Henri Leconte
Henri Leconte 
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| Henri Leconte 2010 at the AFAS Tennis Classics in Eindhoven | |||||||||||||
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 France
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| Birthday: | 4th July 1963 | ||||||||||||
| Size: | 185 cm | ||||||||||||
| 1st professional season: | 1980 | ||||||||||||
| Resignation: | 1996 | ||||||||||||
| Playing hand: | Left | ||||||||||||
| Trainer: | Günter Bresnik | ||||||||||||
| Prize money: | $ 3,917,596 | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 377: 269 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 5 (September 22, 1986) | ||||||||||||
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| Career record: | 200: 141 | ||||||||||||
| Career title: | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Highest ranking: | 6 (March 18 1985) | ||||||||||||
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| Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) | |||||||||||||
Henri Leconte (born July 4, 1963 in Lillers ) is a former French tennis player .
Life
Leconte won nine singles and ten doubles titles on the ATP World Tour and achieved his best position in the world rankings in 1986 with fifth place .
His greatest success as a single player in a Grand Slam tournament came in 1988 at the French Open , when he was able to move into the final, in which he was defeated by Mats Wilander . At the side of Yannick Noah he had won the doubles competition there in 1984. In 1985 he reached the double finals of the US Open , again with Noah .
Leconte played for the French Davis Cup team between 1982 and 1994 without a break , his overall record was 41:25. He competed in both singles and doubles. At the side of Guy Forget he was unbeaten in eleven games together, his double record was 17: 5. With his victory in singles against Pete Sampras and in doubles with Guy Forget against Ken Flach and Robert Seguso , he contributed significantly to winning the Davis Cup in 1991; his last individual against Andre Agassi was no longer played because France was already in the lead. In the same year, Leconte and Forget were voted France's Sportsman of the Year (“ Champion des champions ”) by the sports newspaper L'Équipe . In addition, Leconte won the World Team Cup in 1986 with the French team .
Leconte won his last title in 1993 at the Gerry Weber Open as well as at the Indian Wells Masters together with Guy Forget. In 1996 he ended his career on the ATP Tour, after which he competed on the ATP Champions Tour .
In the international professional tennis of the 1980s, Leconte was considered to be “the brilliant clown”, who also played jokes with the audience in important games through facial expressions and gestures . In his home country, however, he was never as popular as his compatriot Yannick Noah; many French believed that without his extravagance, Leconte could have been even more successful on the tennis court.
He participated in the Australian Open in 2010 as a commentator for Australian television. On June 4, 2010, he competed for France at the TV Total Autoball World Cup 2010.
Awards
- 1991: World Team of the Year with the French Davis Cup team in the election of the Gazzetta dello Sport (together with Guy Forget )
- On November 22, 2014, Leconte was awarded the Davis Cup Award of Excellence together with Guy Forget at the Davis Cup final between France and Switzerland in Lille .
Web links
- ATP profile of Henri Leconte (English)
- ITF profile Henri Leconte (English)
- Davis Cup stats by Henri Leconte (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sports Illustrated, 1987 ( Memento from December 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
- ↑ theage.com.au (English)
- ^ Forget and Leconte receive Award of Excellence (daviscup.com November 2, 2014, accessed November 30, 2014)
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| SURNAME | Leconte, Henri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lillers , France |