Cyril Saulnier (; born 16 August 1975) is a retired French
tennis player
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
. In 2005, he started giving tennis lessons in places such as
Heliopolis Sporting Club (Egypt). He is now director of the ''Proworld Tennis Academy'' in
Delray Beach, Florida where he is a full-time coach mentoring up and coming professionals and is currently working on a trial basis with
Yulia Putintseva
Yulia Antonovna Putintseva (, ; born 7 January 1995) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 20 on 27 January 2025 and a doubles ranking of No. 76 on 17 March 2025.
Puti ...
. He is currently married with one daughter and resides in Boca Raton, Florida.
Tennis career
Saulnier reached the third round of the
Canada Masters and the
Paris Masters
The Paris Masters (formerly known as the Paris Open, and currently called the Rolex Paris Masters for sponsorship reasons) is an annual indoor tennis tournament for male professional players held in Paris, France at the Accor Arena, in the neighb ...
in 2004, defeating World No. 13
Dominik Hrbatý
Dominik Hrbatý (; born 4 January 1978) is a Slovak former professional tennis player. Hrbatý reached the semifinals of the 1999 French Open, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 12 in October 2005. Hrbatý is one of only th ...
in the latter.
In the
2005 SAP Open in
San Jose, he reached the final, enabling him to be ranked inside the Top 50 for the first time in his career, reaching as high as World No. 48 in March 2005.
Roddick to face Saulnier in final
''BBC Sport'', 13 February 2005.
ATP career finals
Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 7 (4–3)
Doubles: 1 (0–1)
Performance timeline
Singles
References
External links
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French male tennis players
French tennis coaches
Tennis players from Boca Raton, Florida
Sportspeople from Toulon
1975 births
Living people
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