Xavier Malisse

Xavier Malisse
Xavier Malisse 2013 in Monte Carlo
Nation:	Belgium
Birthday:	July 19, 1980
Size:	185 cm
1st professional season:	1998
Resignation:	2013
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 5,694,825
singles
Career record:	294: 274
Career title:	3
Highest ranking:	19 (August 12, 2002)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	129: 113
Career title:	9
Highest ranking:	25 (November 7th 2011)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Xavier Malisse (born July 19, 1980 in Kortrijk ) is a former Belgian tennis player .

Career

His most successful season was the 2002 season , when he became the first Belgian to make it into the top 25 of the world rankings and also became the first Belgian since Paul de Borman to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals in 1904. On the way there he defeated Evgeni Kafelnikow , Greg Rusedski and Richard Krajicek, among others . In the semifinals he had to admit defeat to the Argentine David Nalbandian after five sets .

In 2004 Malisse won the ATP tournament in Delray Beach . He was also in the finals of seven other tournaments. In the same year he also won the double competition at the French Open together with his compatriot Olivier Rochus .

In 2007 he won the Chennai tournament , defeated Stefan Koubek in the final and eliminated the high favorite Rafael Nadal in the course of the tournament . Shortly afterwards, like in 2004, Malisse won the Delray Beach final by defeating number 1 seeded James Blake . At the end of 2009, Malisse and his compatriot Yanina Wickmayer were banned from the Belgian Tennis Association for one year because they had failed to appear for doping tests several times . The ban was lifted by the international association and Malisse was able to play on the tour again in 2010. He achieved his best results in the short grass season (quarter-finals Queens, semi-finals S'Hertogenbosch and third round Wimbledon) and was able to improve significantly in the ranking after a long dry spell.

In January 2011, Malisse reached an ATP final in Chennai for the first time in almost four years, but he was defeated in three sets by Stanislas Wawrinka . At the Australian Open he reached the third round, in which he failed in three sets to Roger Federer . After some first round defeats, Malisse won the third round again in Indian Wells and failed there against the Indian Somdev Devvarman . However, he was able to win the double competition of the Masters tournament on the side of Oleksandr Dolhopolow , with whom he played for the first time ; in the final they defeated the Swiss duo Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka . It was Malisse's first title (both singles and doubles) in four years.

Between 1998 and 2011 he played 15 games for the Belgian Davis Cup team . He won 12 of his 20 singles games, while he had no win in all four matches in doubles.

During the US Open 2013 , Xavier Malisse announced his resignation after the Australian Open 2014 . After his first round at the Challenger tournament in Mons in October 2013, however, he announced his immediate retirement.

In the 2016 season, Malisse, who now works for a supplier, made a comeback as a player at TC Waldhof from Bottrop , who plays in the Regionalliga West.

successes

Legend (number of victories) Grand Slam (1) Tennis Masters Cup ATP World Tour Finals ATP Masters Series ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1) ATP International Series Gold ATP World Tour 500 Series ATP International Series ATP World Tour 250 Series (10) ATP Challenger Series ATP Challenger Tour (6)

ATP title by topping Hard Court (11) Sand (1) Lawn (0)

singles

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 31, 2005	Delray Beach (1)	Hard court	Jiří Novák	7: 6, 6: 2
2.	January 1, 2007	Chennai	Hard court	Stefan Koubek	6: 1, 6: 3
3.	January 28, 2007	Delray Beach (2)	Hard court	James Blake	5: 7, 6: 4, 6: 4

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	October 1, 2000	San Antonio	Hard court	Ronald Agénor	7: 6 4 , 6: 3
2.	July 20, 2008	Moncton	Hard court	Danai Udomchoke	6: 4, 6: 4
3.	August 3, 2009	Granby	Hard court	Kevin Anderson	6: 4, 6: 4
4th	October 25, 2009	Orleans	Hard court	Stéphane Robert	6: 1, 6: 2

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	November 2, 1998	Mexico city	sand	Jiří Novák	3: 6, 3: 6
2.	May 10, 1999	Delray Beach (1)	Hard court	Lleyton Hewitt	4: 6, 7: 6 2 , 1: 6
3.	March 12, 2001	Delray Beach (2)	Hard court	Jan-Michael Gambill	5: 7, 4: 6
4th	April 30, 2001	Atlanta	sand	Andy Roddick	2: 6, 4: 6
5.	May 24, 2004	St. Polten	sand	Filippo Volandri	1: 6, 4: 6
6th	October 11, 2004	Lyon	Carpet (i)	Robin Soderling	2: 6, 6: 3, 4: 6
7th	January 9, 2006	Adelaide	Hard court	Florent Serra	3: 6, 4: 6
8th.	February 6, 2006	Delray Beach (3)	Hard court	Tommy Haas	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 7 6
9.	January 9, 2011	Chennai	Hard court	Stanislas Wawrinka	5: 7, 6: 4, 1: 6

Double

Tournament victories

ATP World Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	May 24, 2004	French Open	sand	Olivier Rochus	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	7: 5, 7: 5
2.	January 3, 2005	Adelaide	Hard court	Olivier Rochus	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	7: 6, 6: 4
3.	January 1, 2007	Chennai	Hard court	Dick Norman	Rafael Nadal Bartolomé Salvá	7: 6 4 , 7: 6 4
4th	January 28, 2007	Delray Beach	Hard court	Hugo Armando	James Auckland Stephen Huss	6: 3, 6: 7 4 , [10: 5]
5.	March 20, 2011	Indian Wells	Hard court	Oleksandr Dolhopolov	Roger Federer Stanislas Wawrinka	6: 4, 6: 7 5 , [10: 7]
6th	July 31, 2011	Los Angeles (1)	Hard court	Mark Knowles	Somdev Devvarman Treat Conrad Huey	7: 6 3 , 7: 6 10
7th	19th February 2012	San Jose (1)	Hard court (i)	Mark Knowles	Frank Moser Kevin Anderson	6: 4, 1: 6, [10: 5]
8th.	July 29, 2012	Los Angeles (2)	Hard court	Ruben Bemelmans	Jamie Delgado Ken Skupski	7: 6 5 , 4: 6, [10: 7]
9.	17th February 2013	San Jose (2)	Hard court (i)	Frank Moser	Marinko Matosevic Lleyton Hewitt	6: 0, 6: 7 5 , [10: 4]

ATP Challenger Tour

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	July 13, 2008	Bogotá	sand	Carlos Salamanca	Juan Sebastián Cabal Michael Quintero	6: 1, 6: 4
2.	September 13, 2008	Donetsk	Hard court	Dick Norman	Harel Levy Noam Okun	4: 6, 6: 1, [13:11]

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	partner	Final opponent	Result
1.	January 13, 2008	Auckland	Hard court	Jürgen Melzer	Luis Horna Juan Mónaco	4: 6, 6: 3, [7:10]
2.	February 13, 2011	San Jose	Hard court (i)	Alejandro Falla	Scott Lipsky Rajeev Ram	4: 6, 6: 4, [8:10]
3.	May 6, 2012	Munich	sand	Dick Norman	František Čermák Filip Polášek	4: 6, 5: 7
4th	July 22, 2012	Atlanta	Hard court	Michael Russell	Matthew Ebden Ryan Harrison	3: 6, 6: 3, [6:10]

Balance at Grand Slam tournaments

singles

Tournament 1	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	total
Australian Open	2R	1R	3R	1R	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	3R	2R	-	-	-	3R
French Open	1R	1R	2R	2R	-	-	-	1R	2R	AF	3R	AF	3R	-	1R	AF
Wimbledon	1R	AF	AF	3R	1R	2R	2R	2R	2R	AF	1R	HF	2R	-	1R	HF
US Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	-	-	2R	3R	AF	1R	AF	3R	AF	2R	3R	AF
Individual titles won	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Overall wins / defeats 2	13:19	21:24	24:26	22:23	4: 5	9:12	10: 4	31:24	22:20	23:26	18:21	32:23	38:23	7: 7	12:10	294: 274
Year-end position	135	62	49	60	94	162	109	37	48	47	56	25th	33	127	142	N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1R, 2R, 3R = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round or Q1, Q2, Q3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd qualifying round

¹ tournament result in brackets means that the player has not yet finished the tournament; it shows its current tournament status. After the player finishes the tournament, the bracket is removed.
² Status: end of career

Web links

Commons : Xavier Malisse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• ATP profile of Xavier Malisse (English)
• ITF profile Xavier Malisse (English)
• Davis Cup stats by Xavier Malisse (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The most prominent doping cases in world tennis. In: derstandard.at. June 8, 2016, accessed August 15, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Malisse: End of career after Australian Open. In: tennisnet.com. August 30, 2013, accessed August 15, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Malisse ends career on home soil. In: daviscup.com. October 3, 2013, accessed August 15, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Xavier Malisse: "I want to help the team". In: WAZ. Retrieved August 15, 2016 .