![]() ![]() Winner (25): 2009 - Paris 2007 - Antwerp 2006 - Australian Open, Paris, Antwerp, Wimbledon 2005 - Antwerp, Rome, Philadelphia, Tour Championships 2004 - Berlin, Rome, Montréal, Linz, Philadelphia 2003 - Warsaw, Philadelphia 2002 - Dubai, Montréal 2001 - Paris, Nice, Amelia Island, Berlin 2000 - Sydney 1999 - Bratislava 1997 - ITF/Thessaloniki-GRE 1995 - ITF/St.Raphael-FRA.įinalist (23): 2007 - Dubai, Strasbourg, Eastbourne 2006 - Doha, Beijing, Tour Championships 2005 - Paris, New Haven, Filderstadt 2004 - Sydney, Amelia Island, Olympics, Filderstadt 2003 - Paris, Rome, Moscow, Tour Championships 2001 - Rome 2000 - Bol, Rome 1999 - Australian Open, Paris 1998 - Berlin. Best memory of career is becoming the first French player to reach No.1 (in September 2004). Enjoys red wine and has a wine cellar at home. Has two Golden Retrievers (a mother and son). Likes speed of downhill skiing, go karts, horseback riding, water surfing in Biarritz and listening to music by Dido. Says she decided just before age 4 to play tennis after watching Yannick Noah win 1983 Roland Garros on TV was very honored when Noah picked her to compete on the 1998 French Fed Cup team. Mother is Françoise father, Francis, passed away on Mahas older brother, Fabien, an engineer like his father. Notably, the Frenchman also has a website: lucaspouille.Coached by Hugo Lecoq formerly coached by Loic Courteau (from Rome in May 2002 until September 2008). Pouille also has a Twitter account, followed by 60k fans, and a Facebook page, liked by 60k people. He is rather active on the network, publishing posts and stories regularly. He is followed by 189k people there, as of May 2020. He was ranked a career-high world No 10 in March 2018. He has won five singles titles on the ATP Tour. He won the deciding match of the Davis Cup final for France against Belgium in 2017, beating Steve Darcis. He also reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2016. Lucas Pouille notably reached the semi-finals of the 2019 Australian Open where he lost to Novak Djokovic in straight sets. ![]() His biggest win came in 2016 against Rafael Nadal in the round of 16 of the US Open (6-1, 2-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6). From 2012 to 2018, he was coached by Emmanuel Planque. Pouille is coached by Amélie Mauresmo, 2006 Wimbledon champion and former coach of Andy Murray, since the beginning of 2019. Then the Frenchman broke into the Top 100 in April 2015. ![]() He played his first Grand Slam qualifying rounds in 2013 at the Australian Open as a wildcard and made his first Grand Slam main draw appearance at Roland-Garros in 2013, again as a wildcard. One might remember their live practice session in Dubai, broadcast by Federer in December 2016. He notably faced Federer in his early career in the third round of the Rolex Paris Masters in 2014, losing with honours (6-4 6-4) and sharing an interview with him at the end of the match. Lucas Pouille’s favourite player before he became professional was Roger Federer. A tennis hall had been built behind our house, we knew the person who worked there and one day she offered to come and hit the ball.” Who is Pouille’s idol? “We started playing tennis together, a bit by chance since nobody played in the family. Nicolas, Lucas’s older brother, told Tennis Magazine in 2016 how he started tennis: Lucas Pouille started playing tennis at age 8. The French star has two brothers: Nicolas and Jonathan. Pouille’s mother is a Swedish-speaking Finn. The parents of Lucas Pouille are Pascal and Lena. Pouille is 6ft 1in (1.85m) tall, according to his profile on ATP official website. Lucas Pouille was born on February 23, 1994, in Grande-Synthe, in the north of France. ![]()
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