Frédéric Fontang (born 18 March 1970) is a former professional
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball c ...
player from France. He is now a tennis coach.
Career
A successful junior, Fontang won the
Petits As in 1984 and was the French 16s champion in 1986.
Fontang had his best year on tour
in 1991 when he reached two
ATP Tour
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finals. He was runner-up in the
San Marino Open and won a
tournament in Palermo.
The following year he reached the quarter-finals at Palermo and was also a quarter-finalist in the
Estoril Open. At these tournaments he had wins over three top 40 players,
Franco Davín
Franco Davín (; born January 11, 1970) is a tennis coach and a former tennis player from Argentina.
Davín won his first ATP-tour match at 15 years, 1 month against Hans Gildemeister in Buenos Aires. He holds the Open Era record for being th ...
,
Javier Sánchez and
Fabrice Santoro
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.
Fontang took part in seven French Opens but didn't register a win until his final attempt, in 1997, when he defeated Patrik Fredriksson in the opening round.
He later became coach of
Jérémy Chardy
Jérémy Chardy (; born 12 February 1987) is a French inactive professional tennis player. He has won one ATP Tour singles title, in Stuttgart in 2009. His best Grand Slam performance in singles was reaching the quarterfinals of the 2013 Austra ...
and remained with him for 12 years. During this time Chardy won the 2005 Wimbledon Championships Boys' Singles title, won ATP 250 title in Stuttgart and reached the fourth round of the French Open the next year.
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His coach, Frédéric Fontang, met Jim eleven years ago and decided to pass his knowledge on him since he wanted to stay in his home town
/ref> Fontang is the current coach of Felix Auger-Aliassime.
Coaching history of Frederic Fontang :
- coach of Caroline Garcia from March 2011 to June 2012.
Final US Open Juniors and semi Final at French open Juniors
- coach of Vasek Pospisil from October 2012 until August 2016.
from no 140 to no 25 ATP singles ranking and career high in doubles no 4
- coach of Felix Auger-Aliassime from Jan 2017 until now.
semi final masters 1000 Miami
10 finals on ATP TOUR
best ranking so far no 6
ATP career finals
Singles: 2 (1–1)
Challenger titles
Singles: (1)
References
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1970 births
Living people
French male tennis players
French tennis coaches
Sportspeople from Casablanca