# Ben Ellwood

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.

## 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 |

### 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% |