Ben Ellwood

Ben Ellwood (born 12 March 1976) is a former professional tennis player from Australia.

Ben Ellwood
Country (sports) Australia
ResidenceSouth Melbourne
Born (1976-03-12) 12 March 1976
Canberra, Australia
Height5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Turned pro1994
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$388,461
Singles
Career record4–14
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 140 (28 October 1996)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open2R (1996)
Wimbledon1R (1997)
US Open1R (1996)
Doubles
Career record32–50
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 66 (18 March 2002)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open3R (1999, 2000)
French Open2R (2001)
Wimbledon3R (2000)
US OpenQF (1999)

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]

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (0–1)
Outcome No. Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 1. 2002 Delray Beach, United States Hard David Adams Martin Damm
Cyril Suk		 4–6, 7–6(7–5), [5–10]

Challenger titles

Singles: (2)
No. Year Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
1. 1996 Bristol, Great Britain Grass Nick Weal 6–4, 6–3
2. 1996 Manchester, Great Britain Grass Fernon Wibier 6–4, 6–4

Doubles: (6)
No. Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
1. 1994 Perth, Australia Grass Mark Philippoussis Wayne Arthurs
Neil Borwick		 7–5, 7–6
2. 1998 Lexington, United States Hard Lleyton Hewitt Paul Goldstein
Jim Thomas		 5–7, 6–3, 6–2
3. 2001 Surbiton, Great Britain Grass David Adams Jeff Coetzee
Marcos Ondruska		 7–6(7–5), 6–4
4. 2001 Manchester, Great Britain Grass Fredrik Lovén Wesley Moodie
Shaun Rudman		 4–6, 7–5, 6–4
5. 2002 Brest, France Hard Stephen Huss Jonathan Erlich
Andy Ram		 6–1, 6–4
6. 2002 Wroclaw, Poland Hard Stephen Huss Aleksandar Kitinov
Johan Landsberg		 6–7(3–7), 7–5, 7–6(8–6)

References
  1. ITF Tennis Profile
  2. ATP World Tour Profile
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