Stefano Napolitano

Stefano Napolitano
	Napolitano at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)	Italy
Residence	Pollone, Italy
Born	11 April 1995 (age 29); Biella, Italy
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Turned pro	2012
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$ 802,129
Singles
Career record	3–7
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 121 (17 June 2024)
Current ranking	No. 125 (15 July 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q3 (2024)
French Open	2R (2017)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2018)
US Open	Q2 (2019, 2024)
Doubles
Career record	1–3
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 182 (3 April 2017)
Current ranking	No. 1301 (8 April 2024)
	Last updated on: 15 July 2024.

Stefano Napolitano (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsteːfano napoliˈtaːno, ˈstɛː-];^[1]^[2] born 11 April 1995) is an Italian professional tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour and Junior Grand Slam finalist. He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of world No. 121 on 17 June 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 182, achieved on 3 April 2017.

Career

2015–2017: Major debut and first win, Masters debut

Napolitano defeated Augusto Virgili in the qualifying of the 2015 Distal & ITR Group Tennis Cup 6–0, 6–3, winning the first set without dropping a single point, which is referred to as a golden set.^[3]^[4]

He made his Masters debut at the 2017 Italian Open as a wildcard.

He also made his Grand Slam debut at the 2017 French Open after qualifying and recorded his first win over 31st seed Mischa Zverev.

2023

Ranked No. 555, he entered the main draw of the 2023 Italian Open after qualifying, six years since his Masters debut at the same tournament in 2017, having received a wildcard for the qualifying competition.

He also qualified for the 2023 Rolex Shanghai Masters after Marc Polmans was disqualified in the last round of qualifications for hitting a ball at the umpire in frustration.^[5]

2024: Top 125, first Masters wins

Following his third Challenger title at the Open Comunidad de Madrid,^[6] he reached the top 125 on 15 April 2024.^{[citation needed]}

He received a wildcard for the Italian Open and reached the third round defeating two lucky losers JJ Wolf and Juncheng Shang, recording his first Masters wins.^[7]

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 18 (6–12)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (3–5)
ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (3–7)

Finals by surface
Hard (4–6)
Clay (2–5)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2014	Italy F2, Rovereto	Futures	Carpet (i)	Luca Vanni	3–6, 3–6
Loss	0–2	May 2014	Israel F4, Ashkelon	Futures	Hard	Robin Kern	4–6, 1–6
Loss	0–3	May 2014	Tunisia F2, Sousse	Futures	Hard	David Pérez Sanz	7–6^(7–2), 3–6, 4–6
Loss	0–4	Aug 2014	Romania F12, Mediaș	Futures	Clay	Filip Horanský	6–4, 6–7^(4–7), 2–6
Win	1–4	Mar 2015	Israel F2, Herzlia	Futures	Hard	Michal Konečný	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
Loss	1–5	Apr 2015	Italy F5, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Federico Gaio	2–6, 4–6
Loss	1–6	Sep 2015	Israel F12, Meitar	Futures	Hard	Michael Geerts	6–7^(10–12), 2–6
Loss	1–7	Jul 2016	Todi, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Miljan Zekić	7–6^(8–6), 4–6, 3–6
Win	2–7	Nov 2016	Ortisei, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Alessandro Giannessi	6–4, 6–1
Loss	2–8	Feb 2018	Bergamo, Italy	Challenger	Hard (i)	Matteo Berrettini	2–6, 6–3, 2–6
Loss	2–9	Aug 2018	Lexington, USA	Challenger	Hard	Lloyd Harris	4–6, 3–6
Loss	2–10	Sep 2018	Biella, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Federico Delbonis	4–6, 3–6
Loss	2–11	Mar 2019	Shenzhen, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Marcos Baghdatis	2–6, 6–3, 4–6
Loss	2–12	Jun 2023	M15 Frascati, Italy	World Tour	Clay	Julian Ocleppo	4–6, 5–7
Win	3–12	Jul 2023	M25 Biella, Italy	World Tour	Clay	Lorenzo Carboni	6–4, 6–0
Win	4–12	Oct 2023	M15 Selva Gardena, Italy	World Tour	Hard	Adrian Oetzbach	7–5, 6–4
Win	5–12	Feb 2024	Bangalore, India	Challenger	Hard	Hong Seong-chan	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Win	6–12	Apr 2024	Madrid, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Leandro Riedi	6–3, 6–3

Doubles: 10 (4–6)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (3–2)
ITF Futures Tour (1–4)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–3)
Clay (4–3)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	May 2012	Italy F9, Pozzuoli	Futures	Clay	Alessio di Mauro	Claudio Grassi Walter Trusendi	3–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	Jul 2012	Italy F19, Fano	Futures	Clay	Marco Viola	Matteo Volante Miljan Zekić	3–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Win	1–2	Apr 2014	Italy F10, Santa Margherita di Pula	Futures	Clay	Marco Bortolotti	Emanuele Molina Riccardo Sinicropi	6–4, 6–4
Win	2–2	Apr 2014	Vercelli, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Matteo Donati	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Albano Olivetti	7–6^(7–2), 6–3
Loss	2–3	Sep 2015	Israel F12, Meitar	Futures	Hard	Michael Geerts	Jarryd Chaplin Ben McLachlan	6–7^(5–7), 3–6
Loss	2–4	Apr 2016	Napoli, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Matteo Donati	Gero Kretschmer Alexander Satschko	1–6, 3–6
Win	3–4	Jul 2016	San Benedetto, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Federico Gaio	Facundo Argüello Sergio Galdós	6–3, 6–4
Win	4–4	Oct 2016	Rome, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Federico Gaio	Marin Draganja Tomislav Draganja	6–7^(5–7), 6–2, [10–3]
Loss	4–5	Jan 2017	Nouméa, New Caledonia	Challenger	Hard	Adrián Menéndez Maceiras	Quentin Halys Tristan Lamasine	6–7^(9–11), 1–6
Loss	4–6	Jan 2021	M15+H Bressuire, France	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Kenny De Schepper	Roy Smith Alafia Ayeni	6–7^(4-7), 6-4, [5–10]

Singles performance timeline

Key
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	P#	DNQ	A	Z#	PO	G	S	B	NMS	NTI	P	NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Tournament	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	SR	W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	Q2	Q2	Q2	Q1	A	A	A	Q3	0 / 0	0–0
French Open	A	A	2R	Q2	Q2	Q1	A	A	A	Q2	0 / 1	1–1
Wimbledon	A	A	Q1	Q3	Q2	NH	A	A	A	Q2	0 / 0	0–0
US Open	A	Q1	Q1	Q1	Q2	A	A	A	A		0 / 0	0–0
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 1	1–1
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Madrid Open	A	A	A	A	A	NH	A	A	A	Q1	0 / 0	0–0
Italian Open	Q2	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	1R	3R	0 / 3	2–3
Shanghai Masters	A	A	A	A	A	NH			1R		0 / 1	0–1

Junior Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	2013	Wimbledon	Grass	Enzo Couacaud	Thanasi Kokkinakis Nick Kyrgios	2–6, 2–6

References

^ Luciano Canepari. "Stefano". DiPI Online (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2021-02-09. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
^ Luciano Canepari. "Napolitano". DiPI Online (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2018-10-28. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
^ "Il golden set di Stefano Napolitano" (in Italian). 2015-07-06. Archived from the original on 2019-09-01. Retrieved 2015-07-07.
^ Josh Meiseles (2015-07-09). "Thirty-Three Points Won In A Row? It Happened". Archived from the original on 2015-07-10. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
^ "Tennis player Marc Polmans apologizes for hitting ball at umpire". Archived from the original on 2024-01-24. Retrieved 2024-01-24.
^ "Kokkinakis wins Sarasota Challenger, secures Roland Garros entry". ATPTour. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
^ "Defending champ Medvedev earns 100th Masters 1000 win in Rome". 11 May 2024.

External links

Stefano Napolitano at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Stefano Napolitano at the International Tennis Federation

[1] Luciano Canepari. "Stefano". DiPI Online (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2021-02-09. Retrieved 2018-10-27.

[2] Luciano Canepari. "Napolitano". DiPI Online (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2018-10-28. Retrieved 2018-10-27.

[3] "Il golden set di Stefano Napolitano" (in Italian). 2015-07-06. Archived from the original on 2019-09-01. Retrieved 2015-07-07.

[4] Josh Meiseles (2015-07-09). "Thirty-Three Points Won In A Row? It Happened". Archived from the original on 2015-07-10. Retrieved 2015-07-10.

[5] "Tennis player Marc Polmans apologizes for hitting ball at umpire". Archived from the original on 2024-01-24. Retrieved 2024-01-24.

[6] "Kokkinakis wins Sarasota Challenger, secures Roland Garros entry". ATPTour. Retrieved 19 January 2025.

[7] "Defending champ Medvedev earns 100th Masters 1000 win in Rome". 11 May 2024.

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