Julien Benneteau

Julien Benneteau

Country	France
Residence	Geneva, Switzerland
Born	December 20, 1981 (1981-12-20) Bourg en Bresse, France
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	79 kg (170 lb; 12.4 st)
Turned pro	2000
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$4,196,821
Singles
Career record	162–179 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 29 (February 20, 2012)
Current ranking	No. 29 (February 20, 2012)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3R (2006, 2012)
French Open	QF (2006)
Wimbledon	4R (2010)
US Open	3R (2009, 2011)
Doubles
Career record	134–104 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	6
Highest ranking	No. 22 (September 10, 2007)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2007)
French Open	QF (2006)
Wimbledon	QF (2010)
US Open	SF (2004, 2007)
Last updated on: May 16, 2011.

Julien Benneteau (born December 20, 1981 in Bourg-en-Bresse) is a professional male tennis player from France. His career-best singles ranking is ATP world no. 32, which he reached in July 2010. He formerly resided in Boulogne Billancourt and now lives in Geneva. He is generally regarded as one of the best singles players on the tour to have not won a title.

In the 1996 Orange Bowl Bennetau won the Boys 16s singles title.

At the 2006 French Open, Benneteau reached the quarterfinals by defeating Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis, Radek Štěpánek, and Alberto Martín. There, he was defeated in straight sets 2–6, 2–6, 3–6, by fourth-seeded player Ivan Ljubičić of Croatia.

The Frenchman finished the 2008 season in the top 50 for the second time in three years. During the season, he reached two ATP finals, at Casablanca, where he lost to fellow countryman Gilles Simon, and in his final tournament of the season at Lyon, where he lost to Robin Söderling.

In May 2009, he entered the Interwetten Austrian Open in Kitzbühel as a lucky loser and reached his third career final, falling to Spain's Guillermo García-López 6–3, 6–7, 3–6.

In the quarterfinals of the 2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters, he played a remarkable 53-point rally with then-world no. 2 Andy Murray in the second set of a 6–4, 3–6, 1–6 loss. He lost the rally when he smashed a lob that grazed the net and went wide.

His best career victory was undoubtedly achieved on the 11 November 2009 at the 2009 Paris Masters, when he scored a huge upset over world no. 1 Roger Federer 3–6, 7–6, 6–4, in the second round, in front of his home crowd.

ATP Career Finals

Singles: 6 (0–6)

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–6)

Finals by Surface Hard (0–3) Clay (0–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	1.	May 18, 2008	Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Gilles Simon	5–7, 2–6
Runner-up	2.	October 20, 2008	Lyon, France	Carpet (i)	Robin Söderling	3–6, 7–6(7–5), 1–6
Runner-up	3.	May 18, 2009	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Guillermo García-López	6–3, 6–7(1–7), 3–6
Runner-up	4.	February 15, 2010	Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Michaël Llodra	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	August 27, 2011	Winston-Salem, United States	Hard	John Isner	6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	January 15, 2012	Sydney , Australia	Hard	Jarkko Nieminen	2–6, 5–7

Doubles: 11 (6–5)

Legend Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1–3) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (5–2)

Finals by Surface Hard (5–3) Clay (0–1) Grass (0–0) Carpet (1–1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	September 29, 2003	Metz, France	Hard (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	7–6(7–2), 6–3
Runner-up	1.	October 6, 2003	Lyon, France	Carpet (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	1–6, 3–6
Winner	2.	October 23, 2006	Lyon, France	Carpet (i)	Arnaud Clément	František Čermák Jaroslav Levinský	6–2, 6–7(3–7), [10–7]
Runner-up	2.	April 15, 2007	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Richard Gasquet	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	2–6, 1–6
Winner	3.	March 3, 2008	Las Vegas, United States	Hard	Michaël Llodra	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 4–6, [10–8]
Winner	4.	October 12, 2009	Shanghai, China	Hard	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–2, 6–4
Winner	5.	October 26, 2009	Lyon, France (2)	Hard (i)	Nicolas Mahut	Arnaud Clément Sébastien Grosjean	6–4, 7–6(8–6)
Winner	6.	February 15, 2010	Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Michaël Llodra	Julian Knowle Robert Lindstedt	6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	3.	August 15, 2010	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Michaël Llodra	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	5–7, 3–6
Runner-up	4.	February 20, 2011	Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	Robin Haase Ken Skupski	3–6, 7–6(7–4), [11–13]
Runner-up	5.	November 13, 2011	Paris, France	Hard (i)	Nicholas Mahut	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	2–6, 4–6

Singles Performance Timeline

Tournament	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	A	1R	3R	1R	1R	1R	2R	A	3R	5–8
French Open	1R	1R	3R	1R	QF	1R	4R	1R	2R	2R		11–10
Wimbledon	A	A	2R	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	4R	2R		6–8
US Open	A	1R	1R	A	1R	1R	1R	3R	2R	3R		5–8
Win–Loss	0–1	0–3	3–3	0–3	7–4	0–4	3–4	2–4	6–4	4–3	2–1	27–34
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	1R	3R	4R	1R	1R	2R	2R		6–7
Miami Masters	A	A	4R	2R	A	1R	4R	2R	2R	2R		9–7
Monte Carlo Masters	A	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	A	1R	2R	1R		3–8
Rome Masters	A	A	A	2R	A	1R	A	1R	2R	A		2–4
Madrid Masters	A	A	A	A	2R	A	A	1R	1R	A		1–3
Canada Masters	A	A	1R	A	3R	1R	1R	1R	2R	A		3–6
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	QF	3R	2R		6–6
Shanghai Masters	Not Masters Series							1R	A	A		0–1
Paris Masters	A	A	A	A	3R	A	A	3R	A	2R		5–3
Hamburg Masters	A	A	A	A	A	2R	1R	NMS				1–2
Win–Loss	0–0	1–1	3–3	2–4	7–6	6–7	3–5	5–9	5–7	4–5	0–0	36–47
Career Statistics
Titles–Finals	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–6
Year End Ranking	253	138	65	165	40	68	43	46	44	52

External links

• Julien Benneteau at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Benneteau Recent Match Results
• Benneteau World Ranking History