2006–2009: First experiences in future tournaments
Maxime Teixeira started playing tennis at the age of five. He played his only international tournament as a junior in 2006 at the French Open , where he was eliminated in the first round. In 2006 he also appeared for the first time in qualifying for a future tournament; but it was not until the end of 2007 that he won a main round match for the first time and was able to collect his first world ranking points. He continued to play futures tournaments for the next two years, but never got past the third round.
2010: Future tournament victories
In 2010 he reached his first future final in Turkey in March and won his first future title in Romania in July 2010. By September 2010, he reached three more future finals, of which he was able to win two. Within six months, he improved so in the world rankings by more than 500 places in the top 400. In October 2010, he qualified for his first tournaments of the ATP Challenger Tour , on which he, the top 200 players Ramón Delgado and Juan Pablo Brzezicki defeat could.
2011–2012: First Challenger title and Grand Slam debut
The year 2011 began for Teixeira with his fourth future title. In February 2011 he wanted to qualify for an ATP tournament in Marseille for the first time. After defeating the top 200 player Julian Reister , however, he failed in the third qualifying round to Stéphane Bohli . In March 2011, he first reached the final of a Challenger tournament in Marrakech for the first time; in the semifinals he defeated Jan Hájek , who was seeded in second place , before losing to the top seeded Rui Machado in three sets in the final . Just a week later, Teixeira managed to make it into a Challenger final again in Saint-Brieuc . He was able to defeat a top 100 player for the first time in the semifinals with Máximo González, who was in position 1 . In his second Challenger final against Benoît Paire , he then only gave three games and won his first title. In the world rankings, he then made a jump into the top 200. In addition, he was rewarded for his successes by the French association with a wildcard for the main round of the French Open . There he prevailed in the first round in five sets against Vincent Millot, who also started with a wildcard . In the second round he met the world number three Roger Federer , against whom he was eliminated in three sets. In September 2011 Teixeira reached his third Challenger final in Brașov that year. As in Saint-Brieuc, he met Benoît Paire there, against whom he had to retire due to injury after losing the first set in the second. In the further course of the year Teixeira only won two more matches, he finished his best season to date in 163rd place in the world rankings.
After he was eliminated in the second round of qualifying for the Australian Open in early 2012 , he was able to qualify for the main draw at the ATP tournament in Montpellier in February 2012 . In the first main round, however, he was eliminated in three sets against Jarkko Nieminen, who was placed in 8th position . A week later, Teixeira won his first Challenger title in doubles in Quimper together with Pierre-Hugues Herbert . At the beginning of March 2012 he was in his fourth Challenger final in Cherbourg , where he lost to Josselin Ouanna in straight sets. On March 5, 2012, he reached his career high in the world rankings with 154th place.
2013–2016: Further Challenger titles in doubles
In the 2013 season he was in the main field of the French Open after successfully qualifying , but was eliminated there in the first round. With Pierre-Hugues Herbert, he won his second double title on the Challenger Tour a few weeks later when they beat Alessandro Giannessi and João Sousa 6: 4 and 6: 3 in the San Benedetto final . In 2014 he remained completely without major successes before he won another tournament in 2015. With Rémi Boutillier he won the doubles competition in Blois . He played his last tournament in August 2016 in order to concentrate on his professional career away from the tennis court.
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France
Dustin Brown Jonathan Marray
San Benedetto
Guilherme Clézar Nicolás Kicker
