Hugo Grenier (born 23 March 1996) is a French

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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 World No. 362 achieved on 21 February 2022. Grenier has won 3

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and 6 more ITF singles titles and 3 ITF doubles title on the ITF Men's World Tennis Tour.

Career

2021: ATP Tour singles main draw and top 150 debut, maiden ATP Challenger singles title

Grenier made his ATP Tour singles main draw debut at the 2021 Antalya Open, where he defeated

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in the first round. He also won his first

tournament in

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, France.

2022: Grand Slam and top 100 debut

He made his Grand Slam singles main draw debut as a lucky loser at the

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where he won his first match in a Grand Slam singles main draw and just his second career ATP tour main draw singles match by defeating fellow first-time qualifier

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in five sets in a close to 4 hours first round match. Later in the month of July, he won his second Challenger title at the 2022 Open Castilla y León dropping one set the whole week. In August, he also made his debut at the US Open, entering the main draw as a

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and beating

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in the first round. On 12 September, he broke into the Top 100 at world No. 95 after winning the

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, defeating James Duckworth in the finals.

Challenger and Futures/World Tennis Finals

Singles: 19 (9–10)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grenier, Hugo 1996 births Living people French male tennis players People from Montbrison, Loire Sportspeople from Loire (department)