Robby Ginepri

Robert Louis Ginepri ( ; 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.

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. He attended Joseph Wheeler High School, located in Marietta, Georgia (near Kennesaw). 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.

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.

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. He then lost to Andre Agassi in the semifinals in five sets. Ginepri thus became the first player in the Open Era to play four consecutive five-set matches at the US Open.

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.

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. 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. He lost to Robin Söderling in straight sets in the first round of Wimbledon.

Personal life Since 2004, Ginepri owns the Olde Towne Athletic Club in Marietta. He married Josephine Stafford on September 29, 2012, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Coaching career Following his retirement in August 2015, 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.

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

Ginepri coached Mackenzie McDonald in 2023, JJ Wolf in 2024. He coached Alex Michelsen also in 2024 starting around the US Open until the end of the 2025 season.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ATP career finals

Singles: 3 (3 titles) LegendGrand 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 surfaceHard (2–0)Clay (0–0)Grass (1–0)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (3–0)Indoors (0–0)

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up) LegendGrand 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 surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (0–1)Indoors (0–0)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures Finals

Singles: 12 (7–5) LegendATP Challenger (5–5)ITF Futures (2–0)Finals by surfaceHard (4–5)Clay (3–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Doubles: 1 (0–1) LegendATP Challenger (0–0)ITF Futures (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)

Performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

Top 10 wins