Stéphane Robert

Stéphane Robert
Stéphane Robert at the US Open in 2016
Nation:	France
Birthday:	May 17, 1980
Size:	185 cm
Weight:	77 kg
1st professional season:	2001
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Ronan Lafaix
Prize money:	$ 2,439,774
singles
Career record:	38:74
Highest ranking:	50 (October 24, 2016)
Current placement:	719
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	16:27
Career title:	1
Highest ranking:	99 (April 28, 2014)
Current placement:	757
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: November 25, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Stéphane Robert (born May 17, 1980 in Montargis ) is a French tennis player .

Career

Stéphane Robert started playing tennis at the age of eight, but it wasn't until 2001 that he decided to pursue a career as a professional tennis player. In February 2002 he won his first title at a Future tournament in Tel Aviv and then entered the top 400 of the ATP world rankings .

After three more future titles in June and July 2003, he played an ATP Challenger Tour tournament in Kiev for the first time in September 2003 and reached the semi-finals straight away. A week later in Sofia he even won the title. Robert finished the year at number 230 in the world rankings.

In April 2004 he was able to qualify for the first time in Houston for the main round of an ATP tournament . There he defeated his compatriot Jean-Christophe Faurel in the first round , before being eliminated in three sets against Luis Horna . In 2004 he received a wildcard for the French Open from the French association ; he lost there in the first round against Mariano Zabaleta, who was 30th . In September 2004 Robert won his second Challenger title in Budapest .

In 2005 Robert could only win a few matches, the only successes this year were a future title in Barcelona in October 2005 and a double title at the Challenger tournament in La Réunion in November 2005 (alongside Teimuras Gabashvili ). In the world rankings, he fell back to 586th place.

The year 2006 started more successfully again. After another future title, he was able to reach a Challenger final in Wrexham for the first time in over a year; he also won the title in doubles alongside Jean-François Bachelot . In March 2006, another joint title followed in Cherbourg , so that the duo got a wildcard for the French Open . After winning the first match, however, they were eliminated in the second round against the seeded Andrei Pavel and Alexander Waske . The year was not so successful in the individual, but Robert was able to stay in the top 300 due to his success at the beginning of the year.

At the beginning of 2007 Robert won two Future titles, then a big setback followed. He was infected with hepatitis A and therefore had to take a complete break from February 2007 to June 2008. As a result, he fell out of the world rankings and had to work his way up again. Within six months, thanks to two future titles and three other finals, he was back in the top 400.

The year 2009 continued with similar success. Thanks to several future titles and finals, he continuously climbed up the ranking and was able to play in Challenger tournaments again from March 2009. In June 2009 he won his third Challenger title in Košice , the first in almost five years. In September 2009 the next title followed in Alphen aan den Rijn , and it also reached the finals in Orléans and Jersey . He defeated his compatriot Jérémy Chardy , who was 36th in the world at the time. He finished the year in his best position to date, 108th.

In January 2010 Robert celebrated his comeback on the ATP Tour after more than five years . After a second round defeat in Chennai , he won a Grand Slam match for the first time in the first round of the Australian Open against the Italian Potito Starace . In the second round he was eliminated in five sets against the 31st-placed Spaniard Albert Montañés after he had already led 2-0 after sets. In February 2010 he celebrated the greatest success of his career to date. In Johannesburg , after victories, Robert reached, among other things, the world number 18. David Ferrer his first ATP final. There he was defeated by the Spaniard Feliciano López . Nevertheless, he entered the top 100 in the world rankings for the first time. At the Challenger tournament in Tangier he was placed in position 1 and won the tournament in the final against Oleksandr Dolhopolow . As a result, he achieved his best position in the world rankings to date with rank 61. Since then he has played mainly on the ATP Tour, but was only able to reach the second round in five of 14 tournaments played. As a result, it fell back to 122nd place at the end of the year.

In early 2011, Robert successfully qualified for the Australian Open after a second round defeat in Chennai . In the first main round, however, he lost in four sets against Nicolás Almagro , who was in 14th position . After a Challenger semi-final participation in Cherbourg in February 2011, he was able to reach the Challenger final in Le Gosier in March . He defeated the top 100 players Dustin Brown , Pablo Andújar and Jarkko Nieminen , but lost in the final against Olivier Rochus . In doubles he also won his first title in over five years together with Riccardo Ghedin . At the end of April, Robert reached another Challenger final in Ostrava by defeating Benoît Paire , who was placed in 3rd position , which he clearly won against the qualifier Ádám Kellner . In addition to the single title, he also won the title in the doubles competition together with Olivier Charroin . After a Challenger semifinal participation in Bordeaux , he successfully qualified for the French Open at the end of May , where he met Tomáš Berdych , sixth in the world, in the first round . After last year's semi-finalist had already led 2-0 after sets, Robert was able to fight his way back into the match; he finally won 9-7 in the fifth set.

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successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam ATP World Tour Finals ATP World Tour Masters 1000 ATP World Tour 500 (1) ATP World Tour 250 ATP Challenger Tour (17)

Title after covering Hard Court (0) Sand (1) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 14, 2003	Sofia	sand	Daniel Elsner	6: 1, 4: 6, 7: 6 4
2.	September 18, 2004	Budapest	sand	Alessio di Mauro	6: 1, 4: 6, 7: 5
3.	June 13, 2009	Košice	sand	Jiří Vaněk	7: 6 5 , 7: 6 5
4th	September 13, 2009	Alphen aan den Rijn	sand	Michael Russell	7: 6 2 , 5: 7, 7: 6 5
5.	February 20, 2010	Tangier	sand	Oleksandr Dolhopolov	7: 6 5 , 6: 4
6th	May 1, 2011	Ostrava	sand	Ádám waiter	6: 1, 6: 3
7th	February 21, 2016	New Delhi	Hard court	Saketh Myneni	6: 3, 6: 0
8th.	November 12, 2017	Kobe	Hard court (i)	Calvin Hemery	7: 6 1 , 6: 7 5 , 6: 1
9.	3rd February 2018	Burnie	Hard court	Daniel Altmaier	6: 1, 6: 2

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 7, 2010	Johannesburg	Hard court	Feliciano López	5: 7, 1: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	April 27, 2014	Barcelona	sand	Jesse Huta Galung	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6: 3, 6: 3

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	August 8, 2004	Poznan (1)	sand	Adam Chadaj	Tomáš Cibulec David Škoch	3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 2
2.	November 26, 2005	Reunion Island	Hard court	Teimuras Gabashvili	Ivan Cerović Petar Popović	6: 4, 6: 3
3.	January 29, 2006	Wrexham	Hard court (i)	Jean-François Bachelot	Colin Fleming Jamie Murray	6: 4, 7: 5
4th	March 5, 2006	Cherbourg	Hard court (i)	Jean-François Bachelot	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	7: 6 5 , 6: 3
5.	March 19, 2011	Le Gosier	Hard court	Riccardo Ghedin	Arnaud Clément Olivier Rochus	6: 2, 5: 7, [10: 7]
6th	May 1, 2011	Ostrava	sand	Olivier Charroin	Andis Juška Alexander Kudrjawzew	6: 4, 6: 3
7th	July 24, 2011	Poznan (2)	sand	Olivier Charroin	Franco Ferreiro André Sá	6: 2, 6: 3
8th.	September 13, 2013	Seville	sand	Alessandro Motti	Stephan Fransen Wesley Koolhof	7: 5, 7: 5

Web links

Commons : Stéphane Robert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Stéphane Robert (english)
• ITF profile of Stéphane Robert (English)