Ben Ellwood

Ben Ellwood

Country (sports)	Australia
Residence	South Melbourne
Born	(1976-03-12) 12 March 1976 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
Highest ranking	No. 140 (28 October 1996)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (1996)
Wimbledon	1R (1997)
US Open	1R (1996)
Doubles
Career record	32–50
Career titles	0
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)

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.

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.

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)