Kenny de Schepper started playing tennis at the age of seven. At the age of 13 he trained at the national tennis center in Poitiers , but then had to take a break for two years due to injury. Therefore he never played on the junior tour; It was not until September 2007 that he was able to collect his first world ranking points at a future tournament . It took three more years before he made it to a future final for the first time in October 2010, making him one of the top 500.
After winning his first future title in January 2011, de Schepper was able to qualify for a Challenger tournament for the first time in Quimper in February 2011 . He reached the final there straight away, which he just lost to David Guez in three sets . In June 2011 he made it to Wimbledon for the first time to qualify for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament . In the first round he was already leading 2-0 sets against Olivier Rochus before losing the match in five sets. Two weeks later, de Schepper reached a Challenger final for the second time in Pozoblanco , defeating among others the top 50 player Adrian Mannarino . In the final he prevailed against Iván Navarro in three sets and won his first title in this category. At the next Challenger tournament in Recanati , he was able to advance to the final again, this time defeating his compatriot Fabrice Martin in three sets . Due to his success, de Schepper improved from 680 to 132 in the world rankings within one year. In the further course of the year he was only able to win one single; he lost, among other things, in the first round of the ATP tournament in Metz , for which he had received a wildcard , in three sets against Igor Kunitsyn . On the other hand, things went better in doubles; together with Édouard Roger-Vasselin , he reached two Challenger finals and also the semifinals of Metz alongside Arnaud Clément .
In early 2012, Kenny de Schepper received a wildcard for the Australian Open , but was eliminated in the first round in three sets against Sam Querrey . In March he reached a future final twice in a row, one of which he was able to win. On the Challenger Tour, however, he never made it past the quarter-finals. In June 2012, de Schepper was able to qualify at the ATP lawn tournament at the Queen’s Club in London , followed by another first round defeat against Denis Istomin . As in the previous year, he also managed to qualify at Wimbledon and then won his first Grand Slam match against Matthias Bachinger , before he was eliminated with a three- set defeat against David Ferrer, who was in 7th position . In September 2012 he won his second Challenger title in Mons against Michaël Llodra , followed a month later in Rennes with the third title after a final victory against Ilya Martschenko . The 2013 season was without a title win, but he reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon , in which he was defeated by Fernando Verdasco in three sets. In 2014 , he was in the main field of all four Grand Slam tournaments, winning both the Australian Open and the French Open before he was eliminated from the competition. In March he won his fourth individual title on the Challenger Tour against Norbert Gombos in Cherbourg-Octeville and on April 7, 2014, he reached 62nd place, his career record in the individual world rankings. While de Schepper was in the main field in at least two Grand Slam tournaments in 2015, this was only the case at the French Open in 2016 . At the same time, it was the last Grand Slam tournament that he played in singles. In September 2016, de Schepper secured his fifth Challenger title by winning the tournament in Como . He defeated Marco Cecchinato in three sets in the final . After he stayed in the top 250 of the world rankings for a long time without achieving any major success, he fell far behind from 2019. At the time the tournament was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic , he was ranked 679 in the individual.
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France
Pozoblanco
Mons
Ilya Marchenko
Norbert Gombos
Como
