Country (sports) | France | ||||||||||||||
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Residence | Paris, France | ||||||||||||||
Born | Évreux, France | 10 September 1949||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
Turned pro | 1968 | ||||||||||||||
Retired | 1981 | ||||||||||||||
Plays | Right-handed (one-handed backhand) | ||||||||||||||
Singles | |||||||||||||||
Career record | 200–176 (Open era) | ||||||||||||||
Career titles | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 16 (23 October 1972) | ||||||||||||||
Grand Slam singles results | |||||||||||||||
Australian Open | SF (1973) | ||||||||||||||
French Open | F (1972) | ||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | 2R (1971, 1972, 1974) | ||||||||||||||
US Open | 2R (1972, 1977) | ||||||||||||||
Doubles | |||||||||||||||
Career record | 72–120 (Open era) | ||||||||||||||
Career titles | 0 | ||||||||||||||
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Patrick Proisy (born 10 September 1949) is a French former professional tennis player best remembered for reaching the final of the French Open in 1972[1][2] (where he beat top seed and defending champion Jan Kodeš in the quarter-finals and fourth seed Manuel Orantes in the semi-finals before losing the final against sixth seeded Spaniard Andrés Gimeno in four sets).[3] He added to that one more final (in Florence, 1976) and singles titles in Hilversum, 1977 and Perth, 1972. Proisy reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 16 in October 1972.