Josselin Ouanna
Josselin Ouanna ( born April 14, 1986 in Tours ) is a French tennis player.
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Life and career
To 2007: Junior career and first experiences as a professional
Josselin Ouanna began at the age of five years, to play tennis. In 2002 he went to international tournaments on the junior tour, and was able to celebrate several tournament victories. His greatest success as a Junior was the entry into the final of the Australian Open in 2004, where he lost against his compatriot Gaël Monfils. At the French Open and Wimbledon, he managed each first knockout round, his best finish in the junior world rankings was ranked 9th
Since 2003 he also took up even with Satellite and Futures tournaments in the adult area. In June 2003 he was first led after two Satellite - final appearances in the top 700 of the world tennis rankings. In 2004 it reached a total of four futures Finals, of which he was able to win a. In addition, he was able to immediately reach the quarter-finals in his first Challenger tournament in February 2004 in Cherbourg.
The years 2005 and 2006 passed without major highlights: Josselin Ouanna never never came in Futures tournaments across the semi-finals at Challenger tournaments on the second round also. In 2007, he won two Futures tournaments then again, he also reached in two Challenger tournaments the quarterfinals. At the French Open in 2007 Ouanna got a wildcard for the qualifications, but he left already in the first qualifying round. Also at the Masters tournament in Paris in October 2007, he was given a wildcard for the qualifications, and was against Jonas Bjorkman celebrate his first victory against a top -100 player, before he retired in the second qualifying round there.
2008-2010: Challenger titles and success at the French Open
After the top had 300 broken in 2007 for the first time, it went further in 2008 uphill: When qualifying for the Australian Open he was failed in the third qualifying round, but in the following months he was able to thanks to several Challenger quarter-final in the world rankings on improve. At the French Open, he lost again in the third qualifying round, but this time he still one of the seven lucky losers moved after the main draw. On his Grand Slam debut but he had no chance against Juan Martín del Potro. In July 2008 Ouanna managed at the ATP tournaments of Gstaad and Kitzbühel qualification, but lost each in the first round. In October 2008, then he could for the first time achieve a Challenger final in Rennes, and he won against Adrian Mannarino at once his first title. This the first time he went into the top 200 in the world rankings, and was also awarded as a reward a wildcard for the ATP tournament in Lyon. In the first round he was able to prevail in three tight sets against the top 50 player Ivan Ljubičić, and after a second-round victory over Nicolas Lapentti he even reached the quarter-finals, but where he retired against the set at position 4 Gilles Simon. At the next Masters Tournament in Paris, he was again a wild card, but lost in the first round against Robin Soderling. Nevertheless, he had improved this year by almost 150 places to rank 154.
The year 2009 was even more successful: after a semi-final at the Challenger tournament in Besançon followed in Saint- Brieuc, the second Challenger title when he won against Adrian Mannarino in the final again. At the French Open he got this time a wild card for the main draw, and celebrated his first win the match at a Grand Slam tournament there after a five- set victory over Marcel Granollers. In the second round against the former world number one Marat Safin it was passed again over five sets, and again Ouanna went to four and a half hours of play, win the game. In the third round, but he left then in three sets against the eventual semi-finalists Fernando González. Yet he was now on the verge to enter the Top 100. He finally succeeded in September 2009, when he successfully qualified for the U.S. Open, and after a victory over Rajeev Ram reached the second round. There he lost while again against Fernando González, yet he rose up then ranked 88 in the world rankings. However, since he 's last year's successes in Rennes and Lyon could not repeat, he fell to the end of the year up to rank 130 back.
After he had failed in the first qualifying round of the 2010 Australian Open, Josselin Ouanna could reach the semifinals at the Challenger tournament in Heilbronn. In February 2010, he reached the second round in each of ATP tournaments in Johannesburg and Marseille. After another challenger semi-finals in Cherbourg in March 2010, another second-round defeat followed at the ATP tournament in Belgrade. At the French Open Ouanna got like last year, a wild card, and took them to a first round victory over Lukasz Kubot. However, in the second round he had no chance against his set at position 8 compatriot Jo -Wilfried Tsonga. In the rest of the season Ouanna could reach another Challenger semifinals in Recanati yet, but played no match more on ATP level. In October 2010, he his biggest success came along with Gaël Monfils in doubles, as they in Montpellier in the quarterfinals of the set at position 3 pair Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman beat and were eliminated only in the semi-final against eventual winners Stephen Huss and Ross Hutchins. Two weeks later Ouanna could qualify at the Paris Masters for the main draw, where he retired, however in the first round against Stanislas Wawrinka of.
2011-2012: failure and comeback
In early 2011 failed Josselin Ouanna at the Australian Open in the final qualifying round to Jan Hernych. As the year progresses Ouanna could only celebrate on the Future Tour successes, where he reached two finals and three semifinals. On Challenger level he could reach in six tournaments only once the second round at the French Open and at Wimbledon he left respectively in the first qualifying round.
In February 2012, Josselin Ouanna had fallen in the world rankings to rank 466, so that he could start at the Challenger tournament in Cherbourg only due to a wildcard. Among other things, by a victory over the set at position 2 Thomas Schoorel Ouanna marched through to the final, where he defeated Maxime Teixeira in two sets, and thus surprisingly won his third Challenger title.