Pierre-Ludovic Duclos

Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (born January 8, 1986) is a Canadian professional tour tennis player. Currently ranked at World No. 338 in singles, just one off his career high, and No. 270 in doubles. He is presently Canada No. 4 in singles.

2003, 2004, 2005

Duclos played his first professional tournament in August 2003, reaching the second round of the Brazil F5 Futures tournament. The following year he played in ten futures and one challenger tournament (all in from August except for one) and finished 2004 World No. 1170. He played in 18 Futures in 2005, reaching the final in one, Mexico F16 in October, and the quarters in four other. He finished his year losing in the first round of the Puebla challenger to Mexican No. 1 Bruno Echagaray in three sets and as the World No. 723.

2006, 2007

For 2006, Duclos played 13 Futures and 6 challengers. He reached the semi-finals of Mexico F7 and Mexico F19, and the quarters of Mexico F17. He finished the World No.~640 and without yet having won a match at the challenger level. The story was different in doubles however, as Duclos reached the semi-finals in consecutive challengers in April played in Mexico and then, partnering Andre Ghem, won a third. He won Mexico F7, partnering Echagaray, reached the semis of the Yuba City challenger, won Mexico F17 with Raphael Durek, and reached the semis of the Maui.

Duclos began 2007 by winning his first Futures in doubles, Mexico F2, and then reaching the finals of his second tournament, Portugual F1 in both singles and doubles. He won the doubles of Portugual F2 and F3 partnering Niels Desein and Franko Skugor respectively. In April Duclos reached consecutive quarterfinals at two Futures in the U.A.E. as well as the tourney's finals in doubles. He then in May reached consecutive semis in two Futures in Belarus in singles and his ranking then stood at World No. 526. Duclos won Ireland F1 in doubles with Durek and followed this up with his first challenger level win, in Dublin, over Slovak Igor Zelenay.

Following a first round loss at the Granby challenger, where he reached the semis in doubles, Duclos scored his most impressive victory to date, a comeback three-set win over Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in qualifying for the 2007 Rogers Cup. Unfortunately, the Quebecer failed to qualify losing soundly in the qualifying round to Italian Fabio Fognini, 2-6, 2-6. In doubles partnering compatriot Philip Bester he lost in his first Masters level event match, 4-6, 4-6 to Lleyton Hewitt and Rafael Nadal. Duclos then reached three staight Futures quarterfinals, at France F12, Spain F34, and Spain F35. He had his biggest success to date in the following week, winning Spain F36, defeating World No. 369 Guillermo Alcaide in the semis and World No. 359 Miguel Angel Lopez Jaen in the final in straight sets. He also won the doubles partnering Daniel Lustig. Luclos's singles ranking jumped to World No. 388, his second highest to date. He finished the year though losing in the first round of three straight challengers in singles, but reached the finals in consecutive tournies in doubles and a world ranking of No. 208, also a career high.

2008

Duclos's 2008 season picked up in June as he won doubles at the Belarus F2, where he also reached the quarters in singles. In July he reached the semis of Turkey F7, losing to eventual champion Marsel Ilhan. Duclos then won Syria F1, where he won all his matches handily, 2 and 2 over his first round opponent, 2 and 2 again in the second round, 5 and 1 in the quarters, 2 and love in the semis and 4 and 1 in the final, a win over Riccardo Ghedin. He reached the quarters of Syria F2 and won Senegal F1, as the top seed, at the end of July / first of August, defeating No. 2 seed Niels Desein in the final. He also teamed with Desein to form the top seeded doubles tandem and won the tournament. He lost in the final of Senegal F2 to Desein, retiring at 3-3 in the first set, and the pair, for a second consecutive event, won doubles. With this success, Duclos reached a career high singles ATP entry ranking of World No. 337.

After a few weeks off, Duclos has resumed where he left off, defeating World No. 283 Thomas Oger in the finals 6-3, 6-0, to win Italy F28. He and Desein again won the doubles, as the top seeded pair. Duclos is now in the second round of France F13, as the tournament No. 6 seed.

Profile

Duclos was born and still resides in Sainte-Foy, Quebec. He is 1.78 metres tall, 56 kg in weight, and plays right-handed with a two handed backhand. He has indicated that his favourite surface is hard court. He is coached by Italian Donato Campagnoli.

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*ATP|playersearch=duclos
* [http://www.itftennis.com/mens/players.asp?player=100018164 ITF profile]
* [http://www.coretennis.net/majic/pageServer/0l01000009/en/pid/5348/index.html www.coretennis.com]
* [http://www.rogerscupmen.com/2/fr/draws/interviews/duclos.asp 2007 Rogers Cup interview (English and French)]