open in 2009. His favorite surface is clay court.

Contents 1 Juniors career 2 Professional career 2.1 2007 2.2 2008 2.2.1 April - May: 17 match Challenger winning streak 2.2.2 French Open 2.2.3 Wimbledon 2.3 2009 3 ATP World Tour finals (2) 3.1 Wins (1) 3.2 Runner-ups (1) 4 ITF Challenger Circuit finals (8) 4.1 Wins (6) 4.2 Runner-ups (2) 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Juniors career

Bellucci reached a high of #15 in the world two weeks after his 17th birthday, in January, 2005.^[1]

[edit] Professional career

[edit] 2007

Bellucci began 2007 ranked #582, but began a rapid ascent in June to finish the year at #202.

[edit] 2008

The 20-year-old Bellucci continued his rapid rise early in 2008. The first week of the year, ranked #202, he made it to the quarterfinals of a Challenger in São Paulo.

Bellucci had little success in his next few tournaments, but in February he got back on track, beating #145 Pablo Andujar while qualifying into an ATP stop in Buenos Aires and then recording his first-ever ATP match win, over #83 Werner Eschauer, before bowing out in the next round to #25 Juan Ignacio Chela. The following week, he beat #130 Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo and #140 Eduardo Schwank en route to his first-ever Challenger title, in Santiago, Chile, to improve his ranking to #145. The next week, he beat #162 Dick Norman before losing in a Challenger second round match.

[edit] April - May: 17 match Challenger winning streak

In April, Bellucci began an amazing string of Challenger match wins in singles play. First he won a minor Challenger in Florianopolis, Brazil, and made the final in doubles. Two weeks later, he ran his singles streak to 10 matches while winning a major Challenger in Tunis, beating #155 Andreas Beck, #363 Martin Verkerk, #136 Paul Capdeville, #113 Nicolás Massú, and #175 Dušan Vemić, and also won the doubles title. Those wins got him into the top 100 for the first time at #100. The following week, at a minor Challenger in Rabat, Morocco, he ran his streak to 15 matches while beating #136 Capdeville again, #96 Guillermo Garcia Lopez, and #119 Martín Vassallo Argüello to win the title and get his ranking to #81. His streak ended at 17 matches the next week, after beating #128 Rik de Voest to reach the quarterfinals of a challenger in Bordeaux, France, when he finally lost to #111 Igor Kunitsyn, improving Bellucci's ranking to #75.

[edit] French Open

In late May, he qualified into his first French Open, lost to 3-time defending champion and ATP #2 Rafael Nadal in the first round.

[edit] Wimbledon

Bellucci achieved his first win in a Grand Slam event, defeating Igor Kunitsyn in four sets.

[edit] 2009

Bellucci began the year reaching the Brasil Open final for the first time. He upset the former world #1, 2003 French Open champion, and 2007 Brasil Open titlist Juan Carlos Ferrero in the Quarterfinals, but eventually lost in 3 sets to second-seeded Tommy Robredo. It was his first ATP Tour final, after a string of Challengers.

In August, he would win his first title at the Swiss Open in Gstaad after reaching the main draw through qualification and going on to beat local hope and former world #9 Stanislas Wawrinka, former world #4 Nicolas Kiefer, two-time Swiss Open runner-up Igor Andreev, and first-time finalist Andreas Beck in straight sets.^[2]. Ranked #119 in the world at the time of his victory in Switzerland, Bellucci jumped 53 spots in the ATP World Tour rankings to #66 as a result.

In October, Bellucci reached his first hard-court ATP World Tour semifinal. He reached the last 4 at the Stockholm Open, losing to Olivier Rochus in three sets.

He then followed his good form to win his second challenger title of the year, at the 2009 Copa Petrobus São Paulo in Brazil. He beat Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador 6-4, 6-4 to win the sixth challenger of his career, and the second on his native soil. This result bumped Bellucci up to #37 in the world, the first time that Thomaz was ranked inside the Top 40 in the world in singles and the highest ranking he has achieved, to date.

[edit] ATP World Tour finals (2)

[edit] Wins (1)

Legend

ATP Tour 250 Series (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	August 2, 2009	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Andreas Beck	6–4, 7–6(2)

[edit] Runner-ups (1)

Legend

ATP Tour 250 Series (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	February 14, 2009	Costa do Sauípe, Brazil	Clay	Tommy Robredo	6–3, 3–6, 6–4

[edit] ITF Challenger Circuit finals (8)

[edit] Wins (6)

Legend

Challenger (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	February 25, 2008	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Eduardo Schwank	6–4, 7–6(3)
2.	April 14, 2008	Florianapolis, Brazil	Clay	Franco Ferreiro	4–6, 6–4, 6–2
3.	April 28, 2008	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Dusan Vemic	6–2, 6–4
4.	May 5, 2008	Rabat, Morroco	Clay	Martin Vassallo Arguello	6–2, 6–2
5.	July 13, 2009	Rimini, Italy	Clay	Juan Pablo Brzezicki	3–6, 6–3, 6–1
6.	November 1, 2009	São Paulo, Brazil	Clay	Nicolas Lapentti	6–4, 6–4

[edit] Runner-ups (2)

Legend

Challenger (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	July 16, 2007	Cuenca, Ecuador	Clay	Leonardo Mayer	3–6, 2–6
2.	July 9, 2007	Bogota, Colombia	Clay	Carlos Salamanca	6–4, 3–6, 2–6

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Thomaz Bellucci at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Bellucci Recent Match Results
• Bellucci World Ranking History
• Bellucci ITF Juniors Profile
• Bellucci Davis Cup Profile
• Thomaz Bellucci

v • d • e Association of Tennis Professionals Top ten Male singles tennis players from the Americas as of November 9, 2009 1. Juan Martín del Potro (5 ▬) 2. Andy Roddick (7 ▬) 3. Fernando González (11 ▬) 4. Sam Querrey (24 ▬) 5. Juan Mónaco (30▬) 6. John Isner (35 ▲5) 7. Thomaz Bellucci (38 ▼1) 8. James Blake (41 ▬) 9. Horacio Zeballos (42 ▬1) 10. Pablo Cuevas (48 ▲2)