MICHAëL LLODRA

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'Michaël Llodra' (born May 18, 1980) is a professional French male tennis player.

Contents

Life and Career

Grand Slam men's doubles finals (5)

Wins (3)

Runner-ups (2)

Titles (12)

Singles wins (1)

Doubles wins (12)

Runner-ups (11)

References

External Links

Life and Career

Llodra was born in Paris, where his father Michel played for football club Paris Saint-Germain. A left-hander, he has won the Australian Open Men's Doubles title twice with Fabrice Santoro. He has also won one ATP singles title ('s-Hertogenbosch, 2004). His serve-and-volley style is modelled on that of his idol Stefan Edberg.
On November 20, 2005, Llodra teamed up with Fabrice Santoro, a French compatriot, to win the 2005 Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, a competition which pitted the top 8 doubles teams in the world against one another.
On winning the men's doubles final at the Australian Open in 2004, Llodra and his tennis partner Fabrice Santoro made headlines by stripping off their shirts, shoes, socks and shorts.^[1] Dressed in a pair of white briefs only, Llodra threw his clothes into the crowd, to the cheers of many onlookers.^[2]
In July 2007, Michaël Llodra won the men's double title at Wimbledon partnering Arnaud Clément, beating Bob and Mike Bryan, thus winning his third Grand Slam doubles title. He and Clément were ecstatic and Llodra once again celebrated by throwing his shirt, racket and towel into the crowd, along with Clément.

Grand Slam men's doubles finals (5)

Wins (3)

'Year	'Championship	'Partnering	'Opponents in Final	'Score in Final
2003	Australian Open	Fabrice Santoro	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6-4, 3-6, 6-3
2004	Australian Open (2)	Fabrice Santoro	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7-6, 6-3
2007	Wimbledon	Arnaud Clément	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	56-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4

Runner-ups (2)

'Year	'Championship	'Partnering	'Opponents in Final	'Score in Final
2002	Australian Open	Fabrice Santoro	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	7-6, 6-3
2004	French Open	Fabrice Santoro	Xavier Malisse Olivier Rochus	7-5, 7-5

Titles (12)

Singles wins (1)

'Legend'

Grand Slam (0)

Tennis Masters Cup (0)

ATP Masters Series (0)

ATP Tour (1)

'No.'	'Date'	'Tournament'	'Surface'	'Opponent in the final'	'Score'
1.	14 Jun, 2004	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Guillermo Coria	6-3, 6-4

Doubles wins (12)

'Legend' Grand Slam (3) Tennis Masters Cup (1) ATP Masters Series (2) ATP Tour (6)

'Titles by Surface' Hard (4) Clay (2) Grass (1) Carpet (5)

'No.'	'Date'	'Tournament'	'Surface'	'Partner'	'Opponent in the final'	'Score'
1.	1 May, 2000	Mallorca, Spain	Clay	Diego Nargiso	Alberto Martin Fernando Vicente	7-6, 7-6
2.	13 January, 2003	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Fabrice Santoro	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6-4, 3-6, 6-3
3.	19 January, 2004	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Fabrice Santoro	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7-6, 6-3
4.	23 August, 2004	Long Island, United States	Hard	Antony Dupuis	Yves Allegro Michael Kohlmann	6-2, 6-4
5.	25 October, 2004	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet	Arnaud Clément	Dominik Hrbaty Jaroslav Levinsky	6-3, 6-2
6.	11 April, 2005	Rome, Italy	Clay	Fabrice Santoro	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6-4, 6-2
7.	03 October, 2005	Metz, France	Hard (i)	Fabrice Santoro	Jose Acasuso Sebastien Prieto	5-2, 3-5, 5-4
8.	24 October, 2005	Lyon, France	Carpet	Fabrice Santoro	Jeff Coetzee Rogier Wassen	6-3, 6-1
9.	07 November, 2005	Tennis Masters Cup, Shanghai	Carpet	Fabrice Santoro	Leander Paes Nenad Zimonjić	6-7, 6-3, 7-6
10.	30 October, 2006	Paris, France	Carpet	Arnaud Clément	Fabrice Santoro Nenad Zimonjić	6-4, 6-2
11.	12 February, 2007	Lyon, France	Carpet	Arnaud Clément	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	7-6, 4-6, 10-8
12.	8 July, 2007	Wimbledon, London	Grass	Arnaud Clément	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	56-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4

Runner-ups (11)

'No.	'Date	'Tournament	'Surface	'Partnering	'Opponent in the final'	'Score
1.	28 January, 2002	Australian Open, Melbourne	Hard	Fabrice Santoro	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	7-6, 6-3
2.	29 July, 2002	Los Angeles, USA	Hard	Justin Gimelstob	Sebastien Grosjean Nicolas Kiefer	6-4, 6-4
3.	21 April, 2003	Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Fabrice Santoro	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	4-6, 7-5, 6-2
4.	12 May, 2003	Rome, Italy	Clay	Fabrice Santoro	Wayne Arthurs Paul Hanley	7-5, 7-6
5.	6 October, 2003	Metz, France	Hard (i)	Fabrice Santoro	Julien Benneteau Nicolas Mahut	7-6, 6-3
6.	3 November, 2003	Paris, France	Carpet	Fabrice Santoro	Wayne Arthurs Paul Hanley	6-3, 1-6, 6-3
7.	15 November, 2003	Tennis Masters Cup, Houston	Hard	Fabrice Santoro	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6-7, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6, 6-4
8.	12 January, 2004	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Arnaud Clement	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7-5, 6-3
9.	7 June, 2004	French Open, Paris	Clay	Fabrice Santoro	Xavier Malisse Olivier Rochus	7-5, 7-5
10.	17 January, 2005	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Arnaud Clement	Mahesh Bhupathi Todd Woodbridge	6-3, 6-3
11.	16 May, 2005	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Fabrice Santoro	Jonas Bjorkman Max Mirnyi	6-2, 6-3

References

1. ''Celebrations end with a striptease'', CNN.com World Sport. Accessed May 19, 2007.
2. ''French duo retain title'', BBC News Online. Accessed May 19, 2007.

External Links

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★ Llodra Recent Match Results

★ Llodra World Ranking History