Stéphane Huet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Stéphane Huet

tennis player

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1971

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Profession: tennis player

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Stéphane Huet

  • Stéphane Huet (born 25 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from France.Huet appeared in a total of 16 Grand Slam tournaments during his career.
  • When he made his Grand Slam tournament debut in the 1993 French Open, as a qualifier, he was ranked 297 in the world and had just one tour match to his name.
  • Despite this, in the opening round he managed to defeat seventh-seed Ivan Lendl in four sets.
  • It was the first time since 1978 that Lendl, a three-time French Open winner, had exited the tournament without registering a win.
  • In 1999, Huet made the second round of two Majors, the Australian Open, where he beat Arnaud Di Pasquale and the French Open, where he defeated Hendrik Dreekmann, before losing a five set match to eventual finalist Todd Martin, in a final set tie-break.
  • The Frenchman reached the second round on two further occasions, the 2000 Wimbledon Championships, when he defeated Mahesh Bhupathi, and at the same event a year later, when he had a victory against Markus Hipfl.
  • He also played men's doubles twice and mixed doubles at four Major tournaments.On the ATP Tour, he was a quarter-finalist at Toulouse in 1998 and also reached the quarter-finals stage at Palermo two years later.
  • In the 2000 Tashkent Open he had a win over Carlos Moyá.As a coach his students include the French players Irena Pavlovic, Laetitia Sarrazin and Manon Arcangioli.

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