| Gilles Elseneer | |
| Residence: | Brussels, Belgium |
| Birth Date: | 1978 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Brussels, Belgium |
| Turnedpro: | 1998 |
| Retired: | 2007 |
| Plays: | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Careerprizemoney: | $477,809 |
| Singlesrecord: | 18–24 |
| Singlestitles: | 0 |
| Highestsinglesranking: | No. 97 (12 July 2004) |
| Australianopenresult: | Q1 (2002, 2004) |
| Frenchopenresult: | 2R (2004) |
| Wimbledonresult: | 2R (2003, 2004, 2005) |
| Usopenresult: | 1R (2004, 2005) |
| Doublesrecord: | 3–5 |
| Doublestitles: | 0 |
| Highestdoublesranking: | No. 177 (2 August 2004) |
| Wimbledondoublesresult: | Q2 (2002) |
| Updated: | 27 July 2022 |
Gilles Valere Jacque Elseneer (born 6 March 1978 in Brussels) is a retired professional tennis player from Belgium. He is mostly known for his grass court game, and has achieved his best results on this surface, including a quarterfinal appearance at 's-Hertogenbosch in 2001.
He reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 97 in July 2004. This was arguably the strongest year of his career, in which he reached the second rounds of the French Open (l. to Gustavo Kuerten) and Wimbledon (l. to Ivo Karlović), and won the challengers of Heilbronn and Sarajevo.
Elseneer made a claim in September 2007 that he was offered money to throw a match against Potito Starace at Wimbledon 2005.[1]
He is now coaching and teaching tennis within his father's tennis academy (royal tennis club de Belgique) in Brussels.
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score | |
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| Win | 1–0 | Great Britain F2, Chigwell | Futures | Carpet |  Arvind Parmar | 7–6(7–5), 6–4 | ||
| Loss | 1–1 | Ireland F2, Dublin | Futures | Carpet | Owen Casey | 3–6, 6–7(5–7) | ||
| Win | 2–1 | France F22, Saint-Dizier | Futures | Hard |  Timothy Aerts | 6–2, 6–2 | ||
| Win | 3–1 | Nottingham, United Kingdom | Challenger | Hard | Arvind Parmar | 7–5, 6–2 | ||
| Loss | 3–2 | Bangalore, India | Challenger | Hard |  Gregory Carraz | 4–6, 6–7(4–7) | ||
| Loss | 3–3 | Manchester, United Kingdom | Challenger | Hard | Nicolas Mahut | 3–6, 6–7(5–7) | ||
| Win | 4–3 | Heilbronn, Germany | Challenger | Carpet | Lars Burgsmüller | 3–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–5) | ||
| Win | 5–3 | Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina | Challenger | Hard | Dennis Van Scheppingen | 7–6(7–5), 6–2 | ||
| Win | 6–3 | Andrézieux, France | Challenger | Hard | Gilles Simon | 4–6, 6–1, 6–4 |
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score | |
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| Win | 1–0 | Greece F4, Corfu | Futures | Carpet | Wim Neefs | Niko Karagiannis Anastasios Vasiliadis | 6–4, 6–2 | ||
| Loss | 1–1 | Greece F7, Athens | Futures | Clay | Wim Neefs |  Harel Levy Lior Mor | 3–6, 6–0, 3–6 | ||
| Win | 2–1 | France F4, Clermont-Ferrand | Futures | Carpet |  Gerald Mandl |  Daniel Pahlsson  Steven Randjelovic | 7–6, 7–6 | ||
| Loss | 2–2 | Greece F2, Filippiada | Futures | Hard | Eyal Erlich | Jan-Ralph Brandt Markus Menzler | 7–6, 4–6, 4–6 | ||
| Win | 3–2 | France F6, Douai | Futures | Carpet | Arnaud Fontaine | Andy Ram Lovro Zovko | 6–1, 6–4 | ||
| Win | 4–2 | Ireland F1, Dublin | Futures | Carpet | Jean-Michel Pequery |  Jarkko Nieminen Kristian Pless | 7–6(7–2), 4–6, 6–3 | ||
| Loss | 4–3 | Bristol, United Kingdom | Challenger | Grass | Tuomas Ketola | Wesley Moodie Shaun Rudman | 4–6, 3–6 | ||
| Win | 5–3 | Wrexham, United Kingdom | Challenger | Hard | Alexander Popp | Luke Bourgeois  Aisam Qureshi | 5–7, 7–5, 6–2 | ||
| Win | 6–3 | France F17, Plaisir | Futures | Hard | Wim Neefs |  Frédéric Niemeyer Andrew Nisker | 6–3, 6–7(3–7), 6–4 | ||
| Win | 7–3 | Bolton, United Kingdom | Challenger | Hard | Wim Neefs | Lee Childs Mark Hilton | 6–4, 6–3 | ||
| Win | 8–3 | Hull, United Kingdom | Challenger | Carpet | Frédéric Niemeyer | Yves Allegro Wesley Moodie | 6–4, 6–4 | ||
| Loss | 8–4 | Besançon, France | Challenger | Hard | Kenneth Carlsen | Alexander Waske Rogier Wassen | 6–3, 5–7, 3–6 | ||
| Loss | 8–5 | Heilbronn, Germany | Challenger | Carpet |  Gilles Müller | Sébastien de Chaunac  Michal Mertiňák | 2–6, 6–3, 3–6 |
| Tournament | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | SR | W–L | Win% | ||
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| Grand Slam tournaments | |||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | Q1 | A | Q1 | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| French Open | A | A | A | Q1 | Q2 | 2R | Q1 | Q1 | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | |||
| Wimbledon | Q2 | A | A | Q3 | 2R | 2R | 2R | Q2 | 0 / 3 | 3–3 | |||
| US Open | A | A | Q2 | Q1 | Q1 | 1R | 1R | Q2 | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | |||
| style=text-align:left | Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0 / 6 | 4–6 | ||
| ATP Tour Masters 1000 | |||||||||||||
| Rome | A | A | A | A | A | Q1 | A | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | |||
| style=text-align:left | Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 |