Baptiste Masotti
| Country |  France | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 5 June 1995 Niort, France | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2019 | ||||||||||||||
| Retired | Active | ||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | No. 13 (January 2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | No. 19 (July 2024) | ||||||||||||||
| Title(s) | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| Tour final(s) | 16 | ||||||||||||||
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| Updated on July 2024. | |||||||||||||||
Baptiste Masotti (born 5 June 1995, in Niort) is a French professional squash player. As of July 2024[update], he was ranked number 19 in the world;[1] his highest career rank was 13, on 29 January 2024.[2]
Career
[edit]Junior career
[edit]Masotti's father, Jean-Michel Masotti, was also a nationally ranked squash player. Baptiste Masotti took up the sport when he was 11.[3] In his early teens, he also played football in Niort as well as squash. In 2009, after winning bronze in the under-15s division of the French Squash Championships, he chose to focus on squash and was selected for the French national under-15s team at the European Championships in May 2009.[4] He attended a boarding school while training at the Squash Academy in La Rochelle,[4] then when he was 16, moved to Aix-en-Provence.[3] He won the national championship in 2010 as an under-15 and 2011 as an under-17.[4]
Senior career
[edit]In 2019, Masotti for the first time played for the French senior team at the WSF World Team Championships.[5]
Professional career
[edit]Masotti debuted in the Professional Squash Association in the 2019–20 season while studying commerce and marketing.[3] In October 2019 he played in his first platinum-level tournament, the Egyptian Squash Open,[6] where he defeated the former European champion Borja Golán, the former world 4th-ranked Miguel Ángel Rodríguez[7] and the former world junior champion Ng Eain Yow[8] to reach the quarter-finals.[5] At the 2020 Tournament of Champions, he defeated the former top-ranked England player Adrian Waller in the first round.[5] In December 2019, he was ranked in the top 50 for the first time, and in February 2020, in the top 40; when rankings were frozen because of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was ranked number 37.[5]
In the 2020–21 World Championship, he reached the third round, where he was knocked out by former world champion Karim Abdel Gawad.[9] In November 2021 he broke into the top 20.
Masotti reached the quarter-finals at the 2022 World Games, losing to Miguel Ángel Rodríguez.[10] In 2023 he reached the quarter-finals of the Canary Wharf Classic, losing to Mostafa Asal, ranked number 1 at the time.[3]
In the 2023–24 season, he beat Asal to reach the semi-finals of the 2023 Grasshopper Cup, then won the Lagord 30k in October 2023.[11] After reaching the last 16 in the 2024 Tournament of Champions, he reached his highest career rank of number 13 on 29 January 2024.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Baptiste Masotti". PSA World Tour. Professional Squash Association. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Baptiste Masotti (France)". Squash Info. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ a b c d Rod Gilmour (16 March 2023). "How Baptiste Masotti prescribed squash as his career calling". Squash Mad (interview). Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ a b c "Baptiste Masotti a tout d'un grand". Sud Ouest (in French). 5 April 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Men's World Teams Appearance a 'Dream Come True' for Baptiste Masotti". World Squash Federation. 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "CIB Egyptian Open: quatre Français en lice" (in French). French Squash Federation. 24 October 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ Pascal Coville (26 October 2019). "Open d'Égypte: le Français Baptiste Masotti s'offre un exploit". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ Kng Zheng Guan (28 October 2019). "Third round KO for Eain Yow". The New Straits Times. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ Martial Debeaux (20 July 2021). "Championnats du monde de squash: le Niortais Baptiste Masotti peut voir plus haut". La Nouvelle République (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "World Games 2022". The Squash Site. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Masotti Confidence Boosted After 'Frustrating' Start to Season". PSA World Tour. 3 November 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Masotti Reaches Career-Best Position In Latest Men's World Rankings". PSA World Tour. 29 January 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024.