Andrea Gaudenzi

 ( 1973 Births ) 

Andrea Gaudenzi (; born 30 July 1973) is an Italian former Tennis and the current chairman of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) since January 2020.

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Early life Gaudenzi was born in Faenza, Italy, in the province of Ravenna. He grew up in a tennis family. His grandfather founded a tennis club, his uncle was the fifth highest ranked player in Italy and his father also played. Gaudenzi started playing tennis at age 3. Gaudenzi graduated in law from University of Bologna and obtained an MBA with Honors at IUM.

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Tennis career Gaudenzi turned professional in 1990 after becoming Junior World Champion by winning both the French Open and US Open junior titles. He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 18 in 1995. He has victories over Roger Federer in 2002 Rome, Pete Sampras in the 2002 French Open, Jim Courier in the 1994 US Open as well as Goran Ivanišević, Thomas Muster, Michael Stich and Yevgeny Kafelnikov. He represented Italy at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he was defeated in the third round by the eventual champion Andre Agassi, and reached the Davis Cup Final in 1998, semifinals in 1995 and 1996, playing both singles and doubles. He won three ATP Tour titles and six finals, and he reached the semifinals in the Monte Carlo Master Series in 1995, losing to Thomas Muster.

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Post-Playing Career Gaudenzi currently serves as Executive Chairman of the ATP Tour. He was first elected in January 2020 and in June 2023 was re-elected for a second term. Gaudenzi is a board member of ATP Media, the global sales, broadcast production and distribution arm of the ATP World Tour rights. Gaudenzi is also the non-executive Chairman of TDI, a joint venture between ATP and ATP Media, to manage and commercialise data across a variety of global markets. Previously he was Chief Revenues Officer at Musixmatch and was the co-founder and CMO at Soldo.

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Personal life Gaudenzi is married with three sons.

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Career Statistics

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Junior Grand Slam finals

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Singles: 2 (2 titles)

2–6, 7–6, 6–4

6–2, 4–6, 7–6

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ATP career finals

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Singles: 9 (3 titles, 6 runner-ups)

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Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)

ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)

ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0)

ATP Championship Series (0–1)

ATP World Series (3–5)

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Hard (0–1)

Clay (3–5)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Outdoors (3–6)

Indoors (0–0)

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Loss	0–1		Stuttgart Open, Germany	Championship Series	Clay	Alberto Berasategui	5–7, 3–6, 6–7(5–7)
Loss	0–2		Dubai, United Arab Emirates	World Series	Hard	Wayne Ferreira	3–6, 3–6
Loss	0–3		San Marino, San Marino	World Series	Clay	Thomas Muster	2–6, 0–6
Loss	0–4		Portugal Open, Portugal	World Series	Clay	Thomas Muster	6–7(4–7), 4–6
Loss	0–5		Romanian Open, Romania	World Series	Clay	Richard Fromberg	1–6, 6–7(2–7)
Win	1–5		Casablanca, Morocco	World Series	Clay	Álex Calatrava	6–4, 5–7, 6–4
Loss	1–6		Kitzbühel, Austria	World Series	Clay	Albert Costa	2–6, 6–1, 2–6, 6–3, 1–6
Win	2–6		St. Poelten, Austria	World Series	Clay	Markus Hipfl	6–0, 7–5
Win	3–6		Swedish Open, Sweden	World Series	Clay	Bohdan Ulihrach	7–5, 6–3

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Doubles: 6 (2 titles, 4 runner-ups)

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Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)

ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)

ATP World Tour Masters Series (0–0)

ATP Championship Series (1–1)

ATP World Series (1–3)

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Hard (0–0)

Clay (1–4)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (1–0)

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Outdoors (1–4)

Indoors (1–0)

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Loss	0–1		Barcelona, Spain	Championship Series	Clay	Goran Ivanišević	Trevor Kronemann David Macpherson	2–6, 4–6
Win	1–1		Milan Indoor, Italy	Championship Series	Carpet	Goran Ivanišević	Jakob Hlasek Guy Forget	6–4, 7–5
Loss	1–2		Portugal Open, Portugal	World Series	Clay	Filippo Messori	Gustavo Kuerten Fernando Meligeni	2–6, 2–6
Win	2–2		Casablanca, Morocco	World Series	Clay	Diego Nargiso	Cristian Brandi Filippo Messori	6–4, 7–6
Loss	2–3		Sankt Pölten, Austria	World Series	Clay	Diego Nargiso	Mahesh Bhupathi Andrew Kratzmann	6–7(10–12), 7–6(7–2), 4–6
Loss	2–4		Swedish Open, Sweden	World Series	Clay	Diego Nargiso	Nicklas Kulti Mikael Tillström	6–4, 2–6, 3–6

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ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

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Singles: 12 (9–3)

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ATP Challenger (9–3)

ITF Futures (0–0)

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Hard (0–0)

Clay (9–3)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Win	1–0		Bangalore, India	Challenger	Clay	Srinivasan Vasudevan	6–1, 6–4
Win	2–0		Poznań, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Milen Velev	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Win	3–0		Monte Carlo, Monaco	Challenger	Clay	Gerard Solves	6–2, 6–1
Win	4–0		Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Jiří Novák	6–4, 6–3
Loss	4–1		Oberstaufen Cup, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Davide Sanguinetti	6–4, 6–7, 3–6
Loss	4–2		Contrexéville, France	Challenger	Clay	Julian Alonso	4–6, 3–6
Win	5–2		Geneva, Switzerland	Challenger	Clay	Alberto Martín	6–2, 6–1
Loss	5–3		Edinburgh, United Kingdom	Challenger	Clay	Dinu-Mihai Pescariu	6–4, 5–7, 1–6
Win	6–3		Zagreb Open, Croatia	Challenger	Clay	Julien Boutter	6–1, 6–4
Win	7–3		Cagliari, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Martín Rodríguez	2–6, 7–5, 6–2
Win	8–3		Maia Challenger, Portugal	Challenger	Clay	Juan Ignacio Chela	3–6, 7–5, 6–1
Win	9–3		Sparkassen Open, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Younes El Aynaoui	3–6, 7–6(7–5), 6–4

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Doubles: 5 (1–4)

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ATP Challenger (1–4)

ITF Futures (0–0)

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Hard (0–0)

Clay (1–4)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Loss	0–1		Ostend, Belgium	Challenger	Clay	Jean-Philippe Fleurian	Stephen Noteboom Jack Waite	7–6, 1–6, 4–6
Loss	0–2		Oberstaufen Cup, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Georg Blumauer	Juan Ignacio Carrasco Jordi Mas-Rodriguez	2–6, 6–7
Loss	0–3		Cagliari, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Diego Nargiso	Tomáš Cibulec Leoš Friedl	1–6, 6–3, 5–7
Loss	0–4		Venice, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Diego Nargiso	Julian Alonso Aleksandar Kitinov	6–7(3–7), 5–7
Win	1–4		Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Sander Groen	Devin Bowen Mariano Hood	7–6(8–6), 6–4

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Performance timelines

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Singles

Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	Q1	2R	2R	1R	1R	3R	A	1R	1R	2R	1R !0 / 9 !5–9 !
French Open	Q2	4R	1R	2R	1R	2R	3R	2R	A	3R	Q2 !0 / 8 !10–8 !
Wimbledon	A	1R	1R	2R	A	A	A	1R	A	1R	A !0 / 5 !1–5 !
US Open	A	3R	1R	2R	A	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	A !0 / 8 !4–8 !
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	Not Held			3R	Not Held			A	Not Held !0 / 1 !2–1 !
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	2R	2R	2R	1R	1R	A	Q1	1R	1R	A !0 / 7 !3–7 !
Miami	A	A	A	2R	1R	A	A	Q1	A	2R	A !0 / 3 !1–3 !
Monte Carlo	A	3R	SF	1R	2R	3R	1R	1R	Q2	2R	Q1 !0 / 8 !10–8 !
Hamburg Masters	A	A	QF	A	A	1R	A	Q1	Q1	A	A !0 / 2 !3–2 !
Rome	2R	QF	2R	QF	1R	1R	3R	1R	Q2	2R	1R !0 / 10 !11–10 !
Canada	A	A	A	2R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A !0 / 1 !1–1 !
Cincinnati	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A	A !0 / 2 !1–2 !
Paris Masters	A	1R	2R	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	A	A !0 / 2 !0–2 !
Eurocard Open	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	Q1	A	A !0 / 0 !0–0 !

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Doubles

Grand Slam tournaments

Australian Open

A

A

A

A

A

A

1R

1R

A

A

A

1R

A !0 / 3 !0–3 !

French Open

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A !0 / 0 !0–0 !

Wimbledon

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A !0 / 0 !0–0 !

US Open

A

A

A

A

A

A

3R

A

A

A

2R

1R

A !0 / 3 !3–3 !

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics

NH

A

Not Held

1R

Not Held

A

Not Held !0 / 1 !0–1 !

ATP Tour Masters 1000

Indian Wells

A

A

A

A

A

A

2R

A

A

A

A

A

A !0 / 1 !1–1 !

Miami

A

A

A

A

A

A

1R

2R

A

A

A

A

A !0 / 2 !1–2 !

Monte Carlo

A

A

A

A

A

QF

2R

1R

1R

QF

1R

1R

A !0 / 7 !5–7 !

Hamburg Masters

A

A

A

A

A

Q2

A

A

A

Q1

A

A

A !0 / 0 !0–0 !

Rome

1R

A

A

Q2

1R

QF

2R

1R

A

A

2R

A

1R !0 / 7 !4–7 !

Canada

A

A

A

A

A

A

1R

A

A

A

A

A

A !0 / 1 !0–1 !

Cincinnati

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

A

1R

A

A !0 / 1 !0–1 !

Paris Masters

A

A

A

A

A

1R

A

A

A

A

A

A

A !0 / 1 !0–1 !

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