Nicolas Escudé

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**Nicolas Escudé**

Country	France
Residence	Geneva, Switzerland
Date of birth	April 3, 1976 (1976-04-03) (age 32)
Place of birth	Chartres, France
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb/11 st)
Turned pro	1995
Retired	2006
Plays	Right
Career prize money
Singles
Career record:	172–129
Career titles:	4
Highest ranking:	17 (June 26, 2000)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	SF (1998)
French Open	4th (2004)
Wimbledon	QF (2001)
US Open	QF (1999)
Doubles
Career record:	21–15
Career titles:	2
Highest ranking:

Nicolas Jean-Christophe Escudé (born April 3, 1976 in Chartres) is a former professional tennis player from France, who turned professional in 1995. He won four singles titles, two of them in Rotterdam in (2001 and 2002), and two doubles titles during his career. He won the decisive fifth rubber for France in the 2001 Davis Cup Final against Wayne Arthurs from Australia in four sets.

The right-hander reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on June 26, 2000, when he became the number 17 of the world. He's a natural left-hander who was trained since a child to play right-handed but does everything else lefty. His brother Julien Escudé is a professional soccer player, who plays for Sevilla FC since 2006.

On May 18, 2006, he announced his immediate retirement from the sport due to a persistent shoulder injury that had been keeping him out of the professional tennis circuit for the past 22 months.

1 ATP Tour titles (4)
2 External links

[edit] ATP Tour titles (4)

Legend (Singles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (4)

[edit] Singles (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	October 6, 1999	Toulouse, France	Hard	Daniel Vacek	7–5, 6–1
2.	February 25, 2001	Rotterdam	Hard	Roger Federer	7–5, 3–6, 7–6
3.	February 24, 2002	Rotterdam	Hard	Tim Henman	3–6, 7–6, 6–4
4.	January 11, 2004	Doha	Hard	Ivan Ljubičić	6–3, 7–6

[edit] Singles finalist (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	June 26, 2000	's-Hertogenbosch	Grass	Patrick Rafter	6–1, 6–3
1.	February 18, 2002	Marseille	Hard	Thomas Enqvist	6–7 (4), 6–3, 6–1

[edit] Doubles (2)

Legend (Doubles)
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Cup (0)
ATP Masters Series (1)
ATP Tour (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	February 11, 2002	Marseille	Indoor Hard	Arnaud Clément	Julien Boutter Max Mirnyi	6–4, 6–3
2.	October 28, 2002	Paris	Indoor Hard	Fabrice Santoro	Gustavo Kuerten Cedric Pioline	6–3, 7–6 (6)