| Baptiste Masotti | |
| Birth Date: | 5 June 1995 |
| Birth Place: | Niort, France |
| Height: | 183cm |
| Weight: | 78kg |
| Turnedpro: | 2019 |
| Retired: | Active |
| Highest Ranking: | No. 13 |
| Date Of Highest Ranking: | January 2024 |
| Current Ranking: | No. 19 |
| Date Of Current Ranking: | July 2024 |
| Titles: | 6 |
| Finals: | 16 |
| Updated: | July 2024 |
Baptiste Masotti (born 5 June 1995, in Niort) is a French professional squash player., he was ranked number 19 in the world;[1] his highest career rank was 13, on 29 January 2024.[2]
Masotti's father, Jean-Michel Masotti, was also a nationally ranked squash player. Baptiste Masotti took up the sport when he was 11.[3] In his early teens, he also played football in Niort as well as squash. In 2009, after winning bronze in the under-15s division of the, he chose to focus on squash and was selected for the French national under-15s team at the European Championships in May 2009.[4] He attended a boarding school while training at the Squash Academy in La Rochelle,[4] then when he was 16, moved to Aix-en-Provence.[3] He won the national championship in 2010 as an under-15 and 2011 as an under-17.[4]
In 2019, Masotti for the first time played for the French senior team at the WSF World Team Championships.[5]
Masotti debuted in the Professional Squash Association in the 2019–20 season while studying commerce and marketing.[3] In October 2019 he played in his first platinum-level tournament, the,[6] where he defeated the former European champion Borja Golán, the former world 4th-ranked Miguel Ángel Rodríguez[7] and the former world junior champion Ng Eain Yow[8] to reach the quarter-finals.[5] At the 2020 Tournament of Champions, he defeated the former top-ranked England player Adrian Waller in the first round.[5] In December 2019, he was ranked in the top 50 for the first time, and in February 2020, in the top 40; when rankings were frozen because of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was ranked number 37.[5]
In the 2020–21 World Championship, he reached the third round, where he was knocked out by former world champion Karim Abdel Gawad.[9] In November 2021 he broke into the top 20.
Masotti reached the quarter-finals at the 2022 World Games, losing to Miguel Ángel Rodríguez.[10] In 2023 he reached the quarter-finals of the Canary Wharf Classic, losing to Mostafa Asal, ranked number 1 at the time.[3]
In the 2023–24 season, he beat Asal to reach the semi-finals of the 2023 Grasshopper Cup, then won the Lagord 30k in October 2023.[11] After reaching the last 16 in the 2024 Tournament of Champions, he reached his highest career rank of number 13 on 29 January 2024.[12]