Patrice Beust

Patrice Beust
Full namePatrice Beust
Country (sports) France
Born (1944-09-03) 3 September 1944 (age 79)
Bois-le-Roi, France
PlaysRight-handed
Singles
Career record13-32
Career titles0
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open2R (1975)
French Open3R (1963)
Wimbledon3R (1966)
US Open2R (1966)
Doubles
Career record28-28
Career titles1
Grand Slam doubles results
French OpenSF (1974)
Wimbledon3R (1968)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
French OpenSF (1976, 1979)

Patrice Beust (born 3 September 1944) is a former professional tennis player from France.

Biography

Beust played doubles for the France Davis Cup team during the 1960s. He featured in 13 ties and partnered Daniel Contet in all of his matches. It was with Contet that he won his only title on the Grand Prix circuit, the 1972 Monte Carlo Open, a top tier event that was part of the Grand Prix Super Series. He and Contet also made the semi-finals of the 1974 French Open. His other semi-final appearances at Grand Slam level came in the mixed doubles, at the 1976 French Open with Gail Benedetti and at the 1979 French Open with Betty Stöve.

As a singles player he made the third rounds of the 1963 French Championships and the 1966 Wimbledon Championships.

One of the early coaches of Yannick Noah, Beust headed the National Tennis Etudes, which was opened in Nice in 1970. He has worked for many years as a coach for the Fédération Française de Tennis and in 2015 was appointed Director of the international tennis tournament held in Pléneuf-Val-André.

He is an active player on the ITF senior circuit.

Career finals

Doubles: 1 (1–1)

Result W/L Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 April 1968 Monte Carlo, Monaco Clay France Daniel Contet Soviet Union Sergei Likhachev
Soviet Union Alex Metreveli
7–5, 7–9, 4–6, 7–5, 5–7
Win 1–1 April 1972 Monte Carlo, Monaco Clay France Daniel Contet Czechoslovakia Jiří Hřebec
Czechoslovakia František Pála
3–6, 6–1, 12–10, 6–2

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