Xavier Malisse

Xavier Malisse

Country	Belgium
Residence	Bradenton, Florida
Born	19 July 1980 (1980-07-19) Kortrijk
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb; 12.1 st)
Turned pro	1998
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$4,730,193
Singles
Career record	260–230
Career titles	3
Highest ranking	No. 19 (12 August 2002)
Current ranking	No. 66 (27 February 2012)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	3R (2003, 2011)
French Open	4R (2002, 2004)
Wimbledon	SF (2002)
US Open	4R (2001, 2003, 2005)
Doubles
Career record	92–82
Career titles	7
Highest ranking	28 (7 July 2004)
Current ranking	29 (31 October 2011)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
French Open	W (2004)
Wimbledon	3R (2005)
US Open	2R (2003)
Last updated on: 5 May 2011.

Xavier Malisse (born 19 July 1980) is a Belgian tennis player. Born in Kortrijk, Belgium, he is the only men's player from his country to have been ranked in the top 20 of the ATP tour. His nickname is "The X-Man".

Career

1998-2008

Malisse turned professional in 1998. His best performance in Grand Slam singles competition was at the 2002 Wimbledon championships, where he reached the semifinal, beating Britain's Greg Rusedski in five sets en route, as well as former champion Richard Krajicek. He eventually lost to runner-up David Nalbandian, again in five sets. Malisse and Olivier Rochus won the French Open doubles championship in 2004. He won three ATP tour singles titles: Delray Beach in 2005 and 2007, and Chennai in 2007.

2009

After a difficult year, Malisse was just no. 205 of the world. In his first tournament of the year in Brisbane he lost in the last qualifying round to American Bobby Reynolds. A week later, in Medibank International Sydney he reached the main draw but lost to Mario Ančić in the first round. At the Australian Open he first won his qualifying matches. In the first round of the main draw he won against Michaël Llodra. But in the next round he lost to Andy Roddick in four sets. In October he won a challenger tournament in Lyon and this pushed him back into the worlds top 100 for the first time in nearly two years

2010

Malisse lost in the third round of Wimbledon to Sam Querrey in five sets.

2011

Xavier started the 2011 season by reaching the final of Chennai. In March he won the doubles title in the Indian Wells Masters with Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine. He reached the fourth round at Wimbledon, where he lost the Bernard Tomic.

ATP Career Finals

Singles: 12 (3–9)

Winner – 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 (3/9)

Titles by Surface Hard (3/4) Clay (0/4) Grass (0/0) Carpet (0/1)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	2 November 1998	Mexico City, Mexico	Clay	Jiří Novák	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	10 May 1999	Delray Beach, United States	Clay	Lleyton Hewitt	4–6, 7–6(7–2), 1–6
Runner-up	3.	12 March 2001	Delray Beach, United States	Hard	Jan-Michael Gambill	5–7, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	30 April 2001	Atlanta, United States	Clay	Andy Roddick	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	24 May 2004	St. Pölten, Austria	Clay	Filippo Volandri	1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	6.	11 October 2004	Lyon, France	Carpet	Robin Söderling	2–6, 6–3, 4–6
Winner	1.	31 January 2005	Delray Beach, United States	Hard	Jiří Novák	7–6(8–6), 6–2
Runner-up	7.	9 January 2006	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Florent Serra	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	8.	6 February 2006	Delray Beach, United States	Hard	Tommy Haas	3–6, 6–3, 6–7(5–7)
Winner	2.	1 January 2007	Chennai, India	Hard	Stefan Koubek	6–1, 6–3
Winner	3.	28 January 2007	Delray Beach, United States	Hard	James Blake	5–7, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	9.	11 January 2011	Chennai, India	Hard	Stanislas Wawrinka	5–7, 6–4, 1–6

Doubles: 9 (7–2)

Winner – Legend Grand Slam tournaments (1/0) ATP World Tour Finals (0/0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1/0) ATP World Tour 500 Series (0/0) ATP World Tour 250 Series (5/2)

Titles by Surface Hard (6/2) Clay (1/0) Grass (0/0) Carpet (0/0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	24 May 2004	Paris, France	Clay	Olivier Rochus	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	7–5, 7–5
Winner	2.	3 January 2005	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Olivier Rochus	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	7–6, 6–4
Winner	3.	1 January 2007	Chennai, India	Hard	Dick Norman	Rafael Nadal Bartolomé Salvá	7–6, 7–6
Winner	4.	28 January 2007	Delray Beach, United States	Hard	Hugo Armando	James Auckland Stephen Huss	6–3, 6–7, [10–5]
Runner-up	1.	15 January 2008	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Jürgen Melzer	Luis Horna Juan Mónaco	4–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Runner-up	2.	13 February 2011	San Jose, United States	Hard (i)	Alejandro Falla	Scott Lipsky Rajeev Ram	4–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Winner	5.	18 March 2011	Indian Wells, United States	Hard	Alexandr Dolgopolov	Roger Federer Stanislas Wawrinka	6–4, 6–7(5–7), [10–7]
Winner	6.	31 July 2011	Los Angeles, United States	Hard	Mark Knowles	Somdev Devvarman Treat Conrad Huey	7–6(7–3), 7–6(12–10)
Winner	7.	19 February 2012	San Jose, United States	Hard (i)	Mark Knowles	Kevin Anderson Frank Moser	6-4, 1-6, [10–5]

Singles Performance Timeline

Tournament	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	2R	3R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	3R	1R	7–11
French Open	A	1R	A	3R	4R	3R	4R	2R	1R	A	A	A	2R	2R		13–9
Wimbledon	A	1R	A	2R	SF	1R	4R	2R	2R	2R	2R	1R	3R	4R		18–12
US Open	A	3R	2R	4R	3R	4R	1R	4R	3R	2R	A	1R	1R	1R		17-12
Win–Loss	0–0	2–3	1–1	6-3	11–4	7–4	6–4	5–4	4–4	2–3	1–2	1–3	3–4	6–4	0–1	55–44
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells Masters	A	3R	A	A	1R	2R	2R	1R	3R	A	2R	A	A	3R		9–8
Miami Masters	A	1R	2R	A	1R	2R	3R	2R	2R	A	3R	A	1R	2R		7–10
Monte Carlo Masters	A	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	1R	A	A	1R		1–7
Rome Masters	A	A	A	A	3R	1R	A	A	2R	A	A	A	A	2R		4–4
Madrid Masters	A	A	A	A	2R	A	1R	A	1R	A	A	A	A	3R		3–4
Canada Masters	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	3R	QF	A	A	A	2R	A		6–7
Cincinnati Masters	A	1R	A	2R	3R	2R	1R	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	1R		4–8
Shanghai Masters	Not Masters Series											A	A	A		0–0
Paris Masters	A	A	A	3R	2R	A	2R	1R	1R	A	A	A	1R	A		4–6
Hamburg Masters	A	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	A	1R	A	1R	NMS				1–5
Win–Loss	0–0	2–3	1–1	3–3	6–9	3–7	4–8	3–6	7–9	0–0	3–4	0–0	1–3	6–6	0–0	39–59
Career Statistics
Titles–Finals	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–2	1–1	0–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	3–12
Year End Ranking	161	145	127	33	25	55	48	47	37	112	162	94	60	49

External links

• Xavier Malisse at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Malisse arguing on the call