Arnaud Di Pasquale (; born 11 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France.
Tennis career Juniors Di Pasquale excelled as a junior, posting a 103–25 record in singles and reaching the No. 1 ranking in December 1997 (and No. 17 in doubles). He won the boys' singles competition at the 1997 US Open (and made the semifinals of the Australian and French Open).
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles (1 title) ResultYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1997US OpenHard Wesley Whitehouse6–7, 6–4, 6–1
Doubles (1 runner-up) ResultYearChampionshipSurfacePartnetOpponentsScoreLoss1997French OpenClay Julien Jeanpierre Luis Horna José de Armas4–6, 6–2, 5–7
Pro tour Di Pasquale is best known for winning the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event. He beat Nicolas Kiefer, Vladimir Voltchkov, Juan Carlos Ferrero and rising Roger Federer in the bronze medal match, but more surprising was his straight-sets victory over the well-established Magnus Norman of Sweden in the tournament's third round. He also reached the fourth round of the French Open in both 1999 and 2002 and won one singles title (in Palermo, 1999).
Olympic finals Singles: (1 bronze medal) ResultYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScoreBronze2000Sydney Olympics Hard Roger Federer 7–6(7–5), 6–7(7–9), 6–3
ATP career finals Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up) LegendGrand Slam tournaments (0–0)ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)ATP Masters Series (0–0)ATP Championship Series (0–0)ATP International Series (1–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (1–1)Grass (0–0)Titles by settingOutdoor (1–1)Indoor (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Bucharest, RomaniaInternational SeriesClay Francisco Clavet6–1, 7–6(7–2)Win1–1Palermo, ItalyInternational SeriesClay Alberto Berasategui6–1, 6–3
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 7 (2–5) LegendATP Challenger (2–4)ITF Futures (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (2–5)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1Nice, FranceChallengerClay Mariano Puerta7–6, 4–6, 4–6Win1–1Příbram, Czech RepublicChallengerClay Radek Štěpánek6–3, 6–1Loss1–2Contrexéville, FranceChallengerClay Younes El Aynaoui4–6, 7–6, 0–6Win2–2Ljubljana, SloveniaChallengerClay Joan Balcells6–4, 6–3Loss2–3Napoli, ItalyChallengerClay Gilles Müller6–7(7–9), 7–6(7–1), 1–6Loss2–4France F6, GrasseFuturesClay Nicolas Coutelot2–6, 2–6Loss2–5Milan, ItalyChallengerClay Wayne Odesnik7–5, 2–6, 6–7(5–7)
Performance timeline
Singles Tournament199819992000200120022003200420052006SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenA1RA1RA1RAQ1A0 / 30–3French Open1R4R1R1R4RA1RAQ10 / 66–6WimbledonA1R2RAAAAAA0 / 21–2US Open2R1R2R1RQ2A1RAA0 / 52–5Win–loss1–23–42–30–33–10–10–20–00–00 / 169–16ATP Tour Masters 1000Indian Wells MastersA1R2R2RAQ1AAA0 / 32–3Miami OpenA1R1R1RAAAAA0 / 30–3Monte CarloA3R1R3RQ1AAAA0 / 34–3RomeAQ22RQ2AAAAA0 / 11–1HamburgAQF3R1RAAAAA0 / 35–3Canada MastersAA1RAAAAAA0 / 10–1Cincinnati MastersA2R1RQ2AAAAA0 / 21–2StuttgartAQ1Q2ANot Held0 / 00–0Paris Masters2R1R1RAQ1AAAA0 / 31–3Win–loss1–16–64–83–40–00–00–00–00–00 / 1914–19
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