# Cyril Saulnier

Cyril Saulnier (French pronunciation:; born 16 August 1975) is a retired French tennis player. In 2005, he started giving tennis lessons in places such as Heliopolis Sporting Club (Egypt). He is now director of the Proworld Tennis Academy in Delray Beach, Florida where he is a full-time coach mentoring up and coming professionals and is currently working on a trial basis with Yulia Putintseva. He is currently married with one daughter and resides in Boca Raton, Florida.

## Tennis career

Saulnier reached the third round of the Canada Masters and the Paris Masters in 2004, defeating World No. 13 Dominik Hrbatý in the latter.
In the 2005 SAP Open in San Jose, he reached the final, enabling him to be ranked inside the Top 50 for the first time in his career, reaching as high as World No. 48 in March 2005.

## ATP career finals
### Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

* Legend
* Grand Slam Tournaments (0–0)
* ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
* ATP Masters Series (0–0)
* ATP Championship Series (0–0)
* ATP World Series (0–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–1)
* Clay (0–0)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
* Finals by setting
* Outdoors (0–0)
* Indoors (0–1)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Feb 2005 | San Jose, United States | International Series | Hard | Andy Roddick | 0–6, 4–6 |

## ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
### Singles: 7 (4–3)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (3–1)
* ITF Futures (1–2)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (3–1)
* Clay (1–1)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–1)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Aug 1998 | France F4, Toulon | Futures | Clay | Ivan Rodrigo-Marin | 2–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Aug 1998 | Italy F13, Varese | Futures | Clay | Ivan Rodrigo-Marin | 6–3, 6–3 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Jul 1999 | Greece F4, Alexandroupolis | Futures | Carpet | Konstantinos Economidis | 4–6, 6–4, 4–6 |
| Win | 2–2 | Aug 1999 | Segovia, Spain | Challenger | Hard | Sergi Bruguera | 6–4, 7–5 |
| Loss | 2–3 | Sep 2001 | Istanbul, Turkey | Challenger | Hard | Nikolay Davydenko | 3–6, 3–6 |
| Win | 3–3 | Mar 2003 | Besançon, France | Challenger | Hard | Eric Taino | 7–6$^{(10–8)}$, 6–4 |
| Win | 4–3 | Sep 2005 | Orléans, France | Challenger | Hard | Nicolas Mahut | 6–3, 6–4 |

### Doubles: 1 (0–1)

* Legend
* ATP Challenger (0–0)
* ITF Futures (0–1)
* Finals by surface
* Hard (0–0)
* Clay (0–1)
* Grass (0–0)
* Carpet (0–0)
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 0–1 | Jun 1998 | Hungary F1, Budapest | Futures | Clay | Antony La Porte | Kornel Bardoczky Miklos Jancso | 4–6, 7–5, 4–6 |

## Performance timeline

Key :
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |

### Singles

| Tournament | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | SR | W–L | Win % |
| Grand Slam tournaments ||||||||||||
| Australian Open | A | 1R | Q3 | 1R | Q3 | 2R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 5 | 1–5 | 17% |
| French Open | A | 1R | 1R | Q1 | 1R | 1R | 1R | Q3 | 0 / 5 | 0–5 | 0% |
| Wimbledon | Q2 | 1R | Q2 | 1R | 2R | 2R | 1R | A | 0 / 5 | 2–5 | 29% |
| US Open | 1R | 2R | 1R | Q1 | 1R | 2R | 2R | Q1 | 0 / 6 | 3–6 | 33% |
| Win–loss | 0–1 | 1–4 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 3–4 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 0 / 21 | 6–21 | 22% |
| ATP Tour Masters 1000 ||||||||||||
| Indian Wells | A | 1R | Q1 | A | A | 1R | 2R | 2R | 0 / 4 | 2–4 | 33% |
| Miami | A | 2R | Q1 | A | 2R | 2R | 1R | 1R | 0 / 5 | 3–5 | 38% |
| Monte Carlo | A | 1R | Q2 | A | Q1 | Q1 | 2R | A | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | 33% |
| Rome | A | A | A | A | A | A | 1R | A | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Hamburg | A | Q2 | A | A | A | 1R | 1R | A | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Canada | A | 2R | A | 1R | 1R | 3R | 1R | A | 0 / 5 | 3–5 | 38% |
| Cincinnati | A | Q1 | A | 1R | A | A | 1R | A | 0 / 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Paris | A | Q1 | A | A | Q1 | 3R | Q1 | Q1 | 0 / 1 | 2–1 | 67% |
| Win–loss | 0–0 | 2–4 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 5–5 | 2–7 | 1–2 | 0 / 22 | 11–22 | 33% |