Laurent Recouderc
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Laurent Recouderc (* July 10, 1984 in Toulouse ) is a French tennis player.
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Career
Junior Tennis
Recouderc caused a first in his junior career for stir when he received a wildcard for the French Open in 2002 and the tournament finished second. After a Erstrundenerfolg against Tomáš Berdych, he defeated the number 1 set to Sweden's Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-2. Here, the Frenchman benefited from a several-hour rain delay, which was filed with the score at 3-2 Soderling. In the quarterfinals, he retained against Jo -Wilfried Tsonga with 2:6, 6:0, 6:3 the upper hand and then threw Andreas Seppi 7-6 ( 5), 1:6, 6:4 from the tournament. Only in the final Recouderc was stopped by his compatriot Richard Gasquet, who won clearly with 6:0, 6:1.
Professional career since 2003
In 2003 Recouderc his professional career. Since then, he takes almost exclusively part in Futures and Challenger tournaments, a tournament for the World Tour Masters he could not qualify. His first challenger victory celebrated Recouderc in June 2008 in Bytom, when he defeated the Spaniard Pablo Santos in two sets. He repeated this success in 2009 with a victory about Jan Hájek; In the same year he also won the tournament in Rabat, where he clearly prevailed in the final against Santiago Ventura.
At Grand Slam tournaments he was four times so far in the main field. His greatest success as a professional celebrated the Frenchman at the French Open in 2007, when he beat qualifier as the top 100 players Sam Querrey in the first round in five sets. The ensuing encounter he lost in four sets to eventual semi-finalists Novak Djokovic.
In 2008 he was given a wildcard for the U.S. Open, but was defeated by Gilles Muller of Luxembourg in four sets. Also at the French Open in 2010, his latest Grand Slam participation, was for Recouderc in the first round deadline: He divorced smooth in three sets to eventual finalist Robin Soderling from. In doubles, but he was able to push forward on the side of Thierry Ascione to the last sixteen.