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Born |
Niort, France | 5 June 1995||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Last updated: 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]
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]
In 2019, Masotti for the first time played for the French senior team at the WSF World Team Championships. [5]
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]
Country | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
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Born |
Niort, France | 5 June 1995||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Last updated: 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]
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]
In 2019, Masotti for the first time played for the French senior team at the WSF World Team Championships. [5]
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]