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France · born Metz, 1998 · left-handed · Halle champion 2021
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Last French Halle champion before him
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Career-high ranking, April 2024
Born in Metz on 26 June 1998, Humbert entered the French federation's national centre in Poitiers at 12 and lost about 18 months of his junior career to growth-related injuries. A left-hander who takes the ball early, he won his first ATP titles in 2020 at Auckland and Antwerp, and has seven in all, including Marseille in 2024 and 2025 and Dubai in 2024. He reached No. 13 in April 2024 and that autumn played the Paris Masters final, losing to Alexander Zverev. He has played Davis Cup for France since 2023 and won both his singles rubbers against Hungary that year. His 2026 grass season brought a semi-final at Queen's, the Eastbourne final and a first-round defeat at Wimbledon by Zizou Bergs, the man who had beaten him in that final days earlier.
| Wimbledon singles | Fourth round 2019 and 2024; third round 2022; first round 2021 (seeded 21st, lost to Nick Kyrgios), 2023, 2025 (lost to Gaël Monfils 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 5-7, 2-6) and 2026 (seeded 27th, lost to Zizou Bergs 2-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 3-6) |
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| Wimbledon runs | 2019: beat Gaël Monfils, Marcel Granollers and Félix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 7-5, 6-3; lost to Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. 2024: beat Alexander Shevchenko, Botic van de Zandschulp and Brandon Nakashima; lost to Carlos Alcaraz 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 |
| Wimbledon 2022 | Beat Casper Ruud 3-6, 6-2, 7-5, 6-4, his first win over a top-10 player at a major; lost to David Goffin in the third round |
| Grass title | Halle 2021: beat Sam Querrey, the third seed Alexander Zverev, Sebastian Korda, Félix Auger-Aliassime and the fourth seed Andrey Rublev, 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the final |
| Other grass finals | Eastbourne 2026, seeded sixth: beat Jack Draper 7-5, 6-3 in the semi-final on his 28th birthday, then lost a rain-interrupted final to Zizou Bergs 6-3, 1-6, 4-6 |
| Queen's | 2026: semi-final, beating Marin Cilic 7-5, 6-3, Hamad Medjedovic after saving four match points, and Rinky Hijikata, both completed on the same day, before losing to Tommy Paul 3-6, 3-6. 2024: first round, lost to Matteo Arnaldi |
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| 2021 | Men's singles | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
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Wimbledon 2019 · First round
On his Wimbledon debut he lost the first two sets to his compatriot Gaël Monfils, the 16th seed, then took the third and fourth. Monfils, troubled by an apparent ankle injury, retired at 0-3 in the fifth. Humbert went on to beat Marcel Granollers and Félix Auger-Aliassime and reached the fourth round, where Novak Djokovic stopped him in straight sets.
Source: NBC SportsHalle 2021
In his first grass final he broke Andrey Rublev for 5-3 and took the first set at the fifth attempt. The second went to a tie-break without a break point on either side; at 4-4 a Rublev backhand error gave him the mini-break, and he finished with a forehand winner, then lay down on the court. He had beaten two top-10 players, Alexander Zverev and Rublev, in one week.
Source: Tennis Majors (translated from French)Wimbledon 2022
After a five-set opening win over Thomas Martin Etcheverry, he beat Casper Ruud, then in the top 10, 3-6, 6-2, 7-5, 6-4. It was his first win over a top-10 player at a Grand Slam. David Goffin ended the run in four sets in the third round.
Source: Wikipédia (French)Wimbledon 2024
After a poor grass season in 2023 he admitted he had been getting too wound up in the warm-up events. At Halle in 2021, he said, "I just went for it, I hit." On a surface where his left-handed serve and backhand made him awkward to play, he reached the fourth round again. As a boy he had watched Wimbledon admiring Roger Federer.
Source: Tennis Majors (translated from French)Eastbourne 2026 · Semi-final
He beat Jack Draper 7-5, 6-3 on his 28th birthday and the crowd sang to him afterwards. "By far it's the best gift I could have today," he said. "It's nice to see Jack back on court." Celebrations were modest, with a final the next day: "No big party, but France is playing so I'll be watching the match."
Source: LTAEastbourne and Wimbledon 2026
He won the first set of the Eastbourne final against Zizou Bergs, who came back after a rain delay to win 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 for the first ATP title on grass by a Belgian man. The Wimbledon draw then paired them again in the first round. Humbert, the 27th seed, levelled from two sets down, but Bergs took the fifth 6-3.
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