Hugo Grenier (born 23 March 1996) is a French professional tennis player. 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 No. 362 achieved on 21 February 2022. Grenier has won five ATP Challenger Tour singles titles. He has also won six singles titles and three doubles titles on the ITF Futures Tour.
Career
2021: ATP and top 150 debuts, maiden Challenger title
In January, Grenier made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the 2021 Antalya Open, where he defeated Slovak qualifier Alex Molčan in the first round in straight sets before losing to fifth seed German Jan-Lennard Struff by walkover in the second round.[2]
He made his Grand Slam singles main draw debut also 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.[4] 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.[5]
2023: Masters 1000 debut, first clay-court wins, out of top 150
In March, Grenier won his fourth career Challenger singles title in Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain.[7]
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 again 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.[8][9] 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.[10] In the third round, he lost to 13th seed Alexander Zverev in straight sets 1–6, 0–6 in a 56-minute match.[11] 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.
Grenier made his French Open singles main draw debut thanks to a wildcard, where he lost in the first round to the unseeded Márton Fucsovics in four sets.[12]
In July, Grenier won his fifth career Challenger singles title in Pozablanco, Spain, defeating Juan Pablo Ficovich in the final.[13]
In October, Grenier reached the final in Alicante, Spain, where he lost to fellow countryman Constant Lestienne in the final for the second time at this tournament, the first time being in 2021.[14]
In March, Grenier qualified to the Indian Wells Masters, his third career Masters appearance.[16]
In April, ranked No. 156, he also entered the main draw of the ATP 500, the 2024 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell as a lucky loser for a second time at this tournament, after the late withdrawal of defending champion and top seed Carlos Alcaraz.
Ranked No. 173, he qualified for the 2024 US Open making his second appearance at this Major,[17] losing to fellow qualifier Mitchell Krueger in the first round.
Performance timeline
Key
W
F
SF
QF
#R
RR
Q#
P#
DNQ
A
Z#
PO
G
S
B
NMS
NTI
P
NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.
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