Arnaud Benjamin Boetsch (born 1 April 1969) is a French former
tennis
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player who turned professional in 1987. Known for his stylish single-handed backhand, he won 3 career titles, reaching his highest
ATP singles ranking of World No. 12 in April 1996.
Tennis career
Boetsch reached the fourth round once in each of the four grand slams between 1991 and 1996, notably beating
Richard Krajicek
Richard Peter Stanislav Krajicek ( cz, Krajíček; born 6 December 1971) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. In 1996, he won the men's singles title at Wimbledon, and remains the only Dutch player to have won a major singles title. In ...
in five sets in his
1992 Wimbledon run (Krajicek would go on to win the title four years later).
Boetsch represented France at the
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
in
Atlanta
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, where he was defeated in the second round by Spain's eventual Silver medal winner
Sergi Bruguera
Sergi Bruguera i Torner (; born 16 January 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. He won consecutive men's singles titles at the French Open in 1993 and 1994, a silver medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in men's singles and reac ...
.
He currently works as a tennis commentator for
France Télévisions
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with Lionel Chamoulaud or François Brabant.
ATP career finals
Singles: 10 (3 titles, 7 runner-ups)
Doubles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runners-up)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 2 (0–2)
Doubles: 2 (0–2)
Performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
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1969 births
Living people
French male tennis players
French expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
French sports broadcasters
Hopman Cup competitors
Olympic tennis players of France
People from Meulan-en-Yvelines
French people of German descent
Tennis commentators
Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
French male non-fiction writers
Sportspeople from Yvelines
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