Gilles Valere Jacque Elseneer (born 6 March 1978 in

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) is a retired professional

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from Belgium. He is mostly known for his grass court game, and has achieved his best results on this surface, including a quarterfinal appearance at 's-Hertogenbosch in 2001.

Tennis career

Pro tour

He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 97 in July 2004. This was arguably the strongest year of his career, in which he reached the second rounds of the

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(l. to

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) and

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(l. to

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), and won the challengers of

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and

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. Elseneer made a claim in September 2007 that he was offered money to throw a match against

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at Wimbledon 2005.

Coaching

He is now coaching and teaching tennis within his father's tennis academy (royal tennis club de Belgique) in Brussels.

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 9 (6–3)

Doubles: 13 (8–5)

Performance timeline

Singles

References

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External links

* * 1978 births Living people Belgian male tennis players Tennis players from Brussels Belgian tennis coaches 21st-century Belgian sportsmen Long stubs with short prose {{Belgium-tennis-bio-stub