Roman Valent (born 8 July 1983) is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland. As a junior, he was coached by Pavel Daron, former sparring partner of Martina Hingis. Valent was ranked as high as world number 3 as a junior, having won the 2001 Wimbledon Boys' Singles tournament.
He has played in many Challenger and Futures tournaments, winning two of the latter. In 2003 Valent reached a career high ranking of 300 after having broken into top 500 just a year before.
In the following years, Valent was set back by serious injuries to his shoulder or knee as well as Pfeiffer's glandular fever. From 2006 to 2008 he hardly played. In 2009 he made a comeback and was initially able to get closer to his best ranking. In qualifying for the ATP Tour event in Metz, he won all three matches and reached his only singles main draw of his career at the 2009 Open de Moselle. There he lost to Frenchman Marc Gicquel.
In 2012, Valent finally retired from professional tennis due to another knee injury. Since then he works as a tennis coach in Zurich.
Juniors As a junior, Valent posted a singles record of 81–24 and reached as high as No. 3 in the world in 2001 (and No. 25 in doubles).
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 7 (2–5) LegendATP Challenger (0–0)ITF Futures (2–5)Finals by surfaceHard (1–4)Clay (0–1)Grass (0–0)Carpet (1–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin1–0France F8, MelunFuturesCarpet Grégory Carraz6–3, 2–6, 6–4Loss1–1Jamaica F1, KingstonFuturesHard Kepler Orellana2–6, 4–6Loss1–2Czech Republic F1, MostFuturesClay František Čermák2–6, 7–5, 4–6Loss1–3Spain F9, La PalmaFuturesHard Marc Bauer2–6, 1–6Loss1–4Spain F10, TenerifeFuturesHard Teymuraz Gabashvili2–6, 0–6Loss1–5France F4, LilleFuturesHard Steve Darcis5–7, 3–6Win2–5France F14, PlaisirFuturesHard Philipp Marx6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Doubles: 5 (2–3) LegendATP Challenger (0–1)ITF Futures (2–2)Finals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (0–2)Grass (0–9)Carpet (2–0)
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreWin1–0France F8, MelunFuturesCarpet Michael Lammer Karim Maamoun Mohamed MamounwalkoverLoss1–1France F9, Saint-BrieucFuturesClay Michael Lammer Fabrice Betencourt Édouard Roger-VasselinwalkoverLoss1–2France F16, MulhouseFuturesHard Michael Berrer Gary Lugassy Jean-Michel Pequery0–6, 2–6Win2–2Austria F3, BergheimFuturesCarpet Lars Uebel Jaroslav Pospíšil Radim Žitko6–2, 7–6(7–2)Loss2–3Geneva, SwitzerlandChallengerClay Stéphane Bohli Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo Santiago Ventura3–6, 5–7
Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 title) ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWin2001WimbledonGrass Gilles Müller3–6, 7–5, 6–3
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