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.
Tennis career Pro tour 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.
Coaching He is now coaching and teaching tennis within his father's tennis academy (royal tennis club de Belgique) in Brussels.
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 9 (6–3) LegendATP Challenger (4–2)ITF Futures (2–1)Finals by surfaceHard (4–2)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (2–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0Great Britain F2, ChigwellFuturesCarpet Arvind Parmar7–6(7–5), 6–4Loss1–1Ireland F2, DublinFuturesCarpet Owen Casey3–6, 6–7(5–7)Win2–1France F22, Saint-DizierFuturesHard Timothy Aerts6–2, 6–2Win3–1Nottingham, United KingdomChallengerHard Arvind Parmar7–5, 6–2Loss3–2Bangalore, IndiaChallengerHard Gregory Carraz4–6, 6–7(4–7)Loss3–3Manchester, United KingdomChallengerHard Nicolas Mahut3–6, 6–7(5–7)Win4–3Heilbronn, GermanyChallengerCarpet Lars Burgsmüller3–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–5)Win5–3Sarajevo, Bosnia & HerzegovinaChallengerHard Dennis Van Scheppingen7–6(7–5), 6–2Win6–3Andrézieux, FranceChallengerHard Gilles Simon4–6, 6–1, 6–4
Doubles: 13 (8–5) LegendATP Challenger (3–3)ITF Futures (5–2)Finals by surfaceHard (3–2)Clay (0–1)Grass (0–1)Carpet (5–1)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0Greece F4, CorfuFuturesCarpet Wim Neefs Niko Karagiannis Anastasios Vasiliadis6–4, 6–2Loss1–1Greece F7, AthensFuturesClay Wim Neefs Harel Levy Lior Mor3–6, 6–0, 3–6Win2–1France F4, Clermont-FerrandFuturesCarpet Gerald Mandl Daniel Pahlsson Steven Randjelovic7–6, 7–6Loss2–2Greece F2, FilippiadaFuturesHard Eyal Erlich Jan-Ralph Brandt Markus Menzler7–6, 4–6, 4–6Win3–2France F6, DouaiFuturesCarpet Arnaud Fontaine Andy Ram Lovro Zovko6–1, 6–4Win4–2Ireland F1, DublinFuturesCarpet Jean-Michel Pequery Jarkko Nieminen Kristian Pless7–6(7–2), 4–6, 6–3Loss4–3Bristol, United KingdomChallengerGrass Tuomas Ketola Wesley Moodie Shaun Rudman4–6, 3–6Win5–3Wrexham, United KingdomChallengerHard Alexander Popp Luke Bourgeois Aisam Qureshi5–7, 7–5, 6–2Win6–3France F17, PlaisirFuturesHard Wim Neefs Frédéric Niemeyer Andrew Nisker6–3, 6–7(3–7), 6–4Win7–3Bolton, United KingdomChallengerHard Wim Neefs Lee Childs Mark Hilton6–4, 6–3Win8–3Hull, United KingdomChallengerCarpet Frédéric Niemeyer Yves Allegro Wesley Moodie6–4, 6–4Loss8–4Besançon, FranceChallengerHard Kenneth Carlsen Alexander Waske Rogier Wassen6–3, 5–7, 3–6Loss8–5Heilbronn, GermanyChallengerCarpet Gilles Müller Sébastien de Chaunac Michal Mertiňák2–6, 6–3, 3–6
Performance timeline
Singles Tournament19992000200120022003200420052006SRW–LWin%Grand Slam tournamentsAustralian OpenAAAQ1AQ1AA0 / 00–0French OpenAAAQ1Q22RQ1Q10 / 11–1WimbledonQ2AAQ32R2R2RQ20 / 33–3US OpenAAQ2Q1Q11R1RQ20 / 20–2Win–loss0–00–00–00–01–12–31–20–00 / 64–6ATP Tour Masters 1000RomeAAAAAQ1AQ10 / 00–0Win–loss0–00–00–00–00–00–00–00–00 / 00–0
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