Jérôme Golmard (9 September 1973 – 31 July 2017) was a French
tennis player.
The left-hander reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 in April 1999, winning 2 singles titles and reaching the semifinals of
Monte Carlo in
1999
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. Golmard finished his career with over
$2.2 million in prize money. Among the many notable players he beat on the ATP Tour are former
World No. 1s Andre Agassi,
Jim Courier,
Gustavo Kuerten,
Juan Carlos Ferrero,
Marcelo Ríos and
Carlos Moyá, as well as Grand Slam champions
Richard Krajicek
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,
Goran Ivanišević,
Albert Costa,
Gastón Gaudio,
Thomas Johansson and
Michael Chang.
He announced in 2014 that he was diagnosed with
motor neuron disease, which causes muscle paralysis, and died of the disease on 31 July 2017.
After tennis
Golmard was diagnosed with
motor neurone disease in 2014 and died on 31 July 2017, at the age of 43.
ATP career finals
Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runners-up)
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 12 (7–5)
Doubles: 4 (1–3)
Performance timeline
Singles
References
External links
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1973 births
2017 deaths
Sportspeople from Dijon
French male tennis players
Neurological disease deaths in France
Deaths from motor neuron disease
20th-century French people
21st-century French people
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