Baptiste Masotti (born 5 June 1995) is a French professional

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player. , he was ranked number 23 in the world; his highest career rank was 13, on 29 January 2024.

Career

Junior career

Masotti's father, Jean-Michel Masotti, was also a nationally ranked squash player. Baptiste Masotti took up the sport when he was 11. In his early teens, he also played

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in Niort as well as squash. In 2009, after winning bronze in the under-15s division of the , he chose to focus on squash and was selected for the French national under-15s team at the European Championships in May 2009. He attended a boarding school while training at the Squash Academy in

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, then when he was 16, moved to

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. He won the national championship in 2010 as an under-15 and 2011 as an under-17.

Senior career

In 2019, Masotti for the first time played for the French senior team at the WSF World Team Championships.

Professional career

Masotti debuted in the

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in the 2019–20 season while studying commerce and marketing. In October 2019 he played in his first platinum-level tournament, the , where he defeated the former

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, the former world 4th-ranked

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and the former world junior champion

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to reach the quarter-finals. At the 2020

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, he defeated the former top-ranked England player

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in the first round. In December 2019, he was ranked in the top 50 for the first time, and in February 2020, in the top 40; when rankings were frozen because of the

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, he was ranked number 37. In the 2020–21 World Championship, he reached the third round, where he was knocked out by former

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. In November 2021 he broke into the top 20. Masotti reached the quarter-finals at the

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, losing to Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. In 2023 he reached the quarter-finals of the Canary Wharf Classic, losing to

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, ranked number 1 at the time. In the 2023–24 season, he beat Asal to reach the semi-finals of the 2023 Grasshopper Cup, then won the Lagord 30k in October 2023. In December 2023, Masotti won a bronze medal with France, at the

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in New Zealand. After reaching the last 16 in the 2024 Tournament of Champions, he reached his highest career rank of number 13 on 29 January 2024. After a surprise first round exit from the

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in May, he won another bronze medal with France, at the

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in Hong Kong.

References

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