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US OPEN MEN'S PROFILES

(16) Gilles Simon
PRE-TOURNAMENT ODDS:	150/1
NATIONALITY:	FRA
BIRTH DATE:	27/12/1984
BECAME PRO:	2002
WORLD RANKING:	16

VERDICT

French number two Simon has slowly been working his way up the rankings, making steady improvement this season by making it to round three of both the Australian Open and Wimbledon, losing out to Rafael Nadal and compatriot Richard Gasquet respectively. In his last outing in Beijing, the 23-year-old defeated Robin Soderling and Guillermo Canas before losing to James Blake. A recent win over Roger Federer at the Rogers Cup on the hardcourt will give him hope of making it past round three of a Grand Slam event for the first time.

TEN-YEAR GRAND SLAM HISTORY
	08	07	06	05	04	03	02	01	00	99
Australian Open	3R	1R	3R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
French Open	1R	2R	1R	1R	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wimbledon	3R	2R	1R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
US Open	-	2R	2R	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Men's Profiles

(1) R Nadal
(2) R Federer
(3) N Djokovic
(4) D Ferrer
(5) N Davydenko
(6) A Murray
(7) D Nalbandian
(8) A Roddick
(9) J Blake
(10) S Wawrinka
(11) F Gonzalez
(12) R Gasquet
(13) F Verdasco
(14) I Karlovic
(15) T Robredo
(16) G Simon
(17) J M Del Potro
(18) N Almagro
(19) J-W Tsonga
(20) N Kiefer
(21) M Youzhny (wd)
(22) T Berdych
(23) I Andreev
(24) P-H Mathieu
(25) P Kohlschreiber
(26) D Tursunov
(27) F Lopez
(28) R Stepanek
(29) J Monaco
(30) M Cilic
(31) A Seppi
(32) G Monfils

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