Ben Ellwood

Ben Ellwood
Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	South Melbourne. Australia
Born	12 March 1976 (age 47); Canberra, Australia
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Turned pro	1994
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$388,461
Singles
Career record	4–14
Career titles	0 ; 2 Challenger, 3 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 140 (28 October 1996)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (1996)
French Open	Q2 (1996, 1998)
Wimbledon	1R (1997)
US Open	1R (1996)
Doubles
Career record	32–50
Career titles	0 ; 6 Challenger, 6 Futures
Highest ranking	No. 66 (18 March 2002)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	3R (1999, 2000)
French Open	2R (2001)
Wimbledon	3R (2000)
US Open	QF (1999)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2002
Wimbledon	2R (2002)
	Last updated on: 1 February 2022.

Last updated December 29, 2023

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

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]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1994	Australian Open	Hard	Andrew Ilie	5–7, 6–3, 6–3

Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	1993	US Open	Hard	James Sekulov	Neville Godwin Gareth Williams	3–6, 3–6
Win	1994	Australian Open	Hard	Mark Philippoussis	Jamie Delgado Roman Kukal	7–5, 7–6
Win	1994	Wimbledon	Grass	Mark Philippoussis	Vladimir Platenik Ricardo Schlachter	6–2, 6–4
Win	1994	US Open	Hard	Nicolás Lapentti	Paul Goldstein Scott Humphries	6–0, 6–2

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP Masters Series (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–0)
ATP International Series (0–1)

Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Finals by setting
Outdoors (0–1)
Indoors (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Mar 2002	Delray Beach, United States	International Series	Hard	David Adams	Martin Damm Cyril Suk	4–6, 7–6^(7–5), [5–10]

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 7 (5–2)

Legend
ATP Challenger (2–0)
ITF Futures (3–2)

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

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 1996	Bristol, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Nick Weal	6–4, 6–3
Win	2–0	Jul 1996	Manchester, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Fernon Wibier	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2–1	Nov 1998	Australia F2, Frankston	Futures	Clay	Toby Mitchell	6–3, 1–6, 5–7
Win	3–1	Nov 1998	Australia F3, Berri	Futures	Grass	Glenn Knox	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–2	Feb 1999	Great Britain F3, Eastbourne	Futures	Carpet	Jan Boruszewski	2–6, 3–6
Win	4–2	Oct 1999	Australia F1, Beaumaris	Futures	Clay	Paul Baccanello	6–3, 6–2
Win	5–2	Nov 1999	Australia F3, Berri	Futures	Grass	Dejan Petrovic	7–6, 6–1

Doubles: 21 (12–9)

Legend
ATP Challenger (6–7)
ITF Futures (6–2)

Finals by surface
Hard (3–2)
Clay (5–2)
Grass (4–5)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Dec 1993	Perth, Australia	Challenger	Grass	Mark Philippoussis	Paul Kilderry Brent Larkham	6–7, 3–6
Loss	0–2	Dec 1993	Adelaide, Australia	Challenger	Grass	Mark Philippoussis	Joshua Eagle Andrew Florent	1–6, 3–6
Win	1–2	Dec 1994	Perth, Australia	Challenger	Grass	Mark Philippoussis	Wayne Arthurs Neil Borwick	7–5, 7–6
Loss	1–3	Apr 1996	Nagoya, Japan	Challenger	Hard	Peter Tramacchi	Satoshi Iwabuchi Takao Suzuki	6–7, 6–7
Loss	1–4	Jul 1997	Winnetka, United States	Challenger	Hard	Chad Clark	Michael Sell Myles Wakefield	3–6, 6–7
Win	2–4	Apr 1998	Great Britain F4, Bournemouth	Futures	Clay	Kalle Flygt	James Davidson James Fox	6–4, 6–3
Loss	2–5	Jul 1998	Bristol, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Wayne Arthurs	Max Mirnyi Vladimir Voltchkov	4–6, 6–3, 6–7
Loss	2–6	Jul 1998	Manchester, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Wayne Arthurs	Mosé Navarra Stefano Pescosolido	1–6, 7–6, 6–7
Win	3–6	Aug 1998	Lexington, United States	Challenger	Hard	Lleyton Hewitt	Paul Goldstein Jim Thomas	5–7, 6–3, 6–2
Win	4–6	May 1999	Great Britain F6, Newcastle	Futures	Clay	Miles Maclagan	Damien Roberts Myles Wakefield	6–2, 6–4
Win	5–6	May 1999	Great Britain F7, Edinburgh	Futures	Clay	Miles Maclagan	Martin Lee Arvind Parmar	6–2, 6–3
Loss	5–7	Oct 1999	Australia F1, Beaumaris	Futures	Clay	Dejan Petrovic	Tim Crichton Domenic Marafiote	6–7, 3–6
Win	6–7	Apr 2001	Great Britain F3, Bournemouth	Futures	Clay	Todd Larkham	Luke Bourgeois Michael Tebbutt	7–6^(7–4), 7–6^(7–4)
Win	7–7	May 2001	Great Britain F4, Hatfield	Futures	Clay	Luke Bourgeois	Simon Dickson Mark Hilton	6–3, 6–3
Win	8–7	Jun 2001	Surbiton, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	David Adams	Jeff Coetzee Marcos Ondruska	7–6^(7–5), 6–4
Win	9–7	Jul 2001	Manchester, United Kingdom	Challenger	Grass	Fredrik Lovén	Wesley Moodie Shaun Rudman	4–6, 7–5, 6–4
Loss	9–8	Sep 2001	Brașov, Romania	Challenger	Clay	Kalle Flygt	Lovro Zovko Amir Hadad	1–6, 6–4, 4–6
Win	10–8	Nov 2001	Australia F5, Berri	Futures	Grass	Dejan Petrovic	Peter Luczak David Hodge	7–6^(8–6), 6–7^(5–7), 6–3
Loss	10–9	Dec 2001	Australia F6, Barmera	Futures	Grass	Dejan Petrovic	Joseph Sirianni Jaymon Crabb	2–6, 3–6
Win	11–9	Feb 2002	Brest, France	Challenger	Hard	Stephen Huss	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	6–1, 6–4
Win	12–9	Feb 2002	Wrocław, Poland	Challenger	Hard	Stephen Huss	Aleksandar Kitinov Johan Landsberg	6–7^(3–7), 7–5, 7–6^(8–6)

Performance timelines

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	DNQ	A	NH

(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q2	Q1	1R	2R	1R	Q3	Q1	A	A	Q1	Q1	0 / 3	1–3	25%
French Open	A	A	A	Q2	A	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Wimbledon	A	Q1	Q3	Q2	1R	Q3	Q3	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
US Open	A	A	A	1R	Q1	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 5	1–5	17%
ATP Masters Series
Miami	A	A	Q1	Q1	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Hamburg	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Rome	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 0	0–0	–

Doubles

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	SR	W–L	Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	3R	3R	1R	1R	0 / 8	4–8	33%
French Open	A	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	0 / 3	1–3	25%
Wimbledon	Q1	Q2	1R	Q1	Q2	3R	2R	1R	0 / 4	3–4	43%
US Open	A	Q1	A	A	QF	A	2R	2R	0 / 3	5–3	63%
Win–loss	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–1	5–2	4–3	3–4	1–4	0 / 18	13–18	42%
ATP Masters Series
Miami	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2R	0 / 1	1–1	50%
Rome	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0	–
Cincinnati	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1	0%
Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0 / 2	1–2	33%

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References

External links

Ben Ellwood at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Ben Ellwood at the International Tennis Federation

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