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| Country (sports) | 👁 Image Brazil |
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| Residence | Campinas, Brazil |
| Born | (1980-12-21) 21 December 1980 (age 45) Campinas, Brazil |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Turned pro | 1999 |
| Retired | 2013 |
| Plays | Left-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Prize money | $1,484,044 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 60–94 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 1 |
| Highest ranking | No. 50 (25 July 2005) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2005, 2012) |
| French Open | 1R (2004, 2005, 2010, 2011) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2011) |
| US Open | 3R (2004) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 11–25 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 118 (11 July 2005) |
| Grand Slam doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 3R (2012) |
| French Open | 2R (2005) |
| Wimbledon | 1R (2005, 2011) |
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Ricardo Mello (born 21 December 1980) is a Brazilian retired tennis player. His preference is for clay courts. He has had the occasional win in hard court tournaments. His best singles rank was No. 50 in 2005. He won one singles tournament (Delray Beach in 2004) and reached the semifinals three times at the Brasil Open. He played most of his tennis in Challenger tournaments, where he won 15 singles titles and three doubles titles.
Career
[edit]Early days
[edit]Ricardo was born in Campinas, Brazil and started to play tennis at the age of three. At 15, he drew a wild card into a tournament in his hometown. He lost to veteran and French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten. However, he gained his first ATP career points. In 1999, Ricardo won his first Futures events in Uruguay and Paraguay.
2004
[edit]Mello won his lone ATP title at Delray Beach, defeating Vincent Spadea in the final. One of his first major feats was qualifying for the main singles draw in the Australian Open that year, his first participation in a Grand Slam tournament; he lost to #8 seed David Nalbandian in the first round.
2006
[edit]At the Campbell's Hall of Fame Championships, Mello played top seed Andy Murray. Murray was in control of the first set, winning 6–1, but Mello won the second set 6–1. Mello took the third and final to a tiebreak, after having three match points. He lost in the tiebreak 5–7.
At the RCA Championships in Indianapolis, Mello faced Jean-René Lisnard in the first round and won in straight sets. In the second round, he faced 14th seed Vincent Spadea and lost.
Sponsorship
[edit]The sponsor for his clothes, shoes and racquets was Babolat.
ATP Tour Career Finals
[edit]Singles: 1 (1 title)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Win | 1–0 | Sep 2004 | Delray Beach, United States | 250 Series | Hard | 👁 United States Vincent Spadea |
7–6(7–2), 6–3 |
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
[edit]Singles: 30 (21–9)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Win | 1–0 | Aug 1999 | Uruguay F2, Jose-Ignacio | Futures | Clay | 👁 Brazil Marcos Daniel |
6–7, 7–5, 6–3 |
| Win | 2–0 | Oct 1999 | Paraguay F3, Asunción | Futures | Clay | 👁 Hungary Gergely Kisgyörgy |
7–5, 6–1 |
| Win | 3–0 | Jun 2000 | Mexico F3, Merida | Futures | Hard | 👁 Argentina Ignacio Hirigoyen |
6–4, 1–6, 6–4 |
| Win | 4–0 | Sep 2000 | Brazil F1, Vitoria | Futures | Clay | 👁 Brazil Júlio Silva |
6–4, 6–3 |
| Loss | 4–1 | Feb 2001 | USA F4, Corpus Christi | Futures | Hard | 👁 South Africa Damien Roberts |
4–6, 2–6 |
| Win | 5–1 | Apr 2001 | Brazil F2, Teresopolis | Futures | Clay | 👁 Argentina Rodrigo Cerdera |
6–2, 6–4 |
| Win | 6–1 | May 2001 | USA F11, Vero Beach | Futures | Clay | 👁 France Thomas Dupre |
4–6, 6–2, 6–4 |
| Win | 7–1 | Jul 2001 | Campos do Jordão, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Brazil Alexandre Simoni |
7–6(8–6), 4–6, 7–6(7–5) |
| Loss | 7–2 | Dec 2001 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Denmark Kristian Pless |
1–6, 1–6 |
| Loss | 7–3 | Mar 2002 | Salinas, Ecuador | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Peru Iván Miranda |
3–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 8–3 | Jul 2002 | Campos do Jordão, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Germany Maximilian Abel |
7–6(7–2), 6–3 |
| Win | 9–3 | Aug 2002 | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Brazil Alexandre Simoni |
6–3, 6–3 |
| Loss | 9–4 | Oct 2003 | Quito, Ecuador | Challenger | Clay | 👁 Ecuador Giovanni Lapentti |
3–6, 7–6(10–8), 3–6 |
| Win | 10–4 | Nov 2003 | Puebla, Mexico | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Germany Markus Hantschk |
7–6(7–5), 6–4 |
| Loss | 10–5 | Aug 2004 | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Serbia and Montenegro Janko Tipsarević |
4–6, 7–5, 4–6 |
| Win | 11–5 | Aug 2004 | Gramado, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Serbia and Montenegro Janko Tipsarević |
2–6, 7–5, 6–4 |
| Win | 12–5 | Jan 2005 | São Paulo, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Ecuador Giovanni Lapentti |
4–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–0) |
| Win | 13–5 | Apr 2006 | Florianópolis, Brazil | Challenger | Clay | 👁 Argentina Diego Junqueira |
6–3, 5–7, 7–6(7–4) |
| Win | 14–5 | Jul 2006 | Campos do Jordão, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Germany Ivo Klec |
6–3, 6–4 |
| Loss | 14–6 | Mar 2008 | Leon, Mexico | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Mexico Bruno Echagaray |
0–6, 6–3, 6–7(6–8) |
| Loss | 14–7 | Jul 2008 | Manta, Ecuador | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Ecuador Giovanni Lapentti |
2–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 15–7 | Jan 2009 | São Paulo, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Chile Paul Capdeville |
6–2, 6–4 |
| Win | 16–7 | Aug 2009 | Brasília, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Argentina Juan Ignacio Chela |
7–6(7–2), 6–4 |
| Win | 17–7 | Jan 2010 | São Paulo, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Argentina Eduardo Schwank |
6–3, 6–1 |
| Loss | 17–8 | Apr 2010 | Curitiba, Brazil | Challenger | Clay | 👁 Germany Dominik Meffert |
4–6, 7–6(7–3), 2–6 |
| Loss | 17–9 | Aug 2010 | Campos do Jordão, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 South Africa Izak van der Merwe |
6–7(6–8), 3–6 |
| Win | 18–9 | Aug 2010 | Salvador, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Brazil Thiago Alves |
5–7, 6–4, 6–4 |
| Win | 19–9 | Jan 2011 | São Paulo, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Brazil Rafael Camilo |
6–2, 6–1 |
| Win | 20–9 | Oct 2011 | Recife, Brazil | Challenger | Hard | 👁 Brazil Rogério Dutra Silva |
7–6(7–5), 6–3 |
| Win | 21–9 | Oct 2011 | São José do Rio Preto, Brazil | Challenger | Clay | 👁 Argentina Eduardo Schwank |
6–4, 6–2 |
Doubles: 16 (3–13)
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Grand Slam performance timeline
[edit]| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
| Tournament | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | SR | W–L | Win % | |||||||||
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| Australian Open | A | A | Q2 | 1R | 2R | 1R | A | A | A | A | 1R | 2R | 0 / 5 | 2–5 | 29% | |||||||||
| French Open | A | Q2 | Q1 | 1R | 1R | Q1 | Q1 | A | Q1 | 1R | 1R | A | 0 / 4 | 0–4 | 0% | |||||||||
| Wimbledon | A | Q2 | Q2 | Q1 | 1R | A | Q2 | Q2 | Q1 | 1R | 2R | A | 0 / 3 | 1–3 | 25% | |||||||||
| US Open | Q3 | Q2 | Q3 | 3R | 2R | Q2 | Q1 | Q1 | Q3 | 2R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 5 | 4–5 | 44% | |||||||||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 2–4 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 0 / 17 | 7–17 | 29% | |||||||||
| Year-end ranking | 133 | 144 | 128 | 71 | 111 | 134 | 257 | 198 | 151 | 76 | 85 | 286 | ||||||||||||
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| Indian Wells Masters | A | A | A | Q1 | 1R | A | A | A | Q2 | 2R | 2R | Q1 | 0 / 3 | 2–3 | 40% | |||||||||
| Miami Open | A | Q1 | Q1 | 2R | 2R | Q2 | 2R | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | Q1 | 0 / 6 | 3–6 | 33% | |||||||||
| Madrid | A | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |||||||||
| Toronto/Montreal | A | A | A | A | 2R | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% | |||||||||
| Cincinnati | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |||||||||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0 / 11 | 6–11 | 35% | |||||||||
