Jocelyn Robichaud

Country (sports)	Canada
Residence	Montreal
Born	(1978-04-08)8 April 1978 (age 47) Joliette,Quebec, Canada
Turned pro	1997
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$107,888
Singles
Career record	1–3
Career titles	0 0Challenger, 0Futures
Highest ranking	No. 384 (27 October 1997)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	Q1 (1995,1996)
Wimbledon	Q1 (1995)
Doubles
Career record	7–17
Career titles	0 3Challenger, 5Futures
Highest ranking	No. 119 (1 May 2010)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open	1R (2000)
Wimbledon	1R (2000)
US Open	Q2 (2000)
Last updated on: 14 January 2022.

Jocelyn Robichaud (born 8 April 1978 inJoliette,Quebec)^[1] is a former tour professionaltennis player. Robichaud captured three juniorGrand Slam titles and playedDavis Cup forCanada. More of a doubles specialist, he won threeChallenger events in doubles and reached a career-highATP doubles ranking of World No. 119.

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Robichaud won his first of three Grand Slams in doubles partneringJong-min Lee, as the tandem defeated the Dutch duo ofRaemon Sluiter andPeter Wessels in the final of the1995 U.S. Open, 7–6, 6–2. After winning the Victorian Junior Championships and Australian Hardcourt Junior Championship, Robichaud and partnerDaniele Bracciali captured the1996 Australian Open junior title, defeatingBob and Mike Bryan in the final, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3. Robichaud partneredMartin Verkerk at the next major and the pair reached the semi-finals of the1996 French Open. He rejoined Bracciali to win his third junior slam as the duo captured the1996 Wimbledon Championship by dispensing of the South African pair ofDamien Roberts andWesley Whitehouse in the final, 6–3, 7–6. Bracciali and Robichaud nearly made it a third Grand Slam title together but fell in the final of the1996 U.S. Open to the Bryan twins, 7–5, 3–6, 4–6. Robichaud reached an ITF junior doubles ranking of World No. 1, in December, 1995.

In singles, Robichaud's best results were reaching the third round of the1995 Australian Open, the quarter-finals of the junior1995 Italian Open, and the third round of the 1996 Wimbledon Championship. His career-high ITF Junior singles ranking was World No. 11, which he reached in December, 1995.

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Rochichaud captured theAptos Challenger twice in succession – in 1996 and 1997 – both times partnering fellow QuébécoisSébastien Leblanc. His third Challenger title was winning the 1999drkoop.com USTA Challenger of Miami, partneringMiles Wakefield. In addition, Robichaud captured an additional 5ITF Futures tennis event titles. His career (main draw) match win–loss doubles record at Challenger level was 43 and 33, while at ATP Tour and Grand Slam level it was 6 wins, 15 losses. His best top-flight result were reaching the quarter-finals of the1997 Canadian Open, partneringTommy Haas. In fact, all 6 of his ATP Tour match wins occurred at his home country's major tournament. Rochibaud appeared in the main draw of a Grand Slam event twice as a senior, both times in doubles, at the 2000French Open, partneringJack Waite, andWimbledon, withMichael Sell. He and Waite lost in straight sets while he and Sell lost 8–10 in the fifth set toMarc-Kevin Goellner andJan Siemerink.

As for singles, the highlights of Rochibaud's time on tour were winning his first senior-level match, at age 18, to World No. 627Sergio Gómez-Barrio 6–3, 6–4 while taking Quebec tennis star and World No. 160Sébastien Lareau in his second match to a second set tie-break, at the 1994Montebello Challenger; reaching the final of Canada F1 in June, 1998 followed by the semi-final of Canada F2 the following week; reaching the final of Greece F2 in May, 2001; and reaching the semi-final of Canada F3, in June, 2001. The sole ATP Tour event he competed in over the years, in a main draw, was the Canadian Open, in which he made 3 appearances, going 0 and 3. In Challengers, he had 1 match win (the one over Gómez-Barrio) and 7 defeats, including going 0–5 at theGranby Challenger, while in Futures events he had a winning record of 39 and 33. His career-high singles ATP ranking wasWorld No. 384, which he reached in October, 1997.

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Robichaud appeared in rubbers in 4 Canadian Davis Cup ties, all of which Canada lost. He got his first match action winning a dead singles rubber in a tie lost away toEcuador, 2–3, in April 1998 American Group I semifinal action. He defeated a youngGiovanni Lapentti 6–3, 7–6⁽²⁾. In February 1999, in the quarter-finals of American Group I, Robichaud won his second Davis Cup match, teaming with star Canadian doubles playerDaniel Nestor to defeat theColombian duo ofMauricio Hadad andMiguel Tobón 7–6⁽⁵⁾, 6–7⁽⁴⁾, 6–7⁽³⁾, 6–0, 6–4. Canada lost this away tie too, 2–3.

The following year, Canada again faced a South American opponent away in the zonal group I quarter-finals and lost, this time toChile, 1–4. Robichaud again played the doubles tie, this time partneringSébastien Lareau – they lost toFernando González andNicolás Massú, 4–6, 4–6, 6–2, 2–6. Then his fourth and final Davis Cup rubber was a doubles loss withFred Niemeyer, to theArgentine Davis Cup team ofAgustín Calleri andMariano Puerta, 6–7⁽⁵⁾, 3–6, 4–6, in a 2001 American Group I semifinal match-up.

In 2008, Robichaud captained Canada's youth Davis Cup team,^[2] and was a youth coach forTennis Canada at its national training centre atUniprix Stadium.^[3]

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1995	US Open	Hard	Lee Jong-min	Raemon Sluiter Peter Wessels	7–6, 6–2
Win	1996	Australian Open	Hard	Daniele Bracciali	Martin Lee James Trotman	6–2, 6–4
Win	1996	Wimbledon	Grass	Daniele Bracciali	Damien Roberts Wesley Whitehouse	6–2, 6–4
Loss	1996	US Open	Hard	Daniele Bracciali	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–5, 3–6, 4–6

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 1998	Canada F1,Mississauga	Futures	Hard	Emin Agaev	4–6, 2–6
Loss	0–2	May 2001	Greece F2,Kalamata	Futures	Hard	Marko Tkalec	1–6, 4–6

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 1996	Aptos, United States	Challenger	Hard	Sébastien Leblanc	Neville Godwin Geoff Grant	7–6, 6–7, 7–5
Win	2–0	Jul 1997	Aptos, United States	Challenger	Hard	Sébastien Leblanc	David Caldwell Adam Peterson	7–6, 6–4
Loss	2–1	Jun 1998	USA F4,Tallahassee	Futures	Clay	Michael Russell	Cecil Mamiit Kyle Spencer	6–3, 2–6, 1–6
Loss	2–2	Jun 1998	Canada F1,Mississauga	Futures	Hard	Michael Russell	Ali Hamadeh Todd Meringoff	4–6, 7–6, 3–6
Win	3–2	Jun 1998	Canada F2,Montreal	Futures	Hard	Simon Larose	Jan-Ralph Brandt Michael Russell	6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–3	Jan 1999	India F2,Ahmedabad	Futures	Hard	Simon Larose	Andrew Rueb Todd Meringoff	6–7, 3–6
Loss	3–4	Oct 1999	Houston, United States	Challenger	Hard	Bobby Kokavec	David Di Lucia Michael Sell	6–7, 0–6
Win	4–4	Nov 1999	Miami, United States	Challenger	Hard	Myles Wakefield	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–5, 4–6, 6–2
Win	5–4	Nov 1999	USA F19,Grenelefe	Futures	Hard	Bobby Kokavec	Cedric Kauffmann Miles Maclagan	4–6, 7–5, 6–1
Loss	5–5	Feb 2000	Wrocław, Poland	Challenger	Hard	Kyle Spencer	Petr Kovačka Pavel Kudrnáč	6–3, 6–7(6–8), 4–6
Loss	5–6	Apr 2000	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Michael Sell	José de Armas Jimy Szymanski	7–5, 4–6, 2–6
Win	6–6	Jan 2001	USA F3,Hallandale Beach	Futures	Hard	Frédéric Niemeyer	Noam Behr Giorgio Galimberti	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Win	7–6	Mar 2001	New Zealand F3,Tauranga	Futures	Hard	Wesley Whitehouse	Mark Draper John Hui	6–3, 6–3
Win	8–6	May 2001	Greece F1,Chalkida	Futures	Hard	Philip Gubenco	Ivan Cerović Marko Tkalec	6–3, 7–5

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