Stéphane Huet

For the cartoonist, see Stéphane Heuet.

Stéphane Huet
Country (sports)France France
Born (1971-04-25) 25 April 1971 (age 53)
Paris, France
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro1990
PlaysLeft-handed
Prize money$529,583
Singles
Career record14–39
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 96 (10 July 2000)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open2R (1999)
French Open2R (1993, 1999)
Wimbledon2R (2000, 2001)
US Open1R (1999, 2000)
Doubles
Career record2–5
Career titles0
Highest rankingNo. 292 (5 February 1996)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open2R (1994, 2000)

Stéphane Huet (born 25 April 1971) is a French tennis coach and a former professional player.[1]

Huet appeared in a total of 16 Grand Slam tournaments during his career. When he made his Grand Slam tournament debut in the 1993 French Open, as a qualifier, he was ranked 297 in the world and had just one tour match to his name.[2] Despite this, in the opening round he managed to defeat seventh-seed Ivan Lendl in four sets. It was the first time since 1978 that Lendl, a three-time French Open winner, had exited the tournament without registering a win. In 1999, Huet made the second round of two Majors, the Australian Open, where he beat Arnaud Di Pasquale, and the French Open, where he defeated Hendrik Dreekmann, before losing to Alberto Berasategui. At the 1999 US Open, Huet lost a final set tie-break in the first round to eventual finalist Todd Martin. The Frenchman reached the second round at Grand Slams on two further occasions, the 2000 Wimbledon Championships, when he defeated Mahesh Bhupathi, and at the same event a year later, when he had a victory against Markus Hipfl. He also played men's doubles twice and mixed doubles at four Major tournaments.[3]

On the ATP Tour, he was a quarter-finalist at Toulouse in 1998 and also reached the quarter-finals stage at Palermo two years later. In the 2000 Tashkent Open he had a win over Carlos Moyá.[4]

Coaching career

As a coach his students included the French players Irena Pavlovic,[5] Laetitia Sarrazin[6] and Manon Arcangioli.[7]

He was the coach of Arthur Cazaux until July 2024.[8][9]

Challenger titles

Singles: (2)

No. Year Tournament Surface Opponent Score
1. 1999 Budapest, Hungary Clay Austria Werner Eschauer 6–3, 7–5
2. 1999 Hong Kong Hard Japan Gouichi Motomura 6–4, 4–6, 6–1

References

  1. ^ Stéphane Huet : "Il n'y a pas de limites" 23 September 2010.
  2. ^ The New York Times, "Tennis; Qualifier Stuns Lendl In Paris", 26 May 1993, Robin Finn.
  3. ^ ITF Tennis Profile
  4. ^ ATP World Tour Profile
  5. ^ Irena Pavlovic – Players | WTA Tennis "Irena Pavlovic Biography. Coached by Stéphane Huet"
  6. ^ ITF Tennis – Pro Circuit – Player Profile – SARRAZIN, Laetitia (FRA) "Coach Name:Stéphane Huet, Hugo Lecoq ..."
  7. ^ ITF Tennis – Pro Circuit – Player Profile – ARCANGIOLI, Manon (FRA) "Coach Name:Hugo LECOQ, Stéphane HUET"
  8. ^ "Stéphane Huet, entraîneur d'Arthur Cazaux : « Il va falloir qu'il fasse mal » à Hurkacz". L'Équipe (in French). 21 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Wimbledon (H) : Arthur Cazaux se sépare de son entraîneur, Stéphane Huet". L'Équipe (in French). 3 July 2024.