Grégoire Barrère (; born 16 February 1994) is a French professional

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player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 80 achieved on 7 October 2019. He also has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 161 achieved on 26 April 2021. Barrère has won five

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singles titles and six ITF Futures singles titles as well as five Challenger doubles titles and six ITF Futures doubles titles in his career.

Professional career

2016-17: Grand Slam debut

Barrère made his

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main-draw debut at the 2016 French Open, where he received a wildcard, but lost to

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in the first round.

2018: Top 100 debut

He was awarded a wildcard to the

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, where he lost to

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in the first round after leading 2 sets to 0.

2019: Best season, Grand Slam success, Top 80 career-high ranking

In 2019, he succeeded to qualify and reach the second round of two Grand Slams

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and the US Open, and also reached the second round of the

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as a wildcard where he lost in four sets to 10th seed

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after winning the third set 6–0. He also achieved in the same year the main draws of a few ATP 250 tournaments.

2020-21: Australian Open second round

At the

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he also reached the second round as a direct entry, thus reaching this round of all four Grand Slams. He reached the final of the 2021 Play In Challenger in Lille for a third time in his career at this tournament but lost to

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. He was awarded a wildcard into the

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2022: Fifth French Open wildcard, Two Challenger titles, back to top 100

In May, he was awarded his fifth wildcard into the main draw of the

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. He won his second match at this Major defeating

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in five sets. He won his fourth Challenger title in 2022 Open d'Orléans defeating fourth seed

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. He became the first Challenger champion for 2022 to defeat four Top-100 players en route to the title (fifth since 2010): fifth seed Marton Fucsovics, third seed Richard Gasquet, second seed Hugo Gaston. As a result he moved close to 40 positions up to world No. 116 on 3 October 2022. Following his second Challenger title for the season in

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, he moved close to 20 positions up in the rankings to No. 92 on 31 October 2022.

Performance timeline

Singles

Doubles

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 22 (11–11)

Doubles: 21 (11–10)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrere, Gregoire 1994 births Living people French male tennis players People from Charenton-le-Pont Sportspeople from Saint-Maur-des-Fossés 21st-century French people