Nicolas Coutelot Explained

Nicolas Coutelot
Residence:	Garches, France
Birth Date:	1977 2, df=yes
Birth Place:	Strasbourg, France
Turnedpro:	1996
Retired:	2009
Plays:	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney:	$390,290
Singlesrecord:	13–19
Singlestitles:	0
Highestsinglesranking:	No. 87 (13 May 2002)
Australianopenresult:	Q3 (2002)
Frenchopenresult:	3R (2001, 2003)
Wimbledonresult:	1R (2002)
Usopenresult:	1R (2002)
Doublesrecord:	1–3
Doublestitles:	0
Highestdoublesranking:	No. 306 (10 July 2000)
Frenchopendoublesresult:	1R (2002)
Updated:	13 December 2022

Nicolas Coutelot (born 9 February 1977) is a retired professional male tennis player from France who reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 87 in May 2002. He also failed a drugs test in 2004 and was suspended for two months (cannabis).^[1]

1996–2004

At the 2001 French Open Coutelot caused a major upset when he knocked out former World No. 1 Marcelo Ríos in straight sets in the second round.^[2] But he lost a five set battle to Wayne Arthurs in the next round.^[2] In 2002 at the French Open Coutelot caused controversy when he claimed that Juan Carlos Ferrero had feigned injury, after he lost their second round encounter in the final set. However, Ferrero really was injured as he took a tumble whilst practicing against Tommy Robredo.^[3] At the US Open Coutelot made his best appearance by reaching the first round before losing in straight sets to defending champion and World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt.^[4]

Coutelot again reached the third round of the French Open when he bundled out David Nalbandian in five sets, despite being two sets to love up, before winning the final set.^[5]

His career-high singles ranking was World No. 87.

Drugs suspension

Coutelot was suspended for two months in 2004 after he tested positive for cannabis when attempting to qualify for the Movistar Open.^[1]

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 19 (12–7)

Legend ATP Challenger (3–3) ITF Futures (9–4)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (12–7) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1		France F1, Grasse	Futures	Clay	Filip Dewulf	2–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2		France F2, Angers	Futures	Clay	Norbert Mazany	4–6, 6–7^(9–11)
Loss	0–3		France F3, Feucherolles	Futures	Clay	Charles Auffray	4–6, 4–6
Win	1–3		Scheveningen, Netherlands	Challenger	Clay	Martín Rodríguez	6–3, ret.
Win	2–3		Aschaffenburg, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Luis Horna	6–7^(2–7), 6–3, 6–1
Loss	2–4		Venice, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Christophe Rochus	7–6^(7–5), 5–7, 4–6
Loss	2–5		Szczecin, Poland	Challenger	Clay	Juan Ignacio Chela	1–6, 3–6
Loss	2–6		Barcelona, Spain	Challenger	Clay	Konstantinos Economidis	6–7^(4–7), 1–6
Win	3–6		Rome, Italy	Challenger	Clay	Guillermo García López	5–7, 7–5, 6–2
Loss	3–7		Spain F7, Cartagena	Futures	Clay	Pablo Santos González	0–6, 1–6
Win	4–7		France F6, Grasse	Futures	Clay	Arnaud Di Pasquale	6–2, 6–2
Win	5–7		Lithuania F1, Vilnius	Futures	Clay	Gvidas Sabeckis	6–4, 6–3
Win	6–7		Lithuania F2, Vilnius	Futures	Clay	Juho Paukku	6–2, 6–1
Win	7–7		Spain F5, Murcia	Futures	Clay	Miguel Ángel López Jaén	6–4, 6–2
Win	8–7		Spain F6, Torre-Pacheco	Futures	Clay	Adam Chadaj	6–3, 6–2
Win	9–7		France F7, Grasse	Futures	Clay	Diego Veronelli	6–3, 3–6, 6–3
Win	10–7		France F8, Blois	Futures	Clay	Nicolas Renavand	7–6^(7–5), 6–3
Win	11–7		France F9, Toulon	Futures	Clay	Stéphane Robert	6–4, 6–4
Win	12–7		France F10, Montauban	Futures	Clay	Nicolas Renavand	6–3, 6–2

Doubles: 3 (1–2)

Legend ATP Challenger (0–0) ITF Futures (1–2)

Finals by surface Hard (0–0) Clay (1–2) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0		Belgium F1, Louvain-la-Neuve	Futures	Clay	Johann Potron	Christophe Rochus Olivier Rochus	6–3, 2–6, 6–2
Loss	1–1		France F1, Grasse	Futures	Clay	Arnaud Fontaine	Juan Gisbert-Schultze Marcos Roy-Girardi	4–6, 4–6
Loss	1–2		France F3, Feucherolles	Futures	Clay	Leonardo Olguín	Olivier Rochus Réginald Willems	1–6, 2–6

Performance Timeline

Singles

Tournament	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	SR	W–L	Win%
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	Q1	Q3	Q1	Q2	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
French Open	Q2	A	Q1	3R	2R	3R	Q1	A	A	A	A	0 / 3	5–3
Wimbledon	A	A	Q1	Q1	1R	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	0–1
US Open	A	A	Q2	Q1	1R	A	A	A	A	A	Q2	0 / 1	0–1
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–3	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 5	5–5
ATP Tour Masters 1000
Miami	A	A	A	Q1	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Monte Carlo	A	A	A	A	2R	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 1	1–1
Rome	A	A	A	A	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
Cincinnati	A	A	Q2	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 0	0–0
style=text-align:left	Win–loss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0 / 1	1–1

Notes and References

1. News: Decision in the case of Nicolas Coutelot. itf.com. 10 August 2004. 28 September 2010. 18 May 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070518171729/http://www.itftennis.com/antidoping/news/newsarticle.asp?articleid=15923. dead.
2. Web site: Arrêt sur images: Roland-Garros 2001. SportVox. 2 December 2008. Morglen. French. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110725134513/http://www.sportvox.fr/article.php3?id_article=18948. 25 July 2011. dmy-all.
3. News: Coutelot accuses Ferrero of faking. LA Times. 31 May 2002.
4. Web site: Archived copy . 29 September 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110721072411/http://airwolf.lmtonline.com/sports/archive/082802/pageb1.pdf . 21 July 2011 . dead .
5. Web site: BreakingNews.ie: Text Only . 29 September 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110614045525/http://www.breakingnews.ie/print/hewitt-forced-to-dig-deep-again-100790.html . 14 June 2011 . dead .