Country (sports) France Career titles 0 Height 1.80 m Plays Left-handed Turned pro 1990 | Prize money $529,583 Name Stephane Huet Handed Left-handed Career record 14–39 Role Tennis Player | |
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Born 25 April 1971 (age 52)
Paris, France ( 1971-04-25 ) | ||
Highest ranking No. 96 (10 July 2000) | ||
Huet Lendl French Open 1993
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.
