Guillaume Raoux

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Guillaume Raoux Tennis player
Nation: FranceFrance France
Birthday: February 14, 1970
Size: 180 cm
Weight: 77 kg
1st professional season: 1989
Resignation: 2000
Playing hand: Right
Trainer: Tony Prudent
Prize money: $ 2,449,106
singles
Career record: 179: 225
Career title: 1
Highest ranking: 35 (June 8 1998)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 102: 105
Career title: 4th
Highest ranking: 35 (August 5 1996)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Guillaume Raoux (born February 14, 1970 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze ) is a former French tennis player .

Career

Raoux became a professional tennis player in 1989 and reached the quarter-finals of the French Open that same year alongside Cédric Pioline . He won four doubles tournaments on the ATP World Tour and made it to a double finals three more times. He won his only individual title in Brisbane , another four times he was in individual finals. He achieved his highest scores in the ATP world rankings with position 35, in 1998 in singles and 1996 in doubles. His best individual result in a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the round of 16 at the 1998 Australian Open . In doubles he reached the quarterfinals once at the French Open and at Wimbledon .

Raoux played for the French Davis Cup team between 1996 and 1999 . He came to five appearances in singles and eight in doubles, with only one defeat. In 1996 he won alongside Guy Forget the doubles in the Davis Cup final against Sweden and thus contributed to France's title win. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , he competed for France, but was eliminated in the first round against Byron Black .

In 1998 Raoux was the opponent of the then 17-year-old Roger Federer at the tournament in Toulouse . Raoux, then on position 45 in the world rankings, lost to the qualifiers with 2: 6 and 2: 6. It was Federer's first victory on the ATP World Tour.

Tournament victories

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series (5)

singles

Tournament victory

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. 4th October 1992 AustraliaAustralia Brisbane Hard court (i) DenmarkDenmark Kenneth Carlsen 6: 4, 7: 6 10

Final participation

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. November 10, 1991 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Birmingham Carpet (i) United StatesUnited States Michael Chang 3: 6, 2: 6
2. March 26, 1995 RussiaRussia St. Petersburg Carpet (i) RussiaRussia Yevgeny Kafelnikov 2: 6, 2: 6
3. April 9, 1995 South AfricaSouth Africa Johannesburg Hard court GermanyGermany Martin Sinner 1: 6, 4: 6
4th June 22, 1997 NetherlandsNetherlands Rose painting race NetherlandsNetherlands Richard Krajicek 4: 6, 6: 7 7

Double

Tournament victories

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. 1993 IndonesiaIndonesia Jakarta Hard court ItalyItaly Diego Nargiso NetherlandsNetherlands Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis
NetherlandsNetherlands 
7: 6, 6: 7, 6: 3
2. 1995 South AfricaSouth Africa Johannesburg Hard court FranceFrance Rodolphe Gilbert GermanyGermany Martin Sinner Joost Winnink
NetherlandsNetherlands 
6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 3
3. 1996 FranceFrance Marseille Hard court (i) FranceFrance Jean-Philippe Fleurian South AfricaSouth Africa Marius Barnard Peter Nyborg
SwedenSweden 
6: 3, 6: 2
4th 1998 NetherlandsNetherlands 's-Hertogenbosch race NetherlandsNetherlands Jan Siemerink AustraliaAustralia Joshua Eagle Andrew Florent
AustraliaAustralia 
6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 1

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Randy Walker: Seventeen-Year-Old Roger Federer's First ATP Match Victory. TennisGrandStand, September 29, 2009, accessed on March 27, 2016 .