Olivier Rochus

Olivier Rochus

Country (sports)	Belgium
Residence	Dion-Valmont, Belgium
Born	18 January 1981 Namur, Belgium
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Turned pro	1999
Retired	2014
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money	$4,809,475
Singles
Career record	237–274
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 24 (17 October 2005)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (2005)
French Open	3R (2001, 2006)
Wimbledon	4R (2003)
US Open	4R (2004)
Doubles
Career record	98–121
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 29 (5 July 2004)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
French Open	W (2004)
Wimbledon	3R (2005)
US Open	3R (2006, 2009)
Last updated on: 14 January 2013.

Olivier Rochus (born 18 January 1981) is a retired Belgian tennis player. He has won two singles titles in his career and in 2004 won the French Open doubles title partnering fellow Belgian Xavier Malisse. Rochus' career-high singles ranking is World No. 24.

At 1.65 metres (5 ft 5 in) tall, he was the shortest player on the ATP World Tour.^[1]

Career

He is the younger brother of Christophe Rochus, also a former top-40 tennis player.

Juniors

Rochus was a partner of Roger Federer on the junior circuit, winning the boys' doubles title at Wimbledon in 1998.

As a junior he compiled a singles win/loss record of 81–30 (42–20 in doubles), reaching as high as No. 11 in the world in 1997 (and No. 16 in doubles the following year). Rochus reached at least the quarterfinals of all four junior slams (including the semifinals of the French and Wimbledon).

1999–2008

He won his first title in Palermo in 2000, defeating his brother in the semifinals and Diego Nargiso in the final. In 2003, he achieved his greatest Master Series result, reaching the quarter-finals of the Hamburg Masters.^[2]

He has represented Belgium at two Olympic Games in both the singles and the doubles competitions at Athens and Beijing.^[3]

In May 2006, he reached the final of the ATP tournament in Munich, setting up the first ever all-Belgian men's singles final against Kristof Vliegen. He won that final in straight sets.

In June, Rochus faced World No. 1 Roger Federer in the quarter-finals of the tournament in Halle. Rochus held four match points in the second set at 5–6 and in the tie-break. He could not close out the match and eventually lost in three tiebreaks.

2009

He reached the final of the 2009 If Stockholm Open, after winning to Swede Andreas Vinciguerra in the first round, eighth seed Feliciano López, and Jarkko Nieminen. In the semi-finals, he beat best Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci. In the final, he met former Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis, but lost in two sets.

One week later at the 2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon, he won his first match against French qualifier Vincent Millot. He faced World No. 8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, but lost in two short sets.

His next tournament was the Davidoff Swiss Indoors, where he first won his three qualifying matches. In the first round of the tournament, he lost to his former double partner and World No. 1 Roger Federer.

The last tournament of his tennis season was the AXA Belgian Masters (Challenger), where he met countryman Steve Darcis in the semifinal.

2010

At the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open he defeated Richard Gasquet and the 2007 titlist and second seed Novak Djokovic.

In the Nice tournament, one week prior to Roland Garros, he pulled off another upset, defeating 2009 French Open finalist Robin Söderling.

He defeated Raven Klaasen of South Africa at the Hall of Fame Campbell's Tennis Championship, but lost to Mardy Fish in the final in three sets.

2011

In March, Rochus lost in the fourth round in Miami to Roger Federer, after defeating Blaž Kavčič, Marcos Baghdatis, and Mikhail Youzhny in the first three rounds. In July, he made it to the final in Newport, where he was defeated by John Isner in straight sets.

2012–13

Rochus had his best success earlier in 2012, reaching the final in Auckland. He lost to Nicolás Almagro in the first round of Wimbledon 2012.^[4]

In 2013, he played mostly on the Challenger circuit, never advancing beyond the second round of an ATP event.

ATP career finals

Singles: 10 (2 titles, 8 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournaments (0–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 series (0–0) ATP World Tour 250 series (2–8)

Titles by Surface Hard (0–6) Clay (2–0) Grass (0–2) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	25 September 2000	Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, Palermo, Italy	Clay	Diego Nargiso	7–6^(16–14), 6–1
Runner-up	1.	11 February 2002	Copenhagen Open, Copenhagen, Denmark	Hard (i)	Lars Burgsmüller	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	3 March 2003	Copenhagen Open, Copenhagen, Denmark (2)	Hard (i)	Karol Kučera	6–7^(4–7), 4–6
Runner-up	3.	15 January 2005	Heineken Open, Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Fernando González	4–6, 2–6
Winner	2.	1 May 2006	BMW Open, Munich, Germany	Clay	Kristof Vliegen	6–4, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	24 September 2007	Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open, Mumbai, India	Hard	Richard Gasquet	3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	5.	25 October 2009	Stockholm Open, Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Marcos Baghdatis	1–6, 5–7
Runner-up	6.	11 July 2010	Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, United States	Grass	Mardy Fish	7–5, 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up	7.	10 July 2011	Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, United States (2)	Grass	John Isner	3–6, 6–7^(6–8)
Runner-up	8.	14 January 2012	Heineken Open, Auckland, New Zealand (2)	Hard	David Ferrer	3–6, 4–6

Doubles: 7 (2 titles, 5 runners-up)

Legend Grand Slam tournament (1–0) ATP World Tour Finals (0–0) ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0) ATP World Tour 500 series (0–2) ATP World Tour 250 series (1–3)

Titles by Surface Hard (1–3) Clay (1–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	5 June 2004	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	Xavier Malisse	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	7–5, 7–5
Winner	2.	9 January 2005	Next Generation Adelaide International, Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Xavier Malisse	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	7–6^(7–5), 6–4
Runner-up	1.	31 July 2005	Generali Open, Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Christophe Rochus	Leoš Friedl Andrei Pavel	2–6, 7–6^(7–5), 0–6
Runner-up	2.	8 January 2006	Qatar Open, Doha, Qatar	Hard	Christophe Rochus	Jonas Björkman Max Mirnyi	6–2, 3–6, [8–10]
Runner-up	3.	15 October 2006	Stockholm Open, Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Kristof Vliegen	Paul Hanley Kevin Ullyett	6–7^(2–7), 4–6
Runner-up	4.	20 July 2008	Austrian Open, Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Lucas Arnold Ker	James Cerretani Victor Hănescu	3–6, 5–7
Runner-up	5.	7 February 2010	PBZ Zagreb Indoors, Zagreb, Croatia	Hard (i)	Arnaud Clément	Jürgen Melzer Philipp Petzschner	6–3, 3–6, [8–10]

Singles Performance Timeline

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	1R	2R	1R	4R	2R	2R	1R	A	1R	A	2R	1R	A	7–11
French Open	LQ	3R	2R	1R	1R	2R	3R	1R	1R	Q3	2R	1R	1R	A	A	7–11
Wimbledon	3R	2R	3R	4R	1R	2R	3R	1R	2R	Q1	1R	2R	1R	1R	A	13–13
US Open	1R	1R	1R	1R	4R	3R	3R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	Q2	A	8–13
Win–Loss	2–2	3–4	3–4	4–4	3–4	7–4	7–4	1–4	1–4	1–1	1–4	1–3	1–4	0–2	0–0	35–48
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells	A	A	1R	3R	1R	2R	3R	3R	2R	A	1R	A	1R	Q2	A	6–9
Miami	A	A	1R	2R	2R	2R	4R	3R	1R	Q1	3R	4R	1R	2R	A	12–10
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	1R	1R	3R	2R	1R	2R	Q1	1R	2R	1R	A	A	5–9
Madrid^1	A	A	1R	QF	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	A	A	1R	1R	A	A	5–9
Rome	A	A	A	1R	A	1R	1R	2R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	1–4
Toronto / Montreal	A	A	A	A	A	3R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2–1
Cincinnati	A	A	A	A	A	3R	A	1R	A	A	A	Q1	Q2	A	A	2–2
Shanghai^2	A	1R	A	1R	A	3R	1R	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	2–5
Paris	A	A	2R	A	A	1R	2R	Q1	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	A	2–3
Win–Loss	0–0	0–1	1–4	6–6	2–4	10–9	5–7	3–5	3–5	0–0	2–3	4–3	0–4	1–1	0–0	37–52
Career statistics
Titles–Finals	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	2–10
Year-end ranking	68	114	64	48	66	27	36	48	122	57	113	67	90	200	580

¹Held as Hamburg Masters (outdoor clay) until 2008, Madrid Masters (outdoor clay) 2009–present.
²Held as Stuttgart Masters (indoor hard) until 2001, Madrid Masters (indoor hard) from 2002–08, and Shanghai Masters (outdoor hard) 2009–present.

Doubles Performance Timeline

Current through the 2013 Australian Open.

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	1R	2R	2R	2R	2R	1R				2R	1R	5–8
French Open	1R	W	3R	3R	3R	QF		1R	1R	1R		15–8
Wimbledon		2R	3R	2R	2R			1R		3R		7–6
US Open	2R	1R	1R	3R	1R	1R	3R	1R	1R			5–9
Win–Loss	1–3	8–3	5–4	6–4	4–4	3–3	2–1	0–3	0–2	3–3	0–1	32–31

References

1. "Isner, Raonic On Track For Memphis Finals; Almagro, Ferrer Alive In Buenos Aires". tennis-x.com. 24 February 2012.
2. http://www.upi.com/Sports_News/2003/05/15/Hewitt-defeated-in-Hamburg/UPI-64471053039600/
3. Olympic results
4. "Wimbledon 2012". Retrieved 2012-06-26.

External links

• Olivier Rochus at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Olivier Rochus at the International Tennis Federation
• Olivier Rochus at the Davis Cup
• Rochus World ranking history