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Olivier Rochus
Country	Belgium
Residence	Dion-Valmont, Belgium
Date of birth	18 January 1981 (age 28)
Place of birth	Namur, Belgium
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	65 kg (140 lb; 10.2 st)
Turned pro	1999
Plays	Right-handed; one-handed backhand
Career prize money	$3,757,779
Singles
Career record	196–207
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 24 (17 October 2005)
Current ranking	No. 57 (16 November 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	4r (2005)
French Open	3r (2001, 2006)
Wimbledon	4r (2003)
US Open	4r (2004)
Doubles
Career record	83–93
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 29 (5 July 2004)
	Last updated on: 26 October 2009.

Olivier Rochus (born 18 January 1981) is a Belgian tennis player. He was born in Namur, Belgium, and currently resides in Auvelais, Belgium.

[edit] Career

He was a partner of Roger Federer on the junior circuit.

He has won 2 singles titles in his career and achieved a stunning victory in the French Open in 2004 where he won the doubles title partnering fellow Belgian Xavier Malisse.

He is the younger brother of Christophe Rochus, also a tennis player.

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 (6–4, 6–2).

In June, Rochus faced World No. 1 Roger Federer in the quarter-final of the tournament in Halle, Rochus held four match points in the second set at 5–6 and in the tie-break (6–4 and 7–6). He could not close out the match and eventually lost 7–6, 6–7, 6–7.

Perhaps his biggest win was at Wimbledon in 2002, where he overcame top ten player Marat Safin in four sets 6–2 6–4 3–6 7–6(1). Safin was able to get a measure of revenge at the 2006 U.S Open, defeating Rochus 6–3, 6–2, 6–3.

[edit] 2009

He reached the final of the 2009 If Stockholm Open after winning to Swedish Andreas Vinciguerra in the first round. Eight seed Feliciano Lopez, Finnish Jarkko Nieminen. In the semi-finals he beat best Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci. In the final he met former world no. 8 Marcos Baghdatis but lost in two sets: 6-1 and 7-5.

One week later in 2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon he won his first match against French qualifier Vincent Millot. He faced world number eight 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 his former double partner and world no. 1, home player Roger Federer.

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

[edit] Career finals

[edit] Singles: 2 (2 titles, 5 runner-ups)

Wins (2)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	25 Sept. 2000	Palermo, Italy	Clay	Diego Nargiso	7–6, 6–1
2.	1 May 2006	Munich, Germany	Clay	Kristof Vliegen	6–4, 6–2

Runner-ups (5)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	11 February 2002	Copenhagen, Denmark	Hard (i)	Lars Burgsmüller	6–3, 6–3
2.	3 March 2003	Copenhagen, Denmark	Hard (i)	Karol Kučera	7–6, 6–4
3.	15 January 2005	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Fernando González	6–4, 6–2
4.	24 Sept. 2007	Mumbai, India	Hard	Richard Gasquet	6–3, 6–4
5.	25 Oct. 2009	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard(i)	Marcos Baghdatis	6–1, 7–5

[edit] Doubles (2)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (1)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tours (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
1.	24 May 2004	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	Xavier Malisse	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	7–5, 7–5
2.	9 January 2005	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Xavier Malisse	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	7–6, 6–4

[edit] Performance timeline

[edit] Singles

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only after a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2009 French Open, which ended on 7 June 2009.

Tournament	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000
Australian Open	A	1R	2R	2R	4R	1R	2R	1R	1R	A
French Open	A	1R	1R	3R	2R	1R	1R	2R	3R	1R
Wimbledon	A	2R	1R	3R	2R	1R	4R	3R	2R	3R
U.S. Open	2R	1R	1R	3R	3R	4R	1R	1R	1R	1R

[edit] External links

Preceded by Juan Carlos Ferrero	ATP Newcomer of the Year 2000	Succeeded by Andy Roddick

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