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French tennis player
Olivier Delaître (born 1 June 1967) is a former professional
tennis player from France. He was semifinalist at the
Wimbledon Championships in 1999 in doubles (partnering
Fabrice Santoro ), and reached the fourth round of the
1994 French Open and
1995 Australian Open in singles.
Career
Delaitre turned professional in 1986.
In singles, he reached four ATP-tour finals, and achieved a career-high ranking of 33 in February 1995.
In doubles, he won 15 titles during his career and reached a career-high ranking of 3 in July 1999. In 1998, he won four doubles titles with
Fabrice Santoro and together they qualified for the end-of-year
ATP Finals , where they reached the semifinals. In 1999, Delaitre and Santoro lost in the semifinals of Wimbledon 7-5 in the final set to eventual champions
Mahesh Bhupati and
Leander Paes . Delaitre's biggest title was the
Monte Carlo Masters in 1999, where - unseeded - he and
Tim Henman won the tournament without dropping a set.
Delaitre was the first person to defeat future World No. 1
Roger Federer at a Grand Slam, in the first qualifying round of the
1999 Australian Open .
Career finals
Singles: 4 (0–4)
Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP Tour World Championships (0–0)
ATP Super 9 (0–0)
ATP Championship Series (0–1)
ATP World Series (0–3)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–2)
Clay (0–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–1)
Doubles: 26 (15–11)
Legend
Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
ATP Tour World Championships (0–0)
ATP Super 9 (1–1)
ATP Championship Series (3–2)
ATP World Series (11–8)
Finals by surface
Hard (10–9)
Clay (2–1)
Grass (1–0)
Carpet (2–1)
Result
W/L
Date
Tournament
Surface
Partner
Opponents
Score
Win
1.
Feb 1991
Guarujá , Brazil
Hard
Rodolphe Gilbert
Shelby Cannon
Greg Van Emburgh
6–2, 6–4
Win
2.
Feb 1993
Marseille , France
Carpet (i)
Arnaud Boetsch
Ivan Lendl
Christo van Rensburg
6–3, 7–6
Loss
1.
Aug 1993
Long Island , U.S.
Hard
Arnaud Boetsch
Marc-Kevin Goellner
David Prinosil
7–6, 5–7, 2–6
Win
3.
Jan 1994
Doha ,
Qatar
Hard
Stéphane Simian
Shelby Cannon
Byron Talbot
6–3, 6–3
Win
4.
Jun 1994
Halle , Germany
Grass
Guy Forget
Henri Leconte
Gary Muller
6–4, 6–7, 6–4
Win
5.
Aug 1994
Long Island , U.S.
Hard
Guy Forget
Andrew Florent
Mark Petchey
6–4, 7–6
Win
6.
Sep 1994
Bordeaux , France
Hard
Guy Forget
Diego Nargiso
Guillaume Raoux
6–2, 2–6, 7–5
Win
7.
Jul 1995
Washington, D.C. , U.S.
Hard
Jeff Tarango
Petr Korda
Cyril Suk
1–6, 6–3, 6–2
Loss
2.
Apr 1996
Munich , Germany
Clay
Diego Nargiso
Lan Bale
Stephen Noteboom
6–4, 6–7, 4–6
Loss
3.
Oct 1996
Toulouse , France
Hard (i)
Guillaume Raoux
Jacco Eltingh
Paul Haarhuis
3–6, 5–7
Loss
4.
Feb 1997
Marseille , France
Hard (i)
Fabrice Santoro
Thomas Enqvist
Magnus Larsson
3–6, 4–6
Win
8.
Feb 1997
Antwerp , Belgium
Hard (i)
David Adams
Sandon Stolle
Cyril Suk
3–6, 6–2, 6–1
Loss
5.
Oct 1997
Lyon , France
Carpet (i)
Fabrice Santoro
Ellis Ferreira
Patrick Galbraith
6–3, 2–6, 4–6
Loss
6.
Jan 1998
Doha ,
Qatar
Hard
Fabrice Santoro
Mahesh Bhupathi
Leander Paes
4–6, 6–3, 4–6
Loss
7.
Apr 1998
Chennai , India
Hard
Max Mirnyi
Mahesh Bhupathi
Leander Paes
7–6, 3–6, 2–6
Loss
8.
Apr 1998
Tokyo , Japan
Hard
Stefano Pescosolido
Sébastien Lareau
Daniel Nestor
3–6, 4–6
Win
9.
Jul 1998
Stuttgart , Germany
Clay
Fabrice Santoro
Joshua Eagle
Jim Grabb
6–1, 3–6, 6–3
Loss
9.
Aug 1998
Cincinnati , U.S.
Hard
Fabrice Santoro
Mark Knowles
Daniel Nestor
1–6, 1–2, ret.
Win
10.
Sep 1998
Toulouse , France
Hard (i)
Fabrice Santoro
Paul Haarhuis
Jan Siemerink
6–2, 6–4
Win
11.
Oct 1998
Basel , Switzerland
Hard (i)
Fabrice Santoro
Piet Norval
Kevin Ullyett
6–3, 7–6
Win
12.
Oct 1998
Lyon , France
Carpet (i)
Fabrice Santoro
Tomás Carbonell
Francisco Roig
6–2, 6–2
Win
13.
Apr 1999
Monte Carlo ,
Monaco
Clay
Tim Henman
Jiří Novák
David Rikl
6–2, 6–3
Loss
10.
Aug 1999
Indianapolis , U.S.
Hard
Leander Paes
Paul Haarhuis
Jared Palmer
3–6, 4–6
Win
14.
Aug 1999
Long Island , U.S.
Hard
Fabrice Santoro
Jan-Michael Gambill
Scott Humphries
7–5, 6–4
Win
15.
Sep 1999
Toulouse , France
Hard (i)
Jeff Tarango
David Adams
John-Laffnie de Jager
3–6, 7–6, 6–4
Loss
11.
Jan 2000
Auckland , New Zealand
Hard
Jeff Tarango
Ellis Ferreira
Rick Leach
5–7, 4–6
Doubles performance timeline
Key
W
F
SF
QF
#R
RR
Q#
DNQ
A
NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
Tournament
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Career SR
Career win–loss
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open
NH
A
A
1R
2R
A
A
A
1R
1R
2R
A
3R
3R
1R
0 / 8
6–8
French Open
A
1R
2R
1R
2R
1R
2R
1R
1R
1R
2R
3R
1R
2R
1R
0 / 14
7–14
Wimbledon
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
3R
2R
3R
A
1R
A
SF
3R
0 / 6
11–6
U.S. Open
A
A
A
1R
2R
A
A
1R
2R
1R
3R
1R
3R
2R
A
0 / 9
7–8
Grand Slam SR
0 / 0
0 / 1
0 / 1
0 / 3
0 / 3
0 / 1
0 / 1
0 / 3
0 / 4
0 / 4
0 / 3
0 / 3
0 / 3
0 / 4
0 / 3
0 / 37
N/A
Annual win–loss
0–0
0–1
1–1
0–3
3–3
0–1
1–1
2–3
2–4
2–4
4–3
2–3
4–3
8–3
2–3
N/A
31–36
Masters Series
Indian Wells
These Were Not ATP Masters Series Before 1990
A
A
2R
A
A
2R
A
A
A
A
1R
0 / 3
2–3
Miami
A
A
A
1R
2R
1R
A
A
A
2R
2R
0 / 5
1–5
Monte Carlo
A
A
A
2R
QF
1R
1R
2R
A
W
2R
1 / 7
10–6
Rome
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
2R
A
SF
1R
0 / 3
4–3
Hamburg
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
SF
1R
0 / 2
2–2
Canada
A
A
A
A
QF
2R
A
2R
2R
QF
A
0 / 5
6–5
Cincinnati
A
A
A
A
1R
1R
A
SF
F
2R
A
0 / 5
7–5
Stuttgart (Stockholm)
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
SF
2R
A
0 / 2
3–2
Paris
A
A
QF
1R
2R
A
1R
1R
2R
2R
A
0 / 7
3–7
Masters Series SR
N/A
0 / 0
0 / 0
0 / 2
0 / 3
0 / 5
0 / 5
0 / 2
0 / 5
0 / 4
1 / 8
0 / 5
1 / 39
N/A
Annual win–loss
N/A
0–0
0–0
3–2
1–3
6–5
2–5
0–2
6–5
8–4
11–7
1–5
N/A
38–38
Year-end ranking
436
514
227
127
166
121
154
90
20
52
91
37
12
16
107
N/A
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