Xavier Malisse

Xavier Malisse
Country  Belgium
Residence Bradenton, Florida
Born 19 July 1980 (1980-07-19) (age 31)
Kortrijk
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Turned pro 1998
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money $4,730,193
Singles
Career record 260–230
Career titles 3
Highest ranking No. 19 (August 12, 2002)
Current ranking No. 49 (December 26, 2011)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open 3R (2003, 2011)
French Open 4R (2002, 2004)
Wimbledon SF (2002)
US Open 4R (2001, 2003, 2005)
Doubles
Career record 92–82
Career titles 6
Highest ranking 28 (7 July 2004)
Current ranking 29 (31 October 2011)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open 2R (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
French Open W (2004)
Wimbledon 3R (2005)
US Open 2R (2003)
Last updated on: 5 May 2011.

Xavier Malisse (born 19 July 1980) is a Belgian tennis player. Born in Kortrijk, Belgium, he is the only men's player from his country to have been ranked in the top 20 of the ATP tour. His nickname is "The X-Man".

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Career

1998-2008

Malisse turned professional in 1998. His best performance in Grand Slam singles competition was at the 2002 Wimbledon championships, where he reached the semifinal, beating Britain's Greg Rusedski in five sets en route, as well as former champion Richard Krajicek. He eventually lost to runner-up David Nalbandian, again in five sets. Malisse and Olivier Rochus won the French Open doubles championship in 2004. He won three ATP tour singles titles: Delray Beach in 2005 and 2007, and Chennai in 2007.

2009

After a difficult year, Malisse was just no. 205 of the world. In his first tournament of the year in Brisbane he lost in the last qualifying round to American Bobby Reynolds. A week later, in Medibank International Sydney he reached the main draw but lost to Mario Ančić in the first round. At the Australian Open he first won his qualifying matches. In the first round of the main draw he won against Michaël Llodra. But in the next round he lost to Andy Roddick in four sets. In October he won a challenger tournament in Lyon and this pushed him back into the worlds top 100 for the first time in nearly two years

2010

Malisse lost in the third round of Wimbledon to Sam Querrey in five sets.

2011

Xavier started the 2011 season by reaching the final of Chennai. In March he won the doubles title in the Indian Wells Masters with Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine. He reached the fourth round at Wimbledon, where he lost the Bernard Tomic.

Career finals

Singles: 12 (3–9)

Winner – Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (0/0)
Tennis Masters Cup /
ATP World Tour Finals (0/0)
ATP Masters Series /
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0/0)
ATP International Series Gold /
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0/0)
ATP International Series /
ATP World Tour 250 Series (3/9)
Titles by Surface
Hard (3/4)
Clay (0/4)
Grass (0/0)
Carpet (0/1)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 1. 2 November 1998 Mexico City, Mexico Clay Jiří Novák 3–6, 3–6
Runner-up 2. 10 May 1999 Delray Beach, United States Clay Lleyton Hewitt 4–6, 7–6(7–2), 1–6
Runner-up 3. 12 March 2001 Delray Beach, U.S. Hard Jan-Michael Gambill 5–7, 4–6
Runner-up 4. 30 April 2001 Atlanta, U.S. Clay Andy Roddick 2–6, 4–6
Runner-up 5. 24 May 2004 St. Pölten, Austria Clay Filippo Volandri 1–6, 4–6
Runner-up 6. 11 October 2004 Lyon, France Carpet Robin Söderling 2–6, 6–3, 4–6
Winner 1. 31 January 2005 Delray Beach, United States Hard Jiří Novák 7–6(8–6), 6–2
Runner-up 7. 9 January 2006 Adelaide, Australia Hard Florent Serra 3–6, 4–6
Runner-up 8. 6 February 2006 Delray Beach, U.S. Hard Tommy Haas 3–6, 6–3, 6–7(5–7)
Winner 2. 1 January 2007 Chennai, India Hard Stefan Koubek 6–1, 6–3
Winner 3. 28 January 2007 Delray Beach, U.S. Hard James Blake 5–7, 6–4, 6–4
Runner-up 9. 11 January 2011 Chennai, India Hard Stanislas Wawrinka 5–7, 6–4, 1–6

Doubles: 8 (6–2)

Winner – Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (1/0)
Tennis Masters Cup /
ATP World Tour Finals (0/0)
ATP Masters Series /
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (1/0)
ATP International Series Gold /
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0/0)
ATP International Series /
ATP World Tour 250 Series (4/2)
Titles by Surface
Hard (5/2)
Clay (1/0)
Grass (0/0)
Carpet (0/0)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponent in the final Score in the final
Winner 1. 24 May 2004 French Open, Paris, France Clay Olivier Rochus Michaël Llodra
Fabrice Santoro		 7–5, 7–5
Winner 2. 3 January 2005 Adelaide, Australia Hard Olivier Rochus Simon Aspelin
Todd Perry		 7–6, 6–4
Winner 3. 1 January 2007 Chennai, India Hard Dick Norman Rafael Nadal
Bartolomé Salvá		 7–6, 7–6
Winner 4. 28 January 2007 Delray Beach, USA Hard Hugo Armando James Auckland
Stephen Huss		 6–3, 6–7, [10–5]
Runner-up 1. 15 January 2008 Auckland, New Zealand Hard Jürgen Melzer Luis Horna
Juan Mónaco		 4–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Runner-up 2. 13 February 2011 San Jose, USA Hard (i) Alejandro Falla Scott Lipsky
Rajeev Ram		 4–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Winner 5. 18 March 2011 Indian Wells, USA Hard Alexandr Dolgopolov Roger Federer
Stanislas Wawrinka		 6–4, 6–7(5–7), [10–7]
Winner 6. 31 July 2011 Los Angeles, USA Hard Mark Knowles Somdev Devvarman
Treat Conrad Huey		 7–6(7–3), 7–6(12–10)

Singles Performance Timeline

Tournament 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 W–L
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open A A A A 2R 3R 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R 2R 1R 3R 7–10
French Open A 1R A 3R 4R 3R 4R 2R 1R A A A 2R 2R 13–9
Wimbledon A 1R A 2R SF 1R 4R 2R 2R 2R 2R 1R 3R 4R 18–12
US Open A 3R 2R 4R 3R 4R 1R 4R 3R 2R A 1R 1R 1R 17-12
Win–Loss 0–0 2–3 1–1 6-3 11–4 7–4 6–4 5–4 4–4 2–3 1–2 1–3 3–4 6–4 55–43
ATP Masters Series
Indian Wells Masters A 3R A A 1R 2R 2R 1R 3R A 2R A A 3R 9–8
Miami Masters A 1R 2R A 1R 2R 3R 2R 2R A 3R A 1R 2R 7–10
Monte Carlo Masters A A A A 1R 1R 1R 2R 1R A 1R A A 1R 1–7
Rome Masters A A A A 3R 1R A A 2R A A A A 2R 4–4
Madrid Masters A A A A 2R A 1R A 1R A A A A 3R 3–4
Canada Masters A A A 1R 1R 1R 1R 3R QF A A A 2R A 6–7
Cincinnati Masters A 1R A 2R 3R 2R 1R 1R 1R A A A A 1R 4–8
Shanghai Masters Not Masters Series A A A 0–0
Paris Masters A A A 3R 2R A 2R 1R 1R A A A 1R A 4–6
Hamburg Masters A A A A 1R 2R 1R A 1R A 1R NMS 1–5
Win–Loss 0–0 2–3 1–1 3–3 6–9 3–7 4–8 3–6 7–9 0–0 3–4 0–0 1–3 6–6 39–59
Career Statistics
Titles–Finals 0–1 0–1 0–0 0–2 0–0 0–0 0–2 1–1 0–2 2–2 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 3–12
Year End Ranking 161 145 127 33 25 55 48 47 37 112 162 94 60 49

External links
Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten Belgian male singles tennis players as of November 7, 2011
1. Xavier Malisse (48 1) · 2. Olivier Rochus (69 ) · 3. Steve Darcis (92 3) · 4. Ruben Bemelmans (158 5) · 5. David Goffin (175 28)
6. Maxime Authom (233 3) · 7. Yannick Mertens (248 3) · 8. Alexandre Folie (346 12) · 9. Julien Dubail (418 50) · 10. German Gigounon (456 18)