Paul-Henri Mathieu

Paul-Henri Mathieu
Singles

Country (sports)	France
Residence	Geneva, Switzerland
Born	(1982-01-12) 12 January 1982 Strasbourg, France
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro	1999
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ 5,625,446
Career record	258–280
Career titles	4
Highest ranking	No. 12 (7 April 2008)
Current ranking	No. 73 (28 November 2016)^[1]
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	4R (2006, 2008)
French Open	4R (2002, 2008)
Wimbledon	4R (2007, 2010)
US Open	3R (2004, 2010)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	QF (2008)
Doubles
Career record	27–76
Career titles	1
Highest ranking	No. 103 (15 September 2008)
Current ranking	No. 853 (1 February 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2005, 2009)
French Open	2R (2002)
Wimbledon	1R (2003, 2007)
US Open	1R (2004, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	F (2002)
Last updated on: 1 February 2016.

Paul-Henri Mathieu (born 12 January 1982) is a French tennis player. He has won four singles titles; reached the semifinals of the 2005 Montreal Masters; and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 12 in April 2008.

Tennis career

Mathieu was born in Strasbourg, France. He first began playing tennis at age 3, with his older brother Pierre-Yves. Between 1997 and 2000 he trained at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida.

Juniors

As a junior Mathieu posted a singles record of 42–15 (and 34–12 in doubles), reaching as high as No. 6 in the world in January 2000 (and No. 19 in doubles the same month).

Mathieu won the boys' singles title at the 2000 French Open, (defeating Tommy Robredo in the final) and made his ATP tour debut that July in Kitzbühel.

2000–2004

2002 was Mathieu's breakthrough year. He made the fourth round of the French Open, losing to Andre Agassi in five sets, despite having a two-set lead. Later on in the year, he confirmed his potential by winning back-to-back tournaments in Moscow and Lyon. He holds the distinction of being the last player to beat Pete Sampras before his retirement, which he did at the 2002 TD Waterhouse Cup. On 14 October, he became world no. 36, and his progress won him the ATP Newcomer of the Year award for 2002. He also nearly won the Davis Cup in 2002 with the French Davis Cup team, but lost the deciding rubber of the final to Mikhail Youzhny of Russia, once more after relinquishing a two-set advantage.

2005

In 2005, he achieved his best result in an ATP Masters Series event, knocking out Andy Roddick on his way to the semifinals at Montreal. He had a record of 2–2 in the four Davis Cup matches he played that year. He won both his matches against the Swedish opponents Thomas Johansson and Joachim Johansson, but lost to Russia's Nikolay Davydenko and Igor Andreev in the quarterfinal tie.

2006

2006 saw him equal his best result at a Grand Slam tournament by reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open. In May a career-high ranking of no. 32 was attained. In the third round of the French Open, he lost to eventual champion Rafael Nadal in a gruelling encounter which lasted 4 hours and 53 minutes, but amazingly only saw 42 games played (Nadal won the match 5–7, 6–4, 6–4, 6–4, with the first set lasting 93 minutes and each of the following sets longer than an hour). Many tennis players and commentators, including two-time French Open runner-up Àlex Corretja, hailed it as a classic.

2007

2007 started poorly for Mathieu when he injured himself at the Australian Open during a 1st round encounter against Spaniard Fernando Verdasco and was forced to retire from the match. This was unfortunate as Mathieu was up 2 sets and 3–0 in the 3rd set tiebreak at the time. After returning from his injury, he reached the 4th round in Miami, beating then world number 5 Fernando González of Chile along the way, before bowing out to Andy Murray in 3 sets.

On 29 April 2007, Mathieu won his 3rd career title, the Grand Prix Hassan II in Casablanca defeating Álbert Montañés 6–1, 6–1. At Wimbledon, he reached round 4 for the first time, defeating Radek Štěpánek, No. 17 seed (15th-ranked) David Ferrer, and 15th seed (12th-ranked) Ivan Ljubičić. He attained a career high ranking of 28 in singles after this result, entering the world's top 30 for the first time. The week after Wimbledon, he beat Italian Andreas Seppi 6–7, 6–3, 7–5 in a difficult final to claim his fourth ATP Tour title in Gstaad, Switzerland. He rose to No. 23 in the rankings, making his top 25 breakthrough.

At the Montreal Masters, he produced one of the comebacks of the season to beat 15th seed Guillermo Cañas. Trailing 4–6, 0–4, he managed to up his level of play to win 13 of the next 14 games and record a win by the score of 4–6, 7–5, 6–0. He followed that up with a win over Mario Ančić in round 2. In round 3, he ran into Rafael Nadal, and actually won the first set 6–3 before losing the next two 6–3, 6–2.

He then made the semi-finals of New Haven losing to world number 6 James Blake in a 3rd set tiebreak. This result projected him in the world's top 20 for the 1st time, at the 20th rank.

2012

At the 2012 French Open, Mathieu won his first round match from two sets down before defeating John Isner in five sets, 18–16 in the decider in what proved to be the second longest match in French Open history and fourth longest in Grand Slam history.^[2] He lost in the third round to the Spaniard Marcel Granollers.^[3] Mathieu defeated Igor Andreev of Russia in the Swiss Open [6–3, 7–6 (4)].^[4]

2015

At the 2015 Generali Open Kitzbühel, Mathieu reached the final as a qualifier, after wins over Kenny de Schepper, Martin Kližan, Federico Delbonis and Nicolás Almagro. He lost in the final to Philipp Kohlschreiber 2–6, 6–2, 6–2.

Playing style

Mathieu is known for his exceptionally clean groundstrokes on both wings, with his heavy topspin forehand probably being his biggest weapon.

Personal life

A relatively popular, well-liked player despite his inconsistent career results, Mathieu is often affectionately known by his initials, PHM.

His favourite surfaces are clay and hard, and he admired Boris Becker while growing up. His brother Pierre-Yves is now a tennis coach in Strasbourg.

In the first half of 2012, Mathieu became a father for the first time when his wife, Quiterie Camus, gave birth to the couple's first child, a son named Gabriel.^[5]

ATP career finals

Singles: 10 (4 titles, 6 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 (0–1)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (4–5)

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

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	6 October 2002	Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Sjeng Schalken	4–6, 6–2, 6–0
Winner	2.	13 October 2002	Open Sud de France, Lyon, France	Carpet (i)	Gustavo Kuerten	4–6, 6–3, 6–1
Runner-up	1.	28 September 2003	Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, Palermo, Italy	Clay	Nicolás Massú	6–1, 2–6, 6–7^(0–7)
Winner	3.	29 April 2007	Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco	Clay	Álbert Montañés	6–1, 6–1
Winner	4.	15 July 2007	Swiss Open, Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Andreas Seppi	6–7^(1–7), 6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	2.	14 October 2007	Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia	Hard (i)	Nikolay Davydenko	5–7, 6–7^(9–11)
Runner-up	3.	5 October 2008	Moselle Open, Metz, France	Hard (i)	Dmitry Tursunov	6–7^(6–8), 6–1, 4–6
Runner-up	4.	26 July 2009	International German Open, Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Nikolay Davydenko	4–6, 2–6
Runner-up	5.	8 August 2015	Austrian Open Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	Philipp Kohlschreiber	6–2, 2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	6.	7 February 2016	Open Sud de France, Montpellier, France	Hard (i)	Richard Gasquet	5–7, 4–6

Doubles: 2 (1–1)

Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–1)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (1–0)

Finals by Surface
Hard (0–0)
Clay (1–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	13 September 2008	Romanian Open, Bucharest, Romania	Clay	Nicolas Devilder	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	7–6^(7–4), 6–7^(9–11), [22–20]
Runner-up	1.	25 July 2010	International German Open, Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Jérémy Chardy	David Marrero Marc López	3–6, 6–2, [8–10]

Singles performance timeline

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	R#	RR	Q#	A	P	Z#	PO	G	F-S	SF-B	NMS	NH

(W) Won tournament; reached (F) final, (SF) semifinal, (QF) quarterfinal; (R#) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a (RR) round-robin stage; reached a (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; played in a (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; won a (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; or (NH) tournament not held.

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.

Current till 2016 French Open.

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open	A	1R	A	A	1R	4R	1R	4R	2R	A	A	A	1R	Q2	1R	1R	7–9
French Open	1R	4R	1R	A	3R	3R	3R	4R	3R	1R	A	3R	1R	1R	1R	2R	17–14
Wimbledon	A	2R	1R	A	1R	1R	4R	3R	2R	4R	A	1R	2R	1R	Q3		12–11
US Open	A	1R	1R	3R	1R	2R	1R	2R	1R	3R	A	2R	1R	2R	1R		8–13
Win–Loss	0–1	4–4	0–3	2–1	2–4	6–4	5–4	9–4	4–4	5–3	0–0	3–3	1–4	1–3	0–3	1–2	43–47
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	Not Held			A	Not Held			QF	Not Held			A	Not Held				3–1
ATP Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A	A	A	A	4R	3R	3R	3R	3R	2R	A	A	1R	2R	Q1	A	11–8
Miami Masters	A	A	1R	A	2R	1R	4R	4R	3R	1R	A	A	A	1R	Q1	1R	7–9
Monte Carlo Masters	A	A	1R	A	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	A	2R	A	1R	Q2	A	2–9
Rome Masters	A	A	1R	A	1R	2R	A	1R	2R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	Q1	2–6
Madrid Masters	A	A	A	A	1R	A	3R	1R	1R	1R	A	A	Q2	2R	A	A	2–6
Canada Masters	A	A	2R	A	SF	1R	3R	1R	2R	2R	A	Q2	A	A	A		8–7
Cincinnati Masters	A	A	2R	A	2R	1R	1R	1R	3R	2R	A	1R	A	Q2	A		5–8
Shanghai Masters	Not Masters Series								1R	LQ	A	A	A	A	A		0–1
Paris Masters	A	A	1R	1R	3R	3R	1R	1R	1R	A	A	2R	A	A	Q2		5–8
Hamburg Masters	A	A	1R	A	1R	3R	2R	1R	NM1								3–5
Career statistics
Titles–Runners-up	0–0	2–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	4–6
Year End Ranking	150	36	83	123	46	55	25	31	33	97	526	58	129	97	95		267–288

Doubles performance timeline

**Key**
W	F	SF	QF	R#	RR	Q#	A	P	Z#	PO	G	F-S	SF-B	NMS	NH

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.

Current through 2013 Wimbledon Championships.

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2013	W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open					1R				1R		0–2
French Open	1R	2R	1R		1R	1R				1R	1–6
Wimbledon			1R				1R				0–2
US Open				1R			1R	1R	1R		0–4
Win–Loss	0–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–1	1–14

References

↑ http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Top-Players/Paul-Henri-Mathieu.aspx
↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/18290547
↑ "Paul-Henri Mathieu". Retrieved 2012-06-04.
↑ "Eighth-seeded Bernard Tomic loses at Swiss Open". 17 July 2012.
↑ Tennis Magazine (France) May 2012 issue

External links

Preceded by Andy Roddick	ATP Newcomer of the Year 2002	Succeeded by Rafael Nadal

French Open boys' singles champions

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 171002916 SUDOC: 152032142 BNF: cb16512479x (data)

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