Maxime Teixeira
Maxime Teixeira ( born January 18, 1989 in La Rochelle ) is a French tennis player.
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Life and career
2006-2009: First experience at Future tournaments
Maxime Teixeira began at the age of five years with the tennis games. His only international tournament as a junior were the French Open in 2006, where he was eliminated in the first round. In 2006 he also appeared for the first time in qualifying for a Futures tournament, but it took until the end of 2007, until he was able for the first time to win a major round match and so gained his first world ranking points. In the following two years, he continued to play Futures tournaments, but never got beyond the third round, and thus managed not initially made it into the Top 1000 in the world rankings.
2010: Futures Tournament Win
He finally succeeded in the year 2010, when he first in Turkey reached his first Futures final in March and then in July 2010 in Romania won his first Futures title. Until September 2010 he reached three other finals Future, of which he won two. Within six months, he improved so in the world rankings by over 500 places in the Top 400 in October 2010, he qualified for the first time for tournaments in the ATP Challenger Tour, and was the top 200 players Ramón Delgado and Juan Pablo there Brzezicki defeat.
2011-2012: First Challenger titles and Grand Slam debut
The year 2011 began for Maxime Teixeira with his now fourth Future title. In February 2011, Teixeira tried in Marseille for the first time, to qualify for an ATP tournament. However, after a victory over the top 200 players Julian Reister he failed in the third qualifying round of Stéphane Bohli. The month of March 2011 were the most successful in Teixeira's career: He first reached in Marrakech for the first time the finals of a Challenger tournament and defeated it in the semi-final at position 2 January Hájek set before the top-seeded Rui Machado just going down in three sets in the final. Just one week later Teixeira succeeded in Saint- Brieuc again of moving into a Challenger final. He was able with the set at position 1 Máximo González defeat a top 100 player in the semifinals for the first time. In his second Challenger final against Benoit Paire Teixeira was then from only three games and thus won his first title. In the world rankings, he then made a leap into the Top 200 In addition, he was rewarded for his success by the French federation with a wildcard for the main round of the French Open. There he sat down in the first round in five sets against the also started with a wildcard Vincent Millot through. In the second round he met the world ranking third parties Roger Federer, however, he resigned a chance against in three sets. In September 2011, reached Maxime Teixeira in Braşov his third Challenger finals this year. As in Saint- Brieuc he met on Benoît Paire, but had to retire due to injury in the second set after losing the first set. As the year progresses Teixeira won only two matches and ended his best ever season at No. 163 in the world rankings.
After he was eliminated in qualifying at the Australian Open in the second round in early 2012 to Maxime Teixeira could qualify for the main draw in February 2012 at the ATP tournament in Montpellier. However, in the first round, he retired in three sets against the set at position 8 Jarkko Nieminen. A week later, Teixeira won in Quimper, together with Pierre -Hugues Herbert his first Challenger title in doubles. Beginning of March 2012 stood Teixeira in Cherbourg for the fourth time in his career in a Challenger final, however, he lost in straight sets against Josselin Ouanna.