Robby Ginepri

Robert Ginepri
Country (sports) United States
ResidenceAcworth, Georgia
Born (1982-10-07) October 7, 1982
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Height6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Turned pro2001
Retired2015
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$3,897,123
Singles
Career record188–204
Career titles3
Highest rankingNo. 15 (December 26, 2005)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open4R (2004)
French Open4R (2008, 2010)
Wimbledon4R (2004)
US OpenSF (2005)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games1R (2008)
Doubles
Career record21–81
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 134 (January 12, 2004)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open1R (2005, 2006, 2009)
French Open1R (2004, 2005, 2007, 2009)
Wimbledon2R (2007)
US Open2R (2001, 2003)
Last updated on: January 27, 2026.

Robert Louis Ginepri (/dʒɪˈnɛpri/ jih-NEP-ree;[1] born October 7, 1982) is an American tennis coach and a former professional player. He won three ATP singles titles in his career and achieved a career-high ranking of World No. 15 in December 2005.[2] Ginepri's best Grand Slam result was the semifinals of the 2005 US Open.[3]

Early life

Robby Ginepri is of Luxembourgish ancestry. His father, Rene, who is originally from Luxembourg, is a systems analyst and his mother, Nancy, is a second grade teacher. Has an older sister Jenni.[2][4] He attended Joseph Wheeler High School, located in Marietta, Georgia (near Kennesaw).[5] He graduated as a member of the class of 2001.

Career

2005: Best season: US Open semifinal, top 15

Ginepri was the first player to be beaten by Novak Djokovic in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at the 2005 French Open.[6][7]

In August, he reached the semifinals of an ATP Masters Series tournament for the first time in his career, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He beat 2005 French Open runner-up Mariano Puerta in the first round, David Ferrer in the second round, 1998 French Open champion Carlos Moyá in the third round, and two-time Grand Slam singles titlist Marat Safin in the quarterfinals. He then lost to world no. 1 Roger Federer in the semifinals.[8]

His summer hardcourt record was 14–3 when he arrived two weeks later at the 2005 US Open as an unseeded player. After defeating Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in the first round, and Andy Roddick's conqueror, Gilles Müller, in the second round, both in straight sets, Ginepri then put together three consecutive five-set wins, defeating Tommy Haas in the third round, Richard Gasquet in the fourth round, and Guillermo Coria in the quarterfinals.[9] He then lost to Andre Agassi in the semifinals in five sets.[10][11] Ginepri thus became the first player in the Open Era to play four consecutive five-set matches at the US Open.[12]

In November at the Madrid Masters, Ginepri made it to another ATP Masters Series semifinal, before losing to eventual champion Rafael Nadal. He also won the inaugural Superset Tennis tournament, a groundbreaking one-set, one-day tournament, earning him prize money of $250,000. He reached world No. 15 in the ATP rankings on 26 December 2005, the highest ranking of his career.[2]

2006–2007

Ginepri's results in 2006 did not match his successes in 2005. He lost in the second round of the Australian Open and the first round of both the French Open and Wimbledon. At the US Open, he lost in the third round to German Tommy Haas in a fifth-set tiebreaker. He finished the year 2006 ranked world No. 51 with a 24–26 record.

Ginepri lost in the third round of both the 2007 Australian Open and the US Open and the first round of both the French Open and Wimbledon. He finished the year 2007 ranked outside the top 100 for the first time since 2002, at world No. 134.[2]

2008–2009: Olympics debut

At the tournament in Delray Beach, Florida, Ginepri lost in the semifinals to James Blake. In his next tournament, the SAP Open in San Jose, California, Ginepri was able to defeat Blake in the quarterfinals, but lost in the semifinals to Radek Štěpánek. At the Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas, Nevada, Ginepri reached the semifinals for his third consecutive tournament.[2] Ginepri defeated Xavier Malisse in the first round, world No. 17 Marcos Baghdatis in the second round, and Ernests Gulbis in the quarterfinals, before falling to Kevin Anderson.

Ginepri then played the Tennis Masters Series Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, losing in the second round to Carlos Moyá. At the Hypo Group Tennis International in Pörtschach, Austria, Ginepri lost in the quarterfinals to Juan Mónaco. He then made it to the fourth round of the 2008 French Open, before losing to 24th-seeded Fernando González.[13]

On grass, Ginepri lost in the second round of The Artois Championships in London to Andy Roddick and the first round of Wimbledon to Gonzalez.[14] On June 23, 2008, Ginepri's ranking was world No. 59, a rise of 112 places since January 28, 2008. In August 2008, Ginepri made his Olympic debut at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.[2]

In July 2009, Ginepri made his debut in the World Team Tennis league, playing for the new Washington Kastles team. At the 2009 US Open, Ginepri advanced to the second round, before losing to Nicolás Almagro in five sets.

2010–2011

Ginepri lost in the first round of the 2010 Australian Open. He beat Sam Querrey in four sets in the first round of the 2010 French Open and Potito Starace in the second round. He beat No. 16 Juan Carlos Ferrero in five sets, advancing to play in the fourth round, where he lost against Novak Djokovic in four sets. He was the only unseeded player left in the competition, along with qualifier Teymuraz Gabashvili, and the last American in the men's field.[15][16] He lost to Robin Söderling in straight sets in the first round of Wimbledon.[5][14]

In October, Ginepri was involved in a biking accident causing him to have surgery on his arm. He didn't return to the pro tour until July 2011.

Ginepri participated in the 2011 Atlanta Tennis Championships as a wildcard. His first match was against fellow wildcard Tommy Haas. He received a wildcard to the US Open, where he defeated Brazilian João Souza in the first round in a four-set match. He then lost to John Isner in the second round.

2013–2014

In the early part of 2013, Ginepri won a Futures event and made the final of a Challenger tournament. Ginepri made it to the quarterfinals of the 2013 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in Houston before losing to Juan Mónaco. He failed to qualify for the 2013 French Open and did not participate in Wimbledon.

In 2014, having competed in futures tournaments throughout the start of the season, Ginepri participated in his first Challenger at the 2014 Sarasota Open, retiring after one match in the first round of qualifying. After winning the USTA wildcard entry for the 2014 French Open, he lost to Rafael Nadal in the first round, in straight sets.[17]

Personal life

Since 2004, Ginepri owns the Olde Towne Athletic Club in Marietta.[2][18] He married Josephine Stafford on September 29, 2012, in Atlanta, Georgia.[4]

On February 22, 2007, Ginepri participated on Spike TV's Pros vs. Joes with Rik Smits, Rob Dibble, and Andre Rison. In 2012, he was briefly linked with actress Minnie Driver.[19]

Coaching career

Following his retirement in August 2015,[20] he founded the Ginepri Performance Tennis Academy located at the Olde Towne Athletic Club, where he is currently its Director of Tennis Programming and is also an ATP and a USTA coach.[21][22]

Ginepri coached the U.S. Davis Cup team starting in February 2018.[23] At the same time he continued to coach Frances Tiafoe, with whom he started working since the fall of 2016,[24][25] until the end of the 2018 season, but not on a completely full-time basis.[26] He started coaching Marcos Giron in mid-2020 season, during the summer, into the 2021 season.[27][28]

Ginepri coached Mackenzie McDonald in 2023,[29][30] JJ Wolf in 2024.[31] He coached Alex Michelsen also in 2024 starting around the US Open[32][33] until the end of the 2025 season.[34][35]

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result Year Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Loss 2000 US Open Hard Andy Roddick 1–6, 3–6

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 2000 US Open Hard Tres Davis Lee Childs
James Nelson		 2–6, 4–6

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (3 titles)

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 (3–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–0)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (1–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Outdoors (3–0)
Indoors (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Jul 2003 Newport, United States International Series Grass Jürgen Melzer 6–4, 6–7(3–7), 6–1
Win 2–0 Jul 2005 Indianapolis, United States International Series Hard Taylor Dent 4–6, 6–0, 3–0 ret.
Win 3–0 Jul 2009 Indianapolis, United States 250 Series Hard Sam Querrey 6–2, 6–4

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 Jul 2003 Indianapolis, United States International Series Hard Diego Ayala Mario Ančić
Andy Ram 		6–2, 6–7(3–7), 5–7

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals

Singles: 12 (7–5)

Legend
ATP Challenger (5–5)
ITF Futures (2–0)
Finals by surface
Hard (4–5)
Clay (3–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Jun 2001 USA F15, Sunnyvale Futures Hard Alex Kim 6–4, 6–3
Loss 1–1 Dec 2001 Urbana, United States Challenger Hard Ivo Karlovic 4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Win 2–1 May 2002 Rocky Mount, United States Challenger Clay Alex Kim 6–3, 6–4
Win 3–1 Oct 2002 Burbank, United States Challenger Hard Bjorn Rehnquist 7–6(8–6), 6–1
Win 4–1 Nov 2002 Champaign-Urbana, United States Challenger Hard Eric Taino 6–1, 3–6, 6–3
Win 5–1 Jan 2003 Waikoloa, United States Challenger Hard Neville Godwin 6–3, 6–3
Loss 5–2 Apr 2010 Tallahassee, United States Challenger Hard Brian Dabul 6–4, 0–4 ret.
Loss 5–3 Aug 2011 Vancouver, Canada Challenger Hard James Ward 5–7, 4–6
Loss 5–4 Jan 2012 Honolulu, United States Challenger Hard Go Soeda 3–6, 6–7(5–7)
Win 6–4 Jan 2013 USA F2, Sunrise Futures Clay Benjamin Balleret 6–4, 6–2
Loss 6–5 Feb 2013 Dallas, United States Challenger Hard Rhyne Williams 5–7, 3–6
Win 7–5 May 2014 Tallahassee, United States Challenger Clay Frank Dancevic 6–3, 6–4

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

Legend
ATP Challenger (0–0)
ITF Futures (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Jun 2001 USA F15, Sunnyvale Futures Hard Ryan Sachire Jeff Laski
Nick Rainey 		3–6, 6–3, 6–7(4–7)

Performance timelines

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.

Singles

Tournament 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A 2R 4R 1R 2R 3R Q1 1R 1R A Q1 A A Q1 7–7
French Open A 1R A 1R 1R 1R 1R 4R 1R 4R A Q1 Q1 1R A 6–9
Wimbledon A A 1R 4R 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R A Q1 A A A 3–8
US Open 2R 1R 3R 1R SF 3R 3R 2R 2R 1R 2R 1R Q2 A A 15–12
Win–loss 1–1 0–2 3–3 6–4 5–4 3–4 4–4 4–3 1–4 3–4 1–1 0–1 0–0 0–1 0–0 31–36
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells A A QF 2R 2R 2R 2R 2R A 1R A 2R A 1R A 7–9
Miami 1R 1R QF 3R 2R 3R 1R A A 1R A A 1R A A 8–9
Monte Carlo A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A 0–0
Rome A A A 1R A 2R 1R A A A A A A A A 1–3
Madrid A A 3R 2R SF QF 2R 3R A A A A A A A 12–6
Hamburg A A A 1R A 1R 1R A NMS 0–3
Canada A A 1R 1R A 1R 1R 2R A A A A A A A 1–5
Cincinnati A 1R QF 1R SF 3R 2R 2R 1R 2R 1R LQ LQ 2R A 13–11
Shanghai NMS LQ A A A A A A 0–0
Paris A A 1R A 3R 3R A 1R A A A A A A A 3–4
Career statistics
Titles–Finals 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0 3–3
Year-end ranking 175 100 32 63 15 51 134 51 100 144 311 287 214 223 995

Doubles

Tournament 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 SR W–L Win %
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A A A 1R 1R A A 1R A A 0 / 3 0–3 0%
French Open A A A A 1R 1R A 1R A 1R A A 0 / 4 0–4 0%
Wimbledon A A A A 1R A A 2R A A A A 0 / 2 1–2 33%
US Open 1R 2R 1R 2R 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 0 / 12 2–12 14%
Win–loss 0–1 1–1 0–1 1–1 0–3 0–3 0–2 1–3 0–1 0–3 0–1 0–1 0 / 21 3–21 13%
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells A A A 1R A A 1R A A A A A 0 / 2 0–2 0%
Miami A Q1 A 2R A 2R 2R A A A A A 0 / 3 3–3 50%
Hamburg A A A A A A 1R A A Not Masters Series 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Rome A A A A A A 1R A A A A A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Canada A A A A A A 1R A A A A A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Cincinnati A 1R A A 1R A A A A A 1R A 0 / 3 0–3 0%
Madrid NH A A A 1R A A A A A A 0 / 1 0–1 0%
Win–loss 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–5 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–0 0 / 12 3–12 20%

Top 10 wins

Season 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Total
Wins 0 0 2 1 5 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 12
# Player Rank Event Surface Rd Score Ginepri
Rank
2003
1. Marat Safin 7 Indian Wells, United States Hard 3R 6–0, 6–1 80
2. Rainer Schüttler 6 Madrid, Spain Hard (i) 2R 6–2, 6–4 34
2004
3. Juan Carlos Ferrero 5 Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom Grass 3R 6–3, 6–4, 6–1 34
2005
4. Andy Roddick 4 Indianapolis, United States Hard QF 4–6, 7–6(7–2), 7–5 98
5. Mariano Puerta 9 Cincinnati, United States Hard 1R 7–6(7–2), 6–1 58
6. Marat Safin 4 Cincinnati, United States Hard QF 6–2, 6–3 58
7. Guillermo Coria 8 US Open, New York, United States Hard QF 4–6, 6–1, 7–5, 3–6, 7–5 46
8. Nikolay Davydenko 8 Madrid, Spain Hard (i) 3R 6–3, 7–5 21
2006
9. Tommy Robredo 8 Madrid, Spain Hard (i) 3R 6–3, 7–6(7–3) 47
2008
10. James Blake 9 San Jose, United States Hard (i) QF 6–2, 6–2 138
11. Nikolay Davydenko 6 Madrid, Spain Hard (i) 2R 4–6, 6–4, 6–4 63
2010
12. Robin Söderling 8 Chennai, India Hard 1R 6–4, 7–5 100

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