Stéphane Robert (; born 17 May 1980) is a professional French

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player.

Career

Coach

From 2001 to March 2010, Ronan Lafaix was Robert's coach. In May 2016, Lafaix, who is 12 years older than Robert, became Robert's coach for the second time. Lafaix joined the

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tennis academy and has coached several professional tennis players.

2007–2008

Robert missed 16 months of tennis action in 2007–2008 because he was infected with the

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virus in February 2007. In early June 2008, he returned to tennis action at the ITF Men's Circuit tournament in Apeldoorn, without an ATP singles ranking, reaching the final as a qualifier.Stéphane Robert's biography
ATP World Tour official website.

2010

On 1 February 2010, Robert broke into Top 100 of the ATP singles rankings for the first time at No. 100. Within one week of his singles rankings breakthrough and seeded no. 8, he defeated for the first time in his career a player (

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) ranked in the top 20 of the ATP singles rankings in the semifinals before reaching his first ATP World Tour singles final at the 2010 SA Tennis Open, falling to 3rd-seeded Feliciano López 5–7, 1–6. Robert rose to a career-high of No. 61 of the ATP singles rankings on 22 February 2010 one day after winning the

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singles title in Tangier.

2011

Robert rose to international prominence in 2011 when, as a qualifier, he beat the 2010 Wimbledon singles finalist and sixth seed

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3–6, 3–6, 6–2, 6–2, 9–7 in the first round of the

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to register the biggest singles win of his career, having saved a match point at 4–5 in the deciding set. It was the first time that he had beaten a player ranked in the top 10 of the ATP singles rankings – Berdych was ranked no. 6. Robert lost his second round match to

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in straight sets.

2014

Robert reached the singles 4th round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at the

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, where he lost to 4th seeded

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. He was only one of 2

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s to reach the 4th round of a Grand Slam tournament since Dick Norman achieved the feat at the

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, David Goffin (at the

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) being the other. Robert and Jesse Huta Galung became only the third

doubles team to clinch an ATP World Tour doubles title by defeating

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and Nenad Zimonjić in the final of the

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. That was Robert's first ATP World Tour doubles final appearance. After losing in the 1st round of the

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, Robert missed the rest of the year because of leg injury.

2016

Robert qualified for the singles main draw of the

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by winning three qualifying matches, and he lost in the third round of the main draw to Gaël Monfils. That was only the second time Robert had progressed to the third round of the singles main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. On July 15, 2016, Robert, who was unseeded and had an ATP singles ranking of 83 coming into the tournament, reached the semi-final at the

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, where he lost to Martin Kližan. It was Robert's first ATP World Tour semi-final since February 2010, when he was defeated in the final in Johannesburg. Robert's ATP singles ranking reached a career-high of 59 on July 18, 2016, right after his semi-final appearance in Hamburg, which was a massive improvement over his ATP singles ranking of 558 on 25 May 2015.Klizan Makes Quick Work of Wessels In Hamburg
ATP World Tour official website, 14 July 2016.

ATP World Tour career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Doubles: 1 (1 title)

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Men's Circuit career finals

Singles: 39 (23–16)

Doubles: 33 (14–19)

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

Doubles

References

External links

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