Guillaume Raoux
French tennis player
Guillaume Raoux (French pronunciation: [ɡijom ʁa.u]; born 14 February 1970) is a French former tennis player.
Career
Raoux reached the Wimbledon junior singles final in 1988. He turned professional in 1989.
Pro tour
The right-hander won one singles career title (Queensland Open, 1992), and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 35 in June 1998. Raoux reached the fourth round of the 1998 Australian Open and the quarterfinals of the Paris Masters in 1990 and 1997.
He was the first man to be beaten by Roger Federer on the ATP Tour.
Raoux represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where he was defeated in the first round by Zimbabwe's Byron Black.
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