Roman Valent (born 8 July 1983) is a professional

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player from Switzerland. He was an outstanding junior, winning the 2001 Wimbledon Boys' Singles tournament. He has played in many Challenger and

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, winning two of the latter. However, Valent has played just one match on the

ATP Tour The ATP Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for men organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals. The second-tier tour is the ATP Challenger Tour and the third-tier is the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour. The equivalent women's organ ...

, in which he lost to Frenchman

Marc Gicquel Marc Gicquel (born 30 March 1977) is a former professional male tennis player from France. Tennis career Gicquel turned pro in 1999. He made his ATP Tour singles debut at the 2002 Open 13 tournament on hard courts in Marseilles, France. He ...

at the 2009 Open de Moselle.

Juniors

As a junior, Valent posted a singles record of 81–24 and reached as high as No. 3 in the world in 2001 (and No. 25 in doubles).

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 7 (2–5)

Doubles: 5 (2–3)

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

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* * 1983 births Living people People from Adliswil Tennis players from Zürich Swiss male tennis players Wimbledon junior champions Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles {{Switzerland-tennis-bio-stub