Sébastien Grosjean

Sébastien Grosjean
Sébastien Grosjean 2007 at the Australian Open
Nation:	France
Birthday:	May 29, 1978
Size:	175 cm
1st professional season:	1996
Resignation:	2010
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 8,131,803
singles
Career record:	341: 247
Career title:	4th
Highest ranking:	4 (October 28, 2002)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	82: 100
Career title:	5
Highest ranking:	52 (April 12, 2004)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Sébastien René Grosjean (born May 29, 1978 in Marseille ) is a former French tennis player .

Career

Grosjean turned pro in 1996. In 2003 and 2004 he reached the final of the tennis tournament in London's Queen’s Club and the semi-finals of Wimbledon . After Cédric Pioline, he was the first Frenchman since 1993 to be placed in the top ten of the world rankings . He reached his best position in October 2002 with 4th place.

Between April 2000 and October 2007 he won a total of four singles and five doubles on the ATP Tour . In 2010 he retired from professional sports.

Grosjean was also a member of the 2001 winning French Davis Cup team .

In the same year he missed two match points against his compatriot Arnaud Clément in the semifinals of the Australian Open , lost the game in five sets and thus missed the chance to reach the final of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.

After the active career

After retiring, Grosjean has been the tournament director for the ATP tournament in Montpellier since 2016 .

successes

Legend

Grand Slam

Tennis Masters Cup

ATP Masters Series

ATP International Series Gold

ATP International Series

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 25, 2000	Nottingham	race	Byron Black	7: 6, 6: 3
2.	November 4, 2001	Paris	Carpet (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	7: 6, 6: 1, 6: 7, 6: 4
3.	October 27, 2002	St. Petersburg	Hard court (i)	Mikhail Juschny	7: 5, 6: 4
4th	October 28, 2007	Lyon	Carpet (i)	Marc Gicquel	7: 6 5 , 6: 4

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 29, 1999	Miami	Hard court	Richard Krajicek	6: 4, 1: 6, 2: 6, 5: 7
2.	May 3, 1999	Atlanta	sand	Stefan Koubek	1: 6, 2: 6
3.	April 17, 2000	Casablanca	sand	Fernando Vicente	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 7
4th	February 19, 2001	Marseille	Hard court (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6: 7, 2: 6
5.	November 12, 2001	Sydney	Hard court (i)	Lleyton Hewitt	3: 6, 3: 6, 4: 6
6th	June 16, 2003	Queen's Club	race	Andy Roddick	3: 6, 3: 6
7th	October 6, 2003	Tokyo	Hard court	Rainer Schüttler	6: 7, 2: 6
8th.	June 14, 2004	Queen's Club	race	Andy Roddick	6: 7, 4: 6
9.	April 25, 2005	Houston	sand	Andy Roddick	2: 6, 2: 6

Double

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 10, 2000	Casablanca	sand	Arnaud Clément	Lars Burgsmüller Andrew Painter	7: 6 4 , 6: 4
2.	July 22, 2002	los Angeles	Hard court	Nicolas Kiefer	Justin Gimelstob Michaël Llodra	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	February 10, 2003	Marseille	Hard court (i)	Fabrice Santoro	Tomáš Cibulec Pavel Vízner	6: 1, 6: 4
4th	March 8, 2004	Indian Wells	Hard court	Arnaud Clément	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	6: 3, 4: 6, 7: 5
5.	October 22, 2007	Lyon	Carpet (i)	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Łukasz Kubot Lovro Zovko	6: 4, 6: 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 12, 2003	Lyon	Carpet (i)	Arnaud Clément	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	1: 6, 3: 6
2.	November 1, 2009	Lyon	Hard court (i)	Arnaud Clément	Julien Benneteau Nicolas Mahut	4: 6, 6: 7 6

Web links

Commons : Sébastien Grosjean  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile Sebastien Grosjean (English)
• ITF profile Sebastien Grosjean (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Sebastien Grosjean (English)