Hugo Grenier
 Grenier at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships | |
| Country (sports) |  France |
|---|---|
| Residence | Montbrison, France |
| Born | 23 March 1996[1] Montbrison, France |
| Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| Turned pro | 2013 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Coach | Gerard Solves |
| Prize money | $1,129,759 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 7–16 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 95 (12 September 2022) |
| Current ranking | No. 175 (12 August 2024) |
| Grand Slam singles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2024) |
| French Open | 1R (2023) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2022) |
| US Open | 2R (2022) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 0–1 (at ATP Tour level, Grand Slam level, and in Davis Cup) |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 362 (21 February 2022) |
| Current ranking | No. 927 (15 January 2024) |
| Last updated on: 15 August 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 No. 362 achieved on 21 February 2022. Grenier has won five ATP Challenger Tour singles titles. He has also won six singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Futures Tour.
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.
Ranked No. 173, he qualified for the 2024 US Open making his second appearance at this Major,[17] losing to fellow qualifier Mitchell Krueger in the first round.
Performance timeline
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
Current through the 2024 AO.
| Grand Slam tournaments | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | SR | W–L | Win% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open | A | A | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | 2R | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% | |
| French Open | Q1 | A | Q2 | A | Q1 | 1R | Q2 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |
| Wimbledon | A | A | NH | A | 2R | Q1 | Q3 | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% | |
| US Open | A | A | A | Q1 | 2R | Q1 | 1R | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | 33% | |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0 / 5 | 3–5 | 38% | |
| ATP Masters 1000 | |||||||||||
| Indian Wells Masters | A | A | NH | A | Q1 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||
| Miami Open | A | A | NH | A | Q2 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||
| Monte-Carlo Masters | A | A | NH | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||
| Madrid Open | A | A | NH | A | A | 3R | 0 / 1 | 2–1 | 67% | ||
| Italian Open | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | ||
| Canadian Open | A | A | NH | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||
| Cincinnati Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||
| Shanghai Masters | A | A | NH | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||||
| Paris Masters | A | A | A | A | Q1 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0 / 2 | 2–2 | 50% | ||
ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures Tour/ITF World Tennis Tour finals
Singles: 22 (11–11)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | Jul 2015 | Kuwait F1, Mishref | Futures | Hard |  Lennert Van der Linden
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4–6, 6–7(1–7) |
| Loss | 0–2 | Mar 2016 | Italy F2, Basiglio | Futures | Hard (i) | Antal Van der Duim
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6–7(2–7), 2–6 |
| Loss | 0–3 | Jul 2016 | Portugal F8, Idanha-a-Nova | Futures | Hard |  Joao Monteiro
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3–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 0–4 | Aug 2016 | Italy F26, Piombino | Futures | Hard |  Matteo Trevisan
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5–7, 4–6 |
| Win | 1–4 | Jan 2017 | France F3, Veigy-Foncenex | Futures | Carpet (i) |  Clement Geens
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6–3, 6–4 |
| Loss | 1–5 | Feb 2017 | Great Britain F1, Glasgow | Futures | Hard (i) |  Filip Horansky
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2–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 1–6 | Jul 2017 | Israel F12, Tel Aviv | Futures | Hard | Antoine Escoffier
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7–6(7–4), 4–6, 2–4 Ret. |
| Loss | 1–7 | Aug 2017 | Belarus F3, Minsk | Futures | Hard |  Dzmitry Zhyrmont
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6–7(4–7), 2–6 |
| Loss | 1–8 | Jul 2018 | Spain F17, Bakio | Futures | Hard |  Roberto Ortega Olmedo
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2–6, 0–3 Ret. |
| Win | 2–8 | Mar 2019 | M15 Toulouse, France | World Tennis Tour | Hard (i) |  Raphael Baltensperger
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4–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
| Win | 3–8 | Apr 2019 | M15 Cancún, Mexico | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Lorenzo Frigerio
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2–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–2 |
| Win | 4–8 | Apr 2019 | M15 Cancún, Mexico | World Tennis Tour | Hard |  Gage Brymer
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6–3, 6–2 |
| Loss | 4–9 | Jul 2019 | M25 Bakio, Spain | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Laurent Lokoli
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3–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 5–9 | Nov 2019 | M25 Saint-Dizier, France | World Tennis Tour | Hard (i) | Harold Mayot
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6–1, 7–5 |
| Win | 6–9 | Jul 2021 | M25 Bakio, Spain | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Adrián Menéndez Maceiras
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6–0, 6–1 |
| Loss | 6–10 | Oct 2021 | Alicante, Spain | Challenger | Hard | Constant Lestienne
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4–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 7–10 | Nov 2021 | Roanne, France | Challenger | Hard |  Hiroki Moriya
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6–2, 6–3 |
| Win | 8–10 | Jul 2022 | Segovia, Spain | Challenger | Hard | Constant Lestienne
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7–5, 6–3 |
| Win | 9–10 | Sep 2022 | Cassis, France | Challenger | Hard |  James Duckworth
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7–5, 6–4 |
| Win | 10–10 | Mar 2023 | Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain | Challenger | Hard |  Billy Harris
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3–6, 6–1, 7–6(7–3) |
| Win | 11–10 | Jul 2023 | Pozoblanco, Spain | Challenger | Hard |  Juan Pablo Ficovich
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6–7(4–7), 6–2, 7–6(7–3) |
| Loss | 11–11 | Oct 2023 | Alicante, Spain | Challenger | Hard | Constant Lestienne
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7–6(12–10), 2–6, 4–6 |
References
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- ^ "ATP Barcelona: Jannik Sinner not in the Catalan capital". 17 April 2022.
- ^ "Hugo Grenier domine Marc-Andrea Huesler au premier tour de Wimbledon".
- ^ "Stricker Boosts Milan Hopes with Second Challenger Title of 2022 | ATP Tour | Tennis".
- ^ "Vainqueur du challenger de Cassis, Hugo Grenier va entrer dans le top 100".
- ^ "Heart-stopping Finals Aplenty in Week 12 of ATP Challenger Tour". ATP Tour.
- ^ "Hugo Grenier offers himself Diego Schwartzman in the first round in Madrid". 26 April 2023.
- ^ "Hugo Grenier s'offre Diego Schwartzman au premier tour à Madrid".
- ^ "Hugo Grenier écarte Sebastian Korda et se qualifie au 3e tour à Madrid".
- ^ "Hugo Grenier totalement impuissant face à Alexander Zverev à Madrid".
- ^ "Fils & Paire Receive Roland Garros Wild Cards". ATP Tour.
- ^ Thompson, Grant (2023-07-24). "Gaston, Grenier Add To France's Challenger Titles Tally". atptour.com. Archived from the original on 2023-10-27.
- ^ "Grenier To Play Lestienne For Alicante Ferrero Challenger Title". 7 October 2023.
- ^ "Marseille Open: Korda scores 100th career win". 6 February 2024.
- ^ "Hugo Grenier rejoint le tableau principal d'Indian Wells, Jessika Ponchet éliminée".
- ^ "US Open (H et F) : Hugo Grenier, Kyrian Jacquet, Quentin Halys et Jessika Ponchet passent les qualifications et intègrent le tableau principal de l'US Open".
