Arnaud Di Pasquale

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Arnaud Di Pasquale Tennis player
Arnaud Di Pasquale
Nickname: DiP
Nation: FranceFrance France
Birthday: February 11, 1979
Size: 185 cm
Weight: 80 kg
1st professional season: 1998
Resignation: 2007
Playing hand: Right
Trainer: Simon Viot
Prize money: $ 1,162,796
singles
Career record: 69:98
Career title: 1
Highest ranking: 39 (April 17, 2000)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 3:10
Highest ranking: 320 (April 23, 2001)
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Arnaud Di Pasquale (born February 11, 1979 in Casablanca , Morocco ) is a former French tennis player .

Career

Di Pasquale grew up with his father in Casablanca, where he learned to play tennis at the age of seven. After moving to France, he competed in international junior tournaments from 1994 and won his first title at the German Open in 1995. In 1996 and 1997 Di Pasquale won many other junior tournaments, including the 1997 US Open . He finished 1997 as number 1 in the junior world rankings and turned pro in 1998.

He had already gained experience and first world ranking points at satellite tournaments since 1996. In February 1998 he was able to qualify for an ATP tournament for the first time in Marseille , but was eliminated in the first round against Francisco Roig . A month later he won his first ATP match against Arnaud Boetsch in Casablanca , also as a qualifier . In April 1998 he reached a Challenger final in Nice , in which he was only barely defeated by Mariano Puerta . On the way there he had clearly defeated a player from the top 100 with Martin Sinner . For the French Open , Di Pasquale then got a wildcard , but he was eliminated in the first round in five sets against Olivier Delaître . In June he won his first Challenger title in Příbram by defeating Radek Štěpánek and entered the top 200 of the tennis world rankings for the first time . Only a few weeks later he was in Contrexéville again in a Challenger final, which he lost to Younes El Aynaoui . At the US Open , Di Pasquale was able to qualify and then won his first Grand Slam match against David Wheaton before he was eliminated in the second round against Michael Kohlmann . In September 1998 he had his greatest success to date; in Bucharest he reached his first ATP final as a qualifier. Although he was defeated by Francisco Clavet in three sets , he climbed into the top 100 for the first time.

The year 1999 began less successfully for Di Pasquale, only in May he could reach the quarter-finals in Prague and Hamburg . At the French Open he reached the round of 16 after victories over Christophe Rochus , Max Mirny and Christian Ruud , in which he was eliminated against the later finalist Andrij Medwedjew . In October 1999 he won his first and only ATP title in Palermo by defeating Alberto Berasategui . He was able to defeat a top 10 player for the first time in the quarterfinals with Àlex Corretja . He finished the year in 52nd place in the ATP world rankings .

The first major success in 2000 was reaching the semi-finals at the ATP tournament in Casablanca in April. As a result, he reached his best world ranking position with 39th place. The next few months passed without any major highlights. After a first round at the French Open , Di Pasquale retired in Wimbledon and at the US Open in the second round. Nevertheless, he was one of four French qualified for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . He was able to move into the semi-finals surprisingly; while he defeated, among others, the world number four Magnus Norman . In the semifinals Di Pasquale lost to the eventual winner Yevgeny Kafelnikow , but he was able to prevail in the game for third place against the then 19-year-old Roger Federer and thus win the bronze medal. In the further course of the year he won no more matches, he ended the year in 60th place in the world rankings.

In 2001 he was unable to build on his Olympic success. The only high point was reaching the third round at the Monte Carlo Masters , in which he defeated world number one Marat Safin in the first round , but then clearly lost to Roger Federer in the third round . After the US Open he had to take a break for several months due to injuries to his knee and back, which caused him to drop to 144th place in the ranking.

It was not until April 2002 that Di Pasquale was able to compete in tournaments again. He won the Challenger tournament in Ljubljana as a qualifier in May 2002 . For the French Open he got a wildcard and, like in 1999, reached the second round, where he was defeated by Marat Safin, who was in second place. By the end of the year he had reached three ATP quarterfinals in Indianapolis , Bucharest and Barcelona , making it back into the top 100.

But the comeback ended in the spring of 2003 when Di Pasquale had to take a longer break due to a herniated disc and finally had to undergo an operation. After a break of over a year, he returned to the tour in April 2004; he was able to reach a Challenger final at his second tournament in Naples , which he just lost to Gilles Müller . In 2004 he got a wildcard for the French Open and he was able to win a set against the former world number one Lleyton Hewitt . By the end of the year he had won three ATP matches and worked his way up to 234th in the world rankings.

But it should be his last appearances at ATP tournaments. In 2005 and 2006, Di Pasquale only competed in Challenger and Future tournaments. Although he was able to reach another Challenger final in Milan in June 2006, he announced his retirement from professional tennis at the beginning of 2007 at the age of 27 due to the ongoing injury problems.

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500
ATP International Series
ATP World Tour 250 (1)
ATP Challenger Tour (2)

singles

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1 June 28, 1998 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Příbram sand Czech RepublicCzech Republic Radek Štěpánek 6: 3, 6: 1
2 October 10, 1999 ItalyItaly Palermo sand SpainSpain Alberto Berasategui 6: 1, 6: 3
3 May 12, 2002 SloveniaSlovenia Ljubljana sand SpainSpain Juan Balcells 6: 4, 6: 3

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1 September 21, 1998 RomaniaRomania Bucharest sand SpainSpain Francisco Clavet 4: 6, 6: 2, 5: 7

Web links

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