Antoine Bellier

Antoine Bellier
Nickname:	Labels
Nation:	Switzerland
Birthday:	October 18, 1996
Size:	196 cm
Weight:	80 kg
Playing hand:	Left, one-handed backhand
Trainer:	Gianluca Marchiori
Prize money:	$ 60,121
singles
Career record:	1: 5
Highest ranking:	503 (September 19, 2016)
Current placement:	835
Double
Career record:	1: 5
Highest ranking:	382 (June 20, 2016)
Current placement:	454
Last update of the infobox: October 22, 2018
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Antoine Bellier (born October 18, 1996 in Geneva ) is a Swiss tennis player .

Career

Bellier began playing tennis at the age of eight at a tennis club near his school in Geneva. To this day, he lives and trains in his hometown.

After never playing on the ITF Junior Tour, he took part in a future tournament on the professional tour for the first time in 2014 . Only once did he win more than one match at a tournament in 2014. In doubles, however, he reached a future final and was able to complete his first match on the ATP Challenger Tour at his home tournament . This was the first time he was placed in the tennis world rankings .

In 2015, he reached three semifinals on the Future Tour, ending the year in 748th place. In doubles he also made six finals, of which he could only use one to win the title. That was enough to place 620 at the end of the year.

In the following year Bellier was nominated for the Swiss Davis Cup team due to the absence of the top stars , where he was used in dead rubber when the score was 0: 4. He got up against Paolo Lorenzi from Italy , against whom he lost 3: 6, 2: 6. As the year progressed, Bellier continued to make a few semifinals on futures. Finally he reached his first final in Sion, which he lost against his fellow countryman Johan Nikles . Although he was still denied matches on the higher endowed Challenger Tour, he received a wildcard from the tournament management in Gstaad . At his premiere on the ATP World Tour he was defeated by the Brazilian Thiago Monteiro 3: 6, 5: 7. The highlight of the year was the Davis Cup relegation against Uzbekistan , where he won the decisive match against Jo'rabek Karimov in four sets with a score of 2: 2 and ensured that Switzerland would remain in the world group. In the third set he could not use four match balls at first. In doubles he won another four titles in seven finals on the Future Tour. At the end of the season there was a 567th place and a 464th place respectively.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marcel Hauck: Antoine Bellier, the unexpected hero. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 18, 2016, accessed December 18, 2016 . 

Web links

• ATP profile of Antoine Bellier (English)
• ITF profile Antoine Bellier (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Antoine Bellier (English)