Speaks English, German and French...Father Emmanuel works in a bank, mother Anne is a German teacher and older brother Xavier is a French teacher…Completed high-school in France (Bac L diploma)...During his junior career, he won five singles and five doubles titles to reach a career-high No. 6 rankings...Idol growing up was Marat Safin…Favourite surface is hard court, but also enjoys playing on grass…His dream is to win Roland Garros one day…Practises at the FFT national centre in Roland Garros since 2007…Hobbies include team sports, computers, video games, playing the guitar and listening to folk music.
2012 -- The Frenchman recorded 1st Top 100 season by reaching 4 Challenger finals, winning title at Villa Allende (d. Marti)...Best ATP result was QF in Montpellier (d. Pospisil, F. Lopez, l. to Simon)...Qualified into ATP World Tour events 4 times in 6 tries, including at Wimbledon and reached 2R (d. Darcis, l. to Almagro)...Reached SF or better in 8 Challengers with 34-18 overall record...Finalist at Challengers in Timisoara (l. to Hanescu), Quito (l. to Souza) and Buenos Aires (l. to Schwartzman)...Earned a career high $173,897...
2011 -- Returned to play in March...Earned only ATP-level match win at Roland Garros (d. Mannarino, l. to Monfils). Qualified at Nice (l. to Riba). Claimed 3 Futures titles, all on clay...
2010 -- Reached 1st ATP QF at Marseille (l. to Zverev). Qualified at Australian Open (l. to Tomic). Reached 2R at US Open (d. L. Mayer, l. to Mathieu). Reached SF at Santiago Challenger and final at only Futures event he played...Underwent hip surgery in December...
2009 -- Earned 1st career ATP-level match win in Roland Garros debut (d. Schwank, l. to Melzer). Was 33-11 in Futures with a 3-2 record in finals. In Challengers, was 12-8 with 1st career title in Florianopolis...
2008 -- Reached 1 SF and 1 QF in Futures play...
2013
On 8 February, retired prior to Vina del Mar QF against Berlocq due to an abdominal strain...