Introduction
Hugo Grenier (born 23 March 1996) is a French tennis player who competes mainly on the ATP Challenger Tour.
Grenier has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 95 achieved on 12 September 2022. He also has a career high ATP doubles ranking of World No. 362 achieved on 21 February 2022. Grenier has won four ATP Challenger Tour singles titles. He has also won six singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Futures Tour/ITF World Tennis Tour.
Career
2021: ATP Tour singles main draw and top 150 debut, maiden ATP Challenger Tour singles title
Grenier made his ATP Tour singles main draw debut at the 2021 Antalya Open, where he defeated the Slovak qualifier Alex Molčan in straight sets in the first round before losing to the 5th-seeded German Jan-Lennard Struff by walkover in the second round.
In November, Grenier won his first career ATP Challenger Tour singles title in Roanne, France.
2022: Grand Slam and top 100 debut
He made his Grand Slam singles main draw debut as a lucky loser at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships where he earned his first career Grand Slam singles main draw match win and just his second career ATP Tour singles main draw match win by defeating fellow first-time qualifier Marc-Andrea Hüsler in five sets in a close-to-4-hours first round match.He lost to the unseeded Cristian Garín in straight sets in the second round.
Later in the month of July, he won his second career ATP Challenger Tour singles title at the 2022 Open Castilla y León dropping one set the whole week.
In August, he made his US Open singles main draw debut, entering the main draw as a lucky loser. There, he beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry in the first round and lost to the 13th seed Matteo Berrettini in the second round.
On 12 September, he broke into the top 100 of the ATP singles rankings at world No. 95 after winning the Cassis Open Provence singles title, defeating James Duckworth in the final.
2023: Masters 1000 debut, first clay-court wins
In March, Grenier won his fourth career Challenger singles title in Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain.
Grenier made his ATP Tour singles main draw clay-court debut at the 2023 Grand Prix Hassan II. There, he was defeated in the final qualifying round by Dimitar Kuzmanov but entered the main draw as a lucky loser, where coincidentally he lost to Kuzmanov in the first round.
Ranked No. 128 in the world, Grenier made his Masters 1000 singles main draw debut at the 2023 Mutua Madrid Open by winning two qualifying matches. In the main draw, he earned his first career ATP Tour singles main draw clay-court match win by defeating former top 10 player Diego Schwartzman in straight sets in the first round. In the second round, he recorded his first career top 30 win by defeating 22nd seed Sebastian Korda in a straight sets match with two tiebreaks. In the third round, he lost to 13th seed Alexander Zverev in straight sets 1-6, 0-6 in a 56-minute match. Ranked No. 124, he entered the next Masters 1000 in Rome as a lucky loser but lost to J. J. Wolf in the first round.
He received a wildcard for the main draw at the 2023 French Open for his debut at this Major.
In July, Grenier won his fifth career Challenger singles title in Pozablanco, Spain.
Singles performance timeline
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
Current through the 2023 Wimbledon.
Singles
| Grand Slam tournaments | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | SR | W–L | Win% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open | A | A | A | A | Q1 | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| French Open | Q1 | A | Q2 | A | Q1 | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |
| Wimbledon | A | A | NH | A | 2R | Q1 | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% | |
| US Open | A | A | A | Q1 | 2R | Q1 | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% | |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0 / 3 | 2–3 | 40% | |
| ATP Masters 1000 | ||||||||||
| Indian Wells Masters | A | A | NH | A | Q1 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Miami Open | A | A | NH | A | Q2 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Monte-Carlo Masters | A | A | NH | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Madrid Open | A | A | NH | A | A | 3R | 0 / 1 | 2–1 | 67% | |
| Italian Open | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |
| Canadian Open | A | A | NH | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Cincinnati Masters | A | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Shanghai Masters | A | A | NH | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||||
| Paris Masters | A | A | A | A | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0 / 2 | 2–2 | 50% | |
ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures Tour/ITF World Tennis Tour finals
Singles: 21 (11–10)
| Titles by surface |
|---|
| Legend (singles) |
| ATP Challenger Tour (5–1) |
| ITF Futures Tour/ITF World Tennis Tour(6–9) |
| Titles by surface |
| Hard (10–10) |
| Clay (0–0) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (1–0) |
| ATP Challenger Tour (5–1) |
| ITF Futures Tour/ITF World Tennis Tour(6–9) |
| Hard (10–10) |
| Clay (0–0) |
| Grass (0–0) |
| Carpet (1–0) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | Jul 2015 | Kuwait F1, Mishref | Futures | Hard | Lennert Van der Linden | 4–6, 6–7 | |
| Loss | Mar 2016 | Italy F2, Basiglio | Futures | Hard (i) | Antal Van der Duim | 6–7, 2–6 | |
| Loss | Jul 2016 | Portugal F8, Idanha-a-Nova | Futures | Hard | Joao Monteiro | 3–6, 2–6 | |
| Loss | Aug 2016 | Italy F26, Piombino | Futures | Hard | Matteo Trevisan | 5–7, 4–6 | |
| Win | Jan 2017 | France F3, Veigy-Foncenex | Futures | Carpet (i) | Clement Geens | 6–3, 6–4 | |
| Loss | Feb 2017 | Great Britain F1, Glasgow | Futures | Hard (i) | Filip Horansky | 2–6, 3–6 | |
| Loss | Jul 2017 | Israel F12, Tel Aviv | Futures | Hard | Antoine Escoffier | 7–6, 4–6, 2–4 Ret. | |
| Loss | Aug 2017 | Belarus F3, Minsk | Futures | Hard | Dzmitry Zhyrmont | 6–7, 2–6 | |
| Loss | Jul 2018 | Spain F17, Bakio | Futures | Hard | Roberto Ortega-Olmedo | 2–6, 0–3 Ret. | |
| Win | Mar 2019 | M15 Toulouse, France | World Tennis Tour | Hard (i) | Raphael Baltensperger | 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 | |
| Win | Apr 2019 | M15 Cancun, Mexico | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Lorenzo Frigerio | 2–6, 7–6, 6–2 | |
| Win | Apr 2019 | M15 Cancun, Mexico | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Gage Brymer | 6–3, 6–2 | |
| Loss | Jul 2019 | M25 Bakio, Spain | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Laurent Lokoli | 3–6, 3–6 | |
| Win | Nov 2019 | M25 Saint Dizier, France | World Tennis Tour | Hard (i) | Harold Mayot | 6–1, 7–5 | |
| Win | Jul 2021 | M25 Bakio, Spain | World Tennis Tour | Hard | Adrian Menendez Maceiras | 6–0, 6–1 | |
| Loss | Oct 2021 | Alicante, Spain | Challenger | Hard | Constant Lestienne | 4–6, 3–6 | |
| Win | Nov 2021 | Roanne, France | Challenger | Hard | Hiroki Moriya | 6–2, 6–3 | |
| Win | Jul 2022 | Segovia, Spain | Challenger | Hard | Constant Lestienne | 7–5, 6–3 | |
| Win | Sep 2022 | Cassis, France | Challenger | Hard | James Duckworth | 7–5, 6–4 | |
| Win | Mar 2023 | Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain | Challenger | Hard | Billy Harris | 3–6, 6–1, 7–6 | |
| Win | Jul 2023 | Pozoblanco, Spain | Challenger | Hard | Juan Pablo Ficovich | 6–7, 6–2, 7–6 |