Cyril Saulnier (; born 16 August 1975) is a retired French tennis player. In 2005, he started giving tennis lessons in places such as Heliopolis Sporting Club (Egypt). He is now director of the Proworld Tennis Academy in Delray Beach, Florida where he is a full-time coach mentoring up and coming professionals and is currently working on a trial basis with Yulia Putintseva. He is currently married with one daughter and resides in Boca Raton, Florida.
Tennis career Saulnier reached the third round of the Canada Masters and the Paris Masters in 2004, defeating World No. 13 Dominik Hrbatý in the latter.
In the 2005 SAP Open in San Jose, he reached the final, enabling him to be ranked inside the Top 50 for the first time in his career, reaching as high as World No. 48 in March 2005.Roddick to face Saulnier in final, BBC Sport, 13 February 2005.
ATP career finals
Singles: 1 (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 World Series (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)Finals by settingOutdoors (0–0)Indoors (0–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1San Jose, United StatesInternational SeriesHard Andy Roddick0–6, 4–6
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 7 (4–3) LegendATP Challenger (3–1)ITF Futures (1–2)Finals by surfaceHard (3–1)Clay (1–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreLoss0–1France F4, ToulonFuturesClay Ivan Rodrigo-Marin2–6, 3–6Win1–1Italy F13, VareseFuturesClay Ivan Rodrigo-Marin6–3, 6–3Loss1–2Greece F4, AlexandroupolisFuturesCarpet Konstantinos Economidis4–6, 6–4, 4–6Win2–2Segovia, SpainChallengerHard Sergi Bruguera6–4, 7–5Loss2–3Istanbul, TurkeyChallengerHard Nikolay Davydenko3–6, 3–6Win3–3Besançon, FranceChallengerHard Eric Taino7–6(10–8), 6–4Win4–3Orléans, FranceChallengerHard Nicolas Mahut6–3, 6–4
Doubles: 1 (0–1) LegendATP Challenger (0–0)ITF Futures (0–1)Finals by surfaceHard (0–0)Clay (0–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss0–1Hungary F1, BudapestFuturesClay Antony La Porte Kornel Bardoczky Miklos Jancso4–6, 7–5, 4–6
Performance timeline
Singles Tournament19992000200120022003200420052006SRW–LWin %Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenA1RQ31RQ32R1R1R0 / 51–5French OpenA1R1RQ11R1R1RQ30 / 50–5WimbledonQ21RQ21R2R2R1RA0 / 52–5US Open1R2R1RQ11R2R2RQ10 / 63–6Win–loss0–11–40–20–21–33–41–40–10 / 216–21ATP Tour Masters 1000Indian WellsA1RQ1AA1R2R2R0 / 42–4MiamiA2RQ1A2R2R1R1R0 / 53–5Monte CarloA1RQ2AQ1Q12RA0 / 21–2RomeAAAAAA1RA0 / 10–1HamburgAQ2AAA1R1RA0 / 20–2CanadaA2RA1R1R3R1RA0 / 53–5CincinnatiAQ1A1RAA1RA0 / 20–2ParisAQ1AAQ13RQ1Q10 / 12–1Win–loss0–02–40–00–21–25–52–71–20 / 2211–22
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