Jérémy Chardy

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Jérémy Chardy is a French professional tennis player. He began playing tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2005. As a junior he captured the boys singles title at Wimbledon in 2005, defeating Donald Young in the semi-final and Robin Haase in the final. He also finished runner-up at the US Open junior event, losing to Ryan Sweeting to finish the season as world number four in the junior rankings. In 2004, he won the Eddie Herr International in Florida and reached the semi-final at Wimbledon where he lost to fellow countryman Gael Monfils. In 2004 he started to play on the Futures tour and reached his first quarter final at an event in Saint-Gervais, France in July. In the next season he won his first event of the season on the clay courts in Grasse, France and followed this up in his next event with a semi-final at Angers. He made his Grand Slam debut in 2006 at Roland Garros after receiving a wildcard, defeating Jonas Björkman in straight sets in the first round before losing in four sets to fifteenth-seeded David Ferrer in the second round.

In February 2007, Chardy made his ATP debut in Marseille, losing to Finland's Jarkko Nieminen in three sets, 7-6, 6-7, 6-7. On the Challenger circuit he won two titles, winning in Kosice, Slovakia (d. Gremelmayr) and also at Barnstaple, Great Britain. In 2008, after losing the final of the Marrakech Challenger in may to eventual French Open semi-finalist Gaël Monfils, Chardy produced his best Grand Slam showing so far in his professional career at the French Open. Having received a wild card, he came back from being two sets to love down in the second round to world number six David Nalbandian to defeat him in five sets 3–6, 4–6, 6–2, 6–1, 6–2. He continued his run to beat thirtieth seed Dmitry Tursunov 7-6(1), 6-3, 6-4, before losing in the fourth round to nineteenth seed Nicolas Almagro in straight sets, after holding set points in each of the three sets. In his next event at Wimbledon he reached the second round before losing to fellow compatriot Paul-Henri Mathieu 3-6, 5-7, 6-7(1). He also reached the same stage at the US Open, losing to Russia's Igor Andreev. His best ATP tournaments came at Gstaad (l. Hanescu) and Moscow (l. Andreev) where he reached the quarter final stages. In Challenger play he won one title at Graz, defeating Argentine Sergio Roitman in the final 6-2, 6-1.