Jean-Loup Rouyer (4 August 1945 - 28 December 2007) was a professional
tennis
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player from France.
Biography
Born in
Remiremont, Rouyer began playing tennis at the age of 12. He was a graduate of the
École Polytechnique
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The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...
in 1965.
Tennis career
Rouyer represented the
France Davis Cup team in three doubles rubbers, which all came in the
1970 Davis Cup competition with
Jean-Baptiste Chanfreau, against
Switzerland
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,
Austria
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and
Spain
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. They won two of those matches, over the Swiss pairing of
Dimitri Sturdza/Matthias Werren and Austrians
Hans Kary/
Peter Pokorny.
In 1971 he made the quarter-finals of
Grand Prix tournaments in Catania and Eastbourne, then in 1972 reached further quarter-finals at the
Italian Open in Rome and the
Suisse Open Gstaad. One of his wins in Rome was over leading American player
Stan Smith.
During his career, Rouyer competed in all four
Grand Slam tournaments. He made the third round of the
French Open
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three times, the last in 1974, which was his eighth successive main draw appearance at Roland Garros. His third round loss in the
1974 French Open was to eventual champion
Björn Borg.
Later life
An engineer, Rouyer joined
CEA in 1975 and worked there in high level roles until 1990. He then joined
EDF, where he was still at when he retired in 2005.
Rouyer died from an illness at the age of 62 on 28 December 2007.
See also
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List of France Davis Cup team representatives
References
External links
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1945 births
2007 deaths
French male tennis players
20th-century French engineers
Sportspeople from Remiremont
École Polytechnique alumni
Électricité de France people
20th-century French sportsmen