Ben Ellwood

Career

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. 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.

On the Association of Tennis Professionals 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. Singles: (2)

Doubles: (6).

Achievements

• An outstanding junior, Ellwood won the boy"s singles at the 1994 Australian Open, defeating Andrew Ilie in the final. He was the boy"s boubles champion as well (with Mark Philippoussis) and also went on to win the boy"s doubles at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships and 1994 United States Open (with Philippousssis and Nicolás Lapentti respectively). This made Ellwood the first ever player to win the boy"s doubles at the Australian Open, Wimbledon Championships and United States Open in the same year. 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. 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.