Source Sports Central: Eric Prodon, the Frenchman Adrian Mannarino’s coach. Prodon was a fellow player on the tour for many years (highest ranking: 83) before he began helping his friend Mannarino last summer in Roland Garros. Since then, Mannarino has enjoyed unprecedented success, entering top 40 for the first time in his career. In Indian Wells, he just defeated Fabio Fognini and Ernests Gulbis before losing to Andy Murray in the fourth round. Look for Mannarino to get inside the top 30 in the upcoming weeks. Based on their pupils’ results in this young 2015 tennis season, Zavialoff and Prodon would be my choices for coaches of the first quarter of the year.
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Eric Prodon is a French tennis professional that reached an amazing career high of #83 in the ATP tour ranking. Prodon had a long career in Juniors, and reaching year-end No. 28 in 1998. Prodon’s transition to the pro tour was a rocky one. While he first entered the top-300 in late 2000 as a 19-year old, he spent most of 2001 in the 300’s before getting back down into the 230’s late in 2002. He faded again to the 300’s in 2003 and 2004 before getting back down to the 230’s again in late 2004 and early 2005, but an injury in February kept him out for 7 months. Another injury in April 2006 kept him off the court the rest of the year. So he spent most of 2005 and 2006 ranked outside the top-500.
Prodon returned to the tour in mid-February 2007, ranked #683, and won Italy F1 in his first tournament back from a 10-month layoff. His ranking continued to slip, despite some Futures success, and by the time he got to Scotland for a Futures tournament in May, he was #721.
But he then went on a tear on the Futures circuit, winning 4 of 7 titles and finishing as the runner-up in the other three while touring Scotland, Algeria, Poland, Belarus, and France, compiling a 32–3 match record during that stretch, to improve his ranking to #290 by mid-July.
Prodon continued to be injury-free and making some progress in early 2008. He started the year winning a Challenger in Miami. In May, Prodon was given a Wild Card entry into the French Open. Prodon was coached by Cyril Saulnier.
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