Dudi Sela

Date of Birth: 04/04/1985
Place of Birth: Kiryat Shmona
Country: Israel

Dudi Sela is a professional tennis player who reached a career-high singles ranking of 91 in October 2007. He is currently Israel’s top singles player, ahead of fellow countrmen Harel Levy and Noam Okun.

In April 200, Sela won his first title, the Haifa Internation title, with partner and countryman Idan Harosh. In Corfu, Greece, Sela captured the doubles title, while narrowly losing the singles final.

In April 2001, he reached the Israel International singles final and the doubles title with Israeli Maor Zirkin. In July of the same year, he won his first singles title in Van Keeken of the Netherlands. The following month, at the Fischer Junior Open, he won the singles and also captured the doubles title with Micahel Ryderstedt of Sweden.

In 2002, Sela took home the Beaulieu Sur Mer trophy with a strong performance while in 2003, his last year as a junior, he captured the doubles title with partner Gyorgy Balazazs if Hungary, won the Australia F1 tournament in Tasmania, and he also triumphed at the Togliatti competition in Russia.

Sela had a successful year on the ATP challenger circuit in 2005, winning tournaments in Vancouver, Canada and Lexington, Kentucky in consecutive weeks.

In 2006, Sela took more USTA Pro Circuit singles titles than any other man at the Futres level with five. He picked up consecutive wins twice during the year, at events in Claremont, CA, and Costa Mesa, CA in September an in Waikioloa, Hawaii and Honolulu in November. His other win came in Baton Rouge, LA the last week of October.

In January 2007, Sela qualified for the main draw of the 2007 Australian Open. In the first round, he upset Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand, who was ranked #56 in the world. Later in July, he won a challenger title in Togliatti, Russia, his fourth career title, beating Russian’s Makihil Ledovskikh 7-6(3), 6-3 in the final.

In October he first defeated #56 ranked Juan Martin Del Potro 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 at the Japan Open in Tokyo, followed by #90 ranked Boris Paanski 6-2, 4-0, ret. They were his 7th and 8th upsets of top-100 players in the first 10 months of the year.