Mathieu Montcourt

Mathieu Montcourt
	$327,057
Singles
Career record	5–10
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 104 (22 June 2009)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	1R (2008)
French Open	2R (2006, 2007, 2009)
Doubles
Career record	1–2
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 314 (30 July 2007)
	Last updated on: 7 July 2009.

Mathieu Montcourt (4 March 1985 – 6 July 2009^[1]) was a professional French tennis player. At the 2006, 2007, and 2009 French Opens, he lost in the second round, to Lleyton Hewitt, Jarkko Nieminen, and Radek Štěpánek respectively.

Career

In 2002, Mathieu had played a few

Futures tournaments and won only one doubles match in Futures aside with Jean Baptiste Robin. His best singles Futures result was making the second round 3 times out of 6, losing to Jan Weinzierl, Nicolas Mahut and Roman Valent

, respectively. He didn't play any other events aside from Futures events. Montcourt only played one doubles match in 2003, losing in the first round of a Futures tournament. Montcourt's singles participation in Futures tournaments slightly improved; as for, he went from a 3–6 2002 record to making a semifinal of a Futures event. He still, however, played exclusively in Futures tournaments.

Mathieu Montcourt's success became greater in singles, having had won a

Futures title early in 2004 in Italy, beating Andrey Golubev in the final; however the highest person he beat was ranked 407, just inside the top 500. He lost in the finals of one Futures tournament and one Challenger

tournament later that year.

In doubles, Mathieu made his first doubles semifinal, where again with Jean Baptiste Robin, he lost in

Reunion Island

(he also lost in the semifinals of Rome).

In 2006, Montcourt won through to back-to-back April semifinal

Gregory Carraz, beating Tomasz Bednarek and Frank Moser in the final of a Challenger event in Rennes

.

In 2007, Mathieu participated in an early-in-the-year

Gregory Carraz, losing to Łukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach. Since Roland Garros, he has not won any singles match of any type, and has lost in the first round of four Challengers and one International Series tournament. He did, however, win one doubles match at Umag, Croatia (the most recent and International Series tournament that he lost in), beating Marko and Novak Djokovic, but lost in the next round. He was partnered by Édouard Roger-Vasselin

.

In 2008, he was fined $12,000 and suspended for eight weeks (later reduced to six) starting on 11 August by the ATP for betting on tennis matches between June and September 2005.^[2] He did not bet on his own matches.^[3]

Death

On 6 July 2009, Montcourt was found dead outside his home in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris by his girlfriend. A police source said on 9 July 2009, after a preliminary autopsy, that Mathieu suffered a cardiac arrest. Further tests, that could detect the presence of any drugs or medicines in the body, were carried out.^[4]^[5] The results of those tests have not been released to the public. On 5 November 2009, Court No. 3 of the Centre National d'Entraînement at Stade Roland Garros was renamed le Court Mathieu Montcourt, in honor of the player who trained there regularly.^[6]

Titles

Singles

Legend (singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (0)
Challengers (3)
Futures (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the Final	Score in the Final
1.	9 August 2004	L'Aquila, Italy	Clay	Andrey Golubev	6–2, 6–1
2.	24 October 2005	Rodez, France	Hard	Tobias Clemens	6–3, 6–2
3.	January 2007	Durban, South Africa	Hard	Rik de Voest	5–7, 6–3, 6–2
4.	7 April 2008	Monza Italy	Clay	Antonio Veić	6–2, 7–5
5.	23 June 2008	Reggio Emilia , Italy	Clay	Pablo Andújar	2–6, 6–2, 6–4
6.	28 July 2008	Tampere, Finland	Clay	Flavio Cipolla	6–2, 6–2