Vincent Millot
Vincent Millot ( born January 30, 1986 in Montpellier ) is a French tennis player.
Life and career
Vincent Millot began in 2004, to compete in future tournaments in qualifying, and gained his first world ranking points in July 2004. In August 2006, he stood for the first time in a futures - finals, a month later, the next finals. In 2007, Millot reached three other Future Finals, but the first title was still waiting. Nevertheless, he was able to finish a year in the top 500 in the world rankings for the first time. In 2008, Vincent Millot could not win a title in two Futures finals. On Challenger level he could win matches for the first time this year.
In February 2009, then Millot won in Canada finally got his first Futures title. After two more lost futures finals he reached in June 2009 in Milan for the first time the finals of a Challenger tournament in which he was defeated Alessio di Mauro. Only a month later Millot was in Manta again in a Challenger final, but again he went against Horacio Zeballos as losers from the square. These achievements promoted him into the top 250 in the world rankings, so he could in August 2009 at the U.S. Open for the first time to take part in qualifying for a Grand Slam tournament. Although he lost in the first qualifying round, but two months later he succeeded in Lyon 's qualification for his first ATP tournament. However, in the first round he had no chance against the top 100 players Olivier Rochus. In November 2009, Millot managed at the Paris Masters again qualifying for an ATP tournament. He defeated Simone Bolelli in the qualification and Frederico Gil two top 100 players. His first major round victory was him against the world number 20th Tomáš Berdych but fails.
In 2010, Vincent Millot could not qualify for an ATP tournament despite numerous attempts. But he played very constant at Challenger level: Although he did not reach the final, but two semi-finals and numerous quarter-finals, and managed so in August 2010 for the first time made it into the Top 200
In January 2011, Vincent Millot then celebrated his biggest success: First, he won in Noumea against Gilles Muller his first Challenger title. Two weeks later he was able to at the Australian Open after three smooth victories for the first time to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament. In the first round he met on the set at position 11 Jurgen Melzer, he retired against in three sets.