Nickname is Papycouac Father, Herbert; is former CEO of New Mauritius Hotels; mother, Catherine; brothers, Herbert and Olivier; sister, Virginie Started playing tennis as a kid so that he could copy his big brother Chose to pursue tennis professionally over golf Moved to Paris as a junior to continue his tennis development Credits Sebastien Louis and Sebastien Durand for helping him improve Favourite surface is hard and shot is serve Lists Paris as his favourite city on tour and Roland Garros as his favourite tournament Idol growing up was Roger Federer Also enjoys golf and basketball. Favourite NBA team is Golden State Warriors and favourite player is Warriors'star Stephen Curry Favourite TV show is Suits, actor is Bradley Cooper and musician is Eminem Lists food as his guilty pleasure. Favourite foods are pasta and Chipotle Says that being friendly is his best quality and impatience is his worst quality

Mauritius-born Frenchman broke into Top 200 in July 2019 and achieved career-high No. 151 in July2023

Qualified in 3 of 4 Grand Slam tournaments in 2023, at Australian Open (d. Dellien, l. to eventual champion Djokovic in 4 sets), Wimbledon (l. to Wolf) and US Open for 2nd straight year. Was only player to take a set off Djokovic in 7 matches en route to Serb's 10th Australian Open title

Earned 1st tour-level win of career in 2021 Roland Garros 1R as WC (d. Gerasimov)

Qualified at Wimbledon and US Open in 2022, falling in 5 sets to 2018 semi-finalist Isner in Wimbledon 1R and to No. 29 Coric in 5 sets in 1R

Owns 111-110Challenger record (80-63 on hard, 31-44 on clay) and 2-3 in finals, winning titles at 2018 Cassis as Q (d. Humbert) on hardand 2021 Gran Canaria-1 (d. Diez) on clay

Former Top-20 junior earned junior wins over future Top-20 ATP players Coric, Karatsev and Kyrgios, reaching 2012 Wimbledon boys’ singles QF and 2013 Wimbledon boys’ doubles final w/Napolitano