Jacques Brichant
Jacques Brichant in 1959 | |
Country (sports) | Belgium |
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Born | 28 March 1930 Mont-sur-Marchienne, Belgium |
Died | 9 March 2011(2011-03-09) (aged 80) |
Turned pro | 1947 (amateur tour) |
Retired | 1968 |
Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) |
Singles | |
Career record | 384-163 |
Career titles | 54 |
Highest ranking | 9 (1957)[1] |
Grand Slam singles results | |
French Open | SF (1958) |
Wimbledon | 4R (1952, 1953, 1954) |
US Open | 3R (1952) |
Doubles | |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Wimbledon | SF (1953) |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
Wimbledon | 3R (1952) |
Jacques "Jacky" Brichant (28 March 1930 – 9 March 2011[2]) was a Belgian tennis player. He was ranked world No. 9 for 1957. Brichant was a clay court specialist and won many clay court tournaments in Europe.
Brichant has played the most Davis Cup ties for his country.[3] Brichant reached the semi-finals of the French Championships in singles in 1958 which he lost to eventual champion Mervyn Rose. Additionally he reached the French quarter-finals three times (1956, 1957, 1959). He won the national Belgian title 10 times.[4]
In 1950 he was the runner-up at the All England Plate event, a tennis competition held at the Wimbledon Championships consisting of players who were defeated in the first or second rounds of the singles competition.
Brichant won the 1957 Monte Carlo Championships on clay defeating Hugh Stewart in the semifinal and Paul Rémy in the final. He also won the 1957 South of France Championships at Nice on clay defeating Pierre Darmon in the semifinal and Bobby Wilson in a long five set final.
References
External links
- Jacques Brichant at the International Tennis Federation
- Jacques Brichant at the Davis Cup
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- 1947: Jacky Brichant
- 1948: Kurt Nielsen
- 1949: Jean-Claude Molinari
- 1950: Roland Dubuisson
- 1951: Ham Richardson
- 1952: Ken Rosewall
- 1953: Jean-Noël Grinda
- 1954: Roy Emerson
- 1955: Andrés Gimeno
- 1956: Mustapha Belkhodja
- 1957: Alberto Arilla
- 1958: Butch Buchholz
- 1959: Ingo Buding
- 1960: Ingo Buding
- 1961: John Newcombe
- 1962: John Newcombe
- 1963: Nicky Kalogeropoulos
- 1964: Cliff Richey
- 1965: Gerald Battrick
- 1966: Vladimir Korotkov
- 1967: Patrick Proisy
- 1968: Phil Dent
- 1969: Antonio Muñoz
- 1970: Juan Herrera
- 1971: Corrado Barazzutti
- 1972: Buster Mottram
- 1973: Víctor Pecci
- 1974: Christophe Casa
- 1975: Christophe Roger-Vasselin
- 1976: Heinz Günthardt
- 1977: John McEnroe
- 1978: Ivan Lendl
- 1979: Ramesh Krishnan
- 1980: Henri Leconte
- 1981: Mats Wilander
- 1982: Tarik Benhabiles
- 1983: Stefan Edberg
- 1984: Kent Carlsson
- 1985: Jaime Yzaga
- 1986: Guillermo Pérez Roldán
- 1987: Guillermo Pérez Roldán
- 1988: Nicolás Pereira
- 1989: Fabrice Santoro
- 1990: Andrea Gaudenzi
- 1991: Andriy Medvedev
- 1992: Andrei Pavel
- 1993: Roberto Carretero
- 1994: Jacobo Díaz
- 1995: Mariano Zabaleta
- 1996: Alberto Martín
- 1997: Daniel Elsner
- 1998: Fernando González
- 1999: Guillermo Coria
- 2000: Paul-Henri Mathieu
- 2001: Carlos Cuadrado
- 2002: Richard Gasquet
- 2003: Stanislas Wawrinka
- 2004: Gaël Monfils
- 2005: Marin Čilić
- 2006: Martin Kližan
- 2007: Vladimir Ignatic
- 2008: Yang Tsung-hua
- 2009: Daniel Berta
- 2010: Agustín Velotti
- 2011: Bjorn Fratangelo
- 2012: Kimmer Coppejans
- 2013: Cristian Garín
- 2014: Andrey Rublev
- 2015: Tommy Paul
- 2016: Geoffrey Blancaneaux
- 2017: Alexei Popyrin
- 2018: Tseng Chun-hsin
- 2019: Holger Vitus Nødskov Rune
- 2020: Dominic Stricker
- 2021: Luca Van Assche
- 2022: Gabriel Debru
- 2023: Dino Prižmić
- 2024: Kaylan Bigun
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