Guillaume Raoux

Guillaume Raoux was a French tennis player who played professionally from 1989 to 2000. Raoux achieved a career-best singles ranking of #35 in the world in June 1998, and a doubles ranking of #35 in the world in August 1996. He was the first player to lose a match on the ATP Tour to Roger Federer.

Raoux reached the boys’ singles final at Wimbledon in 1988 but lost in straight sets to Nicolás Pereira. After turning professional the following year Raoux won his first of six ATP Challenger singles titles with victory at the Open de Guadeloupe against Yahiya Doumbia of Senegal. Raoux also won four ATP Challenger doubles titles, three of them with partner Olivier Delaître. On the ATP Tour Raoux won four doubles titles but only won one singles title when he beat Kenneth Carlsen at the 1992 Queensland Open.

At Grand Slams Raoux reached the doubles quarter-finals at the 1989 French Open, with Cédric Pioline, and at Wimbledon in 1996, this time with Jean-Philippe Fleurian as his partner. Raoux’s best singles performance came at the 1998 Australian Open when he reached the fourth round. He competed in the singles and doubles at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics but did not progress past the first round in either event.