Jean-Philippe Fleurian

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Jean-Philippe Fleurian Tennis player
Nation: FranceFrance France
Birthday: September 11, 1965
Size: 185 cm
Weight: 79 kg
1st professional season: 1985
Playing hand: Right
Prize money: $ 1,352,977
singles
Career record: 107: 156
Highest ranking: 37 (April 30 1990)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 82: 110
Career title: 1
Highest ranking: 55 (January 29 1990)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jean-Philippe Fleurian (born September 11, 1965 in Paris ) is a former French tennis player .

Career

Fleurian became a professional tennis player in 1985. The following year he reached the individual finals of an ATP tournament for the first time in Itaparica . He was defeated there after victories, among others, over Jaime Yzaga and Luiz Mattar in the final Andrés Gómez . In 1987 he was in the semifinals of Seoul and the following year in the semifinals of the doubles competition in Båstad . In the following years he achieved further good results on the ATP Tour, but also played on the ATP Challenger Tour , where he was defeated in the final of the tournament by Ilhéus Richard Fromberg in 1989 . In 1991 he was in Auckland for the second and last time in an ATP individual final, where he was defeated by Karel Nováček . In 1994 he reached a double-final for the first time alongside Jakob Hlasek . After another final in Marseille in 1995, he was able to celebrate his only tournament victory on the ATP World Tour the following year with Guillaume Raoux . On the Challenger Tour he won several titles, including singles in São Paulo and doubles in Brasília . He reached his highest scores in the ATP world rankings in 1990 with position 37 in singles and 55 in doubles.

His best individual result in a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the round of 16 of the Australian Open in 1996. His best performance in the doubles competition were quarter-finals at the Australian Open and Wimbledon ; at the French Open he was twice and at the US Open once in the round of 16.

Fleurian played for the French Davis Cup team in 1986 and 1994 and played a singles and doubles game. In the quarter-final against Sweden , he played alongside Olivier Delaître in doubles, but they were clearly defeated by Jan Apell and Jonas Björkman . He also competed in the Hopman Cup , where he won against Boris Becker and Anke Huber in 1995 with Julie Halard-Decugis .

Tournament victories

Legend
Grand Slam
Tennis Masters Cup
ATP Masters Series
ATP International Series Gold
ATP International Series (1)

Double

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. 1996 FranceFrance Marseille Hard court (i) FranceFrance Guillaume Raoux South AfricaSouth Africa Marius Barnard Peter Nyborg
SwedenSweden
6: 3, 6: 2

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