David Guez
French tennis player
David Guez (born 8 December 1982) is a French former tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 116 in July 2010.
In 2025, Guez was banned from professional tennis for four years and a $25,000 fine ($17,500 suspended) after admitting to match fixing tennis matches played in 2017 and 2018.,.
01Career
At the 2009 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon he won with Rajeev Ram and reached to the second round, where he lost with Gilles Simon. In his best win to date, he beat Stanislas Wawrinka 6-3, 6-4 in the 2009 BNP Paribas Masters. In the second round of that tournament, he lost 4-6, 5-7, against his compatriot Gaël Monfils.
He has reached the final of seventeen Futures tournaments; in twelve of these he was victorious. David won one of ATP Challenger Tour tournaments (in St. Petersburg, where he defeated Édouard Roger-Vasselin in the final).
He qualified for his only Grand Slam tournament on 15 January 2010 (after winning against Ruben Bemelmans, Dayne Kelly and Édouard Roger-Vasselin in the qualifications). However, he lost to Julien Benneteau in the first round.
In 2014, he again made his way through qualifying, defeating Hiroki Moriya, Lorenzo Giustino and 32nd seed Yūichi Sugita to make it into the main draw of the 2014 Australian Open. He was defeated by countryman Richard Gasquet in the first round.
02Singles finals
| Legend (singles) |
|---|
| Challengers (5) |
| Futures (17) |
Wins (16)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 3 May 2004 | Morocco F3 | Clay | Mehdi Tahiri | 7-6(7-3), 6-4 |
| 2. | 12 July 2004 | Portugal F2 | Hard | Marcel Granollers | 6-2, 6-4 |
| 3. | 5 September 2005 | Romania F2 | Clay | Slimane Saoudi | 6-1, 6-2 |
| 4. | 12 June 2006 | Tunisia F3 | Clay | Xavier Audouy | 6-1, 6-2 |
| 5. | 7 August 2006 | St. Petersburg, Russia | Clay | Édouard Roger-Vasselin | 6-0, 6-2 |
| 6. | 13 April 2008 | Great Britain F17 | Hard | Andrey Golubev | 6-4, 6-2 |
| 7. | 21 January 2008 | China F2 | Hard | Benjamin Balleret | 6-3, 6-4 |
| 8. | 9 March 2008 | France F4 | Hard | Thomas Oger | 6-4, 7-5 |
| 9. | 11 May 2009 | Great Britain F7 | Clay | Sébastien de Chaunac | 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 |
| 10. | 22 June 2009 | France F9 | Clay | Valery Rudnev | 6-4, 7-6(7-4) |
| 11. | 6 July 2009 | France F11 | Clay | Michel Meijer | 6-1, 6-2 |
| 12. | 14 September 2009 | Spain F31 | Hard | Pierre Metenier | 6-2, 6-3 |
| 13. | 5 October 2008 | France F17 | Hard | Andis Juška | 7-6(7-4), 6-4 |
| 14. | 4 July 2010 | Arad, Romania | Clay | Benoît Paire | 6-3, 6-1 |
| 15. | 13 January 2011 | Quimper, France | Hard | Kenny de Schepper | 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 |
| 16. | 25 June 2012 | France F11 | Clay | Jonathan Eysseric | 6-4, 6-4 |
| 17. | 15 October 2012 | France F12 | Hard(i) | Michael Lammer | 7-6(7-3), 6-7(6-8), 6-1 |
| 18. | 28 January 2013 | France F3 | Hard(i) | Constant Lestienne | 6-0, 6-1 |
| 19. | 24 June 2013 | France F10 | Clay | Gianni Mina | 6-4, 6-0 |
| 20. | 10 March 2014 | France F6 | Hard(i) | Noah Rubin | 6-4, 6-0 |
Runner-up (7)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 3 May 2004 | Algieria F2 | Clay | Gilles Simon | 2-6, 0-6 |
| 2. | 12 July 2004 | France F11 | Clay | Bertrand Contzler | 3-6, 4-6 |
| 3. | 8 September 2005 | Pamplona, Spain | Hard | Nicolas Devilder | 2-6, 1-6 |
| 4. | 19 June 2006 | France F8 | Hard | Alexandre Sidorenko | 2-6, 7-6(7-4), 4-6 |
| 5. | 1 January 2007 | Nouméa, New Caledonia | Hard | Michael Russell | 0-6, 1-6 |
| 6. | 1 September 2008 | France F13 | Hard | Martin Fischer | 2-6, 3-6 |
| 7. | 2 February 2009 | France F2 | Hard | Michael Lammer | 4-6, 1-6 |
03Singles performance timeline
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | DNQ | A | NH |
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