Mathieu Rodrigues

Mathieu Rodrigues
Nation:	France
Birthday:	November 7, 1985
Size:	180 cm
Weight:	76 kg
1st professional season:	2007
Resignation:	2014
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Teddy Djabali
Prize money:	$ 142,657
singles
Career record:	1: 1
Highest ranking:	211 (February 6, 2012)
Double
Career record:	0-0
Highest ranking:	549 (February 2, 2009)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Mathieu Rodrigues (born November 7, 1985 in Romorantin-Lanthenay ) is a former French tennis player .

Career

Rodrigues played his first full season with the professionals in 2007 on the third-class ITF Future Tour , where he reached his first individual finals and the top 800 in the world rankings at the end of the year . In the following year he won three singles titles and was also successful twice in doubles, which meant he was 328th in singles and 565th in doubles by the end of the year. In the latter, he reached his career high in early 2009 with 549th place. Rodrigues subsequently tried to qualify at tournaments of the ATP Challenger Tour or ATP World Tour , but where he often lost early. At the Challenger in Saint-Brieu , he won his first match at this level. In 2010 it was only 425th at the end of the year.

In February 2011, Rodrigues moved into a Challenger quarter-finals for the first time in Quimper and won three titles in Futures. His only appearance on the World Tour came for the French in September 2009 when he fought his way through the qualification of the tournament in Metz and there the favored world number 56. Mikhail Kukushkin struck in the first round of the main draw. In the following round he lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga . In October he made it to the second round at the Challenger in Orléans . In February 2012 he was at his career high with number 211. He then fell in the world rankings. In 2013 he won a future title each in singles and doubles. In one of his last tournaments as a professional in June 2014 Rodrigues reached the only time a semi-finals with a Challenger in Blois . He then played two more tournaments with a time gap before ending his career.

Web links

• ATP profile of Mathieu Rodrigues (English)
• ITF profile of Mathieu Rodrigues (English)