Julien Benneteau

Julien Benneteau
Julien Benneteau at Wimbledon in 2016
Nickname:	Bennet, muffle
Nation:	France
Birthday:	December 20, 1981
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	79 kg
1st professional season:	2000
Resignation:	2018
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Antoine Benneteau
Prize money:	$ 9,538,817
singles
Career record:	273: 297
Highest ranking:	25 (November 17, 2014)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	262: 193
Career title:	12
Highest ranking:	5 (November 3, 2014)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Olympic games
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Julien Benneteau (born December 20, 1981 in Bourg-en-Bresse ) is a former French tennis player . He is a knight of the French National Order of Merit .

Career

Benneteau began playing tennis at the age of four and was a professional from 2000. In 2004 he made it into the top 100 of the ATP world rankings for the first time . He won his first ATP title in 2003 with his compatriot Nicolas Mahut at the tournament in Metz . In Lyon he secured his second ATP tournament victory in 2006 with Arnaud Clément . His greatest success in singles was the move into the quarter-finals of the French Open in 2006, which he lost 2: 6, 2: 6, 3: 6 against the Croatian Ivan Ljubičić . On the way there he beat the seeded players Radek Štěpánek and Marcos Baghdatis , among others . On November 11, 2009 Benneteau defeated the then world number one Roger Federer in Paris-Bercy in three sets. Benneteau could not win a single tournament despite ten finals.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , he competed in singles and doubles. After an opening win over Michail Juschny, he was defeated by Roger Federer 2: 6, 2: 6 in the second round. The doubles were more successful, together with Richard Gasquet he won the bronze medal. They first defeated the British Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins , the seventh seeded Indians Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna and the third-placed Serbs Janko Tipsarević and Nenad Zimonjić . In the semifinals they had to admit defeat to Bob and Mike Bryan from the USA before defeating the Spaniards Feliciano López and David Ferrer in straight sets in the bronze medal match.

He won his only Grand Slam title in 2014 with his compatriot Édouard Roger-Vasselin at the French Open in men's doubles. After retiring from the 2018 US Open , he ended his career on the World Tour.

Benneteau played for the French Davis Cup team from 2010 to 2018 . In 14 matches he won three of his seven singles games and eight of his twelve games in doubles. In 2017 he won the Davis Cup with France and played in the doubles game in the semi-finals during the season.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (1) Tennis Masters Cup / ATP World Tour Finals ATP Masters Series / ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (2) ATP International Series Gold / ATP World Tour 500 Series (1) ATP International Series / ATP World Tour 250 Series (8) ATP Challenger Tour (14)

Title after covering Hard Court (8) Sand (2) Lawn (0) Carpet (2)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 22, 2004	Andrézieux-Bouthéon	Hard court (i)	Dick Norman	6: 7 8 , 7: 6 5 , 7: 6 5
2.	October 16, 2011	Rennes	Carpet (i)	Olivier Rochus	6: 4, 6: 3
3.	May 18, 2014	Bordeaux	sand	Steve Johnson	6: 3, 6: 2
4th	November 13, 2016	Mouilleron-le-Captif	Hard court (i)	Andrei Rublev	7: 5, 2: 6, 6: 3

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 18, 2008	Casablanca	sand	Gilles Simon	5: 7, 2: 6
2.	October 20, 2008	Lyon	Carpet (i)	Robin Soderling	3: 6, 7: 6 5 , 1: 6
3.	May 18, 2009	Kitzbühel	sand	Guillermo García-López	6: 3, 6: 7 1 , 3: 6
4th	February 15, 2010	Marseille	Hard court (i)	Michaël Llodra	3: 6, 4: 6
5.	August 27, 2011	Winston-Salem	Hard court	John Isner	6: 4, 3: 6, 4: 6
6th	January 15, 2012	Sydney	Hard court	Jarkko Nieminen	2: 6, 5: 7
7th	September 30, 2012	Kuala Lumpur (1)	Hard court (i)	Juan Mónaco	5: 7, 6: 4, 3: 6
8th.	17th February 2013	Rotterdam	Hard court (i)	Juan Martín del Potro	6: 7 2 , 3: 6
9.	29th September 2013	Kuala Lumpur (2)	Hard court (i)	João Sousa	6: 2, 5: 7, 4: 6
10.	September 28, 2014	Kuala Lumpur (3)	Hard court (i)	Kei Nishikori	6: 7 4 , 4: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 29, 2003	Metz (1)	Carpet (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	7: 6 2 , 6: 3
2.	October 23, 2006	Lyon (1)	Carpet (i)	Arnaud Clément	František Čermák Jaroslav Levinský	6: 2, 6: 7 3 , [10: 7]
3.	March 9, 2008	Las Vegas	Hard court	Michaël Llodra	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6: 4, 4: 6, [10: 8]
4th	October 18, 2009	Shanghai	Hard court	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6: 2, 6: 4
5.	October 26, 2009	Lyon (2)	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Arnaud Clément Sébastien Grosjean	6: 4, 7: 6 6
6th	February 21, 2010	Marseille (1)	Hard court (i)	Michaël Llodra	Julian Knowle Robert Lindstedt	6: 4, 6: 3
7th	April 21, 2013	Monte Carlo	sand	Nenad Zimonjić	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4: 6, 7: 6 4 , [14:12]
8th.	4th August 2013	Washington, DC	Hard court	Nenad Zimonjić	Mardy Fish Radek Štěpánek	7: 6 5 , 7: 5
9.	February 23, 2014	Marseille (2)	Hard court (i)	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Paul Hanley Jonathan Marray	4: 6, 7: 6 6 , [13:11]
10.	June 7, 2014	French Open	sand	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Marcel Granollers Marc López	6: 3, 7: 6 1
11.	February 26, 2017	Marseille (3)	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Robin Haase Dominic Inglot	6: 4, 6: 7 9 , [10: 5]
12.	September 24, 2017	Metz (2)	Hard court (i)	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Wesley Koolhof Artem Sitak	7: 5, 6: 3

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 23, 2000	Contrexéville	sand	Nicolas Mahut	Jean-René Lisnard Olivier Patience	6: 3, 7: 6 4
2.	February 25, 2001	Andrézieux-Bouthéon (1)	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Noam Behr Jonathan Erlich	6: 3, 6: 3
3.	August 17, 2003	Bronx	Hard court	Nicolas Mahut	Martín Alberto García Graydon Oliver	6: 3, 6: 1
4th	September 21, 2003	Saint-Jean-de-Luz	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Johan Landsberg Myles Wakefield	6: 4, 6: 1
5.	July 10, 2005	Scheveningen	sand	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Steve Darcis Kristof Viegen	5: 7, 7: 5, 7: 6 5
6th	September 18, 2005	Orleans	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Grégory Carraz Antony Dupuis	3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
7th	October 2, 2005	Grenoble	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Grégory Carraz Nicolas Tourte	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3
8th.	February 5, 2006	Andrézieux-Bouthéon (2)	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Grégory Carraz Antony Dupuis	6: 4, 6: 4
9.	May 21, 2006	Sanremo	sand	Nicolas Mahut	Flavio Cipolla Francesco Piccari	6: 4, 7: 6 6
10.	January 9, 2016	Nouméa	Hard court	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Grégoire Barrère Tristan Lamasine	7: 6 4 , 3: 6, [10: 5]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 20, 2003	Lyon	Carpet (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	1: 6, 3: 6
2.	April 14, 2007	Monte Carlo	sand	Richard Gasquet	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	2: 6, 1: 6
3.	August 15, 2010	Toronto	Hard court	Michaël Llodra	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	5: 7, 3: 6
4th	February 20, 2011	Marseille	Hard court (i)	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Robin Haase Ken Skupski	3: 6, 7: 6 4 , [11:13]
5.	November 13, 2011	Paris	Hard court (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	2: 6, 4: 6
6th	5th October 2014	Beijing	Hard court	Vasek Pospisil	Jean-Julien Rojer Horia Tecau	7: 6 6 , 5: 7, [5:10]
7th	October 12, 2014	Shanghai	Hard court	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3: 6, 6: 7 3
8th.	July 9, 2016	Wimbledon	race	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	4: 6, 6: 7 1 , 3: 6
9.	June 25, 2017	Queen's Club	race	Édouard Roger-Vasselin	Jamie Murray Bruno Soares	2: 6, 3: 6

Balance at Grand Slam tournaments

singles

Tournament 1	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	total
Australian Open	3R	Q3	1R	1R	2R	3R	3R	-	2R	1R	1R	1R	3R	1R	-	1R	-	-	-	3R
French Open	2R	1R	1R	-	1R	3R	3R	2R	2R	1R	AF	1R	VF	1R	3R	1R	1R	-	-	VF
Wimbledon	2R	1R	2R	-	1R	2R	3R	2R	AF	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	2R	-	-	-	-	AF
US Open	2R	1R	1R	-	1R	3R	3R	3R	2R	3R	1R	1R	1R	-	1R	1R	-	-	-	3R
Individual titles won	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Overall wins / defeats 2	8:11	13:14	2: 9	1: 5	26:24	27:25	27:23	21:21	26:19	26:28	22:20	22:28	24:22	5:18	14:15	3: 7	0: 2	1: 1	0-0	273: 297
Year-end position	-	56	131	533	25th	35	35	52	44	46	43	68	40	167	64	140	255	271	423	N / A

Double

Tournament 1	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	total
Australian Open	1R	2R	1R	VF	AF	AF	1R	-	2R	1R	AF	VF	1R	2R	2R	-	-	-	-	VF
French Open	-	1R	VF	-	S.	2R	-	AF	AF	AF	-	2R	VF	1R	1R	2R	2R	1R	2R	S.
Wimbledon	1R	2R	F.	-	VF	VF	1R	2R	VF	-	AF	1R	1R	1R	2R	-	-	-	-	F.
US Open	-	VF	1R	-	1R	2R	VF	-	2R	1R	2R	HF	1R	VF	HF	-	-	-	-	HF
Double titles won	0	2	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	12
Overall wins / defeats 2	2: 4	20:10	13: 7	7: 4	38:20	25:19	12:14	15:11	22:10	20:10	19:15	23:21	10: 9	11:14	14:10	6: 3	1: 1	0: 3	2: 3	262: 193
Year-end position	-	45	35	124	5	26th	97	52	38	32	49	26th	67	59	50	93	270	301	195	N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1R, 2R, 3R = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round

¹ tournament result in brackets means that the player has not yet finished the tournament; it shows its current tournament status. After the player finishes the tournament, the bracket is removed.
² Status: end of career

Web links

Commons : Julien Benneteau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Julien Benneteau (English)
• ITF profile Julien Benneteau (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Julien Benneteau (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ORDRE NATIONAL DU MERITE. In: legiondhonneur.fr. December 31, 2012, archived from the original on February 23, 2014 ; accessed on August 8, 2016 (French). 
2. ↑ US Open: Julien Benneteau met un terme à sa carrière en simple après une défaite au deuxième tour. In: lequipe.fr. August 31, 2018, accessed September 16, 2018 (French).