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Key facts
- Country sports
- Israel
- Residence
- Tel Aviv , Israel
- Born
- ( 1985-04-04 ) 4 April 1985 (age 41) , Kiryat Shmona , Israel
- Height
- 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
- Plays
- Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
- Coach
- Yoav Ben Zvi
- Prize money
- US$ 4,003,831
- Career record
- 143–195
- Highest ranking
- No. 29 (20 July 2009)
- Australian open
- 3R ( 2009 , 2015 , 2016 )
- French open
- 2R ( 2009 , 2015 )
- Wimbledon
- 4R ( 2009 )
- Us open
- 2R ( 2007 , 2010 , 2011 , 2013 , 2014 , 2017 )
- Olympic games
- 2R ( 2016 )
- Davis cup
- SF ( 2009 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Israel
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Place of birth
- Kiryat Shmona
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Participant in
- tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- tennis
- Mass
- 65
- Image
- Dudi Sela Israel tennis championship 2008 2.jpg
- Height
- 175
- Residence
- Tel Aviv
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- Commons category
- Dudi Sela
- date of birth
- 1985-04-04
- singles record
- 143–195
- doubles record
- 26–48
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- prize money
- 4003831
- start of work period
- 2002-00-00
- handedness
- right-handedness
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
David "Dudi" Sela (Hebrew: דודי סלע; born 4 April 1985) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 29 in July 2009.
Sela won the French Open 2003 junior doubles title. Representing Israel in the Davis Cup, his highlights include a win in 2007 over then-world No. 7 Fernando González, and being a key player in Israel's semifinal run in 2009. In 2008 he beat world No. 5 David Ferrer in straight sets, and in 2010 he beat world No. 7 Andy Roddick in straight sets. Sela reached the fourth round of the 2009 Wimbledon Championships and has finished runner-up in two ATP tournaments in Beijing and Atlanta. In 2015, he won his 24th career ATP Challenger event of his career, moving him into second place on the all-time list of Challenger title wins (behind Lu Yen-hsun).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dudi Sela” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.