Ricardo Mello

 ( Brazilian Male Tennis Players ) 

Ricardo Mello (born 21 December 1980) is a Brazilian retired tennis player. His preference is for . 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.

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Career

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Early days 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.

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2004 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.

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2006 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.

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Sponsorship The sponsor for his clothes, shoes and racquets was Babolat.

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ATP Tour Career Finals

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Singles: 1 (1 title)

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Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)

ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)

ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)

ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)

ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–0)

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Hard (1–0)

Clay (0–0)

Grass (0–0)

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Outdoor (1–0)

Indoor (0–0)

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Win	1–0		Delray Beach, United States	250 Series	Hard	Vincent Spadea	7–6(7–2), 6–3

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ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

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Singles: 30 (21–9)

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ATP Challenger (15–8)

ITF Futures (6–1)

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Hard (14–7)

Clay (7–2)

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Win	1–0		Uruguay F2, Jose-Ignacio	Futures	Clay	Marcos Daniel	6–7, 7–5, 6–3
Win	2–0		Paraguay F3, Asunción	Futures	Clay	Gergely Kisgyörgy	7–5, 6–1
Win	3–0		Mexico F3, Merida	Futures	Hard	Ignacio Hirigoyen	6–4, 1–6, 6–4
Win	4–0		Brazil F1, Vitoria	Futures	Clay	Júlio Silva	6–4, 6–3
Loss	4–1		USA F4, Corpus Christi	Futures	Hard	Damien Roberts	4–6, 2–6
Win	5–1		Brazil F2, Teresopolis	Futures	Clay	Rodrigo Cerdera	6–2, 6–4
Win	6–1		USA F11, Vero Beach	Futures	Clay	Thomas Dupre	4–6, 6–2, 6–4
Win	7–1		Campos do Jordão, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Alexandre Simoni	7–6(8–6), 4–6, 7–6(7–5)
Loss	7–2		Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Kristian Pless	1–6, 1–6
Loss	7–3		Salinas, Ecuador	Challenger	Hard	Iván Miranda	3–6, 4–6
Win	8–3		Campos do Jordão, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Maximilian Abel	7–6(7–2), 6–3
Win	9–3		Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Alexandre Simoni	6–3, 6–3
Loss	9–4		Quito Challenger, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Giovanni Lapentti	3–6, 7–6(10–8), 3–6
Win	10–4		Puebla, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Markus Hantschk	7–6(7–5), 6–4
Loss	10–5		Belo Horizonte, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Janko Tipsarević	4–6, 7–5, 4–6
Win	11–5		Gramado, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Janko Tipsarević	2–6, 7–5, 6–4
Win	12–5		São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Giovanni Lapentti	4–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–0)
Win	13–5		Florianópolis, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Diego Junqueira	6–3, 5–7, 7–6(7–4)
Win	14–5		Campos do Jordão, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Ivo Klec	6–3, 6–4
Loss	14–6		Leon, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Bruno Echagaray	0–6, 6–3, 6–7(6–8)
Loss	14–7		Manta Open, Ecuador	Challenger	Hard	Giovanni Lapentti	2–6, 4–6
Win	15–7		São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Paul Capdeville	6–2, 6–4
Win	16–7		Brasília, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Juan Ignacio Chela	7–6(7–2), 6–4
Win	17–7		São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Eduardo Schwank	6–3, 6–1
Loss	17–8		Curitiba, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Dominik Meffert	4–6, 7–6(7–3), 2–6
Loss	17–9		Campos do Jordão, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Izak van der Merwe	6–7(6–8), 3–6
Win	18–9		Salvador, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Thiago Alves	5–7, 6–4, 6–4
Win	19–9		São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Rafael Camilo	6–2, 6–1
Win	20–9		Recife, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Rogério Dutra Silva	7–6(7–5), 6–3
Win	21–9		São José do Rio Preto, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Eduardo Schwank	6–4, 6–2

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Doubles: 16 (3–13)

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ATP Challenger (3–12)

ITF Futures (0–1)

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Hard (1–6)

Clay (2–7)

Grass (0–0)

Carpet (0–0)

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Loss	0–1		Brazil F3, São Paulo	Futures	Clay	Marcos Daniel	Diego Veronelli Adriano Ferreira	3–6, 4–6
Loss	0–2		Campos do Jordão, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Ricardo Schlachter	Alejandro Hernández André Sá	7–6(8–6), 6–7(5–7), 5–7
Loss	0–3		São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Marcos Daniel	Adriano Ferreira Edgardo Massa	walkover
Loss	0–4		Andorra Challenger, Andorra	Challenger	Hard	Hermes Gamonal	Shaun Rudman Wesley Moodie	2–6, 1–6
Loss	0–5		Andorra Challenger, Andorra	Challenger	Hard	Alexandre Simoni	Rik de Voest Tuomas Ketola	4–6, 6–3, 4–6
Win	1–5		Quito Challenger, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Alexandre Simoni	Ricardo Schlachter Hugo Armando	6–3, 6–4
Loss	1–6		São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Henrique Mello	Alejandro Hernández André Sá	4–6, 4–6
Win	2–6		Campos do Jordão, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Iván Miranda	Alejandro Hernández André Sá	6–3, 6–4
Loss	2–7		Biella, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Carlos Berlocq	Tom Vanhoudt Gabriel Trifu	4–6, 6–4, 4–6
Loss	2–8		Tunica Resorts, United States	Challenger	Clay	Hugo Armando	Jeff Morrison Bobby Reynolds	6–3, 6–7)5-7), 9–11
Loss	2–9		Quito Challenger, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Hugo Armando	Brian Dabul Marcos Daniel	6–4, 5–7, 7–10
Loss	2–10		Quito Challenger, Ecuador	Challenger	Clay	Caio Zampieri	Leonardo Mayer Hugo Armando	5–7, 2–6
Loss	2–11		Bogotá, Colombia	Challenger	Clay	Marcos Daniel	Sebastián Prieto Horacio Zeballos	4–6, 5–7
Loss	2–12		Brasília, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Caio Zampieri	Rodrigo Guidolin Marcelo Demoliner	4–6, 2–6
Win	3–12		São Paulo, Brazil	Challenger	Clay	Franco Ferreiro	Diego Junqueira David Marrero	6–3, 6–3
Loss	3–13		Brasília, Brazil	Challenger	Hard	Caio Zampieri	Franco Ferreiro André Sá	6–7(5–7), 3–6

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Grand Slam performance timeline

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French Open

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Wimbledon

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US Open

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Year-end ranking

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ATP Tour Masters 1000

Indian Wells Masters

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Miami Open

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Madrid

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Toronto/Montreal

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Cincinnati Open

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