Hugo Grenier

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Hugo Grenier
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Grenier at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports)Flag of France.svg France
Residence Montbrison, France
Born (1996-03-23) 23 March 1996 (age 28) [1]
Montbrison, France
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Turned pro2013
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
CoachGerard Solves
Prize money$1,003,167
Singles
Career record7–15 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 95 (12 September 2022)
Current rankingNo. 159 (15 April 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open 2R (2024)
French Open 1R (2023)
Wimbledon 2R (2022)
US Open 2R (2022)
Doubles
Career record0–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 362 (21 February 2022)
Current rankingNo. 927 (15 January 2024)
Last updated on: 15 April 2024.

Hugo Grenier (born 23 March 1996) is a French professional tennis player. Grenier has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 95 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 362 achieved on 21 February 2022. Grenier has won four ATP Challenger Tour singles titles. He has also won six singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Futures Tour.

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Career

2021: ATP and top 150 debuts, maiden Challenger title

In January, Grenier made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the 2021 Antalya Open, where he defeated Slovak qualifier Alex Molčan in the first round in straight sets before losing to fifth seed German Jan-Lennard Struff by walkover in the second round. [2]

In November, Grenier won his first career ATP Challenger Tour singles title in Roanne, France.

2022: Major & top 100 debuts

He entered the main draw as a lucky loser at the 2022 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. [3]

He made his Grand Slam singles main draw debut also as a lucky loser at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships where he earned his first career Grand Slam singles main draw match win and just his second career ATP Tour singles main draw match win by defeating fellow first-time qualifier Marc-Andrea Hüsler in five sets in a close-to-4-hours first round match. [4] He lost to the unseeded Cristian Garín in straight sets in the second round. Later in the month of July, he won his second career ATP Challenger Tour singles title at the 2022 Open Castilla y León dropping one set the whole week. [5]

In August, he made his US Open singles main draw debut, entering the main draw as a lucky loser. There, he beat Tomás Martín Etcheverry in the first round and lost to the 13th seed Matteo Berrettini in the second round. On 12 September, he broke into the top 100 of the ATP singles rankings at world No. 95 after winning the Cassis Open Provence singles title, defeating James Duckworth in the final. [6]

2023: Masters 1000 debut, first clay-court wins, out of top 150

In March, Grenier won his fourth career Challenger singles title in Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain. [7] Grenier made his ATP Tour singles main draw clay-court debut at the 2023 Grand Prix Hassan II. There, he was defeated in the final qualifying round by Dimitar Kuzmanov but entered the main draw as a lucky loser, where coincidentally he lost again to Kuzmanov in the first round.

Ranked No. 128 in the world, Grenier made his Masters 1000 singles main draw debut at the 2023 Mutua Madrid Open by winning two qualifying matches. In the main draw, he earned his first career ATP Tour singles main draw clay-court match win by defeating former top 10 player Diego Schwartzman in straight sets in the first round. [8] [9] In the second round, he recorded his first career top 30 win by defeating 22nd seed Sebastian Korda in a straight-sets match with two tiebreaks. [10] In the third round, he lost to 13th seed Alexander Zverev in straight sets 1–6, 0–6 in a 56-minute match. [11] Ranked No. 124, he entered the next Masters 1000 in Rome as a lucky loser but lost to J. J. Wolf in the first round.

Grenier made his French Open singles main draw debut thanks to a wildcard, where he lost in the first round to the unseeded Márton Fucsovics in four sets. [12]

In July, Grenier won his fifth career Challenger singles title in Pozablanco, Spain, defeating Juan Pablo Ficovich in the final. [13] In October, Grenier reached the final in Alicante, Spain, where he lost to fellow countryman Constant Lestienne in the final for the second time at this tournament, the first time being in 2021. [14]

2024: Australian Open debut and first win

Ranked No. 178, he qualified for the 2024 Australian Open defeating compatriot Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard making his debut at this Major and recorded his first ever win at the tournament over another Frenchman Alexandre Muller.

He qualified for the 2024 Open 13 Provence but lost to Sebastian Korda. [15] Next he also qualified for the 2024 Qatar ExxonMobil Open and defeated lucky loser Maximilian Marterer.

In March, Grenier qualified to the Indian Wells Masters, his third career Masters appearance. [16]

In April, ranked No. 156, he also entered the main draw of the ATP 500, the 2024 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell as a lucky loser for a second time at this tournament, after the late withdrawal of defending champion and top seed Carlos Alcaraz.

Singles performance timeline

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#P#DNQAZ#POGSBNMSNTIPNH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Current through the 2024 AO.

Singles

Grand Slam tournaments 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 SRW–LWin%
Australian Open AAAA Q1 Q1 2R 0 / 11–150%
French Open Q1 A Q2 A Q1 1R 0 / 10–10%
Wimbledon AANHA 2R Q1 0 / 11–150%
US Open AAA Q1 2R Q1 0 / 11–150%
Win–loss0–00–00–00–02–20–11–10 / 43–443%
ATP Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters AANHA Q1 A0 / 00–0 – 
Miami Open AANHA Q2 A0 / 00–0 – 
Monte-Carlo Masters AANHAAA0 / 00–0 – 
Madrid Open AANHAA 3R 0 / 12–167%
Italian Open AAAAA 1R 0 / 10–10%
Canadian Open AANHAAA0 / 00–0 – 
Cincinnati Masters AAAAAA0 / 00–0 – 
Shanghai Masters AANHA0 / 00–0 – 
Paris Masters AAAA Q1 A0 / 00–0 – 
Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–02–20 / 22–250%

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures Tour/ITF World Tennis Tour finals

Singles: 22 (11–11)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (5–2)
ITF Futures Tour/ITF World Tennis Tour (6–9)
Titles by surface
Hard (10–11)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (1–0)
ResultW–L   Date   TournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Jul 2015Kuwait F1, Mishref FuturesHard Flag of the Netherlands.svg Lennert Van der Linden4–6, 6–7(1–7)
Loss0–2Mar 2016Italy F2, Basiglio FuturesHard (i) Flag of the Netherlands.svg Antal Van der Duim6–7(2–7), 2–6
Loss0–3Jul 2016Portugal F8, Idanha-a-Nova FuturesHard Flag of Portugal.svg Joao Monteiro3–6, 2–6
Loss0–4Aug 2016Italy F26, Piombino FuturesHard Flag of Italy.svg Matteo Trevisan 5–7, 4–6
Win1–4Jan 2017France F3, Veigy-Foncenex FuturesCarpet (i) Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Clement Geens6–3, 6–4
Loss1–5Feb 2017Great Britain F1, Glasgow FuturesHard (i) Flag of Slovakia.svg Filip Horansky 2–6, 3–6
Loss1–6Jul 2017Israel F12, Tel Aviv FuturesHard Flag of France.svg Antoine Escoffier 7–6(7–4), 4–6, 2–4 Ret.
Loss1–7Aug 2017Belarus F3, Minsk FuturesHard Flag of Belarus.svg Dzmitry Zhyrmont 6–7(4–7), 2–6
Loss1–8Jul 2018Spain F17, Bakio FuturesHard Flag of Spain.svg Roberto Ortega Olmedo 2–6, 0–3 Ret.
Win2–8Mar 2019M15 Toulouse, FranceWorld Tennis TourHard (i) Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Raphael Baltensperger4–6, 6–3, 6–4
Win3–8Apr 2019M15 Cancún, MexicoWorld Tennis TourHard Flag of Italy.svg Lorenzo Frigerio2–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–2
Win4–8Apr 2019M15 Cancún, MexicoWorld Tennis TourHard Flag of the United States.svg Gage Brymer6–3, 6–2
Loss4–9Jul 2019M25 Bakio, SpainWorld Tennis TourHard Flag of France.svg Laurent Lokoli 3–6, 3–6
Win5–9Nov 2019M25 Saint-Dizier, FranceWorld Tennis TourHard (i) Flag of France.svg Harold Mayot 6–1, 7–5
Win6–9Jul 2021M25 Bakio, SpainWorld Tennis TourHard Flag of Spain.svg Adrián Menéndez Maceiras 6–0, 6–1
Loss6–10 Oct 2021 Alicante, SpainChallengerHard Flag of France.svg Constant Lestienne 4–6, 3–6
Win7–10 Nov 2021 Roanne, FranceChallengerHard Flag of Japan.svg Hiroki Moriya 6–2, 6–3
Win8–10 Jul 2022 Segovia, SpainChallengerHard Flag of France.svg Constant Lestienne 7–5, 6–3
Win9–10 Sep 2022 Cassis, FranceChallengerHard Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Duckworth 7–5, 6–4
Win10–10 Mar 2023 Les Franqueses del Vallès, SpainChallengerHard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Billy Harris 3–6, 6–1, 7–6(7–3)
Win11–10 Jul 2023 Pozoblanco, SpainChallengerHard Flag of Argentina.svg Juan Pablo Ficovich 6–7(4–7), 6–2, 7–6(7–3)
Loss11–11 Oct 2023 Alicante, SpainChallengerHard Flag of France.svg Constant Lestienne 7–6(12–10), 2–6, 4–6

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  11. ↑ "Hugo Grenier totalement impuissant face à Alexander Zverev à Madrid".
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  15. ↑ "Marseille Open: Korda scores 100th career win". 6 February 2024.
  16. ↑ "Hugo Grenier rejoint le tableau principal d'Indian Wells, Jessika Ponchet éliminée".
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