Nicolas Escudé

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Nicolas Escudé Tennis player
Nicolas Escudé
Nicolas Escudé at the 2012 French Open
Nation: FranceFrance France
Birthday: April 3, 1976
Size: 185 cm
1st professional season: 1995
Resignation: 2006
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 3,216,150
singles
Career record: 172: 129
Career title: 4th
Highest ranking: 17 (June 26, 2000)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open HF (1998)
French Open AF (2004)
Wimbledon VF (2001)
US Open VF (1999)
Double
Career record: 57:49
Career title: 2
Highest ranking: 35 (January 6, 2003)
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open 1R (2001)
French Open HF (2001)
Wimbledon 1R (2001)
US Open 2R (2001)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Nicolas Jean-Christophe Escudé (born April 3, 1976 in Chartres ) is a former French tennis player . His younger brother is the soccer player Julien Escudé .

Career

Escudé, who trained with Tarik Benhabiles , among others , won four individual titles in his career. He won in Toulouse , Rotterdam (2001 and 2002) and Doha . There were also the double titles in Marseille and Paris in 2002. He also reached the individual finals in Marseille in the same year, which he lost to Thomas Enqvist 7: 6, 3: 6 and 1: 6, and in 2000 the final von 's-Hertogenbosch , in which he lost to Patrick Rafter 1: 6 and 3: 6.

In June 2000 he reached his best world ranking position with 17th place . On May 18, 2006, he announced his retirement from professional sport because of a persistent shoulder injury that had prevented him from playing for 22 months.

successes

Legend (single)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (1)
ATP Tour (5)

singles

No. date competition Topping Final opponent Result
1. October 6, 1999 FranceFrance Toulouse Hard court (hall) Czech RepublicCzech Republic Daniel Vacek 7: 5, 6: 1
2. February 25, 2001 NetherlandsNetherlands Rotterdam (1) Hard court (hall) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Roger Federer 7: 5, 3: 6, 7: 6
3. February 24, 2002 NetherlandsNetherlandsRotterdam (2) Hard court (hall) United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tim Henman 3: 6, 7: 6, 6: 4
4th January 11, 2004 QatarQatar Doha Hard court CroatiaCroatia Ivan Ljubičić 6: 3, 7: 6

Double

No. date competition Topping partner Final opponent Result
1. February 11, 2002 FranceFrance Marseille Hard court (hall) FranceFrance Arnaud Clément FranceFrance Julien Boutter Max Mirny
BelarusBelarus 		6: 4, 6: 3
2. October 28, 2002 FranceFrance Paris Masters Carpet (hall) FranceFrance Fabrice Santoro BrazilBrazil Gustavo Kuerten Cédric Pioline
FranceFrance 		6: 3, 7: 6 6

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Balance sheet Career
Australian Open - - - - - HF - AF 2 3 3 3 - 15: 6 HF
French Open 1 - - - 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 AF - 6: 9 AF
Wimbledon - - - - - 2 - 2 VF 3 2 - - 9: 5 VF
US Open - - - - - 1 VF - 2 - - - - 5: 3 VF

Double

competition 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Balance sheet Career
Australian Open - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - 0: 1 1
French Open 1 - - - 1 1 2 1 HF - AF 2 - 8: 8 HF
Wimbledon - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - 0: 1 1
US Open - - - - - - - - 2 - - - - 1: 1 2

Trivia

Escudé is left-handed in everyday life; in his childhood, however, he was taught to play tennis rightly.

Web links

Commons : Nicolas Escudé  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Escudé, Nicolas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Escudé, Nicolas Jean-Christophe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Chartres , France