Édouard Roger-Vasselin

Édouard Roger-Vasselin
Édouard Roger-Vasselin at Wimbledon in 2014
Nickname:	Doud
Nation:	France
Birthday:	November 28, 1983
Size:	188 cm
Weight:	79 kg
1st professional season:	2002
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Nicolas Renavand
Prize money:	$ 5,425,840
singles
Career record:	84: 125
Highest ranking:	35 (February 10, 2014)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	243: 156
Career title:	17th
Highest ranking:	6 (November 3, 2014)
Current placement:	24
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: July 14, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Édouard Roger-Vasselin (born November 28, 1983 in Gennevilliers ) is a French tennis player .

Career

Career and junior career

Édouard Roger-Vasselin is the son of the French tennis player Christophe Roger-Vasselin , who reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 1983 and came up to 29th in the world rankings . He taught his son to play tennis at an early age and so Édouard was able to celebrate successes in France as a junior.

2001–2003: First experiences as a professional

In 2001, Édouard Roger-Vasselin switched to the professional camp and began to play in future and satellite tournaments. Just a year later, he won his first future title in Denmark and was then placed in the top 500 of the world rankings. From 2003 he also took part in tournaments on the ATP Challenger Tour and in September 2003 he reached a Challenger semifinals in Kiev for the first time. For the French Open he got a wildcard for qualification, but was eliminated in the second qualifying round. In doubles he and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga were eliminated in the first round.

2004–2006: ATP debut and first Challenger title

In 2004 he was able to reach a total of six more Challenger semifinals. He also made his ATP debut in Stuttgart in July when he moved into the main field as a lucky loser . There he lost to his compatriot Richard Gasquet . In September he also qualified for the main draw in Shanghai and won his first ATP match against Nathan Healey before being eliminated in the second round against the eventual finalist Lars Burgsmüller . This was the first time he entered the top 200 in the world rankings.

In June 2005 Roger-Vasselin won his first Challenger title in Montauban . He also won two Challenger tournaments in doubles in the same year in Scheveningen and Tampere . After he had meanwhile achieved his best world ranking position with rank 159, he lost world ranking points again at the end of the year due to several first round defeats. In August 2006 he fell back to 436th place, but was then able to reach two Challenger Finals in a row in Saint Petersburg and Samarkand . He also won a future tournament that year and was able to defend his Challenger title in Tampere in doubles.

2007–2009: Grand Slam debut and first entry into the Top 100

After he had reached another Challenger final in Besançon in February 2007 , Édouard Roger-Vasselin was able to qualify for an ATP tournament in Casablanca for the first time in almost two and a half years in April 2007 . After a first round win over the top 100 player Martín Vassallo Argüello , he was eliminated in the second round against Paul-Henri Mathieu . For the French Open he got a wildcard for the main field and reached the third round in his Grand Slam debut. He defeated Radek Štěpánek again a top 100 player. A month later at Wimbledon , Roger-Vasselin qualified for the main draw and was able to reach the third round again after defeating Juan Ignacio Chela , who was in 24th position . He was then listed in the Top 100 for the first time and achieved his best world ranking to date with 82nd place. In the further course of the year he entered three other ATP tournaments, but was eliminated in the first round.

In 2008, Édouard Roger-Vasselin played a total of six ATP tournaments, but could only reach the second round in Chennai and Amersfoort . At Challenger level, he reached the final in Mons , he also won a double title in Surbiton and reached the second round at the Australian Open alongside Gilles Simon . In the world rankings, he finished the year in 166th place.

For Roger-Vasselin, 2009 began without any major highlights. He won two Challenger titles in doubles in Cherbourg and Segovia , and he was also able to qualify for the main draw at Wimbledon , where he lost to Stefan Koubek in five sets . In October 2009 he achieved a sensation at the Tokyo ATP tournament ; after successfully qualifying, he met reigning US Open champion Juan Martín del Potro in the first round , whom he defeated in two sets. After another victory over Jürgen Melzer , he reached an ATP quarter-finals for the first time, in which he had no chance against Lleyton Hewitt .

2010–2011: Other Challenger titles

In March 2010 Roger-Vasselin won his second Challenger title in Sarajevo by beating Karol Beck in the final . He also won the doubles competition, after Nouméa and Cherbourg , this was the third double title this year. As in 2007, he received a wildcard for the French Open and defeated Kevin Anderson in five sets in the first round , but was then eliminated by the later semi-finalist Tomáš Berdych . After he had reached two more Challenger Finals in Orbetello and Saint-Rémy in the course of the year , Roger-Vasselin was listed in the top 100 of the world rankings for one week for the first time in over two years in September 2010. In September and October 2010 he was able to qualify for several ATP tournaments and thereby reach the second round in Kuala Lumpur . A week earlier he had reached the semi-finals in Metz alongside Richard Gasquet , but they could not play due to an injury at Gasquet.

2011 began for Roger-Vasselin at the ATP tournament in Chennai , where he qualified for the main draw by defeating Milos Raonic , but lost to Gasquet. After missing the Australian Open qualification, Roger-Vasselin was able to record his first ATP match win of the year as a qualifier against Arnaud Clément in Marseille in February 2011 , before he was eliminated by Tomáš Berdych, who was in second place . Also at the ATP tournaments in Barcelona and Estoril in April 2011 he reached the second round as a qualifier. At the French Open , for which he got a wildcard, he was eliminated in the first round in five sets against Lukáš Rosol . Also in Wimbledon was Roger-Vasselin's final stop after successfully qualifying in the first round against Gilles Simon, who was in 16th position . In July he reached his first ATP quarter-finals of the year in Newport thanks to a lucky draw, which he lost in three sets to Tobias Kamke . A week later, ge first defeated the top seeded Dudi Sela in Granby and then secured his first Challenger title of the year by beating Matthias Bachinger in the final ; thus he was directly qualified for the US Open . Before that, he qualified at the preparatory tournaments in Cincinnati and Winston-Salem , defeating among others the top 50 player Pablo Andújar . At the US Open, Roger-Vasselin was eliminated in the first round in three tight sets against the later round of 16, Gilles Müller . But he was able to celebrate another Challenger double success the following week in Saint-Rémy . First he won the individual final against Arnaud Clément, before he then won the double title together with Pierre-Hugues Herbert .

2012: First ATP title in doubles

After finishing in 106th place in the world rankings the previous year, Roger-Vasselin qualified directly at the Australian Open in 2012. In the first round he benefited from the injury-related abandonment of his opponent Xavier Malisse , but then had no chance in the second round against the later semi-finalist Andy Murray , who was in fourth place . In February 2012 Roger-Vasselin celebrated his greatest successes to date: At the ATP tournaments in Montpellier and Marseille , he reached the second round and the round of 16 in singles, defeating the top 50 player Jarkko Nieminen , among others . It went even better in doubles; each at the side of Nicolas Mahut , he was able to win the title in both tournaments. At the French Open , Roger-Vasselin reached the second round in singles, doubles and mixed.

Parts of the period 2012 to 2016; Records in singles and doubles were achieved in that time; Double French Open titles in 2014 since 2012 seem out of date to be .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

At the end of 2016, Roger-Vasselin declared that from now on he would only compete in doubles and his single career was over.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (1) ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1) ATP World Tour 500 (2) ATP World Tour 250 (15) ATP Challenger Tour (19)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (15) Sand (2) Grass (1)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 3, 2005	Montauban	sand	Roco Karanušić	6: 4, 6: 4
2.	March 14, 2010	Sarajevo	Hard court (i)	Karol Beck	6: 7 5 , 6: 3, 1: 0 up.
3.	July 17, 2011	Granby	Hard court	Matthias Bachinger	7: 6 9 , 4: 6, 6: 1
4th	September 11, 2011	Saint-Rémy	Hard court	Arnaud Clément	6: 4, 6: 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	March 3, 2013	Delray Beach	Hard court	Ernests Gulbis	6: 7 3 , 3: 6
2.	5th January 2014	Chennai	Hard court	Stanislas Wawrinka	5: 7, 2: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	5th February 2012	Montpellier (1)	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Paul Hanley Jamie Murray	6: 4, 7: 6 4
2.	February 26, 2012	Marseille (1)	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Dustin Brown Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	3: 6, 6: 3, [10: 6]
3.	23rd September 2012	Metz (1)	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Johan Brunström Frederik Nielsen	7: 6 3 , 6: 4
4th	15th July 2013	Newport	race	Nicolas Mahut	Tim Smyczek Rhyne Williams	6: 7 4 , 6: 2, [10: 5]
5.	July 28, 2013	Atlanta	Hard court	Igor Sijsling	Colin Fleming Jonathan Marray	7: 6 6 , 6: 3
6th	October 6, 2013	Tokyo	Hard court	Rohan Bopanna	Jamie Murray John Peers	7: 6 5 , 6: 4
7th	February 23, 2014	Marseille (2)	Hard court (i)	Julien Benneteau	Paul Hanley Jonathan Marray	4: 6, 7: 6 6 , [13:11]
8th.	June 7, 2014	French Open	sand	Julien Benneteau	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6: 3, 7: 6 1
9.	July 26, 2015	Bogotá	Hard court	Radek Štěpánek	Mate Pavić Michael Venus	7: 5, 6: 3
10.	23rd August 2015	Cincinnati	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Marcin Matkowski Nenad Zimonjić	6: 2, 6: 2
11.	September 27, 2015	Metz (2)	Hard court (i)	Łukasz Kubot	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	2: 6, 6: 3, [10: 7]
12.	July 24, 2016	Washington, DC	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Łukasz Kubot Alexander Peya	7: 6 3 , 7: 6 4
13.	October 23, 2016	Antwerp (1)	Hard court (i)	Daniel Nestor	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	6: 4, 6: 4
14th	September 24, 2017	Metz (3)	Hard court (i)	Julien Benneteau	Wesley Koolhof Artem Sitak	7: 5, 6: 3
15th	23rd September 2018	Metz (4)	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	6: 1, 7: 5
16.	October 21, 2018	Antwerp (2)	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Marcelo demoliner Santiago González	6: 4, 7: 5
17th	February 10, 2019	Montpellier (2)	Hard court (i)	Ivan Dodig	Benjamin Bonzi Antoine Hoang	6: 4, 6: 3
18th	May 25, 2019	Lyon	sand	Ivan Dodig	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	6: 4, 6: 3
19th	20th October 2019	Stockholm	Hard court (i)	Henri Kontinen	Mate Pavić Bruno Soares	6: 4, 6: 2

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 10, 2005	Scheveningen	sand	Julien Benneteau	Steve Darcis Kristof Viegen	5: 7, 7: 5, 7: 6 5
2.	July 24, 2005	Tampere (1)	sand	Marc Gicquel	Adam Chadaj Filip Urban	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 1
3.	July 30, 2006	Tampere (2)	sand	Thierry Ascione	Lauri Kiiski Tero Vilen	5: 7, 6: 2, [12:10]
4th	June 8, 2008	Surbiton	race	Arnaud Clément	Harel Levy Jim Thomas	7: 6 4 , 6: 7 3 , [10: 7]
5.	March 8, 2009	Cherbourg (1)	Hard court (i)	Arnaud Clément	Martin Fischer Martin Slanar	4: 6, 6: 2, [10: 3]
6th	August 9, 2009	Segovia	Hard court	Nicolas Mahut	Serhiy Stachowskyi Lovro Zovko	6: 7 4 , 6: 3, [10: 8]
7th	January 9, 2010	Nouméa	Hard court	Nicolas Devilder	Flavio Cipolla Simone Vagnozzi	5: 7, 6: 2, [10: 8]
8th.	March 7, 2010	Cherbourg (2)	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Harsh Mankad Adil Shamasdin	6: 2, 6: 4
9.	March 14, 2010	Sarajevo	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Ivan Dodig Lukáš Rosol	7: 6 6 , 6: 7 7 , [10: 5]
10.	May 16, 2010	Bordeaux	sand	Nicolas Mahut	Karol Beck Leoš Friedl	5: 7, 6: 3, [10: 7]
11.	September 12, 2010	Saint-Remy (1)	Hard court	Gilles Muller	Andis Juška Deniss Pavlovs	6: 0, 2: 6, [13:11]
12.	July 17, 2011	Granby	Hard court	Karol Beck	Matthias Bachinger Frank Moser	6: 1, 6: 3
13.	September 11, 2011	Saint-Remy (2)	Hard court	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	Arnaud Clément Nicolas Renavand	6: 0, 4: 6, [10: 7]
14th	January 8, 2016	Nouméa (2)	Hard court	Julien Benneteau	Grégoire Barrère Tristan Lamasine	7: 6 4 , 3: 6, [10: 5]
15th	November 13, 2016	Mouilleron-le-Captif	Hard court (i)	Jonathan Eysseric	Johan Brunström Andreas Siljeström	6: 7 1 , 7: 6 3 , [11: 9]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 21, 2013	Bogotá	Hard court	Igor Sijsling	Purav Raja Divij Sharan	6: 7 4 , 6: 7 3
2.	October 12, 2014	Shanghai	Hard court	Julien Benneteau	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 6: 7 3
3.	August 16, 2015	Toronto	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 7 5 , 6: 3, [6:10]
4th	October 11, 2015	Beijing	Hard court	Daniel Nestor	Vasek Pospisil Jack Sock	6: 3, 3: 6, [6:10]
5.	July 9, 2016	Wimbledon	race	Julien Benneteau	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	4: 6, 6: 7 1 , 3: 6
6th	May 14, 2017	Madrid	sand	Nicolas Mahut	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	5: 7, 3: 6
7th	June 25, 2017	Queen's Club	race	Julien Benneteau	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	2: 6, 3: 6
8th.	October 29, 2017	Basel	Hard court (i)	Fabrice Martin	Ivan Dodig Marcel Granollers	5: 7, 6: 7 6
9.	April 15, 2018	Marrakech	sand	Benoît Paire	Nikola Mektić Alexander Peya	5: 7, 6: 3, [7:10]
10.	5th August 2018	Washington, DC	Hard court	Mike Bryan	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	6: 3, 3: 6, [4:10]
11.	October 28, 2018	Vienna	Hard court	Mike Bryan	Joe Salisbury Neal Skupski	6: 7 5 , 3: 6
12.	13th July 2019	Wimbledon	race	Nicolas Mahut	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	7: 6 5 , 6: 7 5 , 6: 7 6 , 7: 6 5 , 3: 6
13.	22nd September 2019	Metz	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Robert Lindstedt Jan-Lennard Struff	6: 2, 6: 7 1 , [4:10]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roger vasselin revient de loin. In: lequipe.fr. Retrieved October 30, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Full concentration on the double. In: spox.com. December 28, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Édouard Roger-Vasselin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Édouard Roger-Vasselin (English)
• ITF profile of Édouard Roger-Vasselin (English)