Marc Rosset

Marc Rosset

Country (sports)	Switzerland
Residence	Monte Carlo, Monaco
Born	7 November 1970 Geneva, Switzerland
Height	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
Turned pro	1988
Retired	2005
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand) *occasionally used one-handed backhand
Prize money	US$ 6,812,693
Singles
Career record	433–351
Career titles	15
Highest ranking	No. 9 (11 September 1995)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	QF (1999)
French Open	SF (1996)
Wimbledon	4R (2000)
US Open	4R (1995)
Doubles
Career record	142–144
Career titles	8
Highest ranking	No. 8 (2 November 1992)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (1991, 1992, 1994)
French Open	W (1992)
Wimbledon	3R (1993, 2001)
US Open	2R (1990, 1992, 1993, 2000)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	F (1992)
Hopman Cup	F (1996)
Medal record Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Singles

Marc Rosset (born 7 November 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland who is best remembered for winning the Men's Singles Gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games. He also won one Grand Slam doubles title at the French Open in 1992 partnering compatriot Jakob Hlasek.

Career

Juniors

As a junior, Rosset reached as high as No. 4 in the world junior rankings in 1988.

Junior Grand Slam results:

Australian Open: -
French Open: 1R (1988)
Wimbledon: 2R (1988)
US Open: –

Pro tour

Rosset turned professional in 1988 and won his first tour singles title in 1989 Geneva as a wildcard, defeating Guillermo Pérez Roldán. His first doubles title was also won in Geneva in 1991 partnering Sergi Bruguera.

1992 was the pinnacle of Rosset's career. Representing Switzerland at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, he defeated several big-name players en route to qualifying for the men's singles final, including Jim Courier, Goran Ivanišević, Wayne Ferreira, and Emilio Sánchez. In the final, he faced Spain's Jordi Arrese and won an exciting five-set match, 7–6, 6–4, 3–6, 4–6, 8–6, to claim the Gold Medal. Rosset also won the 1992 French Open men's doubles title partnering Jakob Hlasek. Rosset was also a member of the Swiss team which reached the final of the 1992 Davis Cup. Switzerland lost in the final to the United States, despite Rosset's winning a five-set singles rubber against Jim Courier (who was ranked the World No. 1 at the time).

Rosset's most memorable Davis Cup match came in defeat in a singles rubber against Arnaud Clément of France in 2001, which he lost 15–13 in the fifth set after 5 hours and 46 minutes. During the later years of his playing career, Rosset also served as the Swiss Davis Cup team captain.

Rosset also enjoyed success playing in other international team competitions for Switzerland. In 1996, he was a member of the teams which won the World Team Cup and finished runners-up in the Hopman Cup. That year he also achieved his best performance at a Grand Slam when he beat Carl-Uwe Steeb, Jiří Novák, Jakob Hlasek, Stefan Edberg and Bernd Karbacher before losing to Michael Stich in the semi finals.

Rosset had a 2–2 record against his successor as Switzerland's top male tennis player, Roger Federer. Rosset won their first two meetings in 2000 (including the final of the Open 13 at Marseille), but Federer won their meetings in 2001 and 2003.^[1]

At 2.01 metres (6 ft. 7 in.) Rosset was one of the game's tallest players throughout his career. He had a reputation for being one of the most powerful servers in tennis. He was one of the game's fastest servers and most prolific servers of aces for most of his career.

Rosset changed his flight plans after a first-round defeat at the US Open in September 1998. After he changed his plans, the flight he had originally planned to take, Swissair Flight 111, crashed in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all on board.^[2]

Rosset's career-high ATP singles ranking was World No. 9, and his career-high doubles ranking was World No. 8. He won a total of 15 top-level singles titles and 8 doubles titles. He won at least one singles title on all surfaces: clay, grass, carpet, and hard court. His career prize money totaled $6,812,693.

Career statistics

Grand Slam finals

Finals: 1 (1 title)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1992	French Open	Clay	Jakob Hlasek	David Adams Andrei Olhovskiy	7–6^(7–4), 6–7^(3–7), 7–5

Olympic Games

Finals: 1 (1 gold medal)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1992	Barcelona Olympics	Clay	Jordi Arrese	7–6^(7–2), 6–4, 3–6, 4–6, 8–6

Career finals

Singles: 23 (15–8)

Legend Grand Slam (0–0) Tennis Masters Cup (0–0) Olympic Gold Medal (1–0) ATP Masters Series (0–1) ATP Championship Series (2–3) ATP Tour (12–4)

Titles by Surface Hard (4–3) Clay (3–2) Grass (1–0) Carpet (7–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Winner	1.	17 September 1989	Geneva, Switzerland	Clay	Guillermo Pérez Roldán	6–4, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	6 April 1990	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Andrés Gómez	6–3, 7–6
Runner-up	2.	27 May 1990	Bologna, Italy	Clay	Richard Fromberg	4–6, 6–4, 7–6
Winner	2.	22 October 1990	Lyon, France	Carpet (i)	Mats Wilander	6–3, 6–2
Winner	3.	3 August 1992	Summer Olympics, Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Jordi Arrese	7–6^(7–2), 6–4, 3–6, 4–6, 8–6
Winner	4.	16 November 1992	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Carl Uwe Steeb	6–3, 6–2
Winner	5.	8 February 1993	Marseille, France	Carpet (i)	Jan Siemerink	6–2, 7–6^(7–1)
Winner	6.	30 August 1993	Long Island, USA	Hard	Michael Chang	6–4, 3–6, 6–1
Winner	7.	15 November 1993	Moscow, Russia	Carpet (i)	Patrik Kühnen	6–4, 6–3
Winner	8.	7 February 1994	Marseille, France	Carpet (i)	Arnaud Boetsch	7–6^(8–6), 7–6^(7–4)
Runner-up	3.	20 August 1994	New Haven, United States	Hard	Boris Becker	6–3, 7–5
Winner	9.	24 October 1994	Lyon, France	Carpet (i)	Jim Courier	6–4, 7–6^(7–2)
Runner-up	4.	6 November 1994	Paris, France	Carpet (i)	Andre Agassi	3–6, 3–6, 6–4, 5–7
Winner	10.	24 April 1995	Nice, France	Clay	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6–4, 6–0
Winner	11.	26 June 1995	Halle, Germany	Grass	Michael Stich	3–6, 7–6^(13–11), 7–6^(10–8)
Runner-up	5.	3 March 1996	Milan, Italy	Carpet (i)	Goran Ivanišević	3–6, 6–7^(7–3)
Winner	12.	24 February 1997	Antwerp, Belgium	Hard (i)	Tim Henman	6–2, 7–5, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	14 September 1997	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Tim Henman	7–6^(7–2), 6–4
Runner-up	7.	15 February 1998	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	Richard Krajicek	4–6, 6–7^(5–7)
Runner-up	8.	22 February 1998	Antwerp, Belgium	Hard	Greg Rusedski	6–7^(3–7), 6–3, 1–6, 4–6,
Winner	13.	15 February 1999	St. Petersburg, Russia	Carpet (i)	David Prinosil	6–3, 6–4
Winner	14.	14 February 2000	Marseille, France	Hard (i)	Roger Federer	2–6, 6–3, 7–6^(7–5)
Winner	15.	22 October 2000	London, UK	Hard (i)	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6–4, 6–4

Singles performance timeline

Tournament	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	Career SR
Grand Slams
Australian Open	A	A	1R	1R	4R	A	3R	1R	A	2R	2R	QF	2R	2R	A	1R	A	A	0 / 11
French Open	A	A	2R	1R	1R	2R	1R	2R	SF	4R	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	1R	A	A	0 / 13
Wimbledon	A	A	3R	1R	3R	1R	2R	1R	3R	2R	2R	2R	4R	1R	2R	1R	A	A	0 / 14
U.S. Open	A	A	1R	1R	1R	1R	3R	4R	1R	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	1R	A	A	A	0 / 13
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 2	0 / 3	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 51
Masters Series
Indian Wells	NME		A	2R	1R	QF	3R	A	1R	3R	1R	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 7
Miami	NME		1R	QF	3R	4R	3R	A	4R	2R	3R	2R	1R	1R	1R	A	A	A	0 / 12
Monte Carlo	NME		QF	1R	3R	3R	1R	3R	1R	2R	1R	1R	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 12
Rome	NME		A	1R	3R	3R	1R	1R	3R	3R	A	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 9
Hamburg	NME		A	1R	A	2R	1R	QF	3R	1R	1R	2R	3R	1R	A	A	A	A	0 / 10
Canada	NME		A	A	A	A	3R	2R	2R	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 4
Cincinnati	NME		A	A	1R	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 3
Stuttgart (Stockholm)	NME		3R	1R	A	SF	3R	3R	2R	1R	1R	1R	2R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 10
Paris	NME		3R	1R	1R	3R	F	3R	QF	1R	3R	3R	3R	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 11
Masters Series SR	N/A		0 / 4	0 / 7	0 / 6	0 / 7	0 / 8	0 / 6	0 / 9	0 / 7	0 / 6	0 / 6	0 / 8	0 / 4	0 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 78
Year End Ranking	474	45	22	60	35	16	14	15	22	31	31	46	28	119	101	122	214	1306	N/A

Doubles: 12 (9–3)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
Winner	1.	16 September 1991	Geneva, Switzerland	Clay	Sergi Bruguera	Per Henricsson Ola Jonsson	3–6, 6–3, 6–3
Winner	2.	6 January 1992	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Goran Ivanišević	Mark Kratzmann Jason Stoltenberg	7–6, 7–6
Winner	3.	18 May 1992	Rome, Italy	Clay	Jakob Hlasek	Wayne Ferreira Mark Kratzmann	6–4, 3–6, 6–1
Winner	4.	8 June 1992	French Open, Paris, France	Clay	Jakob Hlasek	David Adams Andrei Olhovskiy	7–6, 6–7, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	13 June 1992	Stuttgart, Germany	Clay	Javier Sanchez	Glenn Layendecker Byron Talbot	6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Winner	5.	26 October 1992	Lyon, France	Carpet	Jakob Hlasek	Neil Broad Stefan Kruger	6–1, 6–3
Winner	6.	12 July 1993	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Cédric Pioline	Hendrik Jan Davids Piet Norval	6–3, 3–6, 7–6
Runner-up	2.	10 July 1995	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Arnaud Boetsch	Luis Lobo Javier Sánchez	7–6, 6–7, 6–7
Winner	7.	20 May 1996	World Team Cup, Germany	Clay	Jakob Hlasek	Petr Korda Daniel Vacek	6–3, 6–4
Winner	8.	6 October 1997	Basel, Switzerland	Carpet	Tim Henman	Karsten Braasch Jim Grabb	7–6, 6–7, 7–6
Winner	9.	20 September 1999	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Oleg Ogorodov	Mark Keil Lorenzo Manta	7–6, 7–6
Runner-up	3.	5 July 2004	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Stanislas Wawrinka	Leander Paes David Rikl	4–6, 2–6

References

1. http://www.atpworldtour.com/Players/Head-To-Head.aspx?pId=R214&oId=F324
2. Frey, Jennifer. Rosset Had Reservation for Swissair Flight 111." The Washington Post. Friday 4 September 1998. Retrieved on 20 May 2009.

External links

• Marc Rosset at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Marc Rosset at the International Tennis Federation
• Marc Rosset at the Davis Cup
• Interview at rowztennis.com