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| Birth Name(s) : Sebastien Grosjean |
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Full Sebastien Grosjean Biography
Sébastien René Grosjean (pronounced: GROH-jahn) (born May 29, 1978, Marseille, France) is a professional tennis player from France. He currently resides in Boca Raton, Florida, U.S., where he trains at the Evert tennis academy. His career-high ATP Entry ranking is No. 4 (achieved on October 28, 2002).
Grosjean turned professional in 1996. In 2003 and 2004 he reached the final of Queens Club. In the same two years, he also reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon. He finished 2001 as the No. 1 player from his country and for the first time in the top 10 becoming the first Frenchman to finish a year in the top 10 since Cédric Pioline in 1993.
Grosjean has been in four Grand Slam semifinal matches. As well as his two Wimbledon runs, he also reached the French Open semi-finals in 2001. His most famous chance was at the 2001 Australian Open against Arnaud Clément. Grosjean was two sets to love ahead and had a match point in the fourth set before Clement prevailed. This was long considered the worst 'choke' in five-set history, until the 2004 French Open final.
He won his third singles title at the 2007 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon, with a 7-6 (5), 6-4 victory over countryman Marc Gicquel. He also won the doubles final with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (who Grosjean beat in the singles semifinals), entering the tournament as a wildcard team where they upset the first and third seeds. They beat Łukasz Kubot and Lovro Zovko 6-4, 6-3 in the final, and the Kubot-Zovko team was the only team that was not all-French.
One of the more popular players on the circuit, he is well known as being a player of the utmost class, and is affectionately nicknamed 'Big John' by fans due to the literal translation of his surname into English.
Grosjean married his wife Marie-Pierre on November 16, 1998 and has a daughter named Lola (born 11 October 1998), a son named Tom (2002) and a daughter named Sam (2006). |
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