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Benoît Paire shouting and clenching his fist in celebration
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ATPBest ATP ranking No. 18

Benoît Paire

FRA37 yrs6' 5" (1.96 m)

Best ATP ranking No. 18

A gifted, unpredictable talent who rose to world No. 18.

Plays
Right-handed, two-handed backhand

Figures as of 30 September 2026.

Profile & career

The club player who made it in the pros.

Benoît Paire is an endearing, atypical player, a raw natural talent and a key figure of French tennis, whose gifts and antics have marked a professional career that began in 2007. Fans often identify with him and sometimes describe him as "a club player who has made it in the pros".

And made it he has: three ATP titles, a best ranking of world No. 18, the French team at the Olympic Games and in the Davis Cup, and a UTS semi-final. From 2018 to 2020 he was attached to the Mouratoglou Academy, coached by Morgan Bourbon.

Did you know?Nicknamed The Rebel on the UTS circuit, he is known for his flamboyant, unpredictable style.

Benoît Paire hitting a forehand on clay

GRAND SLAMS

Benoît & the Grand Slams.

His best Grand Slam runs took him to the second week at Wimbledon and the US Open.

Australian OpenHard courtBest result3rd round2014, 2017, 2022
Roland-GarrosClay courtBest result3rd round2014, 2017, 2022
WimbledonGrass courtBest resultLast 162017, 2019
US OpenHard courtBest resultLast 162015

CAREER

Titles, year by year.

Benoît Paire's career has often been as hard to follow as his disconcerting game, but it has had some magnificent peaks. Alongside six Futures titles (the first in 2007) and eight Challenger titles (the first in 2011), the Avignon native has won three ATP 250 titles, all on clay: Båstad in 2015, then Marrakech and Lyon in 2019. He has also played in six finals, including the 2015 Tokyo ATP 500, where he lost to his friend Stan Wawrinka, and reached the semi-finals of the 2013 Rome Masters 1000, beating his first top-10 player, Juan Martín del Potro, before losing to Roger Federer. In total he has beaten seven top-10 players, including Kei Nishikori, the outgoing finalist, in the first round of the 2015 US Open, and world No. 3 Stan Wawrinka in Madrid in 2017, his best win. His most prestigious victory may be over Novak Djokovic, then outside the top 10, in Miami in 2018, and he also beat Andy Murray in Montpellier in 2024. First selected by Yannick Noah for the victorious 2018 semi-final against Spain, he has played twice in the Davis Cup.

Junior career

  1. 2007

    Ranked "only" 2/6 in France at 17, he started training seriously and broke through in the spring by winning back-to-back ITF junior events in Cap d'Ail and Istres, reaching the third round of the Roland-Garros juniors. He also reached the final of the French 17-18 Championship against Guillaume Rufin, as his older brother Thomas had four years earlier, but lost it on penalty points after a behavioural outburst while trailing 6-4, 5-2, 30-0.

ATP titles

  1. 2015

    Båstad

  2. 2019

    Marrakech · Lyon

STATISTICS & RECORDS

Peaks of an unpredictable career.

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Weeks in the top 50

Weeks spent in the ATP top 50 during his career.

7

Top-10 wins

Including world No. 3 Stan Wawrinka in Madrid in 2017.

2015

Comeback of the year

Voted best comeback of the year in 2015.

Benoît Paire running for a forehand on grass

MOURATOGLOU ACADEMY

His link with the Mouratoglou Academy.

Benoît Paire knows Sophia-Antipolis very well, having trained there before the Mouratoglou Academy opened in 2016, and he has been a regular visitor ever since. He joined the academy in 2018, coached by Morgan Bourbon, and with him put together one of his best seasons in 2019, before the Covid-19 break stopped him in his tracks.

A close friend of Patrick Mouratoglou, he took part in the first UTS in 2020, where his nickname, The Rebel, found its full expression, and returned in 2023 to reach the semi-finals in Frankfurt after beating Casper Ruud. His showmanship and frankness have also made him a highlight of the "All on the Table" video programme.

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Watch Benoît Paire at the Mouratoglou Academy

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Benoît Paire still has his legendary touch

OFF THE COURT

Personal life & interests.

Benoît Paire did not follow a classic path: he long hesitated between tennis and football. Throughout his best years as a pro, he openly admitted to training little, especially physically, which he felt was essential to keeping his passion for the game. After his late junior breakthrough in 2007 he joined the French federation's National Training Centre, only to be expelled a few months later for his excesses, and for the same reasons he was left out of the French team at the 2016 Rio Olympics. A self-confessed lover of fast food and aperitifs, he has never had a smooth career, but his escapades often served as an outlet for his anxieties. In the end, his own recipe worked.

Benoît Paire looking down on a grass court

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ON COURT

Train where Benoît trains.

The same courts, coaches and methodology, on the French Riviera: camps for juniors and adults, all year round.

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Aerial view of the Mouratoglou Academy clay and hard courts on the French Riviera