Stéphane Robert

Stéphane Robert (; born 17 May 1980) is a French tennis coach and a former professional player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 50 on 24 October 2016.

Professional career 2007–2008 Robert missed 16 months of tennis action in 2007–2008 because he was infected with the Hepatitis A virus in February 2007. In early June 2008, he returned to tennis action at the ITF Men's Circuit tournament in Apeldoorn, without an ATP singles ranking, reaching the final as a qualifier.

2010–2011: Top 100 debut, first Top 10 win On 1 February 2010, Robert broke into Top 100 of the ATP singles rankings for the first time at No. 100. Within one week of his singles rankings breakthrough and seeded eight, he defeated for the first time in his career a player (David Ferrer) ranked in the top 20 of the ATP singles rankings in the semifinals before reaching his first ATP World Tour singles final at the 2010 SA Tennis Open, falling to 3rd-seeded Feliciano López 5–7, 1–6. Robert rose to a career-high of No. 61 of the ATP singles rankings on 22 February 2010 one day after winning the ATP Challenger Tour singles title in Tangier. Robert's ATP singles ranking reached a career-high of No. 59 on 18 July 2016, right after his semifinal appearance in Hamburg, which was a massive improvement over his ATP singles ranking of No. 558 on 25 May 2015.

Coaching career From 2001 to March 2010, Ronan Lafaix was Robert's coach. In May 2016, Lafaix, who is 12 years older than Robert, became Robert's coach for the second time. Lafaix joined the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy and has coached several professional tennis players, including Hamad Medjedovic. He is currently coaching Kyrian Jacquet.

ATP World Tour career finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up) LegendGrand Slam tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–1)Titles by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Titles by settingOutdoor (0–1)Indoor (0–0)

Doubles: 1 (1 title) LegendGrand Slam tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)ATP World Tour 500 Series (1–0)ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–0)Titles by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–0)Grass (0–0)Titles by settingOutdoor (1–0)Indoor (0–0)

ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Men's Circuit career finals

Singles: 39 (23–16)

Legend (singles)ATP Challenger Tour (9–10)ITF Men's Circuit (14–6)

Doubles: 33 (14–19) Legend (doubles)ATP Challenger Tour (8–11)ITF Men's Circuit (6–8)

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

Doubles