Massimo Dell'Acqua (born 6 September 1979) is a former professional
tennis
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player from Italy.
Biography
Dell'Acqua comes from
Como
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and trained at the Centro Tecnico Nazionale before turning professional in 1999.
His first ATP Tour main draw appearance came at Copenhagen in 2003, when he lost to
Marc Rosset in the first round. In 2004 he featured in tournaments in Dubai, Barcelona and most notably the
Rome Masters.
In Rome he lost a close match to world number 11
Nicolás Massú, which went for 3 hours and 20 minutes. It wasn't until s-Hertogenbosch in 2008 that he played again in an ATP Tour tournament. After getting through qualifying, Dell'Acqua beat
Fabio Fognini
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in first round, then lost to
David Ferrer
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During his career he took part in the qualifiers of all four
Grand Slam tournaments.
At
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level he won the title at Bristol in 2003 and in the same year had a win over
Andy Murray
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in Nottingham. At the 2004 Recanati Challenger he won the doubles title with
Uros Vico and in the singles event defeated
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga en route to the semi-finals. He also had Challenger wins over
Félix Mantilla and
Gilles Simon
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, both at the Prostějov Challenger in 2005.
Challenger titles
Singles: (1)
Doubles: (1)
References
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1979 births
Living people
Italian male tennis players
Sportspeople from Como