Gilles Moretton
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Gilles Moretton is a former professional tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player from France. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 4 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 55 in 1984.

Since 2001, he has been president of ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne
ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne
ASVEL Basket or ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne is a French professional basketball team located in the city of Villeurbanne, which is a suburb of Lyon, France. The club, which is the basketball section of the ASVEL multi-sport club, competes in the French Pro A league. The club's home games are played at...

, one of France's top basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 clubs.

Doubles titles (4)

No. Date Tournament Surface Partnering Opponent in the final Score
1. 1979 Linz
ATP Linz
The ATP Linz is a defunct tennis tournament that was played on the Grand Prix tennis circuit from 1979-1982. The event was held in Linz, Austria and was played on various surfaces.-Singles:-Doubles:-References:*ATP Linz 1981*ATP Linz 1982...

, Austria
Hard (i)   Patrice Dominguez
Patrice Dominguez
Patrice Dominguez is a French tennis player born in Algeria. He reached a career high ranking of 36 in 1973. He represented France in the Davis Cup between 1971 and 1979....

  Szabolcz Baranyi
Szabolcz Baranyi
Szabolcs Baranyi is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles...

 
  Péter Szőke
Peter Szoke
Péter Szőke , is a former Hungarian tennis player. Szőke did not win any top-level titles during his professional career, finishing runner-up once in singles and four times in doubles...

6–1, 6–4
2. 1979 Paris Indoor
Paris Masters
The Paris Masters is an annual tennis tournament for male professional players held in Paris, France. It is played indoors at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy. The event is part of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 on the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour...

, France
Hard (i)   Jean-Louis Haillet
Jean-Louis Haillet
Jean-Louis Haillet , is a former professional tennis player from France.Haillet enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 2 doubles titles.-Doubles titles :-Runner-ups :...

  John Lloyd 
  Tony Lloyd
7–6, 7–6
3. 1980 Bordeaux
ATP Bordeaux
This is a defunct men's tennis tournament that was held annually under various names, The Bordeaux Open Grand Prix Passing Shot and was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit tour from it then became an ATP Tour event until 1995...

, France
Clay   John Feaver
John Feaver
John Feaver is a former professional tennis player from the United Kingdom.Feaver enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 1 doubles title and finished runner-up another 9 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No...

  Gianni Ocleppo
Gianni Ocleppo
Gianni Ocleppo is a retired professional tennis player from Italy.Ocleppo won one ATP Tour singles title and two doubles titles in his career. He played for Italy in the final of the 1980 Davis Cup, losing in a dead rubber to Ivan Lendl.Ocleppo reached a career high singles ranking of World No....

 
  Ricardo Ycaza
Ricardo Ycaza
Ricardo Ycaza is an Ecuadorean tennis player who was a world top-ten junior, a Davis Cup stalwart, and a world top-fifty touring professional.His most noteworthy achievement was winning the 1976 US Open Junior tournament...

6–3, 6–2
4. 1983 Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence Open
The Aix-en-Provence Open is a defunct Grand Prix affiliated tennis tournament played from 1977 to 1984. It was held in Aix-en-Provence in France and played on outdoor clay courts....

, France
Clay   Henri Leconte
Henri Leconte
Henri Leconte is a former French professional tennis player. He reached the men's singles final at the French Open in 1988, won the French Open men's doubles title in 1984, and helped France win the Davis Cup in 1991.-Biography and career:...

  Ivan Camus 
  Sergio Casal
Sergio Casal
Sergio Casal Martínez is a former professional tennis player from Spain. During his career, he won three Grand Slam doubles titles, as well as the men's doubles Silver Medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics....

2–6, 6–1, 6–2

Runner-ups (2)

No. Date Tournament Surface Partnering Opponent in the final Score
1. 1978 Barcelona, Spain Clay   Jean-Louis Haillet
Jean-Louis Haillet
Jean-Louis Haillet , is a former professional tennis player from France.Haillet enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 2 doubles titles.-Doubles titles :-Runner-ups :...

  Željko Franulović
Željko Franulovic
Željko Franulović is a former Croatian tennis player who competed for Yugoslavia, best remembered for reaching the final of the French Open in 1970 where he lost against Czech Jan Kodeš in straight sets...

 
  Hans Gildemeister
Hans Gildemeister
Hans Gildemeister Bohner , is a former Chilean tennis player of German ancestry, who won four singles and 23 doubles titles during his professional career. He is the brother of Heinz and Fritz Gildemeister, who are also tennis players...

1–6, 4–6
2. 1978 Calcutta
Indian Open (tennis)
The Indian Open is a defunct, Grand Prix tennis circuit tennis tournament. It was played from 1973-1979. It was held in various cities in, India and was played on outdoor clay courts. Indian tennis player Vijay Amritraj won the event four times, making him the only Indian to win the...

, India
Clay   Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for being the last French man to win the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams...

  Sashi Menon
Sashi Menon
Sashi Menon , is a former professional tennis player from India. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 3 doubles titles.-Doubles titles :-Runner-ups :...

 
  Sherwood Stewart
Sherwood Stewart
Sherwood Stewart played amateur and professional tennis in the 1970s and 1980s. Stewart was ranked as high as No. 60 in the world in singles on the ATP Rankings on December 31, 1978, and No...

6–7, 4–6

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